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New Bed to Reduce Workers' Comp Claims from Nurses

Posted on Feb 03, 2011

Thanks to a new bed created by VitalGo Inc., the number of workers' compensation claims of nurses are very likely to decrease. In the United States, more than 9,000 healthcare workers are injured on the job, and many of these injuries are a result of having to lift patients in and out of their beds. An average of one out of every ten healthcare workers experience a work injury that results in an inability to work. The new bed, called "Total Lift Bed" (TLB) eliminates the need for nurses to lift patients from bed. The Total Lift Bed can bring a patient from a fully laying down position to a fully standing position with no manual lifting from the nurse.

As the number of workers' comp claims from nurses and caregivers has been on the rise, mostlly due from manual lifting of patients, the Total Lift Bed will greatly reduce the number of claims from the nurses and increase comfort and risk of injury to the patients being transferred.

The Total Lift Bed is also useful in pulmonary therapy, as it continuously displays the amount of pressure on the patient's feet and legs. Nurses and healthcare providers can use that information to raise patients who are currently in flat positions incrementally as their ability to bear their own weight improves.

The costs for Total Lift Beds is approximately the same as traditional hospital and nursing style beds but with a significant decrease in the number of worker injuries related to manual patient lifting and a decrease in the number of corresponding Workers Compensation cases.