Oak Pointe Medical Products, LLC.

Kathleen Dunning, OTR, founded Oak Pointe Medical Products, L.L.C. to provide the highest quality durable medical products and educational services for the safety and well-being of health care providers, emergency medical providers and caretakers. Oak Pointe Medical Products is a distributor of the Lifeslider and is the sole U.S. distributor of the ELK (emergency lifting cushion), two devices that assist emergency personnel when lifting people with obesity, or other special needs. Most recently, Oak Pointe Medical has added the MANGAR CAMEL and Slide-Mat to its line of safety solutions to be used across various industries and occupations. As an occupational therapist, Dunning has evaluated and treated numerous work-injured emergency service employees from municipal fire departments and national ambulance companies and recognized that many of these injuries are the result of lifting people with obesity. The Oak Pointe Safety Solutions can provide significant, measurable cost savings. It is evident there is an increasing number of back and shoulder injuries performing these tasks without assistive equipment and proper techniques. When an employee is injured on the job, workers’ compensation costs, health care costs and overtime costs for replacement workers can be staggering – not to mention the risk of injury to the citizens they are trying to help, exposing the city or company to litigation resulting staggering legal costs. Unlike traditional product distributors of medical equipment, Oak Pointe Medical Products possesses the educational background and professional experience to provide extensive training to the users of lifting equipment. Dunning is able to provide specific instruction regarding the identification of risk factors and techniques to minimize these risk factors. Oak Pointe Medical Products can address an existing referral base of physicians, insurance adjusters, case managers, and employees who understand the benefits of reducing risk of injury.