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Catalogue hospital beds

Product catalog summary
Introduction
Völker is a company specializing in the production of hospital beds that prioritize patient comfort and dignity, aiming to create a healing environment with a hotel-like ambiance. This document details the Völker Care Concept, which integrates innovative features to enhance patient care and caregiver efficiency.
Völker Care Concept
The concept is designed to support patient independence and caregiver efficiency, emphasizing a structured care process that motivates patient self-support and compensates for limitations through supportive tools. It aims to create more time for caregivers to focus on patient care.
Innovative Features
Völker hospital beds include features such as a four-column telescopic lift, height-adjustable assist rails, and a Micro-stimulation System for immobile patients, catering to various hospital requirements including intensive care and fall-prone patient care.
Added Value by Competency
Beyond product features, Völker offers healthcare design, intensive consulting, and technical services. Their diagnostic system reduces failure rates, and they provide training opportunities for customer employees, contributing to streamlined nursing processes and improved care standards.
System Partnership
Völker promotes partnerships with customers to improve nursing processes and service maintenance, involving innovation development, clinical studies, and field tests.
Product Models
Völker offers three main hospital bed models: the classic hospital bed, the Vis-a-Vis for patients with poor physical condition, and the Low-height bed for fall-prone patients, each designed to support patient care and promote independence.
Design and Customization
Völker beds can be customized in design and color to match clinical settings, enhancing patient experience and satisfaction.
Conclusion
Völker's commitment to dignified care is evident in their innovative beds and comprehensive care concept, aiming to improve care quality and efficiency.
Overview of Völker Hospital Beds
Völker beds enhance patient care and hospital efficiency, offering unique features that contribute to cost-effectiveness and profitability.
Key Features and Innovations
1. Patient and Nurse Control Units: Flexible hand control holders and accessible nurse controls.
2. Adjustable Components: Removable head and footboards, four-part lying surface, and telescoping assist rails.
3. Micro-stimulation System (MiS®): Promotes movement and enhances circulation, reducing pressure ulcers.
Völker MiS® Activ System
Provides motor-driven movements for immobile patients, enhancing circulation and reducing chronic pain.
Assist Rail System
Flexible and adjustable, promoting patient independence and complying with safety standards.
Conclusion
Völker beds integrate advanced technology to improve patient care and hospital operations, supporting mobility and reducing caregiver effort.
Assist Rail System
Designed to aid patients and prevent falls, providing support and allowing caregiver access through adjustable positions.
Bed Cleaning
Völker offers beds suitable for manual and automated cleaning, with models designed for automated cleaning featuring sealed components.
Hygiene and Infection Control
Fully sealed undercarriage design prevents pathogen collection, contributing to infection control.
Motor Drive System
In-house developed motor drives ensure safety and reliability, enhancing bed functionality.
Production and Quality Assurance
Lean production principles ensure efficient manufacturing, with strict testing and quality control measures.
Technological Development
Advanced development models and analytical methods ensure product reliability and safety.
Development and Quality Assurance
Emphasizes risk analysis and prototype phases to ensure product meets requirements, with planning, integration, testing, and verification stages.
Quality and Safety Features
Automotive industry standards are integrated into production, utilizing FMEA for risk assessment.
Production and Testing
Kaizen principle followed, with inline inspections and final tests to ensure quality.
Völker Diagnostic System (VDS)
Optimizes maintenance by connecting LIN-Bus to a PC for diagnostics, reducing downtime and costs.
Compliance with Standards
Complies with DIN EN 60601-2-52 standards, ensuring safety for patients and caregivers.
Product Range
Offers a range of beds designed to meet various therapeutic and care needs, maintaining a uniform appearance.
Overview of Völker Hospital Beds
Various configurations enhance patient care and comfort, with models designed for single rooms, VIP rooms, and intensive care applications.
Mobility and Independence
Promotes patient mobility and independence, particularly beneficial for post-operative patients.
Low-height Bed for Fall-risk Patients
Designed for patients prone to falling, providing security and reducing fall risk.
Assist Rail System
Height adjustable, supporting various care activities and enhancing safety and mobility.
Bed Models and Features
Various models combine healthcare and hospital bed features, designed for easy maneuverability.
Control Units
Equipped with ergonomic hand control units for easy operation and safety.
Nurse Hand Control Options
Various configurations for nurse hand controls, subject to country-specific regulations.
Design and Customization
Customizable design options available, with a variety of laminates and materials.
Color Collection
Features durable and chemical-resistant laminates, with custom requests accommodated.
Mattress and Comfort
Equipped with a Micro-stimulation System and specially designed mattresses for comfort and protection.
Accessories
Compatible with a range of accessories, meeting strict quality standards.
Furnishing Options
Offers bedside cabinets and other furnishings to enhance patient comfort.
Supply Bar System
Modular storage and supply system designed to improve caregiver efficiency.
Company History and Production
Long history of innovation in healthcare furniture, producing approximately 35,000 beds annually.
Contact Information
Contact details for Völker GmbH and its UK subsidiary, with information about key personnel.
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Every person has a right to be treated with respect and dignity. Especially people in need of care. We think, develop and manufacture with this in mind.

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For dignified care. Völker hospital beds. Völker beds for dignified care. This is our company philosophy and the target of our work now for more than thirty years. And as well remains, after the acquisition by Hill-Rom Holdings Inc. in early 2012, mandatory for development, production and service of Völker hospital beds. It is our sincere desire to manufacture beds in which patients will feel comfortable and can get well. This means beds which can be used in all areas of the hospital, including intensive or intermediate care due to their comprehensive functionality. Not beds that look like medical...

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The Völker Care Concept. A value-added concept: More time for dignified care. Care and recuperation are based on a patient and caregivers relationship. It is the common goal to solve problems, or if this is impossible to minimize them. This results in a structured care process which should realize a comprehensive, individually oriented plan. In order to achieve this goal for care there is more required than just any hospital bed. The patient’s potential for self support should be motivated and their independence should be encouraged. Limitations must be compensated for by instruction and support....

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The Völker Care Concept. Added value by pioneering products with innovative features. A comprehensive Care Concept with pioneering products opens the way for meeting the various requirements, demands and expectations of patients in all units of hospitals and clinics. This includes the Völker hospital bed S 962-2, which covers (almost) all requirements – with the type S 962-2W suitable for bed washing systems. The Vis-a-Vis version of the hospital bed offers real mobility with a forward facing chair position for those cases where a lateral transfer is impossible. Finally the Low-height bed model...

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The Völker Care Concept. Added value by competency. Products and product specific features are supplemented within the Völker Care Concept by additional competencies, which makes working together with Völker so desirable. This includes Healthcare Design as a significant feature for a clinic, providing both furnishing and public relations argumentation. Intensive Consulting is available from Völker after sales service; if desired a systems based partnership can be individually developed for the benefit of both parties (see also page 10). The logistic service provides rapid availability of spare...

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The Völker Care Concept. System partnership: a special advantage for Völker customers. The Völker Care Concept is the implementation of the Völker corporate philosophy. It is the basis for all product developments at Völker and forms the basis for partnerships with customers through defined competencies. Völker focuses on people and counts on value based company philosophies which promote partnership, dialogue, transparency and performance. In this sense system partnerships describe a cooperation with the common goal for product specific measures, such as improving nursing processes and the improving...

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Furniture Accessories Models Features 2. Völker Care Concept 3. 11 About Völker 1.

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Products Völker hospital bed. Völker Vis-a-Vis. Völker Low-height bed. Three versions for different therapies. Völker delivers functional beds which can be used for improving efficiency and promoting recovery. In intensive care as well as in the intermediate care, surgery and internal medicine, care of the elderly and psychiatric units, rehabilitation centers or in elective surgery units. These demands are fulfilled by Völker hospital beds by three model versions. By the classic hospital bed for the majority of patients, cleaned manually or prepared by a central, automated facility. By the Vis-a-Vis...

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Products Völker hospital beds for all applications. A coordinated appearance for each clinical setting. Völker beds can easily be designed to your taste. The S 962-2, Vis-a-Vis, and the Low-height bed for example can all be designed with the same headand footboards to match (see page 88) or in the same color (see page 89). The look and color of the healthcare suite provides continuity, an attractive appearance and an enjoyable experience, which has been proven in studies to be an important factor in the recovery process. This is one of the top requests by patients1). Because patients do not always...

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Accessories Models Features 4. Völker Care Concept 3. Furniture 2. 15 About Völker 1.

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Völker hospital beds. Everything you would want from hospital beds with added value. Functions Those who look at Völker hospital beds will quickly realize that management, planners, account executives and experts have all considered the situations which may occur daily within facilities for patients and caregivers. With the objective to develop and design hospital beds which make care­ giving easier for hospital staff and which facilitate and perhaps enhance nursing care in order for nurses to provide more care for patients. Innovations which can be found uniquely on Völker hospital beds only....

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Völker Care Concept Head and foot end adapters for IV pole on both sides Trapezebar on the head end Features Telescoping assist rails provide two levels of assist and protection Models Head- and footboards easy to remove and to replace Four-part lying surface, infinitely adjustable; with removable sections for easy cleaning Völker MiS® Microstimulation pressure reducing system which can be upgraded to MiS® Activ Patient's hand control unit w/lockout Quick release back-rest (CPR) Three-stage telescoping height adjustable column Bed extension Furniture Synchronization Four castor central braking...

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*Prices are pre-tax. They exclude delivery charges and customs duties and do not include additional charges for installation or activation options. Prices are indicative only and may vary by country, with changes to the cost of raw materials and exchange rates.