Designer Hospital Patient Gowns and Surgical Scrub Caps for your every health and medical recovery need. Designer Hospital Patient Gowns and Surgical Scrub Caps will make you Look Better and Feel Better with style and comfort in life's most challenging moments.

MANUFACTURING AND SOURCING ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO US AND WE ARE ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT FOR NEW RESOURCES:

Full service SEWING CONTRACTORS, FABRICS - 100% COTTON SHEETING, SHIRTING, POPLIN or 55% COTTON 45% RAYON in conversational or printed patterns meeting United States of America’s CPSC 16 CFR part 1610, VELCRO / HOOK & LOOP and SNAPS. We are in the process of developing a line of children’s hospital gowns and require FABRICS meeting CPSC 16 CFR parts 1615 & 1616.

WE SEARCH THROUGH OUT THE WORLD FOR OUR PATIENTS. PLEASE E-MAIL US FOR REQUIREMENTS AND SAMPLE ARRANGEMENTS AT

1) Why start this company?

Because I could find no one else making what a hospital gown really should be. All I found was boring & ugly pastel blues, pinks, yellows and repeating dots, diamonds or repeating snowflake patterns.

Now, doctors had hot colors and patterns but no one really gave a crap about the patients, the sick people - "just grab one of those dull and uninspiring hospital gowns off that cart" and that’s what your loved one or friend gets.

Not so anymore! At first it was just a thought, then a dream, then the dream quickly turned into a nightmare, a deep abyss, then back into an ideal dream – to help people and what's so funny about that, now it's a reality – OPEN for business 24 X 7.

2) What’s the real story behind Designer Hospital Gowns?

It starts like any other day or night.

The phone rings and it’s the call you never want to get - someone, a loved one, a family member is down, hurt and in the hospital clinging to life. So you pack and rush hopping the red eye east trying to catch a moment of sleep while phoning ahead for patient updates. You arrive and scramble to the hospital.

Entering the hospital before dawn all is quiet. You wander your way, finding the Intensive Care Unit. Checking over the ICU waiting area people are spread out in-groups around the room. Some sleeping on floor, strewn over tables, children playing hiding and seek under chairs, some reading, others praying - this is the calm harbor in a storm where all of us are in the same boat. You dump your luggage down in a chair, wondering for a split second if it’s safe then moving quickly on to the ICU front desk. You repeat the name over and over in your mind as they slowly check the charts.

Approaching the ICU suites the medical noises become deafening. You quickly scan around the sub-rooms checking over each bed and face carefully. The nurse guides you around the drawn curtain. There is your loved one looking disheveled but alive and wearing a pastel blue tablecloth they call a GOWN. You struggle with the fears, tears, joys and hopes all in an instant. The days and nights come and go but soon enough they move you out and onto the next floor.

Sitting there day after day, test after test, bland meal after meal, I started to notice that the hospital gowns are ugly and not inspiring.

In the hallways often I passed children playing wearing the same cheap dull gowns. While watching the patients walk around and around circling the medical station it reminded me of that scene in Midnight Express where all the prisoners are walking around in circles: "the bad machine doesn’t know it’s a bad machine." I thought people, human beings, deserve better than this and should demand better hospital gowns.

Why not? Why shouldn’t your friends, lovers, or loved ones deserve the best possible INSPIRING hospital gowns.

What can I do? What can you do?

So Designer Hospital Gowns and Surgical Caps were INSPIRED!

Almost everyday I come across another roadblock, more regulations and deadlines but the road to success is paved with potholes. I just work harder and longer. For if you could only see the patients faces young and old when given a Designer Hospital Gown you’d know it’s the right thing to do by any means necessary.

We will make this a better place!

3) Why do people think this idea is so crazy?

I don’t know, to give patients and families in their time of need quality modern gowns with the finest cotton patterns and prints, what’s so crazy?

WE THINK AND MANUFACTURE OUTSIDE THE BOX NOT IN IT!

4) Explain the CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS DHG makes?

Our business has a responsibility to give back to the world community. We believe 
in you and will donate funds and/or time for each Designer Hospital Gown purchased. 

5) What design innovations has Designer Hospital Gown made?

We have introduced easy fastening Velcro / hook & loop shoulders/backside, 2" overlapping backside coverage, dual pockets sized for telemetry units and personal items, a Waterfall neckline for comfort, shoulders & sleeves designed for range of motion, a hidden body cut through for access to the mid-section, extra long ties for additional sizing adjustments and easy closure.

6) What’s wrong with the regular old gowns?

Everything! Just look at them. They are Boring, Cheap and over 75 years over due for a CHANGE! Regular gowns are no match for the quality and softness of today’s 100% cotton or cotton / rayon prints.

7) Do you do custom orders?

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We do SOME custom orders only for LARGE QUANTITIES. Please contact us for details with ALL of your exact details. If getting Custom artwork designed to meet your specifications. Usually, 3000 yards is the minimum amount of fabric to be cold / wet printed using high-grade reactive dyes in Korea / Japan or Overseas. This yields about ~834 unisex Designer Hospital Gowns with 834 Surgical Caps across 5 sizes with about 167 gowns in each size: S, M, L, XL, XXL, plus about an extra 996 surgical caps or about 14000 surgical caps. About 3 months production time for the overseas fabric. Embroidery achieves the best results for adding your logo. This is not cheap.

8) Tell us about your sewing contractor?

We sew all our products in the United States of America under NON-sweatshop conditions. At any time workers can and will stop production to correct any problems. We always welcome their input.

9) Why you don’t use metal snaps?

We prefer Velcro / hook & loop to snaps because Velcro / hook & loop is easier to mate together for closure and with Velcro / hook & loop, you can wear YOUR hospital gown everywhere. We can and do use snaps on custom orders if requested.

10) What are the washing instructions?

All of our Designer Hospital Gowns and Surgical Caps are 100% Cotton or 55% Cotton 45% Rayon blend, and should be washed separately, Velcro / hook & loop mated together, machine wash cold (warm ok), dark colors separately, NO bleach, tumble dry low, hang or iron. Depending on the print colors, type of fabric, thread construction and weave please expect under 1% shrinkage that's less than 1/4". All of our hospital gowns, surgical caps, bouffant hats and stethosocks are generously cut to account for any shrinkage.

YES REALLY - WASHED & READY TO WEAR - The fabric manufacturers start by pre-washing the fabric. After the fabrics are checked, cut, inventoried, bundled, sewn, trimmed, finished and re-checked. The FINAL GARMENT WASHING sequence begins with an all temperature laundry detergent that is Dermatologist tested, free of perfumes or dyes, no phosphorus, then a biodegradable fabric softening agent (cationic) is added to the final rinse cycle for added softness and reduced wrinkle. Designer Hospital Gowns and Surgical Caps are hot tumble dried to attain controlled shrinkage then the gowns, caps, hats and socks are folded, invoiced and packaged ready for customer orders.

11) The web site’s Medical page?

We like to post a variety medical information from different doctors or medical associates on various subjects. If you are a doctor or a medical associate and would like to post, e-mail us.

12) The web site’s Banner ads?

Yes, we do SELL or trade our banner ads for advertising. We limit our pages to only one banner ad per page. For site statistics and prices please e-mail us.

13) What disappointments have you encountered along the way?

LOTS in all areas! It is always very interesting to engage a new vendor’s salespeople who know less about their own products and pricing than you do.

I have found that 95% of companies I have tried to do business with, or give money to for services NEVER return calls, faxes, e-mails or do the due diligence required.

One very interesting encounter happened with an apparel company’s rep that I really want to do business with. They had great stuff but the catch came at the meeting I boldly said "I would just like to get started with a minimum order and what is the maximum product I can get?" She told me that she doesn’t make any money on minimum orders and she was doing me a favor by even meeting with me and she wouldn’t be sending me the three samples that I had requested because it’s a waste of her time!

I explained to her that none of the top-big design companies started with tremendously large first orders. The companies that are willing to work with us now will be with us when we are big.

Sorry - We are not just making a typical cheap standard hospital gown. We could but we DON’T cut any corners period. The prints and fabrics are hand picked utilizing top quality medium weight cottons - cotton/rayons. The premium wet/cold printing uses 10 to 20 vibrant colors. We use 2.5 times more fabric per garment than your ordinary $46.00 Hawaiian shirts (hospital gowns are full body length). We add Velcro / hook & loop, two pockets, a welted cut-through (option), bias necklines, 4 strapping ties and bar tacking for quality. We use only the most durable sewing stitches throughout your garment. We sew in the USA. We check, double check, triple check the hospital gowns, wash, soften, dry and package up every Designer Hospital Gowns & Surgical Caps before you wear it so it is ready to wear out of the package. Everyone must get paid a reasonable amount in order to support their families and businesses. We do not work alone; we work as a team. For much more information scan through the web site for details.

We are not making the cheapest hospital gowns but we are making only the very best top quality Designer Hospital Gowns & Surgical Caps for life. Look Better, Feel Better.

Sorry, we no longer print a paper catalogue. We keep a virtual brochure/catalogue on the Internet – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You can find all of our product information on this World Wide Web site. You can just use your Printer to PRINT out whatever pages you need. Again, every tidbit of product information can be found here at our home site.

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