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Custom Comfort Medtek - Importance of Bariatric Medical Furniture: Adding Inclusivity to Your Practice

In every practice, it is important to make all patients feel comfortable and safe while getting a wellness check or being seen for a health concern. Hospitals, medical offices, and bariatric & cardiac clinics must be fully equipped to serve overweight and obese patients. The typical bariatric patient is 100 to 200 pounds overweight. Because of this, all healthcare centers need to be outfitted with the proper equipment for care.


Bariatric Furniture Design Considerations

National Business Furniture cites that arm-width, shallow design, and active load capacity are vital in assessing the stability of bariatric furniture, but also a comfortable and attractive design to assure these patients don't feel singled out when visiting a medical office.

 

Bariatric-friendly designs should include the following elements:

  • Pain reduction
  • Slip and fall reduction
  • Improvements to patients' sleep
  • Stress reduction
  • Depressed mood reduction
  • Social and physical support
  • Staff injury/stress reduction

Accommodations For Bariatric Patients

The International Health Facility guidelines section on bariatric design highlights several design specifications and guidelines that facilities should plan to meet or exceed when considering bariatric accommodation.

  • Reception/Waiting Rooms – Seating should be available for bariatric patients and their (potentially) obese family members. Spaces for wheelchairs should also be included, along with power outlets for recharging electric units.
  • Patient Bedrooms/Inpatient Areas – Bedrooms should be large enough to fit more than one caregiver while allowing equipment movement. A minimum of about 5 feet should be clear to the front and sides of the patient's bed.
  • Staff Areas – Healthcare facility staff members may be obese as well, which means that meeting rooms, storage closets and break rooms should be designed with their needs in mind.

Custom Comfort Medtek's Solution

Custom Comfort Medtek emphasizes that safety, comfort and accessibility are vital for bariatric patients, and having functional medical furniture for everyone is imperative. Their full line of bariatric furniture products is designed to support at least 400 pounds, some up to 1,000 pounds. Their products include exam tables, step stools, donor beds, benches, blood draw chairs and more.

 

Custom Comfort Medtek bariatric furniture items offer the following features:

  • Heavy-duty, welded steel frames
  • Storage drawers, cabinets or adjustable shelves
  • Pneumatic reclining
  • Powerlifting
  • Heavy-duty locking/swivel casters on mobile units
  • Built-in toe kicks

All Custom Comfort products are made in the United States, with the majority of raw materials and components also coming from  domestic vendors.

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Hawley Valentine
Hawley Valentine

Hawley is the leader of our Customer Success team. Hawley manages our marketing, data analysis, and reinforcing relationships with providers and suppliers within the OpenMarkets platform. Hawley is passionate about improving the health of others. Before OpenMarkets, Hawley was a leader in the healthcare field supporting large enterprise clientele ensuring the health and wellbeing of their employee populations.

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