1. Explain how the item could enhance the economic
environment of the organization.
Major competitor in the market for specialty
hospital beds.
Prevention of bedsores
Safer for patient and caregiver
Prevention of back injury
( Jeannie Akridge 2004)
2. Advantages continued
Fall Prevention
Accurate patient’s weight
Variety of financing options available.
Fast reliable service
( Jeannie Akridge 2004)
3. References
Jeannie Akridge "Rest assured: hospital beds are
getting smarter". Healthcare Purchasing News.
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Editor's Notes
Hill-Rom beds are specialty hospital beds. These beds provide sophisticated systems to move a patient into different positions and to provide relief from bedsores and burns. The beds has two layers of inflatable cushions, one on top of the other, in place of a mattress. The upper layer is divided into controllable zones that can be independently inflated and deflated to provide optimal comfort to the patient. The cushions of the lower layer can be differentially inflated and deflated to redistribute the amount of support under different parts of the patient's body. The differential inflation of the lower layer of cushions can be used to rotate the patient from side to side. The beds provide therapy such as "percussion" and "vibration," which can aid in clearing congestion from patients' lungs. Hill-room beds can help make the life of a nurse easier, and safer for both patient and caregiver and can even help patients to recover, or move more quickly to lower-acuity care suites Patient positioning and transport Because so many nurses experience back injuries when transferring patients in and out of bed, the beds provides features to assist with this task. AN "Up in Chair" position in which the bed goes into a full chair position. "By doing that we allow the healthcare giver to be able position the patient in a more upright position versus having to transfer them out of the bed and into a side chair," said Jim Mulligan, vice president, operational marketing, Hill-Rom. This feature is particularly helpful for difficult post-surgical situations, such as with a cardiac surgery or stroke patient, where it would normally take numerous caregivers to get that individual over into a chair.
Falls Prevention: One key feature on the Secure bed is a patented load-cell based bed-exit system that tracks the patient's location in the bed. The feature allows the bed to determine the difference between a patient reaching for something off a bedside stand, versus them trying to get out of bed unassisted. In that case, an alarm sounds at the bed and the nursing station. The bed also incorporates scales that don't require nurses to get patient out of bed for adjustment, to obtain a patient' weight the nurse simply had to do a visual inspection, makes sure there's nothing on the bed that shouldn't be there, then takes the patient's weight without having to reposition the bed or the patient Because Hill-room beds are an expensive investment, their are variety of financing options available, also Hill-room offers varieties of leasing options. In addition, they have more than 200 service centers across the country that allows them to get rental beds to their customers in about four hours or less in most cases.
