Prevent, Inc. to Partner with Sunrise Senior Living to Implement Safe Resident Movement Programs.

To improve resident and team member safety, Sunrise Senior Living  partners with Prevent, Inc. to provide the design and educational component for their Safe Resident Movement Program.

 

Hickory, N.C.  August 5, 2008 - Prevent, Inc. has been awarded the contract to provide the design and educational components to the Sunrise Senior Living Safe Resident Movement Program.  This agreement includes a three year implementation plan for all 350 Sunrise Senior Living communities in the United States with program introductions also possible in Sunrise communities located in Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany.

 

Sunrise Vice President of Safety and Loss Prevention, Mark Santoleri, is excited to work with the professional nursing staff of Prevent, Inc.  Mark has been in the healthcare industry many years and has vast experience with implementing innovative programs which profoundly improve care delivery practices.  His response to this opportunity is: "Prevent, Inc. is the national leader in establishing and sustaining improvements to care delivery by integrating the use of handling and enabling devices.  Their wealth of clinical expertise is the keystone for structuring and providing training which will help our care managers adopt and use new handling and enabling devices and techniques."

 

Betty Bogue, R.N., Founder and President of Prevent, Inc. since 1996 has implemented successful safe resident handling programs in more than 600 organizations.  She has this to say: "Our mission from our inception is to be instrumental in making healthcare a safer place; Sunrise Senior Living shares this goal and supports the need for a comprehensive program with a history of success.  We applaud the management of Sunrise for their desire to offer their residents and care staff the safest environment possible.  The senior living provider has been a national driver of providing senior care with solutions that work and it is our privilege to partner with them."

 

Sunrise Senior Living, a McLean, Va.-based company, employs approximately 40,000 people. Sunrise offers a full range of personalized senior living services, including independent living, assisted living, care for individuals with Alzheimer's and other forms of memory loss, as well as nursing, rehabilitative and hospice care. Sunrise's senior living services are delivered by staff trained to encourage the independence, preserve the dignity, enable freedom of choice and protect the privacy of residents. To learn more about Sunrise, please visit http://www.sunriseseniorliving.com.

 

For more information about Prevent, Inc., visit www.getalift.com