Bruce Beggs, Editor , American Laundry News
WILMINGTON, Mass. — When it comes to identifying hospital personnel, the medical community could take a basic apparel lesson from the classic cowboy movies in which the good guys wore white hats and the bad guys black.
In contrast, given the rainbow of colors, clothing styles, and fabric patterns many doctors and nurses wear today, patients and visitors can often have trouble telling the difference between the professional and support staffs—which could cause a delay in the delivery of necessary emergency medical attention.
It’s for this reason that the Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, recently began requiring its nurses to wear navy and white uniforms and other hospital workers to wear teal or sandstone scrubs. According to the director of the hospital’s Center of Nursing Excellence, the new uniform policy gives nurses and their colleagues an immediate visual cue in emergency situations.
“Many of our healthcare facilities have evolved to a point where uniform programs are not ‘uniform,’” says Adam Soreff, a spokesman for UniFirst Corp., which provides work apparel to a wide range of industries throughout North America.
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