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Articles about passenger transportation (0-50 of 476)
- Why Some Transport Chair Rental Have A High Overhead Cost
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Providing access to all public facilities for people with disabilities is required by law. In order to provide safe access, many larger facilities such as airports, malls, medical facilities, and other large establishments have provided transport chair rentals. Some are coin operated for a small fee; others are a free service.
Pricing Transport Chairs
The initial outlay of purchasing a fleet of transport chairs for public use can run anywhere from $100 to $800 a piece, wi ...
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- Transport Chair Rentals Add Value At Public Events
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - No one would hold a large-scale, public event without providing public facilities, such as portable washrooms, baby-changing facilities or even portable ATMs. Why not provide transport chair rentals as well? As the mobility-impaired population grows, ensuring access for disabled patrons is increasingly important, not to mention being a potential source of additional revenue.
Well built, durable and easy to use, steel frame transport chairs are a low cost means of providing a valua ...
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- A Transport Chair Is An Increasing Favorite Of Institutions
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Because of innovative design, durability and safety, the transport chair is rapidly becoming the favored transport wheelchair for patient use in institutions throughout the Unites States, Canada and Europe. A look at some of the features that differentiate transport chairs will help to explain why hospital staff and volunteers prefer them over standard wheelchairs.
The standard wheelchair design in use today is more than 70 years old. First mass-produced by Everest and Jennings, t ...
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- Wheelchair Rentals Are For Short Term Use
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - There are many reasons you might need to use a wheelchair for a short term. If you are suffering from an injury, recent surgery, pain when walking, shortness of breath, or lack of strength to walk any distance, wheelchair rentals may be what you need to look for.
Assuming that your mobility issue is temporary and that you will be returning to being self-ambulatory without assistance, renting a wheelchair may save you money over purchasing a wheelchair.
Pros and C ...
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- Wheelchairs For Special Needs Transportation
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Special needs transportation can be very specific to accommodate individual disabilities. Children and adults with severe cognitive and physical limitations and those who spend most of their day in wheelchairs need a secure and comfortable means of transportation.
Transportation Chairs for Special Needs
For those people who are not self-ambulatory and do not have the strength or range of motion to operate a wheelchair alone, caregivers must push their wheelchair around. ...
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- Safe Medical Patient Transportation Alternative To A Wheelchair
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Large medical hospitals, clinics, extended nursing care facilities, and residential establishments for the elderly use wheeled chairs for medical patient transportation. Although much is said about the benefits of personal exercise, there are times when the most efficient and safest way of getting a patient to another part of the facility is by using a wheelchair.
Pros and Cons of Standard Wheelchairs
Wheelchairs are handy devices to increase mobility and independence of a ...
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- Manual Wheelchair Alternative Is Efficient Means Of Transporting Disabled
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - For over 20 years, the manual wheelchair alternative has given access to public places for people with mobility impairments. In 1988, Andrew J. Hart's son was in an automobile accident that left him unable to walk.
The teenager's will to survive and have a full life in spite of being dependent on a wheelchair made his father, an engineer, begin to think about the limitations of the standard manual wheelchair, and to design improvements.
The Problem with Outdated ...
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- Transport Chairs Decrease Cost Of Ada Compliance
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - The American Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 and amended in 2008 (P.L. 110-325) Title III prohibits "discrimination on the basis of disability in places of public accommodation". The Act ensures accessibility in all public facilities.
In addition, the law requires all new construction and remodels to be handicap accessible with wider doorways, bathroom facilities, wheelchair ramps, and other accommodations. The Transport Chair is an alternative to the common wheelchair.
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- 6 Things To Consider When Choosing A Hospital Transport Chair
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Administrators of hospitals, clinics, rehab centers, and extended care facilities recognize the need for having sturdy and durable transport chairs available for their patients. Depending on the size of the facility, supplying enough hospital transport chairs can run into thousands of dollars annually. Here are some guidelines for choosing a hospital transport chair that may save your facility a lot of money.
- A hospital transport chair should be strong and durable.
Mos ...
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- Can You Accessorize Your Wheelchair Accessories?
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - The fact that wheelchairs are a boon to the mobility impaired is without doubt. This does not mean there is not still room for improvement in this field, nor in the area of wheelchair accessories.
There are too many people in the world whose contributions we would have had to do without if they were confined to their beds as in days past. Where would physics and its understanding, even by laypeople, be without Stephen Hawking, as just one example.
Wheelchair acc ...
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- Wheelchair Rental Theft Problem Solved
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Public places require access for all persons with disabilities, which may include providing wheelchair transportation or wheelchair rentals on the premises. At the average cost of $350 per unit, some establishments spend thousands of dollars to provide wheelchairs for their customers, visitors, clients, or patients.
Unfortunately, this is not a one-time cost for the business; it is ongoing, because wheelchairs become broken, lose parts that are removable, and are stolen. Furth ...
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- Safety Comes First In Hospital Patient Transportation
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Institutions such as hospitals and care centers must be able to move patients quickly and smoothly. Hospital patient transportation is usually achieved with gurneys, wheelchairs, and transport chairs.
The Basics of a Common Wheelchair
A common wheelchair is designed for mobility for persons with disabilities. The construction is usually a sling seat and back, large rear wheels that can be operated by the user, and it is designed to fold flat for storage. Often footrests ...
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- Transport Chair Rentals Bring No Roi
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Large public facilities that provide wheelchair or transport chair rentals operate this service with no Return on Investment. Because handicap access is a requirement by law for all public facilities, airports and transportation terminals, malls and amusement parks, and many other facilities that require the public to walk a lot are now providing transport chairs for their visitors and customers.
The Difference Between Transport Chairs and At-Home Wheelchairs
These facilit ...
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- Airport Transport Chairs Can Help Relieve Travelers' Stress
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Among the many decisions airport administrators have to make is how to be in compliance with the Adults with Disabilities Act and provide access for persons with motor disabilities. Choosing the right airport transport chair makes an airport more traveler friendly and relieves traveler stress.
Providing Airport Transport Chairs for the Walking Impaired
Many people with disabilities arrive at the airport with their own personal wheelchair, and airports are ready to accommod ...
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- Hospital Patient Transportation Benefits From Improved It And Design
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Hospital patient transportation can be a cost center for institutions, even when staffed by volunteers. Judicious application of information technology, coupled with improved medical transport design, can reduce costs (and costly errors) while simultaneously improving patient experience.
How many patients in an average year are given tests intended for a different patient? How many needless blood draws happen because the phlebotomist doesn't know that someone else already took the ...
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- Wheelchair Manufacturers Are Getting Better Too Slowly
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Back in the early days of wheelchairs, limitations were often placed on their occupants, because there was believed to be a concomitant mental impairment along with the mobility issues. It is true that not everyone believed this, but physical disability tended to lead others to treating a person as if they were mentally impaired. This meant that for a long time wheelchair manufacturers did not take into consideration any real need for independent functioning on the part of their customers.
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- Wheelchair Accessories Make Wheelchair Transport Easier
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - A wheelchair may not always be an entity unto itself. More often than not, wheelchair accessories are necessary to the effective functioning of the unit, or at least of those persons utilizing it as a means of transport.
Not all wheelchairs require anything but the chair, occupant and attendant. These are the units used to help a healed patient exit the hospital or the person who is generally healthy, but cannot easily walk the length of several airport terminals and make the tri ...
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- The Current Airport Wheelchair Model Could Be Better
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Airports are sufficiently difficult to maneuver in without some of the very objects that are intended to ease our progress, actually making it more difficult. A case in point is the current model of the airport wheelchair, which imposes significant difficulties on both user and operator.
One of the biggest problems for the person tasked with pushing the airport wheelchair from one location to another, in order to help the mobility impaired passenger, is actually finding the chair ...
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- There Is Much Vital Wheelchair Equipment
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - When Raymond Burr played Detective Ironside in the eponymous show back in the 60s, it was just him, his wheelchair and his faithful assistant. By and large, fictionalized use of wheelchairs in television and movies still follows that rule today. There is virtually no mention or consideration of wheelchair equipment. This makes for easier filming, but leaves people whose primary awareness of this mode of transport, largely ignorant of the accoutrements that may need to be incorporated in even ...
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- Airport Transportation Begins On The Ground
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - The majority of the millions of people who pass through airports on a daily basis are there to go from one place to another some distance away. Almost everyone else who is there is there to assist in that movement. However, as airports themselves are often very spread out, arrangements may need to be made to transport passengers to their flights, using an entirely different type of airport transportation than is typically thought of.
There is more to airport transportation tha ...
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- Patient Transportation Should Be The Least Of A Hospital's Worries
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Patient transportation is a necessity in any hospital or other institution. The clients have to be moved from one locale to another for everything from tests to surgeries to emergencies to discharge.
Unfortunately, due to the deficiencies in most extant wheelchairs, this process can wind up taking up far more time than it should, leading to irate staff, patients, families, etc., as well as raising costs through extra man-hours, not to mention equipment failure and theft.
Tags: wheelchair, transport wheelchair, patient transportation, passenger transportation, airport transpor
- Patient Transportation Put At Risk By Rising Costs
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Health care costs are always on the rise. As unpleasant as this is to the consumer, the providers have to deal with financial problems as well. Trying to maintain all necessary services with reduced funding is a tricky process. Patient transportation is one of those areas where growing expenses can lead to reduced care because no one sees a way out.
On the surface, patient transportation might not seem to be a high cost event. Put the person the wheelchair. Take them to the sh ...
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- Theft Resistance Key For Commercial Wheelchair Rentals
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Commercial wheelchair rentals are an excellent value-add for public venues such as airports or shopping malls. The convenience of wheelchair rentals provided to patrons, as well as the potential for an added revenue stream, cannot be denied. Unfortunately, traditional wheelchairs, with their folding, x-brace design, are highly prone to theft. Wheelchairs, particularly manual, self-propelled wheelchairs sold by most manufacturers of commercial wheelchairs, can be easily folded and put into the tr ...
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- Special Needs Transportation Assisted By No-lift Transport Chair
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Special needs transportation can be difficult. For the mobility impaired special needs patient, it can be doubly so. The challenges for the caregiver or attendant are equally great. Standard wheelchair design requires that the patient be lifted from the chair onto hospital bed or exam table. Additionally, the attendant is required to bend or hunch into an unnatural and uncomfortable position in order to push the chair. Ergonomic, modern design can solve both problems for the attendant, as well a ...
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- Airport Transport Chair Makes Travel Easier
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Use of an airport transport chair can make travel smoother and easier for the mobility impaired. For travelers who use a walker, a cane or crutches for mobility, a transport chair is extremely helpful. The distance from curbside to gate, or from gate to gate when changing planes, can be difficult to cover for the mobility impaired. Rather than struggling with carry-on baggage and a walker, the traveler can make use of a transport chair, either as a rental or provided by the airline.
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- Stackable Transport Chairs Save Space And Maintenance
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Stackable transport chairs are the latest innovation in wheelchair design for institutional use. Unlike standard wheelchairs, stackable transport chairs use a non-folding, monolithic frame design which can be nested for storage. Nested storage requires as little as 30% of the space needed for storage of standard transport chairs, leaving doors and hallways clear. Additionally, like luggage carts, stackable transport chairs can be slotted into a coin or credit-card operated mechanism for easy sel ...
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- New Options For Advanced Patient Transportation
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - With ergonomic seating, folding armrests and high weight capacity, there are new options now available for advanced patient transportation. The design of the standard wheelchair is more than seven decades old. Imagine what the world would be like if automobile design, aircraft design, medical devices, even kitchen appliances, had stopped advancing in the early 1930s. Such a thought is nearly inconceivable, and yet, this is the state of the standard, manual wheelchair used in many modern hospital ...
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- A Transport Wheelchair Designed To Do Just That
By: Amy Lynn Hart | - Wheelchairs serve an excellent and invaluable purpose in the world. They enable people who, due to accident, injury, or illness to be far more independent than they would be without them. However, at the same time, they are often seriously lacking when it comes to serving those who only need to utilize them temporarily. This is where the need for a superficially designed transport wheelchair comes in.
Someone who is unable to walk requires a wheelchair or some equivalent means ...
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- An Airport Wheelchair Needs To Be Convenient For All
By: Amy Hart | - For those with mobility issues, the need for an airport wheelchair is even more pressing. There is no arguing the fact that many of the millions of people passing through airports on a daily basis need some assistance with their mobility. Who, facing a walk through three different terminals at O'Hare, hasn't wished that all the floors were made up of those mobile strips or that they had someone to push them?
The problem is that with the current standard wheelchair model, this growing ...
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- Can You Accessorize Your Wheelchair Accessories?
By: Amy Hart | - The fact that wheelchairs are a boon to the mobility impaired is without doubt. This does not mean there is not still room for improvement in this field, nor in the area of wheelchair accessories.
There are too many people in the world whose contributions we would have had to do without if they were confined to their beds as in days past. Where would physics and its understanding, even by laypeople, be without Stephen Hawking, as just one example.
Wheelchair acc ...
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- The Value Of A Good Wheelchair
By: Amy Hart | - These days almost no one has to ask what a wheelchair is. That is both good and bad. It is bad, of course, because this means that there are still far too many people in the world with moderate to debilitating mobility issues. It is good because without wheelchairs, the quality of life of persons who have such issues would be severely limited.
The invention of the wheelchair hundreds of years ago was certainly a boon to those few who had access to such an item, but at the time ...
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- The Value Of A Good Wheelchair
By: Amy Hart | - These days almost no one has to ask what a wheelchair is. That is both good and bad. It is bad, of course, because this means that there are still far too many people in the world with moderate to debilitating mobility issues. It is good because without wheelchairs, the quality of life of persons who have such issues would be severely limited.
The invention of the wheelchair hundreds of years ago was certainly a boon to those few who had access to such an item, but at the time ...
Tags: wheelchair, transport wheelchair, patient transportation, passenger transportation, airport transpor
- Patient Transportation Should Be The Least Of A Hospital's Worries
By: Amy Hart | - Patient transportation is a necessity in any hospital or other institution. The clients have to be moved from one locale to another for everything from tests to surgeries to emergencies to discharge.
Unfortunately, due to the deficiencies in most extant wheelchairs, this process can wind up taking up far more time than it should, leading to irate staff, patients, families, etc., as well as raising costs through extra man-hours, not to mention equipment failure and theft.
Tags: wheelchair, transport wheelchair, patient transportation, passenger transportation, airport transpor
- Airport Transportation Shouldn't Be All That Difficult
By: Amy Hart | - Quite frankly, there are days when all of us would like airport transportation in the form of a nice comfy wheelchair, ideally with someone to push it while we nap. Well, ideally one of those big six seater things with the flashing lights, but only if it goes really fast so we don't have to worry about getting to the plane on time.
Airports are increasingly complex for people with mobility issues. What with earlier and earlier arrival times to accommodate various exciting and ...
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- Patient Transportation Should Be The Least Of A Hospital's Worries
By: Amy Hart | - Patient transportation is a necessity in any hospital or other institution. The clients have to be moved from one locale to another for everything from tests to surgeries to emergencies to discharge.
Unfortunately, due to the deficiencies in most extant wheelchairs, this process can wind up taking up far more time than it should, leading to irate staff, patients, families, etc., as well as raising costs through extra man-hours, not to mention equipment failure and theft.
Tags: wheelchair, transport wheelchair, patient transportation, passenger transportation, airport transpor
- Airport Transportation Shouldn't Be All That Difficult
By: Amy Hart | - Quite frankly, there are days when all of us would like airport transportation in the form of a nice comfy wheelchair, ideally with someone to push it while we nap. Well, ideally one of those big six seater things with the flashing lights, but only if it goes really fast so we don't have to worry about getting to the plane on time.
Airports are increasingly complex for people with mobility issues. What with earlier and earlier arrival times to accommodate various exciting and ...
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- Discriminatory Practices Against Wheelchair Patrons
By: Mike McCoy | - All too frequently, people who discriminate against wheelchair patrons are insensitive to the fact that they do it at all unless they are called on it in the midst of the act. The subject of the outward discrimination is often too hurt or self-conscious to speak up. Most people would say that it's a good thing that the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed to provide wheelchair accessible services on public transportation systems. They wouldn't preface their verbal support with "as long a ...
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- Airport Transportation And Special Needs Clientele
By: Mike McCoy | - Airport transportation has a responsibility to special needs clientele who are wheelchair bound, because the airline requires all passengers to be strapped into an assigned seat on an airplane. There is no provision for wheelchairs inside a passenger jet. For safety, the client must check their personal wheelchair and sit in an airplane seat, fastened in securely like all the other passengers. Transport workers get the job of transferring disabled passengers from their personal wheelchairs onto ...
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- Investments In Reliable Passenger Transportation
By: Mike McCoy | - Reliable passenger transportation services are always ready, willing and able to get passengers from point A to point B without complications. In a perfect world, this statement would always ring true. Unfortunately, reliability isn't as common in today's world as it should be due to a variety of factors. Nevertheless, this type of accountability is especially needed by disabled passengers who trust and depend upon airport ground transportation to deliver them from one terminal to another for ...
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- Common Problems With Standard Transport Chairs
By: Mike McCoy | - Transport chairs are commonly used in two of the busiest places - hospital emergency rooms and airport terminals - where they are needed to transport people who cannot walk. The need for transport chairs in an emergency room is pretty obvious; it's full of people who may not be able to do things for themselves. Similarly, airport terminals are filled with all sorts of people; not everyone is able-bodied, and some may get sick or injured during their travels.
However, transport ...
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- Improvements In Airport Transportation Systems For Disabled Passengers
By: Mike McCoy | - Thanks in large part to the Americans With Disabilities Act, just about every major airport has a wheelchair operation in place to assist disabled passengers with airport transportation.
Unfortunately, there are several problems with the standard way of doing things that make it more difficult for both attendants and those that they are there to serve. Issues with broken or misplaced wheelchairs, wheelchairs that aren't designed to accommodate bariatric passengers and theft are ...
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- How A Transport Wheelchair Addresses Public Access Issues
By: Mike McCoy | - The new attendant-operated transport wheelchair, engineered solely for institutional use, is becoming increasingly popular with hospitals and airports. Institutions are trimming their ground transportation budgets, keeping those who use wheelchairs out of harm's way, and are finding that they rarely have a shortage of transport chairs. All of these things have been significant issues for public facilities that provide wheelchair access.
After decades of spending from 20% to 33% ...
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- Beyond The Standard Wheelchair
By: Mike McCoy | - Since 1932, the standard folding, self-propelled wheelchair designed for home use has seen few changes.
When individuals require something unique to fit their individual disability or sport it is usually a one-of-a-kind, made-to-order wheelchair. Since there have been few changes to what is standard since the early patent was established, specs for the chair are based on the size, height and weights of people from another era. The handles are too low for most people over 5'4" ...
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- Patient Transportation Expenses: Improving The Bottom Line
By: Mike McCoy | - A major expense in hospital budgets are outdated wheelchairs utilized for institutional patient transportation. First, the cost of one wheelchair averages $350. Second, the cost of maintaining these wheelchairs over time requires signing on for expensive maintenance contracts. Because they have removable parts which break or get lost, maintenance contracts are an unavoidable expense for standard wheelchairs. Third, a high rate of theft is associated with self-propelled, folding wheelchairs. ...
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- The Transport Wheelchair In Public Use
By: Mike McCoy | - A transport chair is commonly used in two of the busiest places; hospital emergency rooms and airport terminals. What do they have in common? The need to transport people who can not walk, in the safety of a transport wheelchair.
The hospital emergency room is the point of entry for people with ailments, illness, broken, bruised, or fractured bones. The airport waiting room plays host to all sorts of people from the world over, some who are confined to wheelchairs, some who use c ...
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- Current Issues In Handicapped Passenger Transportation
By: Mike McCoy | - Airports specialize in passenger transportation, from all manner of ground transportation to every type of air transit. With the high volume of travelers going in and out of airports worldwide around the clock, there are bound to be some situations. Generally speaking, the earlier you arrive at the airport, the sooner you will encounter situations that can prevent your travel from going smoothly, allowing you to address those issues before they interfere with your boarding plans.
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- The Transport Wheelchair Advantage
By: Mike McCoy | - For institutional use, the advantages of the transport wheelchair over the standard self-propelled wheelchairs (which are designed for personal use) are vast when it comes to longevity and cost savings. For instance, the transport chair is designed to be pushed by an attendant and cannot be budged by someone who is sitting in it. This variation on design limits its desirability for theft by someone who could otherwise just sit in a standard wheelchair and push off under their own steam.
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- Considerations In Bariatric Wheelchair Design
By: Mike McCoy | - As the average weight of modern Americans continues to climb, more and more facilities are recognizing the need to provide personal passenger transportation that can accommodate heavyweight individuals. However, bariatric wheelchair design has remained relatively stagnant, with few innovations that improve on the basic wheelchair. For example, the 250 to 500-pound weight limit on most wheelchairs isn't sufficient to meet the needs of the bariatric clinics that are popping up all over the count ...
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- Advantages Of Transport Chairs Over Traditional Wheelchairs
By: Mike McCoy | - Recent developments have introduced economically sound transport chairs designed specifically for institutional use that are standing the test of time. Less than twenty years ago, hospitals and airports were still using costly standard wheelchairs designed for home use. In the early 1990s, institutions virtually had no widely known alternative to the classic folding wheelchair, which was patented in 1932.
The wheelchair folded for portable use and was indeed ground-breaking fo ...
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- Common Issues With The Standard Bariatric Wheelchair
By: Mike McCoy | - While the typical bariatric wheelchair may cost more than the standard variety because they are a "specialty item," it is vital that hospital administrators (and anyone else who must ensure that individual transportation needs are met) make the investment. With obesity on the rise, there has been an increasing need for transport chairs capable of carrying heavier people for extended periods of time in both a private setting and in hospitals.
Unfortunately, even bariatric wheelcha ...
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