Dear Friends,
I listened to the speakers at the Indiana Trauma Symposium who were from the "other" Joplin Hospital. 1500 patients showed up in the first 4 hours! My takeaways in the bed world were this: If you are counting on electricity to keep your patients floating then have a back-up in an emergency. They said all their energy consumption went to XRay and CT Scan. Everything else had to go.
So keep a few cases of WAFFLE Mattresses in the basement and have some protection! Plus they are new beds in a crisis. Joplin had patients on the floor EVERYWHERE.
On another note, Silver Cross Hospital just moved their entire at-risk patient from the old hospital to the new ones, on WAFFLE Mattresses.
And I got a great note from a patient the other day who travels on one daily for her dialysis commute.
So versatile!
