Eastern State Hospital is removing motorized bed lifts from the rooms of some of its geriatric patients, after a 67-year-old woman hanged herself using the apparatus last week. Virginia State Polic… ...

A Hoyer lift is a device that uses hydraulic pumps or electric power to raise a person in a sling. These devices allow people with mobility challenges to lift themselves from chairs, beds ...

Monroe Community Hospital, a 566-bed skilled nursing facility, has been inspected 10 times from March 1, ... a wheelchair and two people using a Hoyer lift to move him from bed to chair.

They put her hospital bed in the living room, and Neil Butler slept on the couch next to her. “I didn’t know which way it was going to go. I knew it was a 50-50,” Brittany Butler said.

UHS is currently piloting the Total Lift Bed project at Carolinas Specialty Hospital in Pineville, N.C. The bed helps patients with breathing problems and speeds up recovery. According to a recent ...

Sales of adjustable beds are getting a lift, as bed makers strip off guard rails, spiff up styling and attach such features as anti-snoring functions, USB ports and massage.

“Smart” computerized hospital beds may become a standard of care if negotiations between John LaCourse — professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the ...

The following items are being accepted: Lift Chairs in good condition (no fabric rips) Steel Frame Hospital Beds; Power Wheelchairs; Hoyer Lifts; Portable Ramps ...