The Traveling Wheelchair

250 Pond Street Braintree, MA 02184 Phone: 781-348-2500 Website: http://www.braintreerehabhospital.com/ You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GECyzydz5k0 Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital established in 1975 is a world-class healthcare provider of Neuro-Rehabilitation Services and Programs such as Stroke, Brain Injury, Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Spinal Cord Injury. Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital offers both Acute Hospital Care as well as Adult Rehabilitation [...]

21 Custom House Street Suite. 910 Boston, MA 02110 Phone : 877-805-9090 Email: info@indhomecare.com Website: http://www.independencehomecare.com/ma/boston Recently I had the wonderful opportunity of becoming acquainted with Ryan and Patrick O’Connell. Patrick co-founded Independence Home Care, Inc. in order to fill a need in the marketplace for high QUALITY SENIOR HOME CARE in eastern Massachusetts.  His [...]

Clinical Center -West Campus 3rd Floor 330 Brookline Avenue Boston , MA  02215 Phone: 617-667-2515 http://www.bidmc.org/CentersandDepartments/Departments/Radiology.aspx Yesterday, my mom, Tony, Ric and I traveled to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for an appointment in the Radiology Department, located in the Clinical Center of the West Campus. Dr. Danzinger, my Kidney doctor ordered an ultrasound to see if [...]

659 East Broadway South Boston, MA 02127 Phone: 617-269-0610 http://www.southbostonanimalhospital.com/ After an enjoyable lunch at The Playwright Restaurant & Bar in South Boston, my mom, friends and I headed back to our van. We passed by South Boston Animal Hospital and were very disappointed to find it is not wheelchair accessible. There is a step blocking wheelchair access to [...]

3060 N. I-35 Lancaster, TX 75134 (972) 228-8245 www.PortaWalk.com There’s nothing more frustrating for someone with a disability than to approach a building without proper access and wonder how you will enter without a safe ramp. Kenny & Co. have not personally used this product; yet we really like the concept that it is portable [...]

265 North Main Street South Yarmouth, MA 02664 Phone:508-394-3514 www.windsorskillednursing.org I volunteer at the Windsor Nursing Home and I find it very wheelchair friendly with only a few things that I believe they need to do to make it fully wheelchair accessible. The handicapped parking space is not close to the entry door. It is a [...]

6961 Eastgate Blvd. Lebanon, TN 37090 Phone: 800-736-0925 Website: http://www.permobil.com/ You-Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQp-xuXp9Dk Oh what a marvelous morning it was when Brian from  Hudson Home Health Care/Rehab Equipment and Dennis from Permobil were standing at my front door with my new Permobil C350 Power Chair. I was elated by the sight of my new wheels and thought what a beauty it [...]

87 Washington St. Taunton, MA 02780 Phone: 508-822-3405   Yesterday, I went to see my podiatrist, Dr.Kaufman at his office. First let me say, that I have been going to Dr. Kaufman for many years and that he and his staff are wonderful and very courteous to me. Dr. Kaufman’s office is located in an [...]

250 Faunce Corner Rd. North Dartmouth, MA 02747 Phone: 508-999-2171 Website: www.healthtrax.com You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC7e0CTEI3Y  Last week my mom treated me to a membership of Healthtrax Fitness & Wellness Center after seeing how fully wheelchair accessible it is as well as the great equipment/programs they have to offer to persons in wheelchairs. This week I went [...]

Body Point Designs 558 First Avenue South Suite 300 Seattle, WA 98104 Phone:  800-547-5716 http://www.bodypoint.com/ Wheelchair manufacturers clearly state that their wheelchair seatbelts are used ONLY for posture positioning and support and are NOT designed or intended to protect wheelchair seated passengers in a vehicle during transport. Yet since there are no State or Federal laws [...]