Beds and Patient Mobility

By supporting safe movement, early activity, and comfortable positioning, these solutions can enhance patient recovery, help prevent complications, and make care delivery safe across hospital, long-term and home settings.

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Beds and Patient Mobility Solutions

We deliver a comprehensive portfolio of smart beds, therapeutic surfaces and patient handling equipment—supporting safe environments and patient recovery.

Smart Beds and Surfaces

Our smart beds integrate continuous monitoring, therapeutic surfaces and connected technology to support clinical decision-making, help reduce pressure injuries and aid in enhancing recovery.

Patient Handling and Mobility 

From lifts to transport stretchers, our mobility solutions help ensure safer transfers, reduce risk of caregiver injury and promote patient participation in recovery.

Libo FCS 700 Boom lifting patient from bed

Move Care Forward with Patient Mobility

Care teams today face intensifying challenges in keeping patients safe and mobile while also protecting themselves from injury. With increasing demands across acute, long-term and home care, there is a critical need for safe, more efficient patient handling and mobility solutions.

5x

Nurses and nursing assistants experience more than five times the rate of musculoskeletal injuries each year compared to workers in other professions—most often due to patient lifting and repositioning.1

2 Days

Implementing early mobility protocols can shorten ICU stays by up to two days and help patients regain strength, mobility, and independence more quickly.2

$20K

Back injuries among healthcare professionals are one of the most costly workplace injuries in the healthcare sector, averaging about $20,000 per incident in the U.S.³ These injuries place a significant financial and physical burden on both caregivers and health systems, underscoring the need for safer patient mobility practices.

Advancing Beds and Mobility Equipment

From lifts to transport stretchers, our mobility solutions help ensure safe transfers, reduce risk of caregiver injury and promote patient participation in recovery.

Nurse adjusting setting on a Baxter Progressa Plus ICU bed

Care Delivery

Our smart beds are designed to support patient recovery and caregiver efficiency.

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Quality

Each product is engineered with clinical input from healthcare professionals and ergonomic design to deliver consistent performance and reliability.

Patient using Baxter lift to assist in safe patient mobility

Safety

Our lifts, stretchers and smart surfaces prioritize safety when it comes to patient handling.

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  1. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (n.d.). Safe patient handling. United States Department of Labor. Retrieved September 2025, from https://www.osha.gov/healthcare/safe-patient-handling
  2. Xu, J., Wang, S., Zhang, Q., Yao, Y., & Yu, J. (2025). Effectiveness of Nurse-Led Early Mobility Protocols on the Outcomes of Critical Care Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Nursing open, 12(5), e70206. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.70206
  3. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (n.d.). Safe patient handling. United States Department of Labor. Retrieved September 2025, from https://www.osha.gov/healthcare/safe-patient-handling
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