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HEALTH & FITNESS
May the coming year be filled with
health and happiness for all our family and friends.
L'Shanah Tovah!
Glorine and Norman Katanick
Pembroke Pines, Florida
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May the coming year be filled with
health and happiness for all our family and friends.
L'Shanah Tovah!
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and girls
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Paula Milgrom with her newfangled hospital gown.
All Zipped Up!
Robes inventor finds cure
for hospital gown woes.
Robin Schwartz
Special to the Jewish News
p
rotecting hospital patients
from "over exposure" is Paula
Milgrom's passion. The 54
year old from West Bloomfield knows
firsthand the vulnerable, not fully
covered feeling of wearing a standard-
issue hospital gown. In 2004, she was
hospitalized for five days with a blood
clot in her leg.
"At first, I was flat on my back with
an IV for two days," Milgrom says.
"Then I could get up and walk around
but I still had the IV. I had a hospital
gown with the back open and I put
another one on backwards to cover
up the back. They were both falling
down, the ties didn't tie, and I started
to think there has to be something
better!"
Several months later, while visiting
her sister who'd undergone surgery,
Milgrom once again saw the short-
comings of the usual hospital garb.
"People didn't cover up and it was
just so undignified and humiliating,"
Milgrom recalls. "I remembered how
I felt and I decided I was going to do
something about it."
Entrepreneurial Idea
Milgrom has a background in paint
manufacturing, but no previous expe-
rience with clothing. She was the vice
president of operations for Mercury
Paint Company in Detroit, her family's
business for 20 years.
"I ran a factory where we manu-
factured a million gallons of paint a
year," Milgrom says. "But I was always
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L'Shanah Tovah!
The Schneiders
Judi, Joe & Brandon
Heather, Brett, Caidey & Zack
Arryn, Bryan, Ethan & Avery
Molly, Brad, D.J. & Anna
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