The death of a spouse can be devastating. But a Tri-Cities woman was determined to help others in her late-husband’s honor, by keeping them covered up.
Nancy Hart’s idea came to her while her husband was hospitalized several years ago.
“The first thing I noticed was the lack of dignity for patients,” she said. “I mean, there's medical personnel, visitors up and down every floor, and it's kind of hard when you have somebody sedated for them to stay covered.”
The longer she was there, the more Hart saw a need.
“You know, and I sat there for seven months, and I thought there has to be something different,” she said.
Hart lost her husband, but she had a mission to improve the lives of patients by designing scrubs that provide better coverage, yet still allow for medical treatment on patients.
“So, these are designed so the nursing staff and medical staff can totally dress somebody just by rolling them on their side, cleaning them up and inserting a new liner,” she said.
She funded the company with her husband’s life insurance, but asked for her daughter’s blessing before making the move.
“So she said, ‘Mom you've got to go for it.’ And if I had the chance to do it again, I wouldn't even think about it.”
The scrubs have a strip of hidden plastic snaps that provides easy accessibility.
Hart says, “I have seen so many hospital gowns being cut off to get to somebody in a hurry. All you have to do with this is grab a hold of the shoulder and the whole front comes off.”
A hidden hole behind the front pocket also allows for equipment like heart monitors to be hooked up, and still keeps the patient covered. So far the scrubs have been used in several states and overseas. Hart says they’ve been in about 50 different hospitals as well as in Iraq, and the response has been positive.
If you’d like more information, log on to www.patientscrubs.com or you can call (941) 730-5650.
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