Patent ID: 7962979

Claim:
A hospital bed apparatus comprising: a platform having a top side, a bottom side, a pair of lateral edges, a back edge, and a front edge, said platform including a first section including said front edge and a second section including said back edge; a plurality of supports being attached to and extending downwardly from said platform; a headboard being attached to said back edge and a footboard being attached to said front edge; a mattress being positioned on said top side of said platform; and a plurality of sleeves, each of said headboard and said footboard having at least one of said sleeves mounted thereto, each of said sleeves having an upper end being open, each of a plurality of support posts being removably extendable into one of said sleeves; and a housing being attached to one of said lateral edges of said platform, a nurse call actuator extending outwardly of said housing and being electrically couplable to a paging system, said nurse call actuator including an extension cord extending into said housing and being wound on a rotatable spool, a rotation of said spool being biased in one direction to pull said extension cord into said housing.