A patient monitoring station for monitoring a plurality of patient beds comprising: a display for displaying a plurality of sectors; a controller configured to automatically create one or more sectors, each sector corresponding to a patient bed or a remote medical device associated with a patient in a patient bed, and to display patient data received from one or more remote medical devices in a corresponding sector of the display, the controller programmed to or including means to automatically display a sector in an expanded format upon receiving patient data from the corresponding one or more remote medical devices or upon receiving patient data indicative of a pending patient event or alarm condition, wherein the sector in the expanded format includes a full representation of the patient data; and at least one of automatically display a sector in the expanded format at least partially transparent; or automatically display a sector in a collapsed format in response to one of not receiving patient data from the corresponding remote patient monitor or receiving patient data not indicative of a pending patient event, caregiver workflow, change in health care state, or alarm condition, wherein the sector in the collapsed format includes a limited representation of the patient data; the controller is further programmed to or includes means to resize the sectors in the collapsed format such that all the sectors in the collapsed format are of a uniform size and resize the sectors in the expanded format such that all the sectors in the expanded format are of a uniform size, wherein the sectors are scaled to fit within a boundary of the display. a display for displaying a plurality of sectors; a controller configured to automatically create one or more sectors, each sector corresponding to a patient bed or a remote medical device associated with a patient in a patient bed, and to display patient data received from one or more remote medical devices in a corresponding sector of the display, the controller programmed to or including means to automatically display a sector in an expanded format upon receiving patient data from the corresponding one or more remote medical devices or upon receiving patient data indicative of a pending patient event or alarm condition, wherein the sector in the expanded format includes a full representation of the patient data; and at least one of automatically display a sector in the expanded format at least partially transparent; or automatically display a sector in a collapsed format in response to one of not receiving patient data from the corresponding remote patient monitor or receiving patient data not indicative of a pending patient event, caregiver workflow, change in health care state, or alarm condition, wherein the sector in the collapsed format includes a limited representation of the patient data; the controller is further programmed to or includes means to resize the sectors in the collapsed format such that all the sectors in the collapsed format are of a uniform size and resize the sectors in the expanded format such that all the sectors in the expanded format are of a uniform size, wherein the sectors are scaled to fit within a boundary of the display. automatically display a sector in the expanded format at least partially transparent; or automatically display a sector in a collapsed format in response to one of not receiving patient data from the corresponding remote patient monitor or receiving patient data not indicative of a pending patient event, caregiver workflow, change in health care state, or alarm condition, wherein the sector in the collapsed format includes a limited representation of the patient data;