Executives and managers from TRSA operator and supplier-partner member companies are encouraged to publicly praise their own staffs, individual employees and/or industry colleagues by nominating them for TRSA’s 2022 Annual Industry Awards. Nominations will be accepted through Dec. 31.

Recipients benefit from credibility with customers, prospects and employees. Individuals who nominated in previous years have noted the ease of the online nomination process and the variety of opportunities to urge TRSA to honor their people (or anyone else they nominated) for industry-leading performance or effort. There is no application or nomination fee.

The 2022 accolades will be presented at a March 30 dinner at the 12th Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, DC. Award winners receive discounted registration for the conference or complimentary registration for the dinner.

The following Annual Awards are open to all operator and supplier-partner members. Multiple companies and individuals may be honored in the same award category and companies can win in more than one category. For easy access to award-winning criteria and nomination forms for all these honors, click here. Award titles below link to this information and the form for the corresponding individual award.

Best Plants of the Year. Winners demonstrate how a local operation improves capabilities to supply, launder and maintain textiles for business customers, taking advantage of local resources to meet global challenges and deploy industrywide best practices. Winning applications describe how these laundries’ leaders seize challenges to become more competitive.

Above and Beyond Service. For exceptional attention to customer needs, either as part of the normal course of business but perhaps a one-time effort that was especially responsive, empathetic or pleasantly surprising to customer(s).

Best Video. For a video’s effectiveness in fulfilling its intended purpose, whether purely informative, such as showcasing a company or its employees or products or services; or technical, describing capabilities, processes or product features as training for customers.

Clean Green Innovation. For one or more ways sustainability has been improved (resource reduction, discharge control, increased efficiency) or industry best practices have minimized environmental impact.

Company Community Service. For short- or long-term commitments to volunteer time or professional talent or provide other support, bringing to light a sense of caring and responsibility for others in the community.

Diversity Recognition. For effort(s) to value the “unlikeness” of individuals and encourage or facilitate such variation in human qualities in the workforce, perhaps taking steps regarding diverse talent or intergroup interaction or otherwise fostering inclusivity.

SafeTRSA Safety Excellence. For establishing or maintaining workplace safety as a corporate value through projects or achievements that have produced or reflected safety gains; or ongoing activities that succeed due to top management support, employee involvement, training or good communication.

Volunteer Leadership. For individuals who have been involved in TRSA, enhancing its success and benefiting their companies through this participation. Winners’ activities may have included participating in political action, benchmarking, committees, presentations or certification; or writing, reviewing or researching for publications, videos or webpages.

Atlanta, GA (January 2021) - NOVO Health Services (NOVO), a regional provider of healthcare linen management services in the eastern United States, has acquired a laundry processing facility in Rockmart, GA, from Angelica, effective January 31, 2021. The acquisition adds a twelfth laundry facility, and up to 60 million additional pounds of processing capacity, to NOVO’s expanding network of facilities serving 19 states in the Southeast, Northeast, and Midwest.

The Rockmart plant currently serves 150 healthcare facilities in GA, AL, and TN, who will experience complete continuity of services in a seamless transition over to NOVO. The Rockmart plant becomes part of the NOVO Healthcare Linen Services division.

“The acquisition of the Rockmart facility aligns with and extends our long-standing commitment to our core markets in the southeastern U.S.,” said NOVO’s Karl Fillip II, Chief Operating Officer. “Our reputation for high quality and dependable services in linen management, that our customers have come to expect, is built upon a foundation of technologically driven solutions, delivered through our outstanding team of employees. This acquisition is a natural expansion of our regional footprint and we are delighted to be able to serve new customers in this region.”

NOVO Health Services, with headquarters in Atlanta, GA, offers linen management solutions to the healthcare industry. NOVO keenly focuses on safety and infection control and provides its partner hospitals with a value-driven linen management control system to eliminate excess internal costs. NOVO’s wide range of service programs offer a variety of options to provide a seamless, single source distribution system. NOVO’s regional healthcare linen facilities are HLAC accredited and operate with state-of-the-art processing equipment and processes. NOVO has earned a solid reputation for providing exceptional customer service for over 30 years.

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TRSA operator member NOVO Health Services, Atlanta, recently was featured on a broadcast by its local ABC affiliate WSB-TV 2 to discuss the company’s operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Karl Fillip, CEO, and Karl Fillip II, COO, gave the news team a tour of its Atlanta-area facility, and sat down with WSB-TV reporter Tony Thomas to discuss supply chain issues such as shortages of isolation gowns, the benefits of reusables versus disposables and more. Click photo to see full video

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The coronavirus crisis has put unprecedented focus on materials that health care workers use to protect themselves — and patients — from infection.

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is in short supply across the nation. Health care facilities are scrambling to keep gloves, masks, surgical gowns and face shields in stock.

But what about having more medical garb and other materials that can be laundered and reused multiple times? Could that prevent a future PPE shortage?

An Atlanta-based medical laundry company thinks reusables may become more important in the wake of the pandemic.

In the last decade or two, hospitals converted to the use of disposable protective products such as surgical gowns. Most such disposables are made in factories overseas, where labor costs are very low.

Karl Fillip, CEO Emeritus of Novo Health Services, a medical laundry company, says that over time, the firm’s hospital customers replaced reusable gowns with disposable ones.

The American health care industry has come to rely on low-cost disposables as part of normal operations. These goods have been delivered on a “just-in-time” basis, allowing hospitals to keep their stocks low and inventory costs down, Fillip says.

Now, the COVID-19 pandemic — which began in China, where so many disposables are made — has put a strain on PPE supplies at medical facilities worldwide.

“We do believe the entire system would be better off in situations like this with a better mix of reusable products,” says Fillip’s son, Karl II, chief operating officer for Novo. “It simply provides a safer position from a product availability perspective.”

“Traditionally, reusables were touted as a more environmentally friendly alternative to disposables, but this latest crisis also reveals the benefits of reusables from a supply chain and continuity perspective,” says the younger Karl.

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