Nurse Capital has made a significant Fund I investment in RoddyMedical, Inc., a Wauwatosa, Wisconsin-based medical device company developing nurse-led products designed to improve patient safety and staff effectiveness in clinical settings.
RoddyMedical’s flagship product, SecureMove-TLC, is a patented wearable device intended to reduce tubing, line, and cord hazards that can occur during patient therapy, transport, and movement. The armband-style device is designed to secure and manage multiple types of medical tubes and cords, with the goal of preventing hazardous pulling and reducing line or cord dislodgement. The company said the device can be worn for up to 30 days and is intended to improve workflow by saving nursing time and simplifying line management.
RoddyMedical founder and CEO Lindsey Roddy said patient mobility is a major benefit area, while noting the practical challenges of initiating therapy soon after major surgery, particularly in ICU environments where patients may have numerous attached lines and cords. The announcement cited statistics from recent studies, including claims that millions of lines are pulled out of acute care patients each year, that healthcare workers spend a significant portion of time untangling and organizing lines during early mobility and ICU therapy, and that healthcare facilities incur substantial annual costs replacing vascular access devices due to compromised lines and dislodgements.
RoddyMedical said Roddy launched the company in 2018 after an ICU incident in which a life support line became caught and was pulled out while assisting a post-surgery patient out of bed for therapy. The experience prompted her to develop a device intended to prevent similar hazards, leading to the introduction of SecureMove-TLC after several years of development.
The company said SecureMove-TLC is currently being used in hospitals in six states, including Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Barnes Jewish in St. Louis, and The Ohio State University Hospital, among others, and that RoddyMedical has secured five global patents for the device. RoddyMedical is now raising $5 million in Series A funding to expand manufacturing capacity and increase market penetration.
KEY QUOTES:
“Nurses don’t just see problems—they engineer solutions that work. Because nurses live the clinical realities day after day, their innovations are immediately usable and quickly adopted. SecureMove-TLC® is exactly that kind of solution—designed from lived experience to reduce patient harm and improve workflow. RoddyMedical shows why investing in nurse-led innovation is both clinically smart and financially sound.”
Beth A. Brooks, PhD, RN, FACHE, Co-Founder, Nurse Capital
“Therapy begins just hours after a major surgery, but is often inhibited by the number of tubes, lines, and cords attached to a patient in the ICU,”
Lindsey Roddy, RN, PhD(c), Founder and CEO, RoddyMedical
“Nurse Capital is pleased to support nurse entrepreneurs like Lindsey Roddy as they bring their unique expertise to innovative solutions which better serve their patients,”
Marla J. Weston, PhD, RN, Co-founder, Nurse Capital
