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Good Story: Slippery Sally Slide Sheets make 'a considerable beneficial change' at the Home of Compassion Dear Corey,
Since receiving the donation I have been able to design and implement in services and practical demonstrations centered around safe repositioning of residents. The successful nature of these in-services was impart due to the high quality of slide sheets that you provided. Reasoning why I viewed the in-services as a success was due to the associated positive comments from the staff who described the benefit of reducing the weight loads from their backs, and reducing potential injury to residents. Corey, the products you sent to the Home of Compassion have been used far more than within in-services, the slide sheets have been utilized within care management of residents requiring assistance with repositioning. I would like to thank you again for your generous donations, that has already made a considerable beneficial change to both staff and residents at the Home of Compassion! n, Suva. I have included a photo of the residents and staff. Kind regards, Danny Kinsella Good Story: Victorian occupational therapists use donated Slippery Sally's to assist the Solomon Island's National Referral Hospital
In 2008, Ana and Larna, two occupational therapists from Victoria donated their own time to assist the National Referral Hospital in Honiara in the Solomon Islands. They provided in-services in manual handling and pressure care management. They had no slide sheets or developed manual handling guidelines so with some free Slippery Sally’s they were able to greatly assist this hospital’s manual handling practice.
Good Story: "It genuinely is a good feeling to know that we are making a difference here" The Haiti Earthquake in January 2010 caused widespread devastation and overloaded their hospitals. Volunteers such as Fi Stephenson are doing a fantastic job to assist with the many injured in the Haiti Spinal & Rehabilitation Unit in the L'Hopital Convention Baptiste D'Haiti. Here is an excert from her amazing experiences which gives an appreciation of the challenges Fi faces on a daily basis. “Whilst they had been away, our new unit was finished and the patients were moved by stretcher to their new hospital beds with proper hospital mattresses, bedside lockers, air conditioning, freshly painted walls and a new floor! I had taken photos of the new ward and had shown the families and patients their new 'home', and gave them the opportunity to choose their beds. Eve wanted to be close to the door and I asked her to choose the beds for her friends. There was so much excitement amongst the families and staff during the move! Big smiles and laughter! Everyone felt truly energized. The visiting teams of doctors just could not believe it! They were so complimentary about the unit and many said it was like walking in to a western ward again and in complete contrast to the haitian medical environment. All I can say is that a lot of work was involved by an amazing team of people, both haitian and english (here and in the UK), and it really is lovely to see all our efforts put into practice! It genuinely is a good feeling to know that we are making a difference here. Of course there are teething problems to anything new and we have certainly had them. There will be more in the future, but at the end of the day, everyone is trying to do their best - given the circumstances. We have been admitting new patients as the doctors at Milo were keen to discharge theirs because of the worryingly and rapidly increasing wound infection rate there; it is now over 50%. The surgeons there are having to amputate more and more limbs because the external fixations to arms and legs have become grossly infected and gangrenous. What a horrible process for everyone and another issue that the Haitian people will need to accept and address. I have never been in a war zone, but I guess this must be pretty close. With the rainy season on its way, increasingly humid high temperatures, no air conditioning, beds crammed together, minimal if any running water (especially in the field hospital tents) and flies, the infection rate is bound to be high. So our brand spanking new unit with all its amenities and un-cramped conditions was like a gift from God! To help Fi, Haines Medical donated 100 Slippery Sally slide sheets which at least will make some of the manual handling tasks a little easier. Keep up the great work Fi! Testimonial: "We would be happy to recommend Haines Medical to any other accommodation provider" 13 March 2010 Dear Corey, I refer to our purchase of bed bug resistant mattress protectors from Haines Medical. When Nomads took over All Nations in July 2008, we inherited many problems, one of the worst of which was a bed bug infestation. We tried countless methods of control during the Summer of 2008-09, however the problem remained. Since we purchased the mattress protectors from Haines Medical, the number of complaints we have had about bed bugs has decreased significantly. While we continued to implement certain measures to control the problem ourselves, we have no doubt that the introduction of the mattress protectors played a huge role in curbing the number of bed bug-related incidents. With the level of wear and tear that beds and mattresses are subjected to in a backpacker hostel, the mattress covers needed to be of a very high standard. We have been very impressed by the quality of the mattress covers, including the seams, zippers and the material itself. We have had an incredibly busy Summer this year, and the covers have retained their quality and efficacity. We would be happy to recommend Haines Medical to any other accommodation provider, and would like to thank you for making our lives so much easier! Yours sincerely, Karl Henare General Manager Nomads All Nations Melbourne Good Story: Victorian nurses volunteer to teach Vietnamese hospital recovery room staff how to safely move patients. The Vic Health Education Team is located in Melbourne, Australia. The Team began by implementing a Nurse Conference in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) in 2003. The continuation of the Conferences has evolved to include several other health care professions. All Team members fund their own visit costs. Currently, the Health Education Team engages with eight major hospitals in HCMC, with each hospital having a specialty health care interest relationship with the Team. In contrast to hospitals in Australia, Vietnamese hospitals are huge. Many have in excess of 1000 beds. For example, Cho Ray has 1700 beds with approximately 3000 patients sharing those beds. One of the maternity hospitals had 51,000 births last year (the Royal Women's’ Hospital in Melbourne had 6,000). January 23rd 2010 saw 43 Victorian Health Education Team members begin their 2 week program in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The program included doing working with the nurses, providing lectures and seminars at 8 different hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City. 23 team members of the 43 strong team, left together from Melbourne, while other team members had made their own arrangements to include other travel. On arrival at the Tan Son Nhat airport we were surprised at how quickly we passed through passport control to collect all our baggage (approximately 720kg of it)! The rest of the team came in under their own arrangements, either prior to our arrival, or soon after. The team took 100 Slippery Sally’s with them and they were used to top up the hospitals existing slide sheet supplies (you can never have too many!). The photo shows training initially and then a lady being moved post caesarian section with a slide sheet... with quick to adapt staff in Vietnam it was described as see one transfer, do one transfer, teach one transfer and the staff were off using the slide sheets in the recovery room where they do 100 C sections per day. It is worth noting that team members not only donate their own time but fund their own visit costs – a great contribution. If you are interested in participating in these great experiences please This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. 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I received your parcel recently and I would like to thank for your very kind and generous donation. 
Australian Vietnam Volunteers Resource Group (AVVRG) was formed by a group of Vietnam Veterans who were concerned about their observations of the ongoing devastation of the social and physical infrastructure in Vietnam as a consequence of a prolonged war and the country's 20 year isolation from the West. This was particularly evident in the former Province of Phuoc Tuy (renamed the Ba Ria/Vung Tau Province in 1975), which during the war contained the Australian Task Force Base at Nui Dat and the Australian Logistic Support Group and RAAF support units at Vung Tau.