Too often I hear people say they get their ceiling hoists ‘serviced’ with a local or known supplier. This is simply because the company or individual also performs servicing for their beds, bed movers, kitchen trolleys and any other mechanical or electronic equipment their facility can group together. Grouping equipment together to save on servicing
Aged Care, Aged Care Facilities, Designing for Dementia, Elsi Smart Floor, Fall Detection, Floor Monitoring System, HLS Website Blog, Innovative Products, Quality Standards
HLS Healthcare and TLC Healthcare partner for Elsi Smart Floor rollout
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Sep
Sep
HLS Healthcare are proud once again to partner with TLC Healthcare for their next project in Mordialloc with the Elsi Smart floor. TLC are setting another ‘first’ in aged care by adding a childcare centre within the facility alongside a medical centre and 147 resident bedrooms. TLC have installed the Elsi Smart Floor into Clifton
Aged Care, Aged Care Facilities, Blog, High-Quality Mobility Hoists, HLS Website Blog, Patient Lifting
Esense ‘makes sense’ when it comes to reducing push-pull stress
17
Sep
Sep
Healthcare product designers are constantly coming up with new and better ways of doing things – ways to make life easier and safer, and to improve care practices and workplace process. Fortunately, the humble floor hoist has not missed the boat on this innovation challenge. According to Safework Australia, body stressing represented more than half
Aged Care, Aged Care Facilities, Bedroom for Assisted Living, Elsi Smart Floor, Fall Detection, Floor Monitoring System, HLS Website Blog, Innovative Products, NurseCare Nurse Call System, Quality Standards, Scalabrini Village
One thing is for sure – not all Fall Detection systems are the same
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Aug
Aug
Technology in healthcare seems to advance at light speed. As providers look to improve efficiencies and reduce costs one thing is for sure – not all fall detection solutions are the same. Why? Let’s take a look… In the Aged Care industry, there are many different solutions. There are sensors positioned in the corners of
Aged Care, Aged Care Facilities, Bed Assist Devices, HLS Website Blog, How to Prevent Back Injuries, Lifting Aids to Prevent Patient Lifting Injuries, Manual Handling When Positioning, Reposition a Patient in Bed, Resident Positioning System, VENDLET
Big Problems? We Have The Answers!
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Aug
Aug
In April 2019, HLS received a desperate call for help concerning a bariatric Resident living in a Japara Aged Care Facility in regional Victoria. Tiffany Simpson, National Health & Safety Manager of Japara reached out to us as there were several manual handling challenges for the nurses and care-staff to overcome. This particular resident weighed
Aged Care, Aged Care Facilities, Ceiling Hoist Solutions, Ceiling Hoists, Different Types of Patient Hoists, Fall Detection, Guldmann Ceiling Lift Systems, HLS Website Blog, How to Prevent Back Injuries, Lifting Patients Incorrectly, Patient Lifting, Quality Standards, Scalabrini Village
Aged Care – “We don’t want to look like a hospital”
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Aug
Aug
One of the most common things I hear from the management staff of Aged Care organisations when considering ceiling hoists, is they want the building to look and feel more like a home rather than a hospital. Unfortunately, more often than not, the need for ceiling hoists is an after-thought, only coming into consideration after
Aged Care, Aged Care Facilities, Bed Assist Devices, Blog, HLS Website Blog, Manual Handling When Positioning, Patient Positioning, Pressure Sores and Ulcers, Products to Prevent lifting Injuries, Reducing Bed Sores, Resident Positioning System, VENDLET
The Man Who Won’t Roll – A Case Study
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Jul
Jul
According to a Case Study by Melbourne-based Occupational Therapist, Frances Arnold of Yooralla, the Vendlet Turning System was the perfect solution for ‘The Man Who Wouldn’t Roll’. The study centres on Gavin, a 49yo man who had suffered a Spinal Cord Injury together with an Acquired Brain Injury. He was living in a Supported Accommodation
Aged Care, Aged Care Facilities, Designing for Dementia, Elsi Smart Floor, Fall Detection, Floor Monitoring System, HLS Website Blog, Innovative Products, Quality Standards, Scalabrini Village
Fall Detection, NurseCare and Quality Standards Compliance
28
Jul
Jul
As the Royal Commission continues to move closer to releasing its outcomes, providers need to ensure they are making the right decisions to help protect and support their organisation. As such, Quality Standards for aged care projects are now being considered by providers and architects much earlier in the design or redevelopment stages of a
Aged Care, Aged Care Facilities, Bed Assist Devices, Bedroom for Assisted Living, HLS Website Blog, Innovative Products, Patient Positioning, Pressure Sores and Ulcers, Products to Prevent lifting Injuries, Properly Positioning Bedridden Patients, Reducing Bed Sores, Reposition a Patient in Bed, Resident Positioning System
Manual Handling and ‘Best Practice’
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May
May
When it comes to Manual Handling, does “Best Practice” simply mean more staff to ease the load? Not necessarily. In a world of increased bariatric presence in our Hospitals and Aged Care facilities, we have to work smarter not harder, particularly as securing funding for extra staff is a perpetual conundrum. The Vendlet Bed Turning
Aged Care, Aged Care Facilities, Designing for Dementia, Elsi Smart Floor, Floor Monitoring System, HLS Website Blog, NurseCare Nurse Call System
Can Aged Care Providers reduce falls and costs at the same time? Yes.
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May
May
Finding the right balance between providing quality aged care and minimising costs is hard. Especially now, amidst what is arguably the most turbulent decade in the history of the Australian aged care sector. As we head towards post-COVID times we will start to leave behind one type of uncertainty to be faced with another, more
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