Healthcare Facilities: Acute Care

Experience-based health care design care design is changing Acute Care safe patient practices.Hospitals and care facilities increasingly turn to Zero-Lift policies as the rising cost of caregiver and patient injuries incidental to lifting becomes better understood. Lifting aids:

• Reduce replacement worker training costs
• Eliminate protracted hospital stays for injured patients
• Minimize worker-days lost for injured staff
• Reduce insurance premiums, and Workers' Comp claims
• Increase workplace satisfaction
• Reduce workload shifted to uninjured care staff

Ergonomic engineering minimizes worker fatigue and enhances efficiency with:

• Flexible workstation design
• Easy-reach height adjustable cabinets and counters
• Height adjustable sinks
• Height adjustable, tilt-top tables
• Variable-height appliances to support users perfectly

Note: ADA compliance is required in all clinical service areas. Equipment and services must be available to all users, irrespective of any complicating or disabling conditions. New England Medical Systems designs transfer solutions to insure access throughout the service area.

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