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The VersaCare® bed can help reduce patient falls, keep your patient's skin safe, reduce caregiver injuries, provide greater patient visibility and help keep patient's lungs clear.
One bed does it all.

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Help reduce patient falls in your hospital
Patient falls are the most common occurrences reported in hospitals,(1) and 46% of patients who fall, suffer injuries.(2) Therapeutic beds, used in conjunction with a falls protocol, can help reduce patient falls.
- LowChair® position allows your patient to be in an upright sitting position while keeping the bed at a lower, safe distance from the floor.
- Automatic reactivation: three level bed exit system with alarm silence.
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Help keep Your Patient’s Skin Safe
US expenditures for treating pressure ulcers have been estimated at $11 billion per year.(3) Keeping your patient’s skin safe has never been more important. Reducing shear, friction, moisture, and heat can help aid in the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers.
Skin protocols, used in conjunction with bed and surface technology, can help reduce pressure ulcers.
- Provide patient heel relief with FlexAFoot™ feature, a built-in bed extender that customizes the length of the bed up to 12".
- Help your patient maintain proper position in bed and minimize the need for patient repositioning with patented Slideguard™ technology.
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Help reduce your Hospital’s Caregiver Injuries
About 12% of nurses leave the profession because of back pain.(4) On average, caregivers pull patients up in bed 35 times a day—a leading cause of back injury.(5) Moving patients shouldn't involve back strain. It should be as simple as pressing a button. With BackSaver™ Technology, repositioning patients has never been easier.
- Help move patients up in bed easier and reduce back strain with One Button Boost® Feature.
- Fewer steps needed to provide care with Point-of-Care® controls.
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Greater Patient Visibility
There are many activities that take caregivers away from the bedside. On average, 62.3% of caregiver time is spent either at the nurse station or the unit, not in the patient room.(7)
- Automated documentation to reduce steps and time spent charting*
- Smart bed technology is compatible with NaviCare® Nurse Call, other nurse call systems and EMRs.
- Providing numerous data points, including patient weight, head-of-bed angle and surface status.
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Helping Keep Your Patient’s Lungs Clear
An estimate of the direct cost of an excess hospital stay due to ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is $40,000 per patient.(6) Keeping a patient’s head-of-bed above 30 degrees can help.
Easily know if your patient's head of bed falls below 30 degrees with a 30 degree head of bed alarm and digital head-of-bed angle indicator. |
1 IHI, Reducing Harm From Falls (http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics/PatientSafety/ReducingHarmfromFalls).
Information found on April 7, 2011
2 Joint Commission, It’s a Long Way Down: Reducing the Risk of Patient Falls retrieved from http://www.jointcommissioninternational.org/ Web-Based-Education / Its-A-Long-Way-Down-Reducing-The-Risk-of-Patient-Falls/1435/ on January 18, 2011
3 Kuhn, BA. Balancing the pressure ulcer cost and quality equation. Nurse Econ. 1992;10:353-359.
4 ANA Nursing World Safe Patient Handling and Movement.. Vol. 9, 2004. http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/
Volume92004/No3Sept04 / EvidenceBasedPractices.aspx
5 Hill-Rom Patient Activity Study, 2010
6 Tablan O.C., Anderson L.J., Besser R., et al. CDC Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. Guidelines for preventing healthcare-associated pneumonia, 2003: Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. MMWR Recomm Rep. 2004 Mar 26;53(RR-3):1-36.
7 "A 36 Hospital Time and Motion Study: How do Medical-Surgical Nurses Spend Their Time?" Hendrich, et al. The Permanente Journal / Summer 2008 / Volume 12 No. 3
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