Mattress evaluation for long-term care facilities.
Patients spend more than a third of their hospital time in bed and considerably more than that if they are residents in a long-term care facility. When our facility, Fair Acres Geriatric Center, a 911-bed long-term care facility in Lima, PA, noticed increasing losses of our standard mattresses, we decided to evaluate new products. We listed very important criteria (bacteria resistance, flame retardation, self-deodorization and comfort and resiliency) and important criteria (stain resistance, cost and warranty) and then brought in three standard mattresses for our staff to evaluate. We were able to procure a mattress that met our criteria and halved our costs in the process.
Stank
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Fair Acres Geriatric Center, Lima, PA.
McFarland
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H
Micucci
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B
D001513:Beds / Q000592:standards*; D003132:Commerce / Q000639:trends; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010414:Pennsylvania