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- BUSINESS, Page 63Business NotesNEW PRODUCTSNo Butts About It
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- Hospital food is dreadful. Hospital bills are frightful. Yet
- they are nothing compared with the humiliation of the
- traditional hospital gown, an ill-fitting slice of flimsy fabric
- secured along the spine by shoelace-style ties that expose
- patients to drafts in the darnedest places. But the No Moon Co.
- of La Jolla, Calif., has built a better hospital gown: a soft,
- thick, robe-like garment with an overlapping flap in the rear
- held in place by strategically positioned Velcro tabs.
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- Conceived by brother-sister team Anita Chaffee and Tim
- Russell, the $16.35 No Moon costs at least three times as much
- as its low-end equivalents. But, says Chaffee, "for the extra
- money you are getting a gown that has much more function, design
- and comfort to it." After a trial order of 12 dozen from La
- Jolla's Green Hospital in January 1990, the gowns were boosted
- by exposure at the California Association of Hospitals and
- Health Systems convention in Palm Springs last October and an
- article in Modern Healthcare magazine in January. Result: the
- company has received inquiries from over 50 hospitals in 25
- states and sold nearly 2,000 gowns.
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