Waterloo Healthcare Newsletter – March 2024
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.).
CompX Interview
Waterloo’s National Distribution Manager, Steve Brothers, interviews Aaron McMahon of CompX Security Products. Watch it here!
Waterloo Healthcare Newsletter – December 2023
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 [...]
Waterloo Healthcare Newsletter – September 2023
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 [...]
Steel or Aluminum? Which is the Best Material for Your Next Medical Cart?
When choosing a material for your next Waterloo medical cart, one of the options you’ll encounter is whether you should select steel or aluminum construction. To make the right decision, you’ll need to consider several factors relative to the intended use of your medical cart. Some of these considerations include mobility, any potential future need to add accessories, aesthetics, the need for a larger work surface, and our drawer dividers (which we highly recommend) are just some of the requirements you’ll need to investigate. Simply put: If budget is the most important factor in your decision, then a steel cart would be your initial starting point. But hold on just a moment because there are some criteria that could make an aluminum cart the right choice, even in the face of a challenging budget. We’ll investigate some of those criteria within this article. The Waterloo traditional steel procedure cart [...]
Waterloo Healthcare Newsletter – June 2023
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 [...]