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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Liko Introduces New LowBase™ Model of Its Popular Golvo Mobile Lift

–New unit is designed to meet the needs of emerging low-profile beds and stretchers –

Franklin, Mass., USA – March 5, 2008 – Many of the newer model beds and stretchers emerging onto the healthcare market utilize components such as frames and drive mechanisms that are within just a few inches of the floor. This means traditional mobile patient lifts can be difficult to use because their legs normally are too high to extend under these beds and stretchers. Liko’s newly introduced Golvo LowBase™ model circumvents this problem with a lower total leg height, including wheels, of only 2 1/3 inches.

Liko’s Golvo is unique among mobile lifts due to its flexible lift strap, vertical lifting motion, and parallel widening base legs. Originally introduced in 1986, Golvo represented a breakthrough in mobile lift design because its unique telescoping mast and lifting strap enabled patients to be lifted vertically, similar to an overhead ceiling mounted lifting system.

The new Golvo 7007 LowBase™ model is an ideal solution for applications such as lifting or transferring patients to or from low profile beds or stretchers. In addition to its low bed compatibility, the Golvo 7007 LowBase™ is ideal for lifts to/from the floor, horizontal lifts, and ambulation assistance for patients weighing up to 440 lbs.

About Liko North America
Liko North America is one of the world’s leading suppliers of patient lifts, including mobile, overhead rail, sit-to-stand, and bariatric lifts, as well as a selection of more than 250 slings and accessories. The company is also the exclusive sponsor of the pro bono “Safe Lifting Environment” campaign designed to help prevent caregiver injuries (visit http://www.safeliftingportal.com/ for more details). For more information on Liko’s complete line of patient lifts, contact Liko North America, 122 Grove Street, Franklin, MA 02038. Telephone (888) 545-6671 or (508) 553-3993; fax (508) 528-6642, or visit the Liko website at http://www.liko.com/.

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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

New Online “Help Desk” Offers Safe Lifting Assistance to Healthcare Facilities

- Associated Forum Provides Resources for Healthcare Professionals, Industry -
Franklin, Mass. – December 4, 2007 – The Liko-sponsored Safe Lifting Portal today announced the launch of a safe lifting “Help Desk” for healthcare professionals worldwide.
In addition, an associated safe lifting forum, called “Safe Lifters,” will allow healthcare professionals to discuss their patient lifting challenges and successes with others, as well as support those who are getting started with a safe patient handling program.

Of the approximately 6,000 hospitals in the United States, fewer than 500 have instituted some type of safe lifting or caregiver injury prevention program. The new, community-based forum is designed to facilitate identification of problems and solutions for injury-prevention programs by connecting current and experienced professionals with those planning or implementing new programs.

The “Help Desk” and forum are the latest additions to the Safe Lifting Portal, a non-profit safe patient handling and injury prevention website sponsored exclusively by Liko. Other sections of the new “Help Desk” include a strategies and tips area, safe lifting starter-kit request page, and contact page for comments or questions directed to Liko and the Safe Lifting Portal.

“The addition of the forum to the Safe Lifting Portal marks a new era for the safe lifting community,” said Melissa Nowitz, Administrator of the Safe Lifting Portal. “Now healthcare professionals worldwide can learn from each other and move forward without waiting for individual state legislatures to enact laws.”

To contact the Help Desk, members or anyone with safe lifting questions, comments, or concerns can visit www.safeliftingportal.com/helpdesk or call 888-545-6671.
To access the new forum site, visit http://www.safeliftingportal.com/forum, or call 1-888-545-6671. Participation is free of charge.

About Liko
Liko is one of the world’s leading suppliers of patient lift and transfer solutions. The company’s products include mobile lifts, overhead ceiling mounted systems, and a variety of injury prevention solutions. For more information on Liko’s sponsorship of the Safe Lifting Portal, contact Liko North America, 122 Grove Street, Franklin, MA 02038; telephone (888) 545-6671 or (508) 553-3993; fax (508) 528-6642; or visit the Liko website at www.liko.com/na.

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Thursday, November 8th, 2007

New, Free Safe Lifting Poster Available for Healthcare Facilities

Franklin, Mass. – November 8, 2007 – A new, free educational poster designed to caution healthcare professionals against the dangers of unsafe patient lifting is now available at: www.safeliftingportal.com/seven-deadly-sins.

Designed to maintain workplace visibility and awareness of caregiver injury prevention, the informative poster details crucial precautions that Liko North America has compiled while creating – and expanding – the Safe Lifting Portal (www.safeliftingportal.com).

The poster, titled “The Seven Deadly Sins of Unsafe Lifting,” depicts the common mistakes made during patient handling – and how to combat them.

“Safe patient lifting and handling has emerged as a leading issue for many healthcare professionals in recent years,” said Melissa Nowitz, administrator of the Safe Lifting Portal, “and we couldn’t be more happy to see that. However, there is still more that can be done to raise awareness and we are pleased to make this new poster available for use wherever patient handling takes place.”

Through the Safe Lifting Portal, healthcare professionals can also obtain other awareness materials, free of charge. Those include cafeteria tent cards, newsletter templates, and instructional materials to assist with the creation of injury prevention programs.

The Safe Lifting Portal is a Liko North America-sponsored online resource to educate and guide healthcare professionals and administrators on a host of safe patient lifting and handling topics, including: creation of a safe patient handling program, achieving caregiver buy-in, tracking legislative activities, and calculating projected savings.

To request a free copy of the “Seven Deadly Sins of Unsafe Lifting” poster, visit www.safeliftingportal.com/seven-deadly-sins or call 1-888-545-6671.

About Liko
Liko is one of the world’s leading suppliers of patient lift and transfer solutions. The company’s products include mobile lifts, overhead ceiling mounted systems, and a variety of injury prevention solutions. For more information on Liko’s sponsorship of the Safe Lifting Portal, contact Liko North America, 122 Grove Street, Franklin, MA 02038; telephone (888) 545-6671 or (508) 553-3993; fax (508) 528-6642; or visit the Liko website at www.liko.com.

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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

New Case Study Details How an Illinois Hospital Created a Safe Lifting Team that Dramatically Reduced Injuries, Increased Staff Satisfaction

Franklin, Mass. – September 12, 2007 – A new, free white paper details how OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois, has substantially reduced lift injuries while boosting staff satisfaction with the creation of a new lift team department that provides patient transfer and mobility assistance.

Available for free download at: www.safeliftingportal.com/st_francis, the paper is provided by the Safe Lifting Portal (http://www.safetliftingportal.com/), a pro-bono healthcare site designed to support safe lifting and caregiver injury prevention programs.

Liko St Francis CaseTitled, “Illinois Hospital Reduces Lift Injuries, Staff Satisfaction Soars with Lift Team Department and Liko Lifts,” the free case study describes how the new safe lifting department was originally created to curtail increasing lift injuries and growing worker’s compensation costs. It then evolved into a dedicated patient lift team department that provides 24/7 lifting assistance to the staff and patients in all areas.

Implementing the program at Saint Francis, a 616-bed, Level I, trauma facility, has reduced staff injuries associated with patient handling activities by 30%, slashed more than 1,200 restricted work days, and generated an estimated $400,000 in savings that has been re-invested back into St. Francis’s safe patient handling program and lift team department.

The case study details the design, development and implementation of the comprehensive program, including the tracking of injuries, rating and selection of lifting equipment, extensive training of staff to become “Lift Team Technicians,” education of patients and caregivers, and measurement of patient and staff satisfaction.

Download the free case study, “Illinois Hospital Reduces Lift Injuries, Staff Satisfaction Soars with Lift Team Department and Liko Lifts,” at: www.safeliftingportal.com/st_francis or call toll-free 1 888-545-6671.

The Safe Lifting Portal (http://www.safeliftingportal.com/) is sponsored by Liko North America, one of the world’s leading suppliers of patient lift and transfer solutions. Liko North America’s products include mobile lifts, overhead ceiling mounted systems, and a variety of injury prevention solutions. For more information, contact Liko North America, 122 Grove Street, Franklin, MA 02038; telephone (888) 545-6671 or (508) 553-3993; fax (508) 528-6642; or visit the website at www.liko.com/na.

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Monday, July 30th, 2007

Free Video DVD Available to Help Hospitals Inform Patients, Families about Safe Lifting Policies

Franklin, Mass. – July 31, 2007 – A new, free video clip is available to help hospitals and nursing homes inform patients and their families about safe lifting policies. The brief video can be viewed online — or may be requested as a DVD — from Liko, the pro bono sponsor of the healthcare industry’s popular “Safe Lifting Portal” injury prevention site.

The video, titled “Help Us Prevent Caregiver Injuries,” was produced by Liko to help hospitals inform patients or family members about being lifted or transported using a mechanical assistive device. Available at www.safeliftingportal.com/gettingstarted/patients.html, the video is designed to help inform patients and family members of an institution’s injury prevention policies and solicit their continued cooperation. The video is available in several versions including English and Spanish.

The video is a supplement to the “Safe Lifting Library,” an industry-leading resource of books, articles, and e-links ranging from nursing injury research studies to contemporary articles and legislative initiatives on the broad topic of preventing caregiver injuries incurred when lifting or repositioning patients.

Launched this spring, the Safe Lifting Library helps the staffs of hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare facilities locate the background information and resources necessary to justify, initiate, and maintain safe patient handling programs.

The library also serves ancillary groups such as healthcare insurance providers, workers’ compensation agencies, risk management firms, and government organizations, with an interest in driving down nursing injury rates. At present, according to NIOSH statistics, nurses and other caregivers in the U.S. are among the most likely to incur musculoskeletal injuries during the course of their work.

Other sections of the Safe Lifting Portal cover topics such as deploying a program, achieving buy-in from caregivers, and calculating projected savings using an interactive return-on-investment calculator.

To view the free video, or request a free DVD, visit the Safe Lifting Portal at: http://www.safeliftingportal.com/gettingstarted/patients.html Visit The Safe Lifting Library at: www.safeliftingportal.com/safeliftinglibrary.

About Liko
Liko is one of the world’s leading suppliers of patient lift and transfer solutions. The company’s products include mobile lifts, overhead ceiling mounted systems, and a variety of injury prevention solutions. For more information on Liko’s sponsorship of the Safe Lifting Portal, contact Liko North America, 122 Grove Street, Franklin, MA 02038; telephone (888) 545-6671 or (508) 553-3993; fax (508) 528-6642; or visit the Liko website at http://www.liko.com/

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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Liko Launches On-Line Learning

– Web-based courses are designed for healthcare staff involved in safe patient handling –


Franklin, MA – May 22, 2007 – Liko North America, a leading global supplier of safe patient handling equipment, accessories, and services, has announced the launch of their new learning technology, Online Learning. Online Learning is designed to manage risk, instill competency and retention, reduce the cost of training, as well as enhance practical clinical skills. At launch, courses cover safety, lifting, and service of patient handling equipment. Liko learning modules can accept SCORM compliant content and can match the customer’s learning management system (LMS) options.
Training of healthcare workers is a complex undertaking due to the variety of shifts, rotating and part-time staff, personnel turnover, and inability to attend in-service sessions. Many experts believe that Online Learning optimizes staff training times and retention, better fits daily work conditions, simplifies record-keeping, and enables a greater number of staff to complete assigned courses.

Blended courses enhance effectiveness
A variety of so-called “blended” courses have been created to allow participants the opportunity to study theory at their own pace while on line, then to benefit from more clinically focused, instructor-led hands-on sessions once their course-work has been completed. Typical courses integrate the best practices of distance learning (i.e., online interaction and feedback) with the best practices of classroom learning (i.e., hands-on experience and live demonstrations). Furthermore, healthcare staff can customize their individual learning objectives in conjunction with their individual functions and career pathing objectives.

“With the rapid adoption of safe lifting and repositioning practices across the entire healthcare industry, it is important that individual institutions empower their personnel with the tools and knowledge to get the most out of their equipment,” said Brian Wright, Liko’s vice president of marketing and education. “Liko offers an extensive set of training courses, services, and educational support materials to ensure that caregivers understand and adopt best practices and contemporary lifting methods. These online learning modules are designed to provide a new paradigm of structured, high level learning standards. We are encouraging all new and existing customers to rely on Liko On-Line Learning because it can help them get up to speed quickly and efficiently.”

About Liko
Liko is a world leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of high efficiency patient lifting and repositioning devices for hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living, rehabilitative, and home care applications. For additional information about Online Learning courses, please call Liko’s Clinical Education Department at 888-545-6671 or send an e-mail to onlinelearning@liko.com.

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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

New Safe Lifting “Library” Opens Its Doors

– Web-based repository will serve as a global clearinghouse for information about safe lifting and injury prevention practices for nurses and other healthcare workers –

Franklin, MA – March 7, 2007 – Liko, Inc., pro bono sponsor of the healthcare industry’s popular “Safe Lifting Portal” injury prevention site, has announced the addition of a new “Library” section to the site. The Safe Lifting Library is designed to facilitate access to information ranging from nursing injury research studies to contemporary articles and legislative initiatives on the broad topic of preventing caregiver injuries incurred when lifting or repositioning patients.

The primary mission of the Safe Lifting Library is to help the staff of hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare facilities locate the background information and resources necessary to justify, initiate, and maintain safe patient handling programs.

Secondarily, the library is also geared toward meeting the needs of ancillary groups such as facility insurance providers, workers’ compensation agencies, risk management firms, and government organizations with an interest in driving down nursing injury rates. At present, according to NIOSH statistics, nurses and other caregivers in the U.S. are among the most likely to incur musculoskeletal injuries during the course of their work.

According to Brian Wright, Liko’s Vice President of Marketing and Education, “The need for information related to safe lifting is growing, not shrinking, as many more healthcare facilities struggle to get aboard the safe patient handling movement. Many times individuals are assigned the task of leading a team or gathering return-on-investment data for management, and we feel confident the Safe Lifting Library will dramatically simplify that task. While search engines are powerful research tools, they can require many hours of work to filter through the published resources and identify the most valuable items. By consolidating safe lifting citations onto a single site and making the information accessible to a worldwide audience, we thus further increase the chances that hospitals and nursing homes will be successful in their injury prevention efforts.”

The Safe Lifting Library contains listings of books, articles, and e-links, and is accessible via www.safeliftingportal.com/safeliftinglibrary.

About Liko
Liko is one of the world’s leading suppliers of patient lift and transfer solutions. The company’s products include mobile lifts, overhead ceiling mounted systems, and a variety of injury prevention solutions. For more information on the Safe Lifting Library or Liko’s sponsorship of the Safe Lifting Portal, contact Liko Inc., 122 Grove Street, Franklin, MA 02038; telephone (888) 545-6671 or (508) 553-3993; fax (508) 528-6642; or visit the Liko website at www.liko.com/na.

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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Pro Bono “Safe Lifting Newsletter” Helps Reduce Caregiver Injuries

Franklin, MA – November 28, 2006 – Liko, Inc., a leading global supplier of patient lift and transfer solutions, has introduced a pro bono Web-based newsletter designed to assist hospitals and nursing homes in their efforts to eliminate caregiver injuries caused during the lifting and repositioning of patients.

“Safe Lifting News” is a free, bi-monthly e-newsletter that provides a variety of brief news items and links to injury prevention stories and related web sites. It provides an efficient way for nurses and risk management personnel to keep informed about events in the field of safe lifting, ranging from legislative initiatives to reader-submitted questions and answers.

“Safe Lifting News” is sponsored by Liko as part of its “Safe Lifting Environment” campaign which is being provided free of charge to healthcare facilities worldwide. Readers can get more information about the campaign, including estimated return on investment calculations for their facility, by visiting an associated Web portal, http://www.safeliftingportal.com/.

The healthcare industry remains one of the top 2 or 3 most dangerous professions due to the prevalence of back and musculoskeletal injuries. Viewers can subscribe to Safe Lifting News by visiting http://www.safeliftingnews.com/

For more information on the Safe Lifting Environment campaign, visit http://www.safeliftingportal.com/ or contact Liko, Inc., 122 Grove Street, Franklin, MA 02038; telephone (888) 545-6671 or (508) 553-3993.

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