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Melissa Petracca

Melissa Petracca

Facilities Manager at Matheny Medical and Educational Center in New Jersey, overseeing operations and maintenance for a healthcare facility serving individuals with developmental and medical disabilities.

Jul 24, 2026

19:41
Can you tell us a little bit more about that?
19:45
So as you walk through our facility, you'll see that there's no one wheelchair that is like the other.
19:54
We truly customize the seating to the individual due to various positioning needs for all, not even just our 101 folks here, our folks in group homes.
20:09
It is how they interact with the world.
20:13
So you'll see various, um, various ways of moving in the wheelchair, whether it's, if it's a power wheelchair, if someone has functionality of this pinky finger, they will make it so they have the ability to drive their wheelchair with that pinky finger.
20:30
Um, our folks communicate differently than you and I do.
20:34
I'll, uh, many of our folks use different communication devices.

6 MINS LATER

26:49
Oh,

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