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Show 3.6 llion Dollar Central Laundry Facility To Bo Duilt In Hoods Cross Inlermoumain Health Care, Inc. (1HC) will build u new, highly automated 3.6 million dollar central laundry facility in Woods Cross, for use by six IHC hospitals along the Wasatch Front, it was announced an-nounced by Scott S. Parker, IHC President. THE NEW plant will be powered by a thermal fluid system ralher than the conventional steam," Parker said, "and is the first such complete system to be put into operation in the United States. 'The consolidated laundry will not only be cost effective, but will have a positive environmental impact on water and energy conservation," Parker added. Water consumption will be reduced from five gallons per pound of laundry processed, to 1.5gallons or less, resulting in a savings of over 40,000,000 gallons of water a year at present laundry usage. With 65 percent of the water used in a hospital laundry being hot water, the reduction in heated water usage saves an additional 23,205,000,000 BTU's a year. OTHER energy recovery systems and more efficient equipment will bring the total yearly energy savings to 34,304,000,000 BTU's or enough to heat 308 homes averaging 1,800 square feet for an entire year. The reduction in water and energy consumption, con-sumption, coupled with increased productivity, will result in a lower laundry price per pound and a yearly estimated es-timated savings of over $450,000. THE NEW 44,000 square foot facility will replace three existing hospital laundries at Logan, LDS and Utah Valley Hospitals, freeing space in these institutions institu-tions for other uses. "To renovate the existing laundries and replace existing obsolete equipment would have cost almost al-most $300,000 more than the new, more efficient central plant," Parker said. The six hospitals that will jointly use the new laundry facility are Logan Hospital, Hos-pital, McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden. three IHC hospitals in the Salt Lake City area, LDS Primary Children's Medical Center and Cottonwood, and Utah Valley Hospital in Provo. The soiled linen from these six IHC hospitals will be picked up daily from the hospitals, trucked to the central laundry site at W(xds Cross where it is mechanically received, sorted and counted, and then processed in bulk. The clean linen is then returned to the hospitals hospi-tals the following day. CONSTRUCTION of the project started this month. The building will be completed by next fall and in full operation opera-tion by late 1978. Edwards and Daniels of Salt Lake City has been selected as the architect. The contractor is Layton Construction Con-struction Company also of Salt Lake City. Jack Kirkwood, present manager of the LDS Laundry, has been designated as the new plant manager. He has been instrumental in-strumental in planning and developing the new plant. The IHC project officer is Gary Carter. The administrators of the participating par-ticipating hospitals have formed a board to oversee the operation of the new laundry. When completed, the plant manager, Mr. Kirkwood, will report to IHC's vice president for Central Services, Sid Garrett, and the Laundry Board. |