MedFare's Weekly Blog

World Hand Hygiene Day is all about empowering your patients and residents to play a role in their care by reminding them of the importance of washing their hands. This is always particularly important in hospitals and health care facilities because if the correct measures aren't taken, infections can spread. Use this day to make a change to help your facility educate your patients and residents about the importance of hand hygiene. MedFare has your solutions to promoting hand hygiene in your healthcare facility. Our protective paper Traycovers   and Placemats  not only provide a barrier between germs and your patient's food but they also carry strong messages you want to promote throughout your facility. Our Patient Hand Wipes provide a solution for hand hygiene for your patients, especially those who can't get out of bed. According to the CDC, "if soap and water are not accessible use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol." Our Pat...

Mother's Day is right around the corner and takes place Sunday, May 12th. There are many ways healthcare facilities can honor mothers everywhere and the healthcare printed item providers at MedFare are here to give you a few ideas. These beautiful themed, Mother's Day festive printed items are here for your viewing pleasure. If you would like to order any of our Mother's Day themed traycovers  and  napkins , visit our webstore at https://medfare.com/collections/mothers-day . Show the mothers out there some love this year with MedFare ,  Your Trusted Source for Specialized Healthcare & Hospitality Printed Solutions . Mother's Day Printed Item Options Mother's Day 14" x 19" Traycovers - Pack of 100 Brighten your meal presentation with these cheerful Mother's Day 14" x 19" holiday Traycovers.      Size 13-1/2" X 18-3/4", designed to fit a 15" x 20" tray. Straight edge, round corner Printed on 38# paper ...

Food and Nutrition are a very important part of the health of a patient, including helping to reduce the risk of hospital-acquired infections   (HAIs). One key factor in a patient's health is being able to wash their hands before each meal. Are your patients currently doing this? What if they are not able to get out of their bed? According to the CDC, if soap and water are not accessible, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol.  MedFare offers a simple solution to this problem. Protect patients at bedside meals with MedFare’s Anti-bacterial Wipes . Keep reading to learn how intense HAIs can really be for healthcare facilities and what you can do to help reduce them. Hospital Acquired Infections are Costly To Your Facility - You Can Help! Federal records show that eight hundred hospitals will be paid less by Medicare this year because of high infection rates. Is your hospital one of them? Whether or not your facility has been penali...

Our full-service printing company is so passionate about getting to know our clients and we enjoy doing so, which is why we feel it is only fair that you get to know the MedFare team a little better too. We at MedFare, your  healthcare facility printed items provider  are so excited to announce the start of our monthly blog series, Get to Know the MedFare  Team. We have asked our employees a series of questions and each month you will get to read the answers. Keep reading to get to know the first employee in our series, Jacob Freedman. Get to Know the MedFare Team - Jacob Freedman 1. How did you get started in this industry? MedFare was started by my grandfather, Howard Schubert, in 1974 (45 years ago). I began working at MedFare as an Office Assistant during Summer and Winter breaks throughout my college years from 2002-2006. During that time and from 2006-2008, I learned the ropes of the business.  I ran the company from 2008-2016, after which MedFare wa...