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focus on environment
Wheelchairs in Facilities
remove from the chair to make it easy to get in those hard-to-reach spaces. Our chair’s a little unique in that our seating system is built into the frame itself. So we’ve developed some ways to cover our seating with a medi- cal-grade vinyl. That’s just an option, but it allows them to use whatever cleaner is approved in their facility on that medical-grade vinyl.
MM: Because you don’t have control over what kinds of cleansers are used?
Dave DeRoin: Right. We suggest, and we have it in all of our operations manuals, that the type of vinyl that we use is open to many cleaners. We tell people, “Just make sure that it’s not an irritant to the skin of the patient you’re working with... and that cleaner would be fine.”
The types of cleaners that [facilities] are using now are a higher grade than I’m sure they’ve ever used. So I think our patients are probably benefiting from that more than they ever have.
Building in Real-World Durability
MM: Are there any other factors that you would recom- mend examining if an ATP supplier or clinician told you,
“I’m working with a client who’s in a facility: What else do I have to consider besides ease of use and ease of cleaning?”
Dave DeRoin: Probably ease of use and longevity.
One of the things we certainly take into consideration is the durability of our chair. We have chairs that have been out there for 15 or 20 years [in the field] that are
still working great. It’s a popular feature for us, and we recently updated to a 10-year warranty on the frame. The 16-gauge steel that we use is extremely durable.
Whether it be a group home or a long-term care facility, they’re not always the best caretakers of the chair. We know that. We know it gets used, it gets abused, and to have that type of a warranty is definitely a popular feature.
But for any ATP, I would tell them it begins and ends with the patient, a hundred percent. We want to make sure that the patient is getting exactly what they need — and we feel that in long-term care, we have both covered. We have not only the right seating system for many of those patients, but we also have the durability and the ease of use that a facility is looking for. m
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