ErgoNurse and Briggs Healthcare Positioned to Completely Eliminate the Unnecessary Cost of Healthcare-Related Back Injuries
ErgoNurse and Briggs Healthcare sign deal to jointly improve healthcare safety and patient outcomes with the ErgoNurse no-lift patient bedside management system by expanding sales and distribution into the long-term care and skilled nursing facility industries.
FORT WORTH, Texas, June 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ErgoNurse, the leader in bedside safety management solutions, and Briggs Healthcare, a preeminent supplier of healthcare products in the United States, have formalized a partnership to better serve the hospice, nursing home, long-term care and skilled nursing markets.
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Thousands of healthcare professionals in acute care settings have been able to fully take advantage of the ErgoNurse products to stop unnecessarily utilizing their backs for the purpose of boosting, turning and treating patients. Statistics have shown that ErgoNurse equipped units in hospitals are eliminating bedside handling back injuries completely. The agreement between ErgoNurse and Briggs Healthcare will best help healthcare professionals in the long-term care and skilled nursing facility markets move to a lift-free environment as well.
George R. Robertson, ErgoNurse President and CEO, "Our relationship with Briggs Healthcare will open needed channels of education and product solutions into a critical market segment not previously served as well as we can with Briggs Healthcare as our partner. There are obvious benefits to healthcare professionals who utilize the ErgoNurse in serving patients. At the same time, we are seeing a growing need to serve bariatric patients and their special needs including pressure ulcer management that will absolutely impact patient outcomes with the use of the ErgoNurse. Briggs Healthcare is strategic in our efforts to help these patients and residents."
About The Companies
ErgoNurse is a Fort Worth, Texas headquartered designer and manufacturer of patient management products designed to protect workers while achieving safe patient handling mandates and lowering costs. ErgoNurse products are capable of supporting patient weights of up to 1,100 lbs. without investment in capital-intensive ceiling lifts or facility reconstruction. www.ErgoNurse.com
Briggs Healthcare is headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa with affiliate operations in Waukegan, Illinois. Through its operating companies, Briggs Healthcare serves more than 50,000 customers in the senior care, home care, acute care, physician and retail markets, producing and distributing more than 10,000 products. Domestically, through its network of three distribution centers, the company is capable of two-day ground delivery anywhere in the continental U.S. www.BriggsCorp.com
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