General Info

Established in 1996, Prevent is a health care organization that focuses on the safe use of patient handling equipment. It emphasizes the implementation of safe patient handling programs in various health care facilities that increase the job satisfaction of caregivers. The organization s professional nurses provide resources, training and support services to health centers for replacing the need of manual lifting, transferring and repositioning patient handling devices. Prevent features safe resident movement programs and offers hands-on training sessions for movement devices by a staff of professional nurses. It also provides online information about the safe movement components. The organization features a safe patient handling program called Get A Lift that has been implemented in more than 500 long-term care facilities. Prevent is located in Hickory, N.C.