Kwickscreen: Uses in Healthcare

Updated Summer 2014

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Kwickscreen: Uses in Healthcare

Product description

Kwickscreen is the worlds most portable and versatile room divider, enabling open plan spaces to be divided up in seconds creating truly magical retractable walls that disappear. Any open plan space can be subdivided and reconfigured in seconds. Customizable printed inner panels can be swapped in and out at will. Developed for the Healthcare Industry, using material technology shared with NASA.

Kwickscreen comes in a Portable and Fixed models. The fixed variety can be recessed or attached to a wall. Product weighs 65 pounds is 6’3” in height and can extend up to 11’. It can also operate on a 90 degree radius and can bend at any point along its axis.

Emergency Room

First entry point into a hospital. Apart from elective procedures and or observations asked for by doctors everybody will enter first through the emergency room. ER’s are designated from Level 1 to Level 5. With level 1 handling all patients in any time of emergency. As an example other levels will conduct other procedures, but will refer to Level 1 after patients stabilized.

• Can create emergency bays immediately.
• Small footprint, wheel it into place and create instant triage
• Works during flu season.
• Privacy for patients in waiting areas, a solution to overcrowding, can provide privacy for patients in hallways (It can be difficult to bend the screen in a hallway), tents, external areas.
• Superior to curtains; currently no curtain solution – curtain tracks don’t work in waiting areas.
• Screens can be fitted with anti-bacterial gel holders, also glove holders. Provides extra hygiene stations when used in hallways.

Emergency Preparedness

Federal, State and City have budgets to cover “Emergency Preparedness”. Hospitals are the front line of any natural or man-made disaster including all forms of terrorism and bio-terrorism. Hospitals therefore receive annual budgets from these entities.

• Many hospitals buy and store away in their store areas or garages
• Kwickscreen leaves a small foot print when closed.
• Can be wheeled into position very easily anywhere within the hospital.