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News – The Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital is being sued by Hart Laundry Services of Smiths Falls. Though the matter is still being negotiated amongst lawyers, the suit was launched back in February of this year, which kicked off weeks of talks between the laundry and the hospital. Hart had had the laundry contract since September of 2011, and the contract was terminated on May 31, to handle part of the hospital’s laundry needs, including bed linens, towels, face cloths, and gowns. Operating room linens, emergency room linens, and other aspects of hospital cleaning were handled by Hospital Linen Services of Ottawa. HLS is now doing all of the hospital’s cleaning, “until we determine our next steps. We will probably have to go to a request for proposals,” said the hospital’s chief executive officer and president, Linda Bisonette, during an interview at the Great War Memorial Hospital in Perth on Friday, June 28. “I would have loved to have kept the business in the community,” said Bisonette. “But I have to keep the hospital at the forefront of my decisions.” On Tuesday, July 2, Larry Hart, owner of Hart Laundry Services, which operates out of the Gallipeau Centre, the former Rideau Regional Centre, stated that “we have to be very cautious what we say. It is in the hands of legal people.” However, Hart confirmed that “we filed a lawsuit in February,” though he declined to say for how much and for what reason. “The hospital cancelled the linen contract on May 31, for Hart Laundry Services,” he said. In a later interview the same day with Tracey Gallipeau, the centre’s vice president, Hart added that “we are not going to provide a dollar amount,” but he did shed more light as to the original source of the conflict. “There is a dispute over a large amount of linen, which was unaccounted for or missing after being shipped to the hospitals,” said Hart. “We had hoped from the talks that some resolution would come forward to allow us to continue to provide both local hospitals as we truly enjoyed the opportunity to provide the service. We appreciate all of the community support we have received since reopening the local laundry service in 2011.”
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