Patent ID: 8240092

Claim:
A patient care system for use in a room of a healthcare facility, the room having a floor and a wall, the patient care system comprising a headwall apparatus comprising a wall unit mounted to the wall of the room and a floor unit having a first portion extending downwardly from the wall unit and a second portion extending from the first portion along the floor, the second portion of the floor unit having a distal end with at least one first service connector, and a hospital bed having a base that docks to the second portion of the floor unit of the headwall apparatus, the bed having a second service connector that couples to the first service connector when the base is docked to the second portion of the floor unit, wherein the second portion of the floor unit comprises a horizontal portion extending along the floor and an interface portion extending upwardly from the horizontal portion at the distal end, wherein the base of the hospital bed includes a domed portion and the interface portion has a first upper surface that matches a contour of a second upper surface of the domed portion of the base so that the first and second upper surfaces form a substantially continuous domed surface when the bed is docked to interface portion, wherein the base further includes arm portions that extend toward the wall and laterally outwardly away from corner regions of the domed portion to define a docking space therebetween.