What is Hospital Bed?

A hospital bed that is specifically needed to protect the health of hospitalized patients or others.This bed has special features for patient comfort and wellness and health care personnel. Common features include adjustable height for the entire bed, head and legs, regular side rails and electronic buttons for running both the bed and other nearby electronic devices.

Hospital beds and other similar beds such as nursing care beds are used not only in hospitals, but also in other healthcare facilities and settings such as nursing homes, supportive living facilities, outpatient clinics and home health care.

What is Hospital Bed? Although the term “hospital bed” may refer to an actual bed, the term “bed” is also used to describe the amount of space in a healthcare center, as the facility has the capacity to accommodate the number of patients in a “bed.”

History of Hospital Bed

Beds with adjustable side rails first appeared in Britain sometime between 1815 and 1825. In 1874 the mattress company Andrew West and son, Cincinnati, Ohio, registered a patent for a type of mattress frame with a hinged head that preceded the modern hospital bed.

What is Hospital Bed? The modern 3-segment adjustable hospital bed was invented by Willis Dewe Gach, chairman of the Department of Surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine, in the early 20th century. This type of bed is sometimes referred to as a gach bed.

The modern push-button hospital bed was invented in 1945, and it originally included a built-in toilet in hopes of removing the bedpan.