Celebrating Four Decades of Comfort
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Real Stories, Real Comfort
Exceptional Growth with Broda Transport Wheelchairs
Kevin Hedrington knows what it’s like to experience accessibility challenges. As a disabled veteran, Kevin decided to start a business offering friendly, reliable non-emergency medical transportation for the people of his home city, Battle Creek, Michigan. For his business, he uses the Synthesis Transport Wheelchair. “It fits the need for a travel wheelchair at a quality much higher than other WC19 certified wheelchairs.”
Much Better Than a Geri Chair
Mike McAdams, ATP has over 24 years of experience in skilled nursing and long-term care. “Skilled nursing has too many basic, generic solutions, like geri chairs, that do more harm than good. If you had chairs like Broda offers with infinite adjustability and positioning pads, you’d be able to alter them from patient to patient and meet each person’s specific needs. Each Broda wheelchair lasts for so many years and can be repurposed for multiple patients.”
A Full-Circle Career with Broda
Brian Peacock is a certified Assistive Technology Professional (ATP) who now serves as a Broda Sales Development Representative in Texas. In his former roles, Brian has successfully used the Encore Rehab wheelchair for his clients and seen phenomenal results. With its comfortable design and easy-to-use customizations, Brian has seen many people regain their independence and quality of life.
Exceptional Growth with Broda Transport Wheelchairs
Kevin Hedrington knows what it’s like to experience accessibility challenges. As a disabled veteran, Kevin decided to start a business offering friendly, reliable, non-emergency medical transportation for the people of his home city, Battle Creek, Michigan. For his business, he uses the Synthesis Transport Wheelchair because “It fits the need for a travel wheelchair at a quality much higher than other WC19 certified wheelchairs”
Saving 75% on NEMT Costs
When it comes to non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) in long-term care, many facility administrators find themselves paying an arm and a leg. This was certainly the case for Brian Murphy during his time as the Executive Director of Mountain View Care Center, a skilled nursing facility (SNF) in Tuscon, AZ. His costs were high and his residents were being transported via gurney rather than in a comfortable transport wheelchair. With Broda, he helped his facility save 75% on NEMT.
Improving Seating Tolerance Like No Other
“With the design of the Comfort Tension Seating® system of the Broda line of wheelchairs, the patient experience and quality of life in our facility has improved with the tolerance of being able to sit for longer periods to enjoy getting rehab care and doing activities away from the bedside. Broda’s Synthesis Positioning Wheelchair with the adjustable seat tilt and back recline features helped these patients develop a tolerance for sitting, a feature unavailable in a standard bedside geriatric or reclining chair.”
Total Comfort, Less Anxiety, & Increased Mobility
My mother has osteoporosis and arthritis with muscle weakness and bone and joint discomfort. Since she received this new Broda Encore Pedal Wheelchair with dynamic rocking, she has total comfort and less anxiety with increased mobility. We hope to see muscle and bone strengthening as she lost her ability to ambulate more than a few steps on her good days these last few months. She is legally blind, seeing only light and dark these last 2 years. She just celebrated her 96th birthday and lived alone until age 93. This chair has met her very important needs of comfort, safety, strengthening, mobility.
Healing the Worst Pressure Injury I’ve Ever Seen
We had a patient with COPD and claustrophobia. As a result, she refused to sleep in her bed, so she was in her wheelchair day and night. Despite our therapists’ best efforts, she developed the worst pressure injury I had ever seen. In an effort to be objective and demonstrate what worked and what did not have any effect, the red area was outlined with a black Sharpie marker. We got her a Broda positioning wheelchair as a trial and after one day, her injured area had diminished by approximately two inches all the way around. Best of all, she reported being much more comfortable.
Reducing Sheer Force
We have found the Broda Pedal Wheelchair beneficial in reducing the need to use added restraints and even more it has improved out-of-bed positioning for our residents. The chair enables a resident’s position to be changed by tilting instead of reclining. This is beneficial in that changing position with tilting instead of reclining reduces the sheering forces in the areas of the sacrum, coccyx, and ischial tuberosities thus reducing the potential for skin integrity problems. The Pedal Chair also enables residents, with the ability, to be independently mobile while in a tilted position which decreases the fatigue of the trunk musculature by not having to support their upper body in a fully upright position all day.
A Full-Circle Career with Broda
Brian Peacock is a certified Assistive Technology Professional (ATP) who now serves as a Broda Sales Development Representative in Texas. In his former roles, Brian has successfully used the Encore Rehab wheelchair for his clients and seen phenomenal results. With its comfortable design and easy-to-use customizations, Brian has seen many people regain their independence and quality of life.
Hope for My Alzheimer’s Patient
We have a woman in our facility with Alzheimer’s Disease who was slumping forward in her chair with her head in her lap. She was very uncomfortable and had become unsociable and extremely grumpy. We placed her in the Broda Pedal chair and were amazed at the immediate change in her disposition. She not only sat upright, but she started pedaling around in the chair. She had such an improvement in her posture and attitude and we were able to reduce her medication dosage.
Increasing Quality of Life at School
I work with a young man named Mason. Mason is 19 years old and has had his Broda chair for approximately two and a half years. The Broda chair is what I would consider as life-changing for him. It has been a positive and significant influence in Mason’s quality of life here at school.
Comfort & Peace of Mind
“My grandmother spent the last few years of her life in the Broda Centric Positioning Wheelchair. This was a relief to see her out of bed and comfortable in her wheelchair throughout the day. When we visited we were able to easily push her around the care facility, chatting with her and the other residents. The functionality and simplicity of Broda clearly contributed to a better quality of life for my grandmother in her final years. A few years later this personal experience later led me to join Broda as Head of Marketing! “
Comfort for a Veteran & His Family
At the age of 82, my father had advanced Parkinson’s and dementia. His power wheel chair was taken away for safety concerns. In a fortunate twist of fate, he qualified for the VA to fund a Broda wheelchair. This wheelchair has improved his quality of life and I can’t imagine him not being in it over the past few years. We are fortunate that the VA will fund Broda chairs for veterans like him who need them.
Easier Transfers & Repositioning
The Broda Products make it easier for caregivers to provide optimal care with less stress on the client and the caregiver. For example, easier transfers, easier repositioning , less maintenance, and easier mobility.
For over 40 years, Broda has contributed to improving the lives of thousands upon thousands of individuals from all walks of life. We are not only providers of medical equipment. We provide comfort, time with family, and the ability to do what matters most to you.
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