Flisa and GISCARMSA, together in a project pioneered Spain of control of hospital clothing.

– has meant an investment of three million euros and has allowed the creation of 16 jobs for people with disabilities

Murcia, April 2012.- GISCARMSA and Flisa in Los Arcos del Mar Menor y Santa Lucia de Cartagena Murcia hospitalsthey have introduced an innovative system that connects the hospital laundry with the supply of clothing and uniforms in regime of renting.

One of the strengths required to the system has been the traceability of deliveries, returns, washing and replenishment of lingerie and uniforms that allow the understanding, at all times, the location of each of the garments and the circuit followed by them.

FLISA has responded to the challenge and, after the corresponding public procurement, has been awarded two contracts, developing and implementing the system with excellent results.

GISCARMSA, in their lists of requirements techniques, designed the model and FLISA opted for their technical development. The main purpose of the project is to ensure the control of movements of the various garments that make up the strength of a hospital linen, from its origin in own hospital, passing through the laundry of Flisa and later use in the various hospital departments, looking for the efficiency of spending that occurs by washing and replacement of provisions of clothes.

The model is based on the introduction of a RFID chip (Radio Frequency identification) in each garment used in daily service, which identifies over its useful life and controls their depreciation. It is used both for flat linen (bed linen, towels, etc …) as for clothes of form (uniforms). The technical team is completed with tunnels of the RFID reading and applications and necessary hardware.

One of the most striking performances of the project consists of the automatic delivery of the uniformity of the hospital staff. Therefore all garments of Workwear for workers are controlled since its delivery in automatic dispensers to return after its use by users with a credit of uniforms. Continuous monitoring during transport to laundry, the washing process and its subsequent load again in the dispensers.

The system incorporated by Flisa and GISCARMSA in hospitals of the arches of the Mar Menor (San Javier) and Saint Lucia (Cartagena) has meant an investment of EUR 3 million and allowed to create 16 jobs (thirteen direct and three indirect).

About GISCARMSA

GISCARMSA is the public company of the autonomous community of Murcia, which is responsible for the promotion, construction and/or exploitation of immovable property intended to meet the needs of public infrastructure, in health matters and health care. Built infrastructures are owned by GISCARMSA that leases them to Servicio Murciano de Salud for 30 years, providing besides the greater part of the complementary services of nature not health (laundry, cleaning, restoration, monitoring, etc. …)

society started its activities in 2005 and to date has built and is exploiting, under operating lease, two new hospitals of Mar Menor and Cartagena, with a total of around 1,000 beds.

About FLISA

FLISA is the network of industrial laundries and rental of textiles created in 1990 by the Fundosa group, the society promoted by Fundación ONCE for the creation of stable employment and quality for people with disabilities.

FLISA laundries are sheltered in those who work more than 3,000 workers, of whom more than 87 percent are people with disabilities. Currently, FLISA has 27 own industrial laundries and provides nationwide coverage. Each year these centres processed over 150 million kilograms of clothing in its facilities and the magnitude of this project has been possible thanks to a financial effort, over 150 million euros of investment.