With the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation facing a fiscal crisis, its leaders brought in a consultant to review finances and suggest sweeping structural changes—including closing the system's central laundry facility and outsourcing the work of cleaning and delivering all the sheets, gowns and towels that the sprawling HHC system uses. Workers say earlier efforts to privatize the work fell flat. The lead vendor selected to take the work has encountered legal trouble over some of its past public contracting work.
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