Here is a bed made especially for the physically impaired. Maybe even hospitals could benefit from it if given the chance. The Dignity Bed seems more like a hospital bed that comes with a built-in toilet of sorts, a solution which should address people who have to go but have restrictions in doing so.

Designed by Edna Thomas, this is an anti-bacterially protected and is easy to wipe and clean. As for the built-in toilet, waste is contained in an electronically sealed waste bag. All functions are controlled by a hand set.

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The Dignity Bed comes with a Toilet

This odd looking chair may not carry the funky designs nor something special but this medical chair secretly offers something else. While sitting is a given, it can also perform diagnosis on patients.

Sensors are spread all over the chair and patients can be diagnosed once they sit on it. This is one chair that could become useful in hospitals or clinics, especially the patients who have to deal with long queues before a physician actually checks them out.

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The Medical Chair from Josep Ferriol

We would perhaps be careful when it comes to touching public doors for hygiene and health protection issues and the Sanidoor may yet address the need of being safe when using public toilets. With the Sanidoor, doors are automatically opened through a swipe of your hand.

Sanidoor is meant to be used for public bathrooms in restaurants or hospitals, or maybe even your own home. Currently the Sanidoor site boasts a slew of merchants who already are using their technology.

(Source) Chip Chick

Clean as You Go with the Sanidoor

Best Bath Systems has announced a 30 year limited warranty on all fiberglass reinforced safe bathing shower and bathtub products. They are manufactured to match the life of the building and exceed ANSI standards for strength and durability.

They are ideally suited for the bathing needs of private residences, hospitals, independent living communities, and university dormitories where safety and accessibility are of the utmost concern. All bathing units are designed and manufactured using extremely durable materials.

Walls are comprised of six layers. Two layers of composite laminate surround a plywood core. A skin laminate is laid and covered by a barrier coat. The surface is a hard-wearing gelcoat finish.

(Source) Press

Best Bath Systems Announce 30 Year Warranty on Safe Bathing Showers

Valued at $115,000, Sleep Experts has donated 120 mattresses to the Ronald McDonald House, a cause that likewise solicits your help. Aside from this donation, they are welcoming other necessities for the Ronald McDonald House of Dallas families.

Other needs that include toiletries, office and kitchen supplies, toys and gift cards are being solicited and can be dropped off at any of its 34 mattress stores through the end of July.

Sleep Experts supports the D/FW community through partnerships with more than 20 area nonprofit organizations that nurture and care for children and families in crisis. Through its Rest Assured program, every time a customer buys a new Sleep Experts mattress, the company recycles the old mattress and donates it to one of these organizations.

To date, Sleep Experts has provided more than 6,000 beds to the community and donated over $400,000 in recycled mattresses, resulting in over a million nights of sleep for thousands of families in need.

The Ronald McDonald House of Dallas has served as a home-away-from-home for more than 26,000 families of seriously ill children who have traveled to Dallas seeking medical treatment in area hospitals.

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Sleep Experts Donate 120 Mattress to Ronald McDonald House

Beds are not plainly for the ones who would need time to relax or simply to lay on. Apparently, even the unhealthy and addicts (drugs and alcohol) need their share of getting good beds.

From past posts on Bedzine, we have posted about the lack of bed in hospitals. Apparently this has gone as far as affecting rehabilitation centers who need beds as well especially for patients that are admitted and who are in need of help.

The province will open 20 more beds to treat drug and alcohol addiction with those between 18-24 years old being the prime target.

Calgary will be receiving 8 new beds which will be opened at Aventa Centre.

(Source) CTV.ca

Treatment Beds on the Way

One thing you will notice about change in the healthcare industry is that they have added that touch of interior designing touch to appease the overall setting that hospitals and other healthcare institutions want to project these days. While this resort is not something that is bound to make any difference, they are paying in between modernization and contemporary styles.

There is no medical proof that this change in setting will have any bearing on the healing and medical practice improvements of most people but just the same, the healthcare sector will not be left behind by today’s advanced interior designs made to fit in with the advanced ways of defining ambiance and comfort in the field of medicine.

The storage unit Steelcase Inc. developed and brought to the market two years ago is based on a design principle that Michigan office furniture makers build into all their systems: flexibility and modularity.

(Source) Mlive.com

Flexibility and Modularity in Healthcare Locations

Exercise Bed

Exercise is something that not too many people are quite fond about especially when they are in bed. Normally, beds that can help people with deficiencies normally in the hospitals are given specialized beds to assist them and avoid movement in times of pain. But these days, pain is not restricted to hospitals as people in homes have current problems of their own such as obesity and limited movement.

While most of us are encouraged to turn to exercise for better lives, beds pose a threat in getting it done. At times we find ourselves too lazy to get out of bed but with this new invention by surgeon Charles Filipi, this flexible exercise bed may soon be the answer to all these problems.

He says that many obese patients are required to exercise as part of their treatment. But getting them into a standing position can involve numerous staff and finding a treadmill for them to work out on can be even more time consuming.

When the patient needs to exercise, the bed slowly tips into the vertical position, planting the treadmill onto the ground ready to be used. That means a person can always access the treadmill easily, with minimal assistance from anyone else.

(Source) New Scientist Tech

Flexible Exercise Beds

For patients who are lined-up to be admitted this is a given. But for the people who are already lying on the beds, some doctors and physicians seem to have a problem on finding out when they can be discharged to make room for patients who have diagnosed problems.

This is termed as bed blocking for patients who have no problems. Overstaying seems to be like renting out the bed space which could be of use to other more needy patients.

Most hospitals run at 85pc capacity as keeping large numbers of beds empty makes no sense.

But if there are no community placements available, or a residential home is unwilling to take a patient on, the system becomes choked with patients. Add to that a rush of inpatients or a large number of operations and you get gridlock – with people treated in ambulances.

Source: What is the cure for bed blocking?

Bed Blocking in Hospitals

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More Sick People, More Hospital Beds?

Hence, the need to quickly re-survey and study the various illnesses, mortality rate and the cases needed for medical attention may need to be looked into soon. It is no longer a simple matter and taking for granted the health situation of sick patients by turning them away due to no available hospital beds is something that cannot be used as an excuse.

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Baby deliveries are a delicate issue and the health sector of Philly must be careful on overlooking this dilemma. Child birth is simply something delicate and the health commissioner would do well by taking a look at affiliated hospitals rather than relying on figures and reports he finds on top of his desk.

Here is the complete news brief: Report cites a shortage of maternity beds

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These Hi-tech clipboards that connect wirelessly to a central server(assuming) will change the way people work in hospitals. Personally knowing some friends who work as nurses, I am glad this gadget has appeared. (On the downside, it will take extra 2 to 3 hours to train the nurses and probably takes more bank from your wallet overall.)

Nonethless, the hi-tech gadget will be able to communicate and manage bed notes at speed of modern society.

It is the gadget that could spell the end of the clipboard for medical notes at the end of every hospital bed.

Called the mobile clinical assistant, or MCA, the small, hand-held computer wirelessly retrieves patient records, X-rays and other information at the push of a button.

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Hi-tech clipboard spells the end of bed notes