Jun 7, 2021 | Article, Fall Management, News
Minnesota Hospital AssociationSafe from Falls Roadmaps Special Focus: Behavioral Health Units Over the last year, the unexpected and unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has generated our resiliency and resolve to strengthen prevention, protection and support...
May 12, 2021 | Article, Fall Management, News
Dear Colleagues, I welcome lots of questions from a variety of individuals seeking suggestions for fall and fall injury prevention interventions. Sometimes the messages are to run an idea by me to seek my opinion, like this request from a hospital trying to solve the...
Mar 15, 2021 | Article, Fall Management, News
Floor Mats Do Reduce Impact Severity: They Work! Colleagues, Protecting patients from injury when they fall requires different interventions than preventing them from a fall. The main intervention to reduce impact when patients fall from bed is a floor mat...
Feb 19, 2021 | Article, Fall Management, News
Low Bed Height is NOT a Universal Fall Precaution Colleagues, I hope that my inaugural resource message last month to re-evaluate your bathroom grab bar placement was helpful to you. I also hope that you shared the research and evidence to your Falls Committee...
Feb 12, 2021 | Article, Fall Management, News
Proper Grab Bar Placement in Bathrooms Reduces Falls Colleagues, I am delighted to launch this first informational message to you on behalf of Curbell Medical, Inc., designed to provide you with fall and fall injury prevention resources. The resources that I am...
