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Healthcare catalog - 2012

Healthcare catalog - 2012
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Healthcare catalog - 2012

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Introduction
Völker is a company specializing in the manufacture of healthcare beds that prioritize the dignity and comfort of residents while facilitating caregivers' work. Their philosophy emphasizes respect and dignity for individuals needing care.
Völker Care Concept
The Völker Care Concept aims to provide more time for dignified care through innovative products that enhance resident independence and ease caregiver workload. Key products include the Völker 3082 healthcare bed, Vis-a-Vis bed, and Low-height bed, addressing needs like mobility and fall prevention.
Innovative Features
Völker beds feature telescopic height-adjustable legs, integrated assist rail systems, and the Micro-stimulation System (MiS®) for pressure-ulcer prevention, promoting comfort and independence.
Added Value by Competency
Völker offers comprehensive solutions, including healthcare design, logistics, and technical support through the Völker Diagnostic System. Their products are primarily made in Germany, ensuring quality.
Völker Consulting
Völker Consulting provides services to geriatric care facilities, focusing on improving care processes through Kaizen and Lean Management, enhancing care quality, reducing costs, and increasing caregiver satisfaction.
Product Range
Völker offers a range of healthcare beds designed for senior care environments, providing comfort, safety, and ease of use for residents and caregivers.
Overview of Völker Healthcare Beds
Völker beds offer functionalities like electronic adjustment, synchronized height adjustment, and removable sections for easy cleaning. They include sockets for accessories and a CPR quick release option. The assist rail system enhances safety and mobility.
Völker MiS® System
The MiS® system enhances comfort and mobility using neuro-scientific principles to improve body perception and micro-circulation, aiding in pressure-ulcer prevention.
Völker MiS® Activ
An upgrade for immobile residents, MiS® Activ uses motor drives to encourage movement and improve circulation, preventing pressure-ulcers and reducing pain.
Assist Rail System
The assist rail system is versatile, providing safety and mobility with height-adjustable profiles and a central gap, supporting self-mobilization and reducing fall risks.
Motor Drive System
Völker beds feature Original Völker Motor Drives, developed with Porsche Engineering, ensuring safety and reliability for intensive use.
Production and Quality Assurance
Völker employs lean production principles, ensuring efficient material handling and assembly, with stringent final testing for quality assurance.
Technological Innovations
Völker integrates automotive industry standards, ensuring long-term safety and cost efficiency with features like LIN-Bus communication and reliable braking systems.
Quality Control
Völker implements inline inspections and final tests, supported by advanced technologies like RFID and Pick-to-Light systems for precise assembly.
Völker Diagnostic System (VDS)
The VDS optimizes maintenance and reduces costs by allowing technicians to access bed parameters and perform test runs, promoting self-sufficiency in maintenance.
Compliance with Standards
Völker beds comply with DIN EN 60601-2-52 standards, ensuring safety for patients and caregivers.
Völker Healthcare Bed Models
Models like the 3082 and Vis-a-Vis cater to diverse needs, promoting independence and reducing care costs.
Key Features
  • Völker Vis-a-Vis Bed: Encourages movement from sitting to standing, promoting independence.
  • Low-height Bed: Designed for fall-prone residents, minimizing injury risk.
  • Assist Rails: Offer flexibility and safety, supporting independent mobilization.
Models and Designs
  • Healthcare Beds: Various models offer unique features like removable head- and footboards.
  • Design Options: Customizable design options for head- and footboards.
Accessories and Furniture
  • Mattresses: Designed for comfort and support.
  • Lighting: Enhances resident comfort and caregiver efficiency.
  • Accessories: Includes IV poles and trapeze bars.
  • Furniture: Complements healthcare rooms with functional and aesthetic designs.
Völker Supply Bar
Offers customizable solutions for building and renovation projects, integrating with various room types.
Furniture Program
Völker provides furniture designed for residents, enhancing care facility environments.
Seating Solutions
Includes armchairs and stools designed for stability and comfort, with customizable options.
Company History and Vision
Founded in 1912, Völker has evolved into a leader in specialized healthcare furniture, committed to 'Made in Germany' quality.
Production and Quality Assurance
Völker produces approximately 35,000 beds annually, maintaining high-quality standards through local production.
Contact Information
Völker GmbH is headquartered in Witten, Germany, with a second plant in Hainichen.
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Catalog excerpts

Healthcare catalog - 2012-5

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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Healthcare catalog - 2012-7

For dignified care. Völker healthcare 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 healthcare beds. We have always wanted to build beds that provide residents with the utmost comfort: When they want to rest or sleep, mobilize themselves or be helped by others. Beds that make caregivers’ work much easier and that also help to improve the quality of all care activities. Beds...

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Healthcare catalog - 2012-8

The Völker Care Concept. A value added concept: More time for dignified care. Companies such as Völker who make it their business to manufacture healthcare beds must accept a very particular kind of responsibility. This responsibility is ultimately a product of our customers’ objectives. The main objective of a healthcare facility that cares for residents is to retain and promote the independence and personal responsibility of each individual by providing self actualizing care. This requires more than just any healthcare bed. It requires assistive technology that makes self actualizing care possible,...

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Healthcare catalog - 2012-9

About Völker 5 Healthcare furniture Accessories Models Features Völker Care Concept

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Healthcare catalog - 2012-10

The Völker Care Concept. Added value through pioneering products with innovative features. A complete Care Concept with pioneering products makes it possible to meet the various needs, demands and expectations of residents and care personnel. This includes the Völker 3082 healthcare bed, which covers every fundamental requirement. Whenever a lateral transfer is no longer possible, the Völker Vis-a-Vis healthcare bed offers mobility via a forward-facing chair position. Finally, the Volker Low-height healthcare bed with its position close to the floor offers a real alternative in fall risk environments....

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Healthcare catalog - 2012-11

About Völker 7 Healthcare furniture Accessories Models Features Völker Care Concept

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Healthcare catalog - 2012-12

The Völker Care Concept. Added value by competency. Pioneering products and their innovative features are the very essence of a complete solution set which represents a very advantageous package for our customers. This also includes Healthcare Design, a significant help when furnishing any healthcare facility. A competent logistics service ensures punctual and reliable delivery, while the technical service works with the Völker Diagnostic System offering support regarding documentation, maintenance, technical checks and repairs. Our medical competency is supported through studies and symposiums...

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Healthcare catalog - 2012-13

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Healthcare catalog - 2012-14

New to the Völker Care Concept. Völker Consulting: Consultation regarding geriatric care facilities. Völker Consulting is a comprehensive consultation service, with no purchase necessary, and with the objective of creating “More time for care and support”. Our exceptionally positive experiences with Kaizen and Lean Management during Völker’s own production processes, which are transferred to the processes involved in geriatric care in consultation with care specialists, form the basis for this process. After all, targets such as quality, costs and adherence to deadlines are also relevant when...

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Healthcare catalog - 2012-15

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Healthcare catalog - 2012-16

Products Healthcare beds as a future-oriented resource. The Völker 3082 healthcare bed. The Völker Vis-a-Vis. The Völker Low-height bed. We have to be honest with ourselves: The senior care environment is changing. The demands on quality are constantly growing, the documentation requirements are becoming more and more extensive. Healthcare costs are increasing and good care staff are hard to find. While on the other side, the demands of residents and their dependents are growing. Requirements in general are becoming greater and more varied. With today’s guidelines, the steadily rising age of...

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Healthcare catalog - 2012-17

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Healthcare catalog - 2012-18

Völker healthcare beds. Everything you would want from healthcare beds with added value. Functions Since Völker has been building healthcare beds, the company’s management, developers, customer advisors and expert consultants have continuously placed themselves in the position of residents and caregivers. We asked ourselves: what do we have to do to make residents’ environments with regards to beds as comfortable as possible? How do healthcare beds have to be constructed to reduce the caregivers’ work with residents, to facilitate individual care measures and maybe even speed them up so that...

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Healthcare catalog - 2012-19

Features Telescopic assist rails provide two levels of assist and protection Models Sockets for trapeze bar, IV poles and accessory lighting on both sides of the bed Nurse Control (optional) includes trendelenburg and additional hand control lock-out Accessories CPR quick release of the back section (optional) Four stable height adjustable legs Secure stability in every position Castors extend for bed transport at the push of a button Healthcare furniture Accessory mounting track integrated into both sides of the bed (urine bottle basket, general purpose hook etc.) Fully synchronized height adjustment...

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Healthcare catalog - 2012-20

MiS®/ MiS®Activ The comfortable lying system from Völker: Völker MiS®. Sleep well. Wake up rested. Start your day feeling motivated. All Völker healthcare beds are fitted with the patented Völker MiS® as standard. This provides a care aid, integrated directly into the bed, which technically implements the theoretical fundamentals of basal stimulation, as well as various movement concepts. Völker MiS® is based on neuro-scientific principles. Even minimal movements on the part of the resident are detected and returned from the mattress to the body, in the form of tactile stimuli, via the lying...

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