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HEROCart®
The first medical cart designed for single-patient use: a recyclable, pop-up cart family for surge capacity, field hospitals and emergency response.
One cart for one patient
When COVID-19 filled hospitals in 2020, TAGCarts paused its other designs and created the HEROCart: a patent-pending, pop-up, recyclable family of medical carts and workstations for single-patient use. Keeping supplies at one bedside nearly eliminates cross-contamination, and a cart used for a COVID patient is never reused.
HEROCarts are named after the healthcare heroes they serve. They are designed in California, made in the U.S.A., and assembled with PRIDE by veterans and Americans with disabilities.
- Ships flat or assembled, by container, truck or pallet
- Costs less than 5% of the permanent, hard-surface equivalent
- Color-coding for patient status, hospital logos, donor names and messages
- Gives patients some dignity in a mass care setting
The family
Four HEROCart models
- Nurse-server bedsideThree drawers, a tray and a yellow isolation top. Delivered assembled or flat-stacked, with or without PPE.
- IsolationThree drawers, a tray and a yellow isolation top, for isolation rooms.
- LaptopNon-powered mobile charting for a laptop or tablet.
- PPETwo drawers and four shelves of bulk PPE supply.
Packages are available for regional and area field hospitals, single field hospitals and hospital surge. Other uses: color-coded pediatric resuscitation, emergency and military first aid, pre-kitted emergency departments, aid and supply kits, and health education.
Impact
HEROCarts at the front line, 2020
In April 2020 more than 1,100 pop-up field hospitals opened across the United States, along with surge capacity inside hospitals. These new environments of care had none of the medical and workstation carts nurses rely on.
TAGCarts donated hundreds of HEROCarts to nurses and patients, including 250 to the State of California through Cal OES and carts for Gila River Health Care in Arizona. FEMA HEROCarts are ready to serve in emergency and disaster response across North America.
In their words
What partners and nurses said
The State of California is thankful to TAGCarts for their generous donation of 250 HEROCarts to be used at our medical facilities. These items will be deployed to support Californians as we respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A big thanks to TAGCarts for their kind donation of the HEROCarts. As they say, crisis breeds innovation, and innovation provides a simple path solution for the greatest good.
We placed the carts in the hallways for stocking of PPE outside the patient rooms, making it easier for nurses to obtain and don the PPE they need to keep themselves and the patients safe.
If you need an alcohol wipe, glove or other PPE, it’s there in the HEROCart. You can safely and conveniently take care of your patients and you’re ready to go.
Order HEROCarts
HEROCarts are available through our channel partner, American River Medical, a certified Veteran-Owned Small Business in California. Priority goes to pop-up hospitals and emergency response.
HERO hotline: call 1-800-285-2300 or email TAGHero@TAGCarts.com for our capabilities statement.
Planning for surge capacity?
Tell us the site, the number of beds and how fast you need carts. We will come back with a package and lead times.