St. Joseph Hospital Foundation

Alpha Modalities, our vendor for Safe Patient Handling Equipment, generously donated and installed the ceiling lift in our new Learning Lab to enable staff to build on their existing competency and to provide a safe place to experiment with innovative techniques.

Alpha Modalities has been partnering with PeaceHealth since 1998 to help us prevent injury to both our patients and our staff, and have been an important resource in not only searching out the most effective equipment available on the market, but also in developing and providing training and problem solving support to our staff.

Tim Kuzma, Director of Alpha Modalities: “The patient lift is one tool in the toolbox for nurses to provide safe, evidence-based and compassionate care to PeaceHealth patients. If a nurse goes home without having a sore back, and still has energy to devote to his or her family, then I have accomplished my goal”.