Introducing: CAPTURE Falls Project
Little known is one of the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s (UNMC) patient safety project: CAPTURE = Collaboration and Proactive Teamwork Used to Reduce (CAPTURE) Falls Project. I have known about this program since it started 10 years ago. I found and searched...
New Resource: External Urinary Management for Women
Over that last couple of years, I have written to you about many fall risk factors and interventions to help reduce your patients’ and residents’ risk of falls, and I have shared resources for your easy access. One fall risk factor that is important, and often not...
New Resources: AHRQ’s Quality and Patient Safety
Programs by Setting: Long-Term Care Hi Everyone! Welcome to May, as we prepare to celebrate Nurses Week, May 6th – 12th. I give thanks every day to be a nurse — a rehabilitation nurse. I have enjoyed a thirst for knowledge, a quest to contribute to nursing’s body of...
A New Resource from The World Health Organization: Step Safely
A New Resource from The World Health Organization:Step Safely I recently searched for resources and guidance to prevent falls on stairs, specific to the safety of older adults. Knowing that older adults are more likely — three times more likely — to experience...
The Use of Bed Safety Rails
A Brochure Resource for You Dear Colleagues, I am always delighted to receive questions about fall prevention practices, resources, and even opinions. My commitment has been and will always be to help you as much as I can. Of interest, every couple of months, I...
Build Your Fall and Fall Injury Prevention Program Capacity: Program Assessment
Dear Colleagues, All organizations commit to create and implement valid, reliable and quality clinical care programs that assure safe patient care that protects while improving outcomes: function, health, and well-being. Among all the clinical programs implemented in...
Let’s Campaign for September’s National Fall Awareness Week
Introducing CDC’s Still Going Strong Program and More! Colleagues, we commit to fall prevention of at-risk and vulnerable populations across all settings of care. Through our practice, we are dedicated to promoting function and independence, minimizing complications...
Let’s Expand Your Access to a Behavioral Health Toolkit for Fall Prevention
Minnesota Hospital Association ResourcesSafe from Falls RoadmapsSpecial 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...
The Same Chair Does Not Work For All Patients
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...
Protect Your Patients From Injury
Floor Mats Do Reduce Impact Severity: They Work! Colleagues, Protecting patients from injury when they falls requires different interventions than preventing them from a fall. The main intervention to reduce impact when patients fall from be is the Floor Mat...
A First Glimpse of Independence
For patients who have suffered a complete spinal cord injury, like Wesley Tweet, their first glimpse of independence often occurs once they arrive to a specialized rehabilitation facility like Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals in Nebraska. A quadriplegic, Wesley was...
Navigating Life With Limited Mobility
After suffering a complete spinal cord injury, Donna Cadwallader of St. Joseph, Missouri, is learning to navigate life with limited mobility. While rehabilitating at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals in Lincoln, Nebraska, Donna was exposed to the AC 20 Assistive...
Bed Height Must Be Individualized
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...
Creating a Safe Environment for Toileting
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...
Curbell Celebrates 75th Anniversary
Orchard Park‐Based Curbell, Inc. Celebrates 75 Years of Growth and Evolution in 2017 What started as a macaroni producer and a small machine shop located in the heart of Buffalo’s industrial district in 1942 has become one of the nation’s leading suppliers of plastic...
Working with UB’s Engineering Department
Curbell is committed to giving back to the communities that we serve. One way we do so is by partnering with students at local colleges and universities on a variety of business initiatives. These initiatives support our business goals while providing students with...
Curbell receives an award for “General Excellence”
Curbell Medical received an award for "General Excellence" in manufacturing for 2016 by Business First. See Article.