Bed
Patient bedding & draw sheets
Flat and fitted sheets, draw sheets and pillowcases in 100% cotton or polyester-cotton, made to your bed and mattress dimensions.
We serve · Hospitals & healthcare
Linen for Hospitals & Healthcare
Written for the Materials Manager and the Linen Services Manager, and for the Infection Prevention & Control lead who can stop the order. Healthcare linen is not bought on unit price. It is bought on cost per use, on what the laundry can process, and on whether the piece does its job at the bedside.
Anxiety one
Making the specification defensible to IPC
Infection prevention and control does not approve a fabric. It approves a process, and then asks whether the goods in that process are documented well enough to be audited. That is a paperwork problem before it is a textile problem.
What we will not tell you
We will not describe our goods as antimicrobial, as a fluid barrier, as flame retardant, or as hygienically superior to anyone else's. No source we can stand behind supports those words, and a claim a supplier cannot evidence is worse than useless to you at audit. It is a line in a tender response that someone will eventually ask you to prove.
If your facility requires an independently tested performance property: a barrier standard for procedural textiles, a flame-retardant finish for a mental health unit, an independently audited fibre chain. Tell us at enquiry stage. We would rather say that it is outside what we will put in writing than sell you a claim you have to defend.
What a defensible specification contains
State the fibre composition and the construction. State the size, and the tolerance you will accept on it. State the finishing route. State the recommended care instruction for that fabric type, and hold a copy in the linen room and at the laundry. Then state where the goods came from and how a repeat is identified. Those five things are what an auditor actually asks for, and all five are things we can write down for you.
Tell us your disinfection regime
- Thermal or chemical disinfection, and which your policy mandates.
- The temperature and hold time your policy specifies.
- The chemistry, particularly whether chlorine is used and at which stage.
- Processing on site, or with a contracted healthcare laundry.
- Colour coding by department, ward or risk category.
- Marking, labelling or tagging your tracking system needs.
We quote a construction and a written care instruction against that regime, and confirm the exact specification at sampling.
Anxiety two
Cost per use, not unit price
The cheapest sheet on a tender rarely wins over a year. The number that governs an institutional linen budget is cost per use: what the piece cost, divided by the number of times it circulates before it is condemned, plus what the laundry spends processing it each of those times.
The four terms in the sum
Delivered price: the unit price plus freight, duty and the cost of carrying the stock. Useful life: how many circulations the piece survives before it is torn, stained beyond rewash or retired on appearance. Processing cost: energy in washing and drying, chemistry, the ironer, and the rewash rate, which is the quietest cost in the whole system. Losses: linen that leaves the building in a bag, plus the par level you must own to keep the wards covered while stock is in the wash.
Two levers move that number more than any negotiation on unit price: the blend and the weight.
The blend-ratio trade-off
Institutional linen is specified either as 100% cotton or as a polyester-cotton blend, and the ratio is a trade-off rather than a quality ladder. A cotton-rich cloth is more absorbent and cooler against skin, which matters to a patient lying in it for a week. A polyester-rich cloth dries faster and takes a press more readily through repeated industrial processing, which matters to the laundry's energy bill and to how many pieces it can put through a shift.
That is why acute-care flat linen usually sits in the blends while towelling and anything against broken skin tends back towards cotton, and why the right answer depends on your laundry, not on a brochure. Tell us the ratio your laundry prefers, or tell us the constraint and we will propose one for you to challenge.
| Tier Typical industry range | Weave | How it reads on a ward |
|---|---|---|
| T-180 | Plain | The institutional workhorse: cheapest to buy and quickest to process. |
| T-200 | Percale | A step up in hand feel for long-stay beds and private rooms. |
| T-220 | Percale or sateen | Private wings and executive suites in larger hospitals. |
| T-250 | Percale | The usual satin-stripe tier; rarely justified on a general ward. |
| T-300 | Sateen | Hospitality territory: slower to dry, and it will show it. |
Typical industry range. Exact specification confirmed at sampling. Percale is a one-over-one plain weave, crisp and cool; sateen is four-over-one, lustrous and softer. A higher tier is not a better institutional sheet: it is a heavier drying load and a higher replacement cost.
Anxiety three
Fitness at the bedside
A specification that reads well on paper can still fail on a ward at three in the morning. The pieces that decide that are unglamorous, and the draw sheet is the clearest example.
What a draw sheet is actually for
A draw sheet is not a small sheet. It is a width of cloth laid across the middle third of the bed, over the bottom sheet, running side to side and tucked deep on both sides. Its jobs are mechanical. With a slide sheet, it lets two staff reposition a patient up the bed or transfer them laterally without lifting them and without dragging skin across the mattress. It takes the soiling that would otherwise strip the whole bed. And it can be changed on its own, which is the difference between a two-minute change and a full strip on a ward that is already short-handed.
So what matters on a draw sheet is the width across the mattress and the length left to tuck: one that cannot be tucked deep enough is a hazard, not an economy. Then hem strength at the edges staff actually grip, and a construction the laundry can run on the same programme as your flat linen, so it does not become a separate batch that arrives late.
The rest of the bed
Fitted sheets need the real mattress depth, and the real depth changes the moment a pressure-relieving overlay goes on top: measure the made-up bed, not the catalogue. Pillowcases should be specified to a closure your linen room prefers. Ward towels are bought at the sober end of the towel weight ladder, because drying energy and par level dominate the cost. Everything is easier if it is all white and runs on one programme.
Scope
What we supply across a facility
Paragon Textile provides services to acute care hospitals, long term care facilities, rehabilitation centres and mental health facilities. The bed, the bathroom and the staff who work between them can all be quoted on one enquiry.
Staff
Scrubs & staff uniforms
Medical scrub sets and staff uniforms made to your size list, with department colour coding where your policy requires it.
Clinical
Doctor lab coats
Wrinkle-resistant doctor lab coats in standard and long lengths, for consultants, residents and laboratory staff.
Bathroom
Ward towels & bath linen
Bath, hand and face towels specified for institutional laundering rather than for a spa trolley, plus bath mats where they are used.
How an institutional enquiry is quoted
Give us bed numbers by ward type, mattress sizes and depths, your par level target, the blend you prefer, your disinfection regime and any colour coding your policy fixes. If a piece has to carry a department name or a tracking mark, say so at enquiry stage rather than after sampling.
Production is guided by defined protocols, quality controls and measurable benchmarks, and our processes are structured to meet international sourcing and compliance requirements. Fibre selection, weaving and knitting, finishing and stitching sit under one roof, so a repeat order for ward six is run against our record of the first, not re-tendered.
Healthcare reference
An organisation we have supplied
Shown with permission, without any claim of endorsement. Further references, including institutional and government organisations, are available on request.
Connect now for orders
Send us the ward list and the laundry policy
Bed numbers, mattress dimensions, par level, blend preference and your disinfection regime. With those we can quote a specification your IPC lead can read, your laundry can process and your finance office can compare on cost per use rather than on unit price.
- Payment terms: 30% advance, 70% before pick-up.
- Delivery terms: ex-works Islamabad, FOB Karachi, CIF or DDP.
- White and cream from stock. Other shades matched to a Pantone reference on order.
- Custom sizes, department colour coding and marking to order.
- No antimicrobial, barrier, flame-retardant or wash-cycle claim is made anywhere on this site.
- No minimum-order, price or delivery-date figure is published, all are confirmed with your quotation.