Do you know if your bed systems are safe? The FDA has published dimensional guidance regarding bed design to minimize fatal resident entrapments within a bed system. The FDA guidance uses specific measuring tools and tests to determine safe versus unsafe bed systems (bed frame, headboard, footboard, mattress, and side rails). Care Providers of Minnesota has purchased two of the FDA-approved bed system testing kits that are available for providers to rent.

The rental kits consist of all the approved tools and test methods to self-test the bed systems in your facility. The kit may be kept at a facility for a period of ten calendar days per rental period. The price includes round-trip insured shipping through FedEx (return shipping is initiated through a simple phone call to FedEx).

By properly using the testing tools on your bed systems, you should be able to determine which bed systems are safe and which are unsafe. Items included with the tool kit (and retained by the renting facility after the rental period) include resources to develop mitigation strategies for systems determined to be unsafe, clinical guidance focusing on risk intervention, individualized resident environmental changes, and more.

Member price: $150.00
Prospective member price: $250.00

Care Providers of Minnesota products and resources may be ordered online at the Care Providers of Minnesota store, or call 952-854-2844 or toll-free in Minnesota 1-800-462-0024.

View the PDF version of the Care Providers of Minnesota 2010-2011 products and resources catalog.

Todd Bergstrom
952.851.2486
tbergstrom@careproviders.org

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