Improving SPHM Compliance-Efficient Solutions: PART 2- The Repo Sling Solution
By Amber Perez, Clinical Consultant and Amy Villars VP of Clinical Safety One of the most common requests from SPHM Professionals is, “How do I improve compliance with SPHM?” In this series we will address this issue and offer SPHM Solutions. Amy and Amber both established and grew hospital [...]
Improving SPHM Compliance-Efficient Solutions: PART 1- The Versatile Limb Lifter
By Amber Perez, Clinical Consultant and Amy Villars VP of Clinical SafetyOne of the most common requests from SPHM Professionals is, “How do I improve compliance with SPHM?” In this series, we will address this issue and offer SPHM Solutions. Amy and Amber both established and grew hospital based SPHM [...]
Steps for Staying Home: Renovating for your Future Self
By: Amber Perez, Clinical Consultant and Amy Villars, VP of Clinical Safety Are you or a loved one a Baby-Boomer? This generation of activism, social change and freedom led the charge in much of the social attitudes and freedoms we enjoy today. It is also the largest generation to retire [...]
Addressing Nurse Burnout
By: Amber Perez- Clinical Consultant and Amy Villars, VP Clinical Operations According to a definition published by the Cleveland Clinic (2023) Caregiver burnout is a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion that can happen when you dedicate time and energy to manage the health and safety of someone else. Caregivers [...]
Mobility as Medicine: Why Mobility Matters as You Age
By Amber Perez, Clinical Consultant and Amy Villars, VP Business Development & Clinical SafetyImmobility is directly correlated with an increased risk of death. As we age, the number of factors leading to immobility increase. Most commonly, after retirement- less demand to be active often results in an increasingly sedentary lifestyle. [...]
The Great Debate: How Many Caregivers are Needed?
There is no debate about the amazing benefits of incorporating a mechanical sit-to-stand into your Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM) toolkit. Hello, It’s Amy and Amber, we are both former SPHM coordinators from large acute care organizations, SPHM equipment vendor experts and passionate professionals who promote the power of [...]
Improving Bathroom Safety
Most people use the bathroom every day without incident. But for the elderly, it can be the most dangerous place in the home. The bathroom is where the majority of falls—many of which cause serious injuries that require a trip to the hospital—occur. The danger is alarmingly common. See [...]
Making Bathrooms Aging Friendly
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a paradigm shift that is altering lifestyles and industries around the globe, often in a permanent way. One fundamental change involves how and where people want to care for their aging parents and themselves. COVID-19 radically accelerated the desire to age in place rather [...]
Patient Slings In Stock. Guaranteed.
Everyday there are more reports of supply chain backorders with thousands of containers stacked up at US ports, and ships waiting weeks to unload. Yet, hospitals are still full of patients that need supplies for their care. This includes safe patient handling slings that help move patients safely, reposition and [...]
Fall Prevention is Possible
Falls are undeniably prevalent in all areas of healthcare, including acute, post-acute, ambulatory, and home care settings. As a safe patient handling company, Inovi Healthcare is passionate about fall prevention and recovery. Did you know? Patient falls are the most common cause of traumatic brain injuries 1 in 5 [...]
Celebrating & Honoring Our Nurses
We would like to celebrate and honor our nurses this week for holding our hands when we are sick and vulnerable. For listening when we are scared and have no one to turn to. For taking care of us when we cannot even preform our activities of daily living. For [...]
International Women’s Day
In celebration of International Women’s Day, we wanted to honor three great women at Inovi Healthcare: Nancy Mazepa who runs our Warehouse and Distribution operations Karen Mullervy, RN, BSN who runs our Mid-Atlantic Sales Amy Villars, BOS. who runs our Western Region, Barrier Free Access and VP of Clinical Services. [...]