Asheville Specialty Hospital’s Pressure Ulcer Initiative Utilizing the Hercules Patient Repositioner
Asheville Specialty Hospital’s Pressure Ulcer Initiative Utilizing the Hercules Patient Repositioner
2 PagesAsheville Specialty Hospital’s Pressure Ulcer Initiative Utilizing the Hercules Patient RepositionerTM BACKGROUND Asheville Specialty Hospital (ASH) cares for very high acuity patients whose lengths of stay often exceed 20 days. Patients at ASH are generally debilitated and are highly susceptible to the formation of decubitus pressure ulcers due to various medically complex conditions. In February of 2014, ASH launched a clinical initiative to investigate the importance of maintaining the patient’s proper position in a healthcare bed and the influence of this positioning on the prevalence of pressure ulcers. This initiative involved the utilization of a new innovative medical device called The Hercules Patient RepositionerTM (Hercules). The goal of this clinical initiative was to de
