# Hospital linen tracking software that knows where every cart, gown and pack actually went

> Hospital linen tracking is the count a facility keeps of reusable textiles as they move from the clean linen room to the patient floors, into the soiled hold and out to the laundry that processes them. The handling rules are federal and specific: 29 CFR 1910.1030 requires contaminated laundry to be bagged where it was used and never sorted or rinsed there, and 42 CFR 482.42 puts the whole practice inside the hospital infection prevention program. Neurobird holds the carts, the par levels and the laundry statement on one record.

- URL: https://neurobird.com/hospitallinen/
- Product: Neurobird Hospital Linen Tracking Inspection Tracking Platform
- Niche: hospital linen tracking
- Buyer: hospitals and healthcare laundries
- Status: in development, open for early access
- Updated: 2026-08-22

## What Neurobird Hospital Linen Tracking does

- Count carts out and back at the exchange instead of trusting the weight on a laundry statement
- Hold a par level per unit and show which floors are drifting above it and which are running dry
- Keep the soiled classes apart on the record the way 250.1750 keeps them apart in the chute
- Reconcile the laundry statement against your own count before anyone approves it for payment

## How it works

1. **Set the par** Every unit gets a par level per item, tied to staffed beds rather than to the number a supervisor happens to remember, and the formula behind it stays visible.
2. **Scan the exchange** Carts are counted out of the clean linen room and back from the soiled hold, so a floor that quietly keeps a cart shows up as a floor rather than as shrinkage.
3. **Reconcile the statement** The laundry statement lands beside your own count for the same week, and the gap becomes a line someone can question instead of a rounding error nobody owns.

## From the source material

> The hospital must have active hospital-wide programs for the surveillance, prevention, and control of HAIs and other infectious diseases, and for the optimization of antibiotic use through stewardship.

Source: 42 CFR 482.42, infection prevention and control condition of participation, https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/42/482.42

## Industry context

- **60 days** Minimum PPE supply a New York hospital must hold, with the gown quantity set at fifteen percent of staffed beds multiplied by 41 and single gloves at fifteen percent of staffed beds multiplied by 550. (source: 10 NYCRR 405.11, https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/new-york/10-NYCRR-405.11)
- **10 days** On site supply a New York hospital must still hold if it stores the rest of the stockpile off site, where the off site location has to be reachable within 24 hours and inside the state. (source: 10 NYCRR 405.11, https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/new-york/10-NYCRR-405.11)
- **1910.1030** Contaminated laundry must be bagged or containerized at the location where it was used, must not be sorted or rinsed there, and needs a container that prevents soak through whenever it is wet. (source: OSHA 29 CFR 1910.1030, https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/29/1910.1030)
- **250.1750** Four classes of laundry Illinois requires to be transported, stored and washed separately: soiled diapers, newborn nursery linen, radioactive contaminated linen and linen from pathology. (source: Ill. Admin. Code tit. 77, 250.1750, https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/illinois/Ill-Admin-Code-tit-77-SS-250.1750)
- **250.1760** Clean linen arriving from a commercial laundry must be completely wrapped in bundles or otherwise protected and delivered to a designated clean area, and corridors may not be used to store it. (source: Ill. Admin. Code tit. 77, 250.1760, https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/illinois/Ill-Admin-Code-tit-77-SS-250.1760)
- **482.42** The condition of participation that puts linen handling inside a hospital wide infection prevention program which must follow nationally recognized guidelines and report into the quality program. (source: CMS 42 CFR 482.42, https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/42/482.42)

## Pricing

- Single site: $219 per month
- Health system: $675 per month
- Laundry and hospital: $1,450 per month

## Questions

### What is hospital linen tracking?

It is the count of reusable textiles as they move from the clean linen room to the units, into the soiled hold and out to the laundry. It covers cart exchange, unit par levels, soiled returns and the reconciliation of what the laundry billed against what the hospital actually sent.

### What are the rules for handling soiled linen?

29 CFR 1910.1030 requires contaminated laundry to be bagged or containerized where it was used, and it may not be sorted or rinsed in the location of use. Illinois goes further at 250.1750 and requires soiled diapers, newborn nursery linen, radioactive contaminated linen and pathology linen to be transported, stored and washed separately.

### Does this replace our laundry provider's system?

No. The plant keeps its own production record. This is the hospital side of the same freight, so when the statement arrives you have a count of your own for the same week rather than a weight you can only accept.

### How are par levels set?

Per unit, per item, tied to staffed beds rather than to a number carried in someone's head. New York already does this arithmetic for PPE at fifteen percent of staffed beds multiplied by 41 for gowns, and the same shape works for a linen par.

### Can it show where a missing cart went?

It shows the last exchange that cart appears in and the unit that signed for it. Loss stops being a monthly surprise on the statement and becomes a floor with a date attached to it.

## Sources

- [42 CFR 482.42, infection prevention and control condition of participation](https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/42/482.42)
- [29 CFR 1910.1030, bloodborne pathogens, laundry provisions](https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/29/1910.1030)
- [10 NYCRR 405.11, hospital infection control and PPE stockpile](https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/new-york/10-NYCRR-405.11)
- [Ill. Admin. Code tit. 77, 250.1750, soiled linen](https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/illinois/Ill-Admin-Code-tit-77-SS-250.1750)
- [Ill. Admin. Code tit. 77, 250.1760, clean linen](https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/illinois/Ill-Admin-Code-tit-77-SS-250.1760)
- [OSHA hospitals eTool, laundry](https://www.osha.gov/etools/hospitals/laundry)

## Contact

- office@neurobird.com
- https://neurobird.com/