title: Costly materials retrieved from laundry chutes.
abstract: About +47,000 in replacement costs have been saved since the hospital instituted a plan to retrieve materials that are inadvertantly deposited in laundry chutes with soiled linens. Scissors, hot-water bottles, and rubber pillows, as well as a variety of expensive surgical instruments and clamps, are now placed in boxes at sorting sites at the hospital's laundry.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006755:Hospital Shared Services; D007846:Laundering; D008396:Maryland; D013525:Surgical Instruments / Q000191:economics*