ArjoHuntleigh, one of the world's leading medical suppliers has joined forces with Adelaide based power assisted bed mover StaminaLift in a national distribution agreement across Australia.

"The agreement with ArjoHuntleigh is for the promotion, sales and service of StaminaLift products in Australia", said VP Global Business Development Scott Newton.

"ArjoHuntleigh has global revenues of more than $1.5 billion with 4,400 staff operating in more than 30 countries," said Mr Newton .

Adelaide based StaminaLift International is a specialist designer and manufacturer of power assisted manual handling solutions that prevent workplace injury, significantly decrease hospital operational costs and provide safe and effective options for bed movements.

StaminaLift successfully listed on the Australian Small Scale Offerings Board (ASSOB) in July 2010. Later that year StaminaLift exhibited at the Medica Trade Fair in Germany - the world's largest of its kind for medical equipment with more than 4,400 exhibitors.

StaminaLift's power assisted bed mover created a lot of interest - it was the subject of an independent study by Flinders University that concluded the bed mover would significantly lower the incidence of lower back injury.

"This agreement is the first stage of StaminaLift expanding into the international $918 million global hospital manual handling market," said Mr Newton.

"We are building our business on reliability and excellence - backed by independent research. Our recently signed agreement with ArjoHuntleigh confirms our commitment to the highest standards in the bed mover industry."

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Medical equipment manufacturer, StaminaLift has raised its International profile with Scott Newton being appointed Vice President for Global Business Development for the SA-based company.

Scott, who was born and raised in Toronto Canada, has been involved in the global medical industry for many years, including Australia where from 2005 to 2008 he held the position of Managing Director at Medicraft Hill-Rom Australia where he successfully oversaw rapid expansion through the acquisition and integration of Medicraft Australia, Ltd. Most recently Scott served as Executive Director, International Business Development at Hill-Rom International.

We are fortunate to be able to access the skills, experience and contacts that Scott's previous experience brings to our firm, both domestically in Australia, and globally at this exciting stage of our development.

We welcome Scott to our management team as we continue to secure our leadership position in Australia and spread our wings into the International markets.

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StaminaLift International Ltd today announced listing on the Australian Small Scale Offer Board (ASSOB), to fund international expansion and address the $918 million (AUD) global hospital manual handling market. The healthcare sector has one of the highest rates of manual handing injuries – with staff struggling to move patients, beds, linen trolleys and other heavy loads.

When bed and other loads are pushed manually, injury costs alone can be $80,000 to $100,000 annually for a large hospital. This is only the tip of the ice-berg. In addition to harm, staffing disruptions and low morale, there is also the loss of productivity when a nurse is required to help push a bed. With nurses in short supply, hospitals are looking for ways to avoid diverting nurses from patient care.

Designed to prevent manual handling injuries and increase efficiency, the battery-powered StaminaLift range includes; a bed mover, wheelchair mover and a trolley mover. The bed mover easily locks onto hospital beds or trolleys, creating a secure connection for control of heavy loads. Using the joystick control, driving and manoeuvring require only the light pressure of one finger. No physical effort is required. Where two people used to struggle to move a hospital bed, only one person is now needed - saving labour, returning nurses to patient care and eliminating a major source of workplace injury.

“We wouldn’t move a bed without one now” says Richard Degenhardt, orderly at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Since 2005, when the StaminaLift bed mover became the standard way of moving beds, the hospital has recorded no bed moving related injuries - a 100% injury reduction, a $500,000 potential or estimated saving in staff injury costs.

According to users like Dawn Molineux, Facility Services Manager with ISS Australia, injury reduction is only part of the story. Using StaminaLift bed and trolley movers, Molineux’s workgroup not only eliminated bed moving injuries, but also improved throughput (the speed of bed moving) by 40%. 

“The market potential is huge. Most hospitals today have lifting devices to help staff to safely lift patients; however, few have devices to help staff move patients in beds. As hospitals get larger and the number of single rooms increases, devices like the StaminaLift bed mover that offer safe movement even in small spaces, will soon be seen as essential” says StaminaLift founder Peter March.

Peter March from StaminaLift explains, "when savings in nursing time and injury costs as well as purchase and maintenance costs are considered, a single StaminaLift bed mover provides return on investment in well under one year. And for healthcare services with medium to high nursing costs, the return is likely closer to six months.”

The StaminaLift investment offer went live on the ASSOB Primary Board on June 24, making it available to over 14,000 registered investors. For more information, including a video presentation featuring the bed mover, visit www.assob.com.au/stl. To access investment information you will need to subscribe to ASSOB. Subscription is free and privacy is assured.

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