North Heights Linen Service LLC announced Thursday afternoon, Feb. 19, that it sold its laundry facility to Ecotex Healthcare Linen Service, a Canadian-based, family-owned hospital linen provider with 13 locations across the United States and Canada.
Ecotex will retain the Amarillo facility’s current employees and assume service for regional healthcare providers, including BSA Health System and several rural hospitals.
The laundry facility was originally developed so Texas Panhandle hospitals would no longer need to ship medical linens to processing facilities in Oklahoma City or Albuquerque. Officials said the transition is expected to expand regional processing capacity while maintaining local hospital service relationships…