Patent ID: 8456286

Claim:
A user station for a patient-nurse communication system, comprising: a housing defining an interior region, the housing being positionable in a patient room of a healthcare facility, the housing comprising a front face, a display supported by the front face, the display being in substantially the same plane as the front face, and a pair of speakers, each speaker mounted to the housing; at least one communications port coupled to the housing and configured to operably couple the user station to a patient-nurse communication system; a memory device supported by the housing, having embodied therein a digital audio file; multimedia electrical circuitry in the housing, the multimedia electrical circuitry being configured to play the at least one digital audio file at the speakers; and electrical circuitry configured to select one of a plurality of calling methods comprising at least one of a voice routing to a location method, a wireless telephone method, and a text paging to a wireless device method, to communicate with the patient-nurse communication system.