About Turnwise Labs.

Turnwise started with something Mateo saw firsthand. In the late stages of his grandmother’s life, she developed pressure ulcers, and he saw how painful they were and how much depended on her being repositioned in time. It stuck with him that an injury this serious is so often preventable.

Tommy grew up hearing about pressure injuries from his parents, who are both doctors. Their stories showed us how often these injuries happen, and they taught us what a real solution has to handle in a hospital or nursing home: it has to be easy to clean, thin enough that patients never feel it, and safe if a patient ever needs to be defibrillated. That is why every part of Turnwise is sealed inside an insulating cover with no exposed metal.

When the four of us teamed up for the Conrad Challenge, we wanted to build something that could help families and care teams facing the same thing. Turnwise is our answer: a thin pad that shows caregivers where pressure is building, so they can act before it becomes an injury.