Healthcare Hygiene magazine August 2021 August 2021 | Page 33

Imagine having the Hubble Telescope orbiting the inside of your laundry , hunting down microorganisms everywhere .

INTRODUCING THE ‘ HUBBLE TELESCOPE OF MICROORGANISM IDENTIFICATION ’

The HLAC Laundry Process Monitoring ToolKit™ ( PMTK )

Imagine having the Hubble Telescope orbiting the inside of your laundry , hunting down microorganisms everywhere .

Are we serious ? Of course not . Do we have your attention ? We hope so !
We like to say that our new Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council ( HLAC ) Laundry Process Monitoring ToolKit ( PMTK ) does for microorganism identification what the Hubble Telescope does for astronomy .
PMTK is vastly different in scale from anything in the industry . Everything else that is currently available is like trying to look at the stars through a pair of opera glasses .
WHY PMTK IS DIFFERENT
• It employs a proprietary extraction technique designed to recover a more accurate representation of bioburden load on laundry media .
• It safeguards your investments in your processes s to provide your healthcare customers hygienically clean linens .
WHAT PMTK DOES
• Developed by HLAC , PMTK validates the effectiveness of your laundry ’ s processes .
• It measures the number of microorganisms found on hard surfaces , in the air , on linen , in the water and on employee hands .
• It provides actionable data on the performance of your processes .
• It informs you if your standards are on target .
IT ’ S A FULLY EQUIPPED SAMPLING KIT
Upon ordering , the HLAC Laundry Process Monitoring ToolKit is delivered to the laundry in the form of a sampling kit . It contains detailed instructions and all of the supplies and materials necessary to collect samples .
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