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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2020
Hill-rom Services, Inc., Batesville, IN (US);
Richard H. Heimbrock, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Jennifer A. Gunn, Durham, NC (US);
John S. Schroder, Apex, NC (US);
Hubert Lechable, Pluneret, FR;
Jean-Marie Remoleur, Sainte Ann d'Auray, FR;
Jimmy Samson, Pluvigner, FR;
Richard J. Schuman, Cary, NC (US);
Hill-Rom Services, Inc., Batesville, IN (US);
Abstract
A graphical user interface (GUI) of a patient bed is used by a caregiver to manually enter location data indicative of a location in a healthcare facility at which the patient bed is located. A first screen for manually entering location data is displayed on the GUI after a threshold period of time elapses subsequent to a power plug of the patient bed being plugged into an alternating current (AC) outlet of the healthcare facility and subsequent to casters of the patient bed being braked. A voice prompt is also given from the patient bed after the threshold period of time elapses to remind the caregiver to manually enter the location data. After manual entry of the location data, circuitry of the patient bed transmits the location data entered by the caregiver and a bed identification (ID) from the bed for receipt by a remote computer for purposes of making a bed-to-room association.