Hercules is a patented automated boosting system that allows a single nurse to boost patients weighing up to 750 pounds with the push of a button. Manual boosting is time consuming and dangerous; Hercules eliminates 100% of boosting-related injuries and gives nurses up to 77 minutes back per shift.
Hercules is the brainchild of third-generation legacy innovator, Bill Hillenbrand. Hand assembled in Batesville, Indiana, Hercules is a uniquely American nursing product, designed specifically for nurses by a family who has spent nearly a century working to “take the mule out of nursing.”
We are one of the few companies in MedTech dedicated to solving problems for nurses. We employ nurses, we seek to understand nurses, and we know that if we can change the system for nurses, we can change healthcare forever.
We named our product Hercules not simply because of our boosting power, but because you only have to watch one nurse on one shift one time to understand that the only thing stronger than us is you.
Friends,
The Morel Company™ was founded in 2011 to reduce and eliminate the obvious and not so obvious challenges associated with traditional patient boosting.
This physically demanding, time-consuming task is performed by the typical bedside nurse 10+ times each shift, requiring more than an hour of their time. This burden significantly contributes to job dissatisfaction and burnout and is a leading reason nurses leave bedside care and their profession. For the patient, the act of being boosted up-in-bed is uncomfortable, unsafe and an embarrassing experience.
Innovation has been a hallmark of successful healthcare companies and has been a passion of my family for nearly a century. It started with my grandfather, William A. Hillenbrand, who was a visionary in the healthcare industry and started the Hillrom Company in 1927. His inspirations around making patients comfortable and reducing the burden on the nurse led to the development of many innovative products that fulfilled his dreams and vision. This healthcare innovation continued in my family with W August ‘Gus’ Hillenbrand, my father. He truly believed and always focused on the development of groundbreaking products that would ease the burden for caregivers and improve outcomes for patients.
Healthcare Innovation as a Culture and Mindset
Now, at The Morel Company, we continue to use my family’s passion for innovation to address caregiver and patient issues. Accordingly, we developed The Hercules Patient Repositioning System, an innovative product that automates the dangerous task of manual boosting and allows a single caregiver to boost a patient weighing up to 750 lbs. up-in-bed with the simple push of a button. The benefits of The Hercules Patient Repositioning System are far-reaching. For the caregiver, it eliminates an exhausting, burdensome and unsafe task all while saving over an hour of time per bedside caregiver during each shift. For the patient, Hercules improves comfort and protects their dignity, therefore, creating an overall better hospitalization experience.
In the future, The Morel Company will continue these principles of innovation, continuous improvement and commitment to customer satisfaction, clearly aimed at positively impacting the careers of caregivers and the hospitalization experience for patients.
The Family Legacy behind The Morel Company Name
