Our volunteer guild has slowly started purchasing STAXI chairs and they don't tend to disappear :)

Do any of you require people to "sign-out" the wheelchair they borrow from your Information Desk areas where you have volunteers?  If you do, has it ever been a PR issue for any of you?

I have these same problems and thought they were going to be relieved when our foundation purchased 25 STAXI chairs for the volunteers to use at our 3 main entrances.  We were able to keep them until our transporters found out how easy they were to use and now they use them all over the hosp.  One thing that has helped some is that our IT Dept. put a tracking device on each STAXI chair.  Now I can pull up the program and see what area the chair is in and how long it has been there.  The only problem is that most of them are in an area for only a short time so you know they are being used.  The STAXI chair is the way to go though b/c they are heavy and don't fold up to get taken off in cars.  Another plus is that you don't end up with chairs missing the foot rest or the brake not working b/c the parts are not don't come off.