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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2015
Hillenbrand Management Company Llc, Batesville, IN (US);
William A. Hillenbrand, II, Batesville, IN (US);
David Hornbach, Brookville, IN (US);
Joseph Kummer, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Timothy Savage, Batesville, IN (US);
Hillenbrand Management Company LLC, Batesville, IN (US);
Abstract
A patient monitoring and repositioning system () includes a mattress (), a sheet () residing on an upper surface of the mattress (), a housing () containing a drive mechanism (), and a sensor () adapted to sense a position of a patient () resting on the mattress (). The drive mechanism () is operable to pull the sheet () and thereby pull the patient () resting thereon. The housing () receives the sheet () through a slot (). In the event that the patient () is in an undesirable position on the mattress () as detected by the sensor (), a controller () directs the drive mechanism () to pull the sheet () so as to pull the patient thereon from the undesirable position to a desirable, predetermined position. The controller () may direct the drive mechanism () automatically or indicate the undesirable position to a caregiver so that the caregiver may direct the drive mechanism () accordingly.