Tag: Michelle McMahon
Tech bridges distance for mobility provider
February 28, 2014Leah Hoenen
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - When one of Michelle McMahon's clients moved from Wyoming to Mexico and began experiencing pain, she could not simply go adjust his seating system. So he asked her if she had Skype.
“He said, 'Could I have you at least see me in my chair once over the computer?'” said McMahon, president of Frontier Access & Mobility. “Sure enough, I could see him and he could see me.”
On Skype, McMahon talked his Mexican therapist through a mat evaluation...
Armadillos? Van rental fleets? A brave new rehab world
December 13, 2013Elizabeth Deprey
YARMOUTH, Maine - Whether it's due to the financial realities of providing power mobility at competitive bidding rates or living without Medicare at all, providers say the old way of doing things just doesn't work anymore.“It got very hard to make a living as an ATP,” said Ty Soklaski, owner of West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Heroes in Motion. “I was not able to provide patients with what they needed.”Soklaski left the traditional HME market altogether, shifting the focus of Heroes...