Cole Foster

Owner, Founder @Ascent Health Solutions, Llc

Bend, OR, US

At Ascent Health Solutions, we are an injury prevention and occupational health consulting company. We reduce workplace injuries and improve workforce resiliency by integrating the proven medical model used by elite athletes into industrial safety programs.Our goal is to help employees move correctly and instinctively. For ergonomic strategies to be truly effective, proper lifting and movement patterns must happen automatically, without conscious effort. While ergonomics aims to adapt the job to the worker, we recognize that many tasks still place employees in awkward, unbalanced, or fatigued positions. That’s why we focus on building foundational movement skills, so workers naturally use their bodies in the most efficient and safe way possible. With our approach we are able to achieve the following: Keeping your employees injury free, on the job, and healthy.Instilling instinctual quality movement, utilizing Functional Ergonomics, to provide long term, measurable results.Establishing your business as a reputable company that values employees by utilizing our 3-tiered injury prevention model.

Oregon State University

Bachelor

Western Michigan University

Masters, Exercise Physiology

George Fox University

Master of Business Administration (MBA)