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Our Readers Come Clean on Home-laundered Scrubs
Is home-laundering scrubs an easy place to save money without jeopardizing patient or staff safety?
Daniel O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief (www.outpatientsurgery.net)

If the staff at the Surgery Center of Kansas had its way, the Wichita facility would buy its scrubs and let the staff launder them at home. "But our physicians wouldn't do this, so we'd still have to send out their scrubs, as well as the anesthesia providers' and vendors'," says Karen Gabbert, RN, BSN, the ASC's clinical director.

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