Bed Sore Treatment & Prevention in Scranton

Often, though, it hinges on eligibility. SideLyer retails at $11,000 with insurance coverage and $6,900 without. Since what a family pays depends on their particular coverage, our team looks at the options with you and works out the real figure.

We do. Renting costs $550 a month on a 13-month minimum term. If nobody can say how long the recovery will take, or the family simply prefers not to buy, renting is usually the wiser arrangement.

Any situation in which a person cannot shift themselves, or needs regular help staying in a position that is safe. Most care plans include repositioning for a reason: it keeps constant pressure off the places most likely to break down and keeps blood reaching them. A motorized control means the caregiver can carry out each change at the moment the plan calls for it, and that timing is the first thing to slip when every turn is done by hand.

Constant pressure, working from the inside out. The weight of the body on a bony point squeezes the tissue between that bone and the skin, and the vessels inside it close off. Deep tissue with no oxygen gives way first, so from the outside there may be nothing more than a faint red patch while a wound is developing below it. Moisture on the skin, friction from sliding down in bed, thin fragile skin, and loss of feeling all shorten the time it takes. A minor injury turns into a major one when nothing ever lifts the pressure that started it.

By guarding the site and letting the body heal. A clinician directs the wound care, the area stays clean and appropriately dry, and the caregiver checks that no weight is resting on the wound or on the healthy skin around it. Repositioning is now part of the treatment rather than just prevention, because a wound that stays under pressure will not close.

Yes. A severe pressure injury goes past the skin into the tissue beneath, where tissue can die, healing slows almost to a stop, and the risk of infection and other complications rises. Wounds at that stage need clinical care, sometimes including surgical removal of dead tissue and long-term monitoring. Nearly every one of them could have been prevented with consistent pressure relief, which is why prevention is where the effort belongs.

It restores the blood supply, and blood is what lets skin do its job as a barrier against bacteria. There is a second benefit as well: each turn shows the caregiver skin that is usually hidden, so the first redness gets noticed while it can still fade on its own. Reliable positioning support keeps fragile skin intact and gives the body its chance to recover.

Dead tissue is a sign that the area went too long under pressure with too little blood to sustain it. Care turns to protecting the skin around the wound, supporting its recovery, and positioning the person so the wound carries no weight. The other vulnerable areas have to stay pressure-free at the same time, or a second wound opens while the first is still healing. SideLyer lets caregivers reposition safely and on schedule, which makes a bed sore far less likely to start.

A nurse working nights at Quest Inc., more than ten years ago. Residents who could not turn themselves were getting pressure injuries that never should have happened, and the staff who lifted them kept getting hurt. Her husband was a carpenter, and together they built the first SideLyer out of wood, in several sizes so every resident had one that fit. The wooden originals were decorated with colors and stickers and fitted out with trays and storage, and residents and staff came to depend on them. Today’s patented motorized system is the direct descendant of that idea.

Quest Inc. is a nonprofit that has provided homes, care, and support to people with developmental disabilities for more than 60 years. SideLyer was developed within Quest’s residential care program as an answer to pressure ulcers, a way to improve comfort and quality of life, and a way to reduce injuries among caregivers. Quest Inc. is still a key partner, and the organization’s decades of hands-on experience continue to guide how the system is designed, how it keeps people safe, and what it is for.

Watch our story:

• History of the SideLyer: https://youtu.be/b4og1VXnmEo
• About Quest Inc. (Parent Company Video): https://youtu.be/TudfgyUwo3k‍

Across Scranton and Lackawanna County, families tell us about more comfort, fewer pressure injuries, and a relative who is more engaged with the people around them. The word that comes up most is relief: their family member is properly supported through the whole day, not only in the moments when someone is free to help.

As one Quest Inc. parent shared, “Most of her pressure is not where she can have a skin breakdown. It takes the pressure off the body.”

Several have also described wounds that were expected to take months to close, healing in considerably less time once repositioning became consistent.