Skil-Care
Clinical Innovation
Partnership
(SCIP)

From Clinical Need to Commercial Product

A structured commercialization partnership that helps healthcare providers turn frontline ideas, product modifications, and unmet care needs into practical, manufacturable products with a faster path to market.

SCIP gives clinicians, departmental leaders, innovation teams, and tech-transfer professionals a practical route from idea to prototype to commercialization with a partner built for real care environments.

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Why Health Systems Choose Skil-Care

Nearly 50 Years Of Clinical Collaboration

Deep Experience In Product Modifications and Customizations

Hundreds Of National And Regional Distributors Worldwide

8,000+ Facility Customers

12 GPO Agreements

A Real Path From Concept To Commercialization

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Why Skil-Care

The right commercialization partner for
healthcare innovation in the real world

For nearly 50 years, Skil-Care has worked alongside clinicians and care teams to modify, refine, and commercialize products built for real care environments. That matters. Many organizations can
help evaluate an idea. Far fewer can help turn it into a practical product with a credible path to market.

SCIP is built on that foundation. It combines clinical collaboration, product modification expertise, manufacturing agility, and established commercial reach so healthcare organizations can move
strong ideas forward with greater speed, less friction, and a clearer route to monetization.

Nearly 50 Years of Clinical Collaboration

Decades of working directly with clinicians and care teams to improve products for real-world use across care settings.

Decades of working directly with clinicians and care teams to improve products for real-world use across care settings.

Decades of working directly with clinicians and care teams to improve products for real-world use across care settings.

Decades of working directly with clinicians and care teams to improve products for real-world use across care settings.

Decades of working directly with clinicians and care teams to improve products for real-world use across care settings.

Decades of working directly with clinicians and care teams to improve products for real-world use across care settings.

Decades of working directly with clinicians and care teams to improve products for real-world use across care settings.

Built for Modifications and Customizations

A long track record of adapting products to meet the practical needs of patients, staff, and facilities.
A long track record of adapting products to meet the practical needs of patients, staff, and facilities.
A long track record of adapting products to meet the practical needs of patients, staff, and facilities.

Commercialization, Not Just Ideation

SCIP is designed to move beyond concept review toward viable products with a defined path to market.
SCIP is designed to move beyond concept review toward viable products with a defined path to market.
SCIP is designed to move beyond concept review toward viable products with a defined path to market.
SCIP is designed to move beyond concept review toward viable products with a defined path to market.
SCIP is designed to move beyond concept review toward viable products with a defined path to market.
SCIP is designed to move beyond concept review toward viable products with a defined path to market.

Established Route to Market

Hundreds of national and regional distributors create broader commercial reach than most innovation teams can build on their own.
Hundreds of national and regional distributors create broader commercial reach than most innovation teams can build on their own.

Broad Customer Reach

Over 8,000 facility customers provide a meaningful foundation for adoption, feedback, and market penetration.

Route To Commercialization

A practical path from clinical insight to market access
The value of SCIP is not just that it helps shape good ideas. It helps create a more realistic path to commercialization.

Skil-Care combines product development and manufacturing capability with an established route to market through distributors, facility relationships, and GPO access. For healthcare innovation teams, that means SCIP can offer more than product development support. It can offer a stronger path to monetization.

A strong idea needs more than internal enthusiasm. It needs a partner with the experience and commercial infrastructure to help bring it to market.

Why This Model Works

Faster than traditional vendor pathways. More practical than internal ideation alone.
Built to move from clinical insight to commercialization.

Built For Real Care Environments

Products shaped by actual workflow and bedside realities.

Flexible
Collaboration Model

Works whether the idea starts with a clinician, department leader, innovation office, or tech-transfer team.

Manufacturing + Commercialization

Not just concept review. Execution, market readiness, and route-to-market support.

Low Friction

A more defined path from clinical need to prototype to commercialization.

Proof That The Model Works
In The Real World

SCIP is built to help healthcare organizations move real clinical problems toward real product outcomes.
These collaborations reflect that process in action.

Incontinence & Fecal
Management

VCU Health

Fecal Management Positioning Innovation

A clinical need identified in a critical care setting led to a collaboration focused on patient positioning, dignity, skin protection, and caregiver efficiency.

CLINICAL NEED IDENTIFIED:
Improved support for fecal management positioning
in ICU care.
SKIL-CARE ROLE:
Development, refinement, and commercialization support.
COMMERCIAL OUTCOME:
A practical product concept shaped for real-world care use and broader market potential.

“Dignity and comfort.”

Patient Safety

Corewell Health

Patient Safety Mitt Collaboration

A clinician-informed collaboration focused on a non-restraint patient safety solution progressed from concept through development and commercialization.

CLINICAL NEED IDENTIFIED:
A need for a safer, clinically practical patient safety solution.
SKIL-CARE ROLE:
Collaborative development, product refinement, and commercialization support.
COMMERCIAL OUTCOME:
A non-restraint patient safety mitt advanced from frontline idea to market-ready product pathway.

“Safer, Non-Restraint Solution.”

How It Works

A structured workflow designed to move strong ideas
forward faster.

01 – Discovery

Identify the clinical problem, care setting, and overall fit.

02 – Scoping

Align stakeholders, development priorities, and the likely IP or commercialization pathway.

03 – Prototype & Evaluation

Refine the concept for usability, feedback, and real-world
clinical practicality.

04 – Commercialization

Advance strong opportunities toward manufacturing, market readiness, and broader adoption.

A good idea should not get stuck in a vague process.
SCIP is designed to create a more practical route from
opportunity to outcome.

Where Collaboration Can Happen

SCIP supports product ideas, modifications, and unmet clinical needs across a range of care categories. Some opportunities involve practical product improvements. Others involve entirely new concepts with broader commercial potential.

Patient Positioning
Patient Safety
Mobility & Transfer
Pressure Injury Prevention
Sensory & Behavioral Support
Daily Living Aids
Caregiver Workflow
Incontinence & Fecal Management

Who Engages First

Most opportunities begin with the people closest to the problem or closest to the pathway forward.

SCIP is built for the people who typically identify, shape, or advance healthcare product opportunities first. Hospitals and health systems may represent the largest share of collaborations, but strong ideas can come from clinicians in any care environment.

Clinical Staff & Departmental Leaders

The people closest to the care problem often spot the opportunity first.

Frontline clinicians with a practical product idea or unmet need

Nurse leaders, rehab leaders, and departmental managers seeking a better solution

Clinical teams looking to improve safety, comfort, usability, workflow, or care efficiency

Innovation, Product &
Tech-Transfer Professionals

The teams responsible for evaluating, shaping, and advancing strong opportunities.

Innovation professionals screening ideas worth developing further

Tech-transfer or commercialization teams seeking a practical execution partner

Internal leaders looking to move validated concepts toward prototype, manufacturing, and market readiness

Who can participate in SCIP?
Clinicians, departmental leaders, innovation teams, and
tech-transfer professionals with relevant product ideas, modifications, or unmet care needs.
Can an individual clinician bring an idea?
Yes. Opportunities can begin with an individual clinician, a department, or a formal innovation or commercialization team.
What kinds of ideas are the best fit?
Ideas tied to real clinical problems, workflow challenges, safety needs, product modifications, or unmet care needs within Skil-Care’s core categories.
Who owns the IP?
That depends on the starting point, prior IP status, institutional policy, and contribution by each party.
How does commercialization or value-share work?
Opportunities may be structured through licensing, royalties, or other compliant commercial arrangements depending on the project and institution.

Why This Matters For Innovation Teams

For healthcare innovation teams, the value of SCIP is not just development support. It is the opportunity to work with a partner that understands how to move clinically relevant ideas toward commercialization.

With deep product experience, manufacturing capability, distributor reach, facility access, and GPO relationships, Skil-Care offers a stronger monetization pathway than a typical product development or concept review partner.

Start With A 20-Minute Discovery Call

We will review the clinical problem, discuss the concept, clarify the likely development and commercialization pathway, and determine whether the opportunity is a strong fit for SCIP.

Designed for clinicians, departmental leaders, innovation teams, and tech-transfer professionals who want more than feedback and need a practical path forward.

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