New Vest is out West

Heading to Dallas today to start some meetings and to see the new SDS Transfer Vest in all its glory! It is exciting. New features include, a breathable non permeable material, larger head and arm holes, longer on the torso with some additional handles for PT and OT use. As the Founder of SDS likes to say Let's Rock and Roll!
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Senior Moment

I was discussing business with a friend and as he walked me to the car, he saw an object in the back area and asked what I had there. I pulled one of the SDS Transfer Vest and told him the story. He looked at me and said, "my Mom.....". It happens almost every day around here. Another storyline that needs a happy ending. A Mom, Dad, Sibling, Granmother that is semi-ambulatory and need some help to get up and around.
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Manpower

Working on an opportunity at Novations, the large GPO based in Dallas. They are reviewing falls and falls strategies for their clients. A wise man once told me that for all the sophistication in the world, all the products made to help eliminate falls...it really comes down to manpower. While our Vest is easily the best way to transfer someone, if no one is there to help...a fall can happen. I am not sure of any statistic to prove this point but logic indicates that it may take a minute or two under the best case scenario for a night nurse or aide to respond to an alarm that a patient is moving. And a full bladder demanding a bathroom will drive a person off their bed in less time than that. Manpower.

It is the small things

We had a nice woman from a home health agency in CA. order a vest. She had seen the SDS Transfer Vest at the show in LA.

Do you need it for work, we asked. No. Do you have a client that needs this? No. What do you intend to do with the vest? I need it for my Dad, he needs it so we can help move him safely. She then said, if it works like I saw in LA, I will strongly recommend it to my company....one vest at a time makes the world a happier place.
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Falls-Number One

I just read that falls are the number one reason for injuries and death in folks 65+.
Wow! Knowing that some of those falls might have been prevented with some simple measures gives me a sense of urgency to tell the world about our Vest. Any fall that occured during a transfer is totally preventable and I need to get the word out-get the SDS Transfer Vest and use it right.....
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Another Friday Oneday

Haiti is on the minds of millions as Nature has once again shown man that there are forces you can not control. We will send money, we will send aid and we will say prayers. The lives of most Haitians will be altered for ever. Let us hope that Haiti becomes a better place to live with better regard for humanity.
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Can Do, Will Do

Our physical skills and abilities erode with time and use. That clock never stops ticking and for some people it is a fast moving clock at that. While aging is enough in most cases, debilitating disease often shows conveniently up and takes charge. One of the lessons I have learned is that you can be robbed of your physical gifts but never of your attitude unless you allow it. I have been impressed over and over again by the can do, will do attitude of people who have suffered greatly at the hands of disease and aging and yet never say die. As a parent looks on the gift of children in their lives, a caregiver can look on the gift of attitude in the same way. We walk away a little proud of the actions and the attitudes. Let's make sure these Heroes get the help and dignity they deserve.
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Startling statistics

Did you know that your average hospital will have 33 workman's comp cases with an average of 5 days lost time at work. Almost all of them from straining and lifting when they should not. The average direct cost...$24.704.00 per incident with an estimated indirect cost at $24,704.00 minimum and more likely 5 times that.

That is huge expense for a facility, do the math and it is costing the hospital along the lines of $1.6 million annually. I contend that you will eliminate 33% of those injuries by using our vest as it should be used. So if you bought 100 vests at the institutional price you would spend the equivalent of 1/2 of one injury with lost time.
So you could save over $580,000 in direct and indirect costs. You earn back the investment 21.4 times in the first year. Wow.
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The website is almost done...we still need to clean a few pages up but if you would like to take a gander at the new site, www.mvworldwide.org . You can soon watch a training video and order vests or download brochures. Feed back is always welcome!
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Here is a plan worth noting

I just read an article about a non profit called Clarity Care that has a new model for helping people live independently despite health problems. They are providing services to those clients for as little as $3.00 an hour! They use community support and private donations to offset the true cost of in home care. They are just moving into Brown County, Wisconsin where there are 650 low income residents on a waiting list as the county's own funding is suffering shortfalls for providing at home care. Clarity Care employs about 500 people to help the elderly and disabled.
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New Year New Vest

A new Version of our SDS Transfer Vest is almost ready to unveil. The addition of PT useful soft handles, the mesh back and the use of non permeable materials are going to make this particular vest into the Super Vest! More details to follow as we near the finish line in introducing the new vest version. To lift the quality of life to both the caregiver and the loved one is a tremendous charge we take seriously and we will be able to do it better yet in 2010.
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