Hospital Bed Safety Workgroup Developed a Guide to Bed Safety

The hospital bed safety workgroup worked together to develop a guide to bed safety. The guide was launched on October 2000. The participating organizations include:

• AARP
• ABATort and Insurance PracticeSection
• American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
• American Health Care Association
• American Medical Directors Association
• American Nurses Association
• American Society for Healthcare Engineering of the American Hospital Association
• American Society for Healthcare Risk Management
• Basic American Metal Products
• Beverly Enterprises, Inc.
• Care Providers of Minnesota
• Carroll Healthcare
• DePaul College of Law
• ECRI
• Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society
• Hill-Rom Co., Inc.
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
• Medical Devices Bureau , Health Canada
• National Association for Home Care
• National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform
• National Patient Safety Foundation
• RN+ Systems
• Stryker Medical
• Sunrise Medical, Inc.
• The Jewish Home and Hospital
• Untie the Elderly, The Kendal Corporation
• U.S. Food and Drug Ad ministration

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