Mar 13, 2008 6:53 am US/Eastern
Philadelphia Magazine: Medi-Cool Bracelets
PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ―
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Medi-Cool bracelets from Hope Paige designs put a fashionable spin on the traditional medical alert band.
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A Conshohocken company is making jewelry with messages that are designed to save lives.
CBS 3's Liz Keptner reports on how these personally engraved bracelets are also making a fashion statement in this month's Philadelphia Magazine.
In an emergency every second counts and if you can't speak for yourself a medical alert bracelet can be a life-saver.
Greg Coleman, a school administrator in Bryn Mawr, wears a medical alert bracelet.
"If you have stents like I have you can not be defibrillated, and it says do not defibrillate," says Greg.
Greg used to wear a chain link medical alert bracelet with that warning, but he's found a more fashionable way to make a medical statement with bracelets made by Hope Paige Designs in Conshohocken.
"I thought they looked much more interesting than what I was wearing," said Greg.
Greg's new mesh linked medical alert bracelet and many other styles of "Medi-cool" bracelets are featured in this month's Philadelphia Magazine. The bracelets are the creations of Shelly Fisher and Lisa Hobyak of Hope Paige Designs.
"Actually it was customer of ours, whose daughter needed to wear a medical bracelet, she came to us and said is there any way you could come up with a medical bracelet that a teenager could wear," said Shelly.
Hope Paige Designs came up with medical alert bracelet bands that come in many colors and materials like mesh, rubber, rope or leather.
Engraving for conditions like diabetes or drug allergies is done in their Conshohocken office.
Despite their good looks medical staff won't overlook a bracelet like this.
"Medical personnel know to look for anything that has a medical alert insignia on it, we always have "alert" on the front and their "condition" on the back," said Shelly.
"It's nice to have it look decent but it really is a safety issue, because it's a life and death situation in my case," said Greg.
Prices for the bracelets range from $20 to $50. The company says they have received e-mails from parents who say their children love wearing these important alerts.
Related Links:
http://hopepaige.com/
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