Rooms that will accommodate a hospital bed?

[tomboy_m]

My friend has quadraplegia and is in an electric wheel chair. Her life long dream has been to go to Walt Disney World. I will be traveling with her, her support staff and my daughter next spring to Disney World and am wondering if any of the rooms can accommodate a hospital bed. WE are hoping to stay at the pop century resort in 2 rooms. Have read about the second adjoining room being comped which would be nice but not necessary. She is accustomed to a hospital bed, requires a manual lifter for transfers and a specialized bath chair. If a hospital bed is not an option, does anyone have ideas of how to meet transfer and positioning needs in the existing beds?

 

[jmartinez1895]

As far as I know all of teh resorts can fit a hospital bed. The best option would be to call the special needs department and book with them. Tell them what the need is and they will help you out. I'll PM you with the number as soon as I find it. As for renting a bed, there are many different medical supply companies in the area that will be able to help.

 

[SueM in MN]

As far as I know all of teh resorts can fit a hospital bed. The best option would be to call the special needs department and book with them. Tell them what the need is and they will help you out. I'll PM you with the number as soon as I find it. As for renting a bed, there are many different medical supply companies in the area that will be able to help.

No need to hunt

The phone number of the WDW Special Needs is in the disABILITIES FAQs thread. There is a link to that thread in my signature or you can find the thread near the top of this board. The first post of that thread is an index that tells which thread has which information.

Post #7 of the thread has resort information, including the phone number for Resort Special Services.
Post #2 of that thread has equipment rental information - CARE Medical rents equipment like beds, lifts and bathing equipment. They are the company most people have posted they rented that kind of equipment from, although there are other companies.
You can coordinate renting those things between the rental company, Special Service and Resort Housekeeping. They will arrange for the regular bed to be removed from the room, if needed, to make room for a hospital bed. They may be able to still fit a 'regular' bed or roll away in the room.

 

[Ali and boyz]

my son is quadrapletic and disney offered to remove one of the beds for him for a hospital bed but we spoke to the spinal injuries unit and they suggested a Repose Matress

http://www.reposedirect.com/p/2/New_Repose_Mattress_Overlay.html

our son is a high level injury and we were worried about pressure sores etc but he has used this now for 7 years and for the last 2 years we have stayed at SSR for 3 weeks in total and not a mark on him.

we hire a manual hoist to get him into the bed and bought bed raisers from Walmart

 

[Mouse's Shadow]

My adult son requires a hospital bed. We stayed at POR. We rented a hospital bed from an outside company. It was set up in the room when we arrived, but the fit was too tight to get his wheelchair into the room. I called the front desk and in minutes CM's came to the room removed one night stand, and moved the king bed against the wall and took out the table and a chair. It gave us plenty of room. We were in the adjoining room and had plenty of room to use the door and store the wheelchair and other supplies.