Texas Healthcare Linen (THL) is a commercial healthcare laundry business built to provide quality, cost effective laundry and linen rental services for healthcare facilities within a 225-mile radius of our plant in Abilene, Texas. Owned by four hospitals, THL was created for hospitals by hospitals to serve the specific laundering and linen needs of hospitals.
We began as the laundry department at Hendrick Medical Center in the basement of the main hospital in Abilene, Texas. After being approached by other hospitals in the area who expressed a need for a more cost effective and quality laundry service for their linens, the Hendrick laundry department grew into Midwest Texas Healthcare Linen Service, moving out of the Hendrick basement and into a 14,000 square-foot facility on Pine Street.
With continued growth, it became apparent that further expansion was needed to handle new customers, which spawned the idea for HMC to team up with other hospitals to fund the creation of a much larger facility that could service a much larger customer base and create a profitable business for the owners. Through much discussion and planning, Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene, Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, and Medical Center Hospital in Odessa formed Texas Healthcare Linen, an independent for-profit commercial laundry, creating a partnership that would benefit other healthcare facilities throughout the region.
The resulting facility is a 48,000 square foot, fully automated and state-of-the-art laundry facility which opened its doors for business on May 24th, 2011. In addition to providing a full spectrum of rental linen products and laundering services, THL has continued to attract new customers and expand its core business. Today THL serves over 80 locations, including hospitals, surgery centers, outpatient clinics and ancillary service facilities within a 225-mile radius of the Abilene plant. In December of 2021, a fourth owner was brought on, Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo. Currently THL processes more than 16 million pounds of clean linen annually.
The mission of THL is to provide the highest quality healthcare linen with exceptional service in the most responsible way. Our products are used throughout the hospital by doctors and nurses, environmental services employees, and of course hospital patients. Many of our linen items help provide a warm, healing environment for patients to recover after sickness or surgery while other items we offer provide the means to keep the hospital clean or even serve as uniforms for hospital staff! As such, providing clean, quality items are our priority.
