Adepta/Grab Bar Steel Tub Assist Bar soft, ergonomically shaped handgrip; 6-inch gripping surface fits bathtub walls from 3 inches to 5 inches; non-marring
Butler Mobility Products/Stair Lift The Breeze features drive-belt technology DC motor powered by a battery continuously charged by the power main operates
Manufacturers of lifts, ramps and transfer devices spend a lot of time brooding over how their products coordinate with the other equipment used by home-based
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Washington As of April 14, the federal government expected all of the nation’s health care providers to comply with a massive privacy rule — the first in a series of compliance deadlines associated with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Preparing to enforce this deadline, the U.S. Office of Civil Rights is adding eight new employees to its HIPAA staff, bringing the total number of HIPAA enforcers to 31, the OCR announced last month. Despite these additions, “the Office of Civil Rights is not a large office,” said Corrine Parver, a health care attorney and partner in the health law services practice of Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky. “The HIPAA police are not going to start trooping around the country enforcing compliance.” Nonetheless, complying…