Standard washing machines are typically used for household purposes, such as washing clothes, bedding, and other home essentials; while hospital washing machines are the cleaning equipment used in hospitals.
Laundry services for linens used by institutions are a crucial step in preventing hospital-acquired infections. The textiles washed include staff uniforms, patient clothing, bedding, etc. Before entering the laundry room and prior to water washing, items must be identified and categorized, then they are placed in medical washing machines, hospital dryers, and other equipment to begin the washing or drying process. Items contaminated with bodily fluids or secretions, which pose a risk of hospital-acquired infections, must be isolated for sanitizing washing. Meanwhile, laundry room staff must take protective measures, and the washing process must be strictly regulated to prevent cross-contamination. We ensure that the provided linens are clean, free of watermarks, stains, and odors, and hygienically sanitized.

All clothes must be washed within the specified time frame, followed by a drying and dehydration process. The purpose of the large-scale industrial drying equipment is to expedite the removal of moisture from the clothes. A must-have feature in hospital-grade laundry equipment is the disinfection function, which typically involves either infrared or high-temperature disinfection.

Medical washing machines are mainly divided into two types: type and capacity. By type, they can be categorized into semi-automatic horizontal washing machines, fully automatic washing machines, and sterilization isolation washing and drying machines. By capacity, they come in various sizes such as 20 kg, 30 kg, 50 kg, 70 kg, and 100 kg.

Isolation medical laundry machines are equipped with a microcomputer control system, offering both automatic and manual operation options. They can achieve high-capacity water washing with high cleanliness rates. Multiple automatic washing programs can be edited, allowing laundry staff to simply select the appropriate cycle based on the specific linen condition. The machine's control panel can independently manage the laundry machine's various functions, with a LCD display indicating the washing progress. The purpose of linen processing in hospitals is to remove or kill microbial contamination, with the cleaning process consisting of three stages: washing, sanitizing, and diluting. The washing stage should ensure all linens are clean by removing pollutants from the fabric. Additionally, all linens should be chemically or thermally sanitized to kill or reduce the number of viable microorganisms. To dilute and reduce the number of viable microorganisms on the linens, hospital laundry machines should at least perform two rinsing cycles to minimize microbial content and remove detergents and disinfectants from the washing wastewater.
The laundry maintenance technician for our medical laundry needs to clean all hospital washing equipment according to the manufacturer's maintenance manual, using either hot sterilization or chemical sterilization cycles.