The new year is off to a strong start at Waterloo Healthcare, and this newsletter is packed with useful information! There's much more to explore, including an introduction to Hannah McGuire, one of our newest sales representatives and Anita Bekavac our new National Sales Manager for Canada. So take a break, relax, and enjoy our March newsletter!
As 2024 comes to a close, all of us at Waterloo Healthcare want to express our heartfelt gratitude to our valued distributor partners and customers. Your trust and collaboration are the foundation of our success, and we are truly thankful for your continued support. We thoroughly enjoyed connecting with so many of you throughout the year at various industry conferences (AHRMM, ENA, and HSPA, etc.). Your insights and enthusiasm continue to inspire us as we work together to provide the best medical cart solutions in the healthcare industry.
Welcome to our fall 2024 newsletter! We have been so busy over the past few months, and in this edition, you’ll learn about all of our recent adventures. The Waterloo Healthcare team really enjoys getting out and seeing our clients, as well as sharing information about our industry-leading medical carts. In the past few months, they represented our company at the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) Conference and AHRMM event, and showed booth visitors the features of our Code Carts and Substance Carts, and explained the great features of our Electronic Locks (eLocks).
Lots has been happening at Waterloo Healthcare since our last newsletter. We joined many of you at the HSPA conference in Las Vegas. Had a wonderful time reconnecting with several of our distributors as well as our Sterile Processing customers who are on the front lines when it comes to managing their hospitals’ code cart fleet. Without their support, a cart is just a cart…so thank you for all you do to keep our carts at the ready to help your staff save lives!
Before purchasing electronic locking carts for a new department, it is important to consider how employee workflow will be impacted. Our article below, “Enhancing Hospital Efficiency: Advantages of Wi-Fi Capable Electronic Locks on Procedure Carts”, strives to shed some light on this topic. Electronic locks have become increasingly more popular as hospitals address medication security concerns. Electronic locks allow for automatic relocking – the ability to restrict access to specific users as well as the capture of audit trails that can show who has accessed a given cart. Audit trails give vital information that helps to enhance the security of medications, syringes, and other “at risk” supply items (saline flushes, etc.).
Thank You For Another Amazing Year! As the year draws to a close, we at Waterloo Healthcare want to take a moment to express our heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of our valued customers. Your unwavering support and trust in our products and services have been the cornerstone of our success throughout 2023. In a year marked by challenges and triumphs, your loyalty has been a guiding light, motivating us to continually improve and innovate. Your feedback has been invaluable, driving us to exceed expectations and deliver the best medical procedure carts in the industry. We would like to thank you for this motivation and the opportunity to make innovations! As we approach the holiday season, we extend our warmest wishes to you and your loved ones. May this time be filled with joy, laughter, and cherished moments. It's a time to reflect on [...]
Third Quarter Updates Hard to believe that summer is drawing to a close and kids are heading back to school. Just seems too soon, doesn’t it? As they say “time flies” and it certainly seems that way… But while time has been flying, we at Waterloo Healthcare have been busy expanding our team, connecting with our customers and distributor partners at the AHRMM conference, and creating tools that can help you decide whether steel or aluminum is right for your next procedure cart. First and foremost, I’d like to welcome Tim Johnson to the Waterloo Healthcare team. Tim joins us as our new Business Development Manager and will be working directly with our reps in supporting our distributor partners and end users. Tim is an experienced healthcare sales and marketing professional with 15+ years in the sales/health industry. Tim was driven to pursue healthcare from his passion for [...]
Anesthesia Carts Last quarter we focused our attention on one of the most important procedure carts in a hospital: emergency carts. While no one can deny the importance of emergency carts, anesthesia carts also play a vital role in patient treatment, and we will focus our attention on them in this newsletter. In recent years, we’ve seen not only an increased focus on the security of controlled substances on anesthesia carts, but an elevated cart inventory list based on the increased use of disposable equipment. These two criteria have driven several advances in lock options as well as overall anesthesia cart design. We will cover many of these improvements in the educational section of this newsletter. As medical treatment advances, we are focused on offering product features that address these new requirements. From our dual credential lock options to our wider platform anesthesia carts, Waterloo Healthcare is [...]
“Time Is Muscle” This is an expression we hear frequently from our customers who are members of their hospital code response team. It emphasizes the importance of a rapid response when treating patients experiencing a cardiac arrest. As you probably know, in cardiac arrest, the heart is no longer sending oxygenated blood to vital organs, including the heart itself! The heart is a muscle that needs oxygen in order to function. During every minute that passes when the heart is not properly perfusing oxygenated blood, it is estimated that 10% of the heart’s muscle tissue dies. This means that after five minutes of a non-perfusing rhythm, half of the heart’s tissue may already be gone – “TIME IS MUSCLE”. Certainly, this is a far less than ideal situation when trying to preserve life! Our slogan is “Better Carts For Better Outcomes”. That means that Waterloo [...]
Happy Holidays! While it’s the season for being thankful, we always like to thank all our valued customers for continuing to choose Waterloo Healthcare procedure carts for their medical facilities! Although 2022 presented its share of challenges relative to supply chain shortages, rising component costs, and freight carrier issues, we have been able to minimize product delays and continue to provide the procedure carts to the medical market that are needed to treat their patients. With a new year just ahead of us, we remain fully committed to both our distributor partners and the medical professionals that depend on Waterloo Healthcare carts daily to serve their patients. We couldn’t do what we do without each and every one of you, and we strive to ensure you feel the same way about Waterloo Healthcare carts! From our family to yours, we wish you a wonderful and prosperous Holiday [...]
