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In April, Stanford Hospital will be recognized by the Veteran’s Administration as the recipient of the 2010 Best Practice Award for Safe Patient Handling.
It has spent $3m on investing in equipment & training including eight overhead lifts, 24 mobile lifts, one lift for bariatric patients and 26 air-powered transfer systems for moving patients from, say, a bed to an X-ray table.
The Veterans Administration and the American Nurses Association have asked Stanford to help design a template for other hospitals to use in adopting safe-handling equipment and practices. Forte said the hospital also will be doing its own research on both patient and staff safety. “We think the new equipment will help us get patients up and out of bed and mobilized far sooner. And that means becoming independent and going home sooner.”
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