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Semi-Finalists Picked for National Mobility Awareness Month Van Contest

More than one million votes are in and the top vote getters advance to the semi-finalist round. It’s not American Idol or Dancing with the Stars, but it’s generated an equal amount of buzz and publicity. Now it’s up to the NMEDA selection committee to make the final recommendations and select three winners of three [...]

Knowing Commonly Used Terms When Shopping for Wheelchair Vans Can Help You Navigate to the Right Accessible Option

Automated Fold-Out Ramp Minivan conversions with fold-out ramps can be either automated or manually deployed. Most van conversions utilize some type of automated or “automatic” system with a push button or key-fob to operate an electric motor that is used to fold down and fold up the ramp. Certified Mobility Consultants Most quality providers will have [...]

Scooter Lifts and Scooters – A Winning Combination

There are conflicting statistics out there about the use of electric scooters for mobility impaired population groups, but these very agile devices are certainly growing in popularity. Just take a stroll through the local shopping mall or large grocery store and you’re almost guaranteed to see several of these compact devices zipping around corners. Users [...]

OTs Are the Real Superheroes

Filmed in Cleveland Ohio, The Avengers movie will soon be hitting theaters throughout the country, but the real “Superheroes” recently descended on Indianapolis. This past week, MobilityWorks attended the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) annual convention in Indiana. The event drew more than 5,000 attendees from all over the country and about 300 vendors. Occupational therapists [...]

Mobility Dealer Encourages Wheelchair Artists to Submit a National Mobility Awareness Month Doodle for Google

Add Your Artwork to Our "Doodle for Mobility" Gallery for a Chance to Win $100! If you haven’t already heard, May is National Mobility Awareness Month. The National Equipment Dealers Association is marketing the event through the van giveaway contest which will provide three brand new wheelchair vans to three winners. The association, called NMEDA for [...]

Moving Ahead… Five New Locations Expand MobilityWorks Into Southern States

Now in Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Tennessee... Back in late February, MobilityWorks announced the merger of HDS Vans & Mobility (aka Handicapped Driver Services) with five locations in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Tennessee. Much has been done with bringing these new locations into our system, which will eventually include their complete inventory of new and [...]

Awareness Month Demonstrates that Local Heroes Abound … and the Enormous Need for Personal Wheelchair Transportation

Opinion Editorial I have a friend that I recently submitted to the National Mobility Awareness Month website, with the hope that she will be able to win the local hero contest and get the wheelchair van she really needs for her daughter. I think she’s a hero anyway. She took in a little girl with [...]

Our Commercial Wheelchair Vans Help to Move People in Every Major City

Most of our consumer clients know us for the BraunAbility or VMI wheelchair minivans they’ve purchased or rented over the years at one of our 20 showroom locations. Many influencers such as the Veterans Administration or occupational therapists (OTs) also recommend our scooter lift and hand control products to their clients. What many customers don’t [...]

April is National Limb Loss Awareness Month – 500 Limbs Lost Per Day

It’s estimated that more than 500 Americans lose a limb each day. More than two million Americans are currently living with a limb loss. Amazing statistics that many of us are shocked to hear. Perhaps it’s because prosthetic limbs have come such a long way that it can be hard to tell whether some is missing a limb [...]

After Winter Maintenance for Handicap Vans Keeps Them Running Strong

Winter is not the favored season of the year for most residents of the North and Midwest in America, so we’re glad it’s almost over. We live with it, we endure it, we try to find the beauty and charm of it when possible – icicles hanging from roofs and shining in the sunshine, tree [...]

Overcoming Obstacles, “Handicap This!” Inspires Others and Dispels Myths About Cerebral Palsy

Tim Wambach and Mike Berkson tell the story of their remarkable friendship and how the Keep On Keeping On Foundation was formed. "My body is in a wheelchair; my mind is not." — Mike Berkson Mike Berkson and Tim Wambach met in the summer of 2001. Tim was hired to help Mike, a 12 year old [...]

National Mobility Awareness Month in May Includes 3 New Wheelchair Vans Going to Essay Contest Winners

First Ever National Mobility Awareness Month Coming in May - Local Hero Nominees Being Sought for Van Giveaways MobilityWorks is proud to announce its participation in the first ever National Mobility Awareness Month this coming May. And as part of the celebration, the National Mobility Equipment Dealers Association and its partners are giving away three wheelchair accessible [...]

Get Your Motor Running, Head Out On The Highway…

Born to be wild Conquest Rider’s Group takin’ to the streets in Daytona! Who would have thought… A wheelchair motorcycle group? When Steppenwolf released Born to be Wild in 1968, along with its use in film classic Easy Rider, it quickly became the anthem of bikers worldwide. But they never could have imagined five riders [...]

New Era in Wheelchair Vans and Accessible Transportation – Celebrating 15 Years

It was 15 years ago (in February, 1997) that Bill Koeblitz, MobilityWorks President/CEO, incorporated WMK, Inc. and went on to purchase a small, single location, 10-person van modification business called “New Era Transportation”. New Era started installing wheelchair lifts on full-sized vans in 1986 (26 years ago) at the current MobilityWorks headquarters at 810 Moe [...]

Welcome Monmouth Clients!

MobilityWorks Expands into New Jersey with Monmouth Vans Access & Mobility It’s not reality TV – but it is reality! MobilityWorks announced earlier this month that it had acquired the assets of Monmouth Vans Access & Mobility located in Farmingdale, NJ. Located just north of Wall Township and close to the Garden State Parkway, our new [...]

The Miracle League

Mobility Works of Los Angeles participated in Miracle League Ventura on Sunday February 12th. Fourteen MobilityWorks employees and their family members volunteered their time to help disabled children and adults to play baseball for the day. Volunteers helped serve water, register players, give out name tags and were “Buddies”. As “Buddies” MobilityWorks employees assist Miracle [...]

MobilityWorks Featured on ION Television’s “World’s Greatest!”

A behind-the-scenes short documentary on MobilityWorks appeared as part of the ION Network series World’s Greatest! The first airing of the show was Feb 6th, with additional airings taking place on February 13th and 20th at various times of the day. Featured in the documentary were several members of our Chicago IL staff, President/CEO [...]

Meeting Customers Face-to-Face, There’s Much More to Providing Accessible Wheelchair Vans and Equipment

Living in an internet world, many people don’t get to interact with others as much as they used to. Some people work from home offices or stay at home all day and never get to meet with anyone. E-mail and social networks have taken over the occasional phone call and face-to-face interaction that makes life more [...]

New “Push Girls” Reality Show Features Four Hollywood Friends in Wheelchairs

Producers of the hit series “Little People, Big World” are working on a new reality show featuring four women in wheelchairs. Sexy, compelling, inspiring and ambitious are just a few of the words being used to describe the show. Aptly named Push Girls, it is scheduled to debut in April on the Sundance channel. The 14-episode, ½ [...]

Commercial Van Division Announces New Liberty Minivan for Taxi Market

Most people reading our blog or following us on Facebook know MobilityWorks for its consumer wheelchair van showrooms, service and rental centers. In the business world, however, we also lead the industry with commercial-use accessible vans used by our business clients throughout the country. Today, MobilityWorks announced the acquisition of Liberty USA of Michigan, a [...]

Balancing a Passion for Golf with Life’s Journey

“When I'm here on the golf course, I don't think I have a problem… I forget everything.” — Manuel De Los Santos My first experience with seeing a disabled golfer was memorable. I was around 16 years old when my father and uncle took me out to play at Shawnee Hills golf course in Bedford [...]

MobilityWorks Announces New Bruno Chariot™ Lift on Wheels to Haul Electric Scooters with Smaller Vehicles

Finally! A solution from the mobility equipment industry for people who own smaller and mid-size cars that need to haul an electric scooter or power wheelchair. Most scooter and power chair lifts (for external vehicle transport) require a minivan, SUV, or larger sedan capable of carrying a heavier load. That’s all changed with the introduction [...]

Local Search Changing the Game with Google Results

In years past, savvy Internet marketers that spent the most on search engine optimization (SEO), bought the most links (i.e. link farms), paid the most for pay-per-click and hired an army of bloggers, designers and programmers to build mega-sites and micro-sites won the search war. For companies that lagged behind in SEO, this meant they [...]

Tis the Season…To Appreciate How Far We’ve Come!

While we’re certainly not going to paint life as a bowl of cherries for our many friends who find themselves in wheelchairs (or scooters) this Hanukah and Christmas, we can look back with gratitude and see how far the wheelchair community has come. The passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; the greater [...]

In-Service Training for Wheelchair Transport and Paramedic Ambulance Company

MobilityWorks was honored to participate this past weekend at an in-service training session with Life Care Ambulance Inc. in Elyria, Ohio. Led by Regional Service Manager Trevorr Jurgensen, our Akron service staff spent this past Sunday at the Life Care training facility with their entire driver staff. This type of training event provides for driver education on [...]