Nursing Homes
Dependable on-premise laundry, built for care environments.
Resident care can't wait on laundry. Arrow equips skilled-nursing and senior-living facilities with washers and dryers sized for steady daily volume and the hygiene standards your surveys depend on.
What administrators get from Arrow
- Equipment configured for infection-control workflows and consistent wash temperatures.
- Capacity matched to your census so daily linen and resident laundry never backs up.
- Reliable machines with fast on-site service — minimal disruption to care operations.
- One regional partner for sales, installation, and ongoing service across your buildings.
Proof point
Arrow supports large care and community operations — including the Salvation Army and Choctaw Nation — where dependable daily laundry is non-negotiable.
How care-facility laundry sizing actually works
A nursing-home laundry runs seven days a week, and the sizing starts from your census: residents × pounds per resident per day = daily poundage, divided by your processing hours to get the throughput your washers must clear. The per-resident figure moves with care level:
| Care level | Planning lb / resident / day |
|---|---|
| Independent / assisted living | 4–8 lb |
| Skilled nursing | 8–14 lb |
| High-acuity / heavy incontinence care | 14–16+ lb |
Worked quickly: a 90-bed skilled-nursing facility at 95% census and 12 lb per resident generates about 1,030 lb a day, every day. Over an 8-hour shift that's ~129 lb per hour — typically two 60 lb washer-extractors for flatwork plus a smaller 25–30 lb washer for residents' personal clothing, with two 75 lb dryers sized to the linen's drying factor.
The full arithmetic — census math, the personal-clothing split, the seven-day reality, and what moves the numbers — is in our guide: How to Size Nursing Home Laundry Equipment. These are industry planning figures; Arrow sizes against your actual census and linen program before quoting.
Equipment that stands up to a survey
Healthcare laundry has a spec layer hotels don't: your wash process is part of the facility's infection-control program, and it's surveyable. CDC guidance for healthcare laundry recognizes sustained hot-water washing as well as validated low-temperature washing with appropriate laundry chemistry — and either way, the machine has to hold and repeat the programmed process. That drives what Arrow specs for care facilities:
- Programmable washer-extractors — including Milnor, the industrial line Arrow distributes and services — with controls that hold programmed temperatures and formulas consistently, set up to match your chemical vendor's process.
- A deliberate capacity mix. Larger machines for flatwork, a smaller washer for residents' personal clothing in resident-separated batches — matching how the work actually arrives.
- Redundancy. Laundry in a care facility is a care function. Two or more washers keep linen moving while a machine is serviced; a single-machine laundry that goes down is an operational incident.
- High extract where it helps. Soft-mount, high-spin machines shorten dry times and ease utility constraints — and they're gentler on the linen budget over thousands of cycles.
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One partner: sales, installation, and service
Arrow has equipped and serviced on-premise laundries since 1959, covering Oklahoma, NW Arkansas, and the Texas Panhandle from Oklahoma City. The crew that installs your machines is backed by the service team that keeps them running — one number for all of it: 1.800.835.WASH. When a washer goes down with a full linen day queued, that's a service request and a technician who knows care-facility equipment.
Care-facility laundry questions we hear most
How much laundry does a nursing home generate per resident?
Planning figures run 4–8 lb per resident per day for assisted living, 8–14 lb for skilled nursing, and 14–16+ lb where acuity and incontinence loads are heavy. Multiply by census for your daily poundage — the full sizing guide walks the calculation.
What laundry equipment does a 90-bed facility need?
A typical 90-bed skilled-nursing facility processes roughly 1,000 lb a day — commonly two 60 lb washer-extractors for flatwork plus a 25–30 lb washer for personal clothing, with two 75 lb dryers. Your acuity mix and personal-laundry policy move the lineup.
What wash temperature do healthcare linens require?
CDC guidance recognizes two routes: sustained hot-water washing, or validated lower-temperature washing with appropriate laundry chemistry. What surveyors look for is a process your equipment demonstrably holds and repeats — which is why we spec programmable controls and set formulas up with your chemical vendor. Your state requirements govern; we spec machines that can meet them.
How should residents' personal clothing be handled?
In smaller, resident-separated batches on gentler programs — which is why a care-facility lineup usually includes a smaller washer alongside the flatwork machines, instead of running a dozen small loads through a 60 lb drum.
Who services the equipment after installation?
Arrow does — the same company that sold and installed it. Our service team covers Oklahoma, NW Arkansas, and the Texas Panhandle. Request service here or call 1.800.835.WASH.
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