Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 10000 Brecksville Road, Brecksville, OH 44141

63 -- PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM DUE 061900 POC Danny O. Freeman, Contracting Officer, (440) 838-6091 The Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center is seeking sources that can provide a patient monitoring system, to monitor patients with dementia or other cognitive impairments. The system must be able to sound an alarm to the nursing staff when a patient, who is at risk for wandering or elopement from the ward. System should function similar to the following description. When a patient reaches a certain distance (approximately three to four feet) from a door exiting the ward the door will electromagnetically lock while it simultaneously send a warning signal to the nursing staff on the ward. The system must designed so that the doors on the unit may be unlocked permitting free passage in and out of the ward. The system shall automatically be activated when a patient wearing some sort of signaling device (e.g., wrist band), nears the exit doors. The doors shall be capable of being opened when locked, by either 30 seconds of constant pressure and/or the use of a numeric keypad switch. System shall be equipped with a remote signaling device in the nurses station and a minimum of two paging devices to be worn by nursing staff on the ward, which will automatically send a signal to the pagers when the door alarm is triggered. The alarm system must be able to be powered from the VA medical center electrical supply and tie into the current fire alarm system so it is deactivated in the event the fire alarm system is activated. System must be able to monitor, at a minimum, ten patients, with OBRA approved wrist or ankle signaling transmitters which have an active life of at least 90 days. The patient worn devices shall be such that they cannot be readily removed by the patient but can be easily removed by nursing staff. Patient worn devices shall be water resistant. The entire system shall have battery backup in the event of electrical power failure. This is a request for product information only! This is not a request for proposal (RFP). The VA does not intend to pay for information received. Requests for copies of a solicitation shall not be honored or acknowledged. Information should be forwarded to the Contracting Officer by June 19, 2000. VA shall review information from which a requirement may or may not result. Posted 06/09/00 (W-SN463321). (0161)

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