Egyptian Cotton

Like Luxury Hotels, Hospitals are in the business of serving their guests. Although hospital stays are often more expensive than luxury hotels, patients frequently try to forget their stays. Who wants to remember pain or sickness anyway? Why then would hospitals spend money on expensive Egyptian cotton sheet sets when they could buy sheets made from less expensive materials? Is this just one more example of waste in the American healthcare system? Hardly!

Hospitals are under intense pressure from the media, congress, taxpayers and insurance companies to cut costs. Under this pressure, they are constantly looking for ways to not only reduce initial purchase costs, but to also reduce the lifetime cost of ownership.

Hospital laundries are notoriously rough on linens, particularly due to the processes required by modern infection control standards. Normal short fiber cotton products disintegrate after only a few washings. Egyptian cotton’s long strong fibers are more resilient to this type of abuse. Although Egyptian cotton sheet sets cost more initially, they end up saving money by outliving their competition.