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On “Program Satisfaction,” #TestimonialTuesday, and Gathering Your Feedback


By eanderson

March 25, 2025

Thanks so much, Dan. Wonderful help form you and the rest at REquipment." - Jesse in Boston. Learn more. Visit DMEreuse.orgIf you follow REquipment on Facebook or Instagram, you know we’ve been celebrating #TestimonialTuesday for a while now. This is an opportunity for the program to share shoutouts from the REquipment community about how the program has made life a bit easier.

For as long as the program has been running, we’ve shared stories and quotes from program users in our annual reports and this blog. Please know that the staff works hard to earn them. No one takes your thanks and support for granted.

But they boost days spent answering the phones and navigating urgent needs REquipment cannot always solve.

In the past, these testimonials have come from calls and emails and in-person at pickups and dropoffs. Lately, however, and much to the boon of the program, they are gleaned from satisfaction surveys.

Hazel is amazing - helpful and understanding. I was unable to pick up the equipment for my grandmother because I was very sick. Hazel was eager to help me schedule a time convenient for me. Great employee." - Serena in Pittsfield, whose grandmother received a transfer bath bench with assistance from Hazel Goodsill at UCP of Western Mass. Learn more. Visit DMEreuse.orgThis is because we’ve created a new online form to receive your ratings and sent out the call to gather those cards. Our largest funder, MassAbility, requires us to collect “satisfaction” data, which the agency, in turn, needs for its federal reporting purposes. We have to show results not only in the numbers of people served but also in the satisfaction of program users. And if we fall short, we want to know why and have an opportunity to make it right or clarify our program policies.

Have you completed the satisfaction survey for equipment provided by the program? The form asks three simple questions and has an optional comments box. Another option is the hardcopy postcard we provide with delivered devices.

We are working to improve the response rate of those surveys. If you know your request ID number, it takes just a moment to check off those boxes. If you use the link to the survey we emailed you, that request ID number will already be filled out on the form.

tinyurl.com/REQfeedback

Your feedback is so helpful. And it means the world to the REquipment program’s hardworking staff.

A group of thirteen people smiling for the camera, most wearing REquipment polo shirts.
Left to right: Hector LeBron, Site Coordinator with Stavros CIL; Amin Ulloa, Equipment Technician, Stavros CIL; Karen Langley, Founder and Board President for REquipment, Inc.; Eliza Anderson, REquipment Editor, and Marketing Coordinator; James Riel, REquipment Technician; Anthony Calderon-Diaz, Driver/Technician REquipment, Inc.; Dan Perkins, REquipment Program Director; Adriana Mallozzi, CEO REquipment, Inc.; Jim Smith, Worcester Reuse Center Coordinator, DDS; Brian Sullivan (kneeling), Equipment Technician, Stavros CIL; Bill Fredette, Driver/Technician, REquipment, Inc.; Rodney Salsbury, Equipment Technician, Stavros CIL, Tiffaney Connelly, Assignment Coordinator, REquipment, Inc.