Healthcare
Gurtler Industries Is a Recognized Leader in the Healthcare Laundry Market
Healthcare laundries are under tremendous scrutiny to provide hygienically clean, sanitized, or disinfected textiles in the most cost-effective manner. The Gurtler Rx Program is your solution to achieving both objectives. Backing the program is Gurtler’s long-standing industry reputation as the Healthcare Experts at setting hygienically clean standards, and as a leader in serving healthcare tunnel operations across North America. The Gurtler field service team brings unmatched expertise to solve healthcare laundry concerns. And with more focus on the need for hygienically clean healthcare textiles, they have redoubled their efforts to continually upgrade Gurtler’s laundry products and services, creating better, timelier solutions. These efforts result in more cost-effective solutions for the healthcare laundry as proved by the numerous successes Gurtler has had in the market over the years.
The Gurtler Rx Program is a tailored analysis by our Gurtler Experts, offering insights into your laundry operations, identifying potential improvements not just in achieving better linen quality, but across energy and water usage, labor productivity and chemical usage.
Here's What the Gurtler Experts Provide You.
- A full battery of bacteriological testing of final rinse water, textiles, and hard surfaces
- Identification of critical control points in the laundry process where contamination can occur
- A tailored treatment plan with recommendations for wash formulas, product application techniques and validation procedures
- Scheduled follow-up to verify results and ensure compliance with any certification standards or programs
Consultation
Comprehensive review of your laundry’s goals and processes.
Diagnosis
The Gurtler Rx Experts survey, run tests, and identifies critical control points at your laundry.
Prescription
Recommend processes, products and procedures that help you achieve your goals.
Validation
Bacteriological testing of process water, textiles and hard surfaces to ensure treatment is effective.
Healthcare Laundry Certification
The Gurtler RX program supports you in earning and maintaining industry based certifications
Featured Solutions
The Gurtler Vis•Tex Tunnel System features our uniquely designed space-saving Pump Module with more pumps to allow for the greatest flexibility for your chemical usage, meaning the best possible results with the lowest possible cost. Durable, new design diaphragm pumps require minimal service – can operate for 5 million strokes with no maintenance. Plus our unique metering system assures accurate, reliable product injection. And our Data Center records productivity factors, and provides alarms and alerts for non-stop performance.
The innovative, patented, EPA-registered Vis•Tex Tunnel UV System utilizes the latest UV technology to capture and treat tunnel press water, while improving linen quality, producing brighter whites and reducing rewash. UV technology combined with advanced oxidation technology provides extraordinary microbial decontamination.
The Vis•Tex Tunnel UV System is designed specifically for tunnel washer applications. The control panel has the ability to monitor and log system performance, such as water flows, lamp life, utility usage, UV dose, and more.
When assured disinfection is the goal, a recommended product for many facilities is Validox Disinfectant. This EPA-registered peracetic acid laundry disinfectant and sanitizer is certified to kill/reduce bacteria by 99.9999%. This premium biocide from Gurtler controls such common microorganisms as Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Used alone or in combination with other Gurtler solutions, it validates laundered healthcare linens and garments as TRSA-certified Hygienically Clean, and in full compliance with other microbial laboratory measures.
Gurtler has solved the old problem of CHG-stained textiles with our revolutionary laundry additive, Magi-Clens™. It removes CHG stains, prevents CHG stains from being permanently set on textiles and allows laundries to utilize chlorine bleach for stain removal.
No one knows better than Gurtler, the laundry chemical product experts, that in the laundry industry, healthcare is a tough, competitive segment. Maintaining the highest standards of quality and controlling your costs are vital to your success. To remain a top competitor, you need maximum benefits from your chemicals and your chemical provider. You can count on Gurtler and the Pulse Line to help keep your operation pumping smoothly.
Pulse Protect is a PFAS-free textile treatment product that can be used to enhance the liquid/moisture repellency properties of surgical gowns and drapes and isolation gowns and other health care PPE, without the potential issues of “forever chemicals” or PFAS release into the environment. Liquid repellency properties are important for surgical gowns and drapes and isolation gowns to prevent moisture or liquids such as blood absorbing into the textile, exposing health care professionals to potentially hazardous or infectious materials.
Disinfects in 3 minutes! An EPA registered concentrated one-step hospital use disinfectant, when used as directed, that is effective against a broad spectrum of bacteria, is virucidal (including HIV-1, the AIDS virus, Hepatitis B virus, and Hepatitis C virus), fungicidal, and inhibits the growth of mold and mildew, and their odors. Mint D-3 is formulated for use in daily maintenance programs with a balance of detergents and malodor counteractants. Combined, they deliver effective cleaning, disinfecting and malodor control. Use Mint D-3 on washable hard, non-porous surfaces. Use as a detergent/sanitizer/disinfectant for any Critical Control Points in healthcare laundry operations such as: laundry cart washing systems, textile conveyor belts, outer door surfaces of washer/extractors, and any other clean textile contact points.
Power Stat Plus is an EPA registered, highly concentrated, liquid fabric microbicide specially designed for use in modern tunnel washer laundries. Power Stat Plus is rapidly bacteriostatic/bacteriocidal and can aid in meeting hygienically clean microbial control limits. Used on a regular basis, Power Stat Plus provides a residual microbial control activity that travels with the cloth after it leaves the laundry facility helping control bacterial proliferation. Power Stat Plus is a liquid residual bacteriostat, residual self-sanitizer and laundry fabric sanitizer; reducing bacterial count by 99.9%. Power Stat Plus rapidly exhausts onto healthcare textiles and requires only a 3-minute contact time. At 1oz/cwt, Power Stat Plus imparts to the fabric a residual self-sanitizing activity to treated textiles. At 1.27oz/cwt Power Stat Plus imparts a residual bacteriostatic finish under humid or wet contamination conditions and prevents growth of odor-causing bacteria. This activity has been confirmed against Klebsiella pneumonia ATCC No. 4352 and Staphylococcus aureus ATCC No. 6538. Power Stat Plus significantly reduces the risk of cross-contamination for patients, housekeeping and laundry employees.
NDT Oxcellerate is a highly active liquid peracetic acid bleach that is safe on all white work and most colored healthcare and critical care textiles. NDT Oxcellerate can be used as a stand-alone bleach or in tandem with traditional hydrogen peroxide to create a synergistic hybrid bleach combination that has superior whitening and stain removal performance. NDT Oxcellerate also exhibits inherently strong antimicrobial properties, making it an effective component to producing hygienically clean textiles. Unlike other peracetic acid products, NDT Oxcellerate contains twice the quantity of free hydrogen peroxide and half the level of free acid of other similar strength products, features which make it effective in bleaching, and which minimize the pH curve “crash” typical of other grades of peracetic acid when used in a tunnel washer laundry program. Additionally, NDT Oxcellerate is an “activated” oxygen bleach that has all the benefits of hydrogen peroxide bleaches with the added benefit of improved activity at lower pH and lower temperature.