Tag: Wheelchair Ramp

INDIANAPOLIS – Rehab Medical and Servants at Work have selected the recipient of their 3,000th wheelchair ramp build: Dorothy, a native Indiana resident, who suffers from severe medical conditions that limit her mobility. Due to her ongoing struggles to complete daily tasks and her inability to visit the doctor for routine medical care, the two organizations have teamed up to build her a wheelchair ramp, so she has a way to leave her home. “In 2003, the first ramp we built kept a 15-year-old...

INDIANAPOLIS – Rehab Medical is supporting Servants at Work (SAWs) to raise awareness of the organization’s 3,000th wheelchair ramp build. SAWs, a faith-based nonprofit organization, has been building high-quality, removable and reusable wood ramps for those using wheelchairs, scooters or walkers since 2013. “SAWs is honored to partner with Rehab Medical for this milestone event since they’re one of the largest distributors for customer wheelchairs and our missions are so...

ST. LOUIS - 101 Mobility installed a temporary 1,100-square-foot aluminum wheelchair ramp on the new Stan Musial Veterans Bridge to ensure an opening ceremony was fully accessible. The ramp installation was done in windy, subzero conditions, according to a press release. “At one point, the wind was blowing so hard that it threw a 24-foot ramp straight up into the air,” said 101 Mobility St. Louis owner Brad Kohlbracher. The opening ceremony included a ribbon cutting and a 5K run and cycling...

I interviewed Julian Gordon, the president and founder of Amramp, recently. In case you're not familiar with Amramp, it's a South Boston, Mass.-based manufacturer of portable wheelchair ramps.Just as easily as these ramps are attached to houses they can be taken off. As you can imagine, that makes them very attractive to discerning homeowners and landlords, not to mention consumers who will need them only for a short period of time.Another important thing to know about Amramp: It has been manufacturing...