Background Information: Care Trak
Care Trak International, Inc. provides Transmitters and Receivers for Police, Sheriffs, Public Safety Organizations, Nursing Facilities, and Private Homes through Rapid Recovery.
CARE TRAK INTERNATIONAL, INC., is a division of Wildlife Materials, Inc. Wildlife Materials has been tracking and monitoring endangered species around the world since 1970. Our customers include the Smithsonian, National Audubon Society, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, police search and rescue teams, universities, zoos, private industry, and more. For instance, Wildlife Materials equipment has monitored the red-crowned crane in China, African leopards and elephants, crocodiles in India, the California Condor studies funded by the National Audubon Society, the rare black-footed ferret in Wyoming, Auburn University's project on the endangered Indigo snake, and tree shrews in Borneo.
You have seen our equipment on television programs such as Wild Kingdom, NOVA, National Geographic, Wild America, Inside Edition, and 60 Minutes on CBS. We have been featured in Bottom Line Magazine, The Palm Beach Post, The New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, Parade, Paul Harvey News and Comment, CBS This Morning, and The NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. More recently Care Trak Equipment has been on "Extreme Make Over Home Edition" on ABC-TV and the top rated "Without a Trace" on CBS-TV.
Wildlife Materials was established in 1970 by Robert E. Hawkins, a biologist then working as a project director at Southern Illinois University Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory. Our designs have been inspired by the needs of field biologists: a computerized temperature calibration system that signals illness, ovulation and stress in large animals, and a subminiature transmitter to fit tiny birds that previously could not wear a transmitter.
With proven technology behind us, adaptation of this expertise to the long term care of people became a logical step. CARE TRAK INTERNATIONAL, Inc., monitors people stricken with Alzheimer's disease and other dementia who have a tendency to wander. The CARE TRAK Mobile Locater can find a lost person up to a MILE on the ground and 5+ miles from an aircraft. We also serve parents who have children with Down syndrome, Autism, ADHD, Prader-Willi Syndrome, mental impairments, and traumatic brain injuries.
To address these specialized needs CARE TRAK INTERNATIONAL, Inc., was established in 1986. Our long list of clients include skilled nursing facilities, private homes, local police, county sheriffs, private individuals, and search and rescue teams nationwide.
All CARE TRAK INTERNATIONAL, Inc., equipment is hand built by trained technicians to insure quality and reliability. All transmitters and receivers are fully range tested. Our home, skilled care facility, and police equipment is built to the identical tough standards as our professional research equipment. This attention to detail and over 3 decades of hands-on experience make CARE TRAK INTERNATIONAL, Inc., the best possible monitoring and tracking equipment available today. We welcome and appreciate your questions, suggestions and comments always.
History of Rapid Recovery
Chief Greg Pratt of the Stokes County Mountain Rescue Team in King, North Carolina started the operational concept for Rapid Recovery. Chief Pratt was spending considerable time, energy and effort attempting to locate victims or Alzheimer's Disease, and kids with special needs who wandered away from familiar surroundings. These wanderers lived at home and in professional care facilities. Searchers were costing the rescue team over $1,500.00 per hour.
Chief Pratt started using the Care Trak Mobile Locater Tracking Receiver to find these lost wandering people and found his search time was cut from over 9 hours to less than 30 minutes. Before Care Trak, many wanderers were injured and even died. Since Care Trak was introduced in 1996, there have been no injuries or deaths of anyone using the equipment because many of the victims were found quickly. Since 1997, the Stokes County Mountain Rescue Team has conducted hundreds of successful searches.
Rapid Recovery is limited to police, public safety organizations and search and rescue teams. A modified version of Rapid Recovery training is available to Assisted Living and Professional Care Facilities.