Hospital Bed and Medical Equipment Rental in SW Calgary

Going home to SW Calgary

A Rockyview discharge after a hip or knee replacement, a fall, or a stay on the Acute Geriatric Unit tends to come with instructions an ordinary house struggles to meet: keep the head raised at night, avoid low seats, stay on one floor for now. Joint replacements are scheduled ahead, and the Alberta Hip and Knee Clinic prepares patients for surgery at Rockyview, so there is usually time to book a lift chair or bed and have it waiting. If rehabilitation at Carewest Glenmore Park is part of the plan, use those weeks to measure doors, clear a main-floor room and photograph the front steps for us.

An emergency admission gives no such warning. Phone the moment the care team mentions a date; same-day delivery is often possible when the equipment is in stock and you call early. From our office, Lakeview is about 13 minutes and Woodbine about 23, and from Woodbine back to Rockyview is about 12. Ask the ward, too, whether a home care referral has gone in. Calgary Zone Home Care accepts referrals from anyone as long as the person agrees, and it charges nothing for professional or personal care, though equipment and supplies can cost extra. The rental covers the bed, chair or ramp; home care covers the visits. We are an independent company with no link to Rockyview or Carewest.

Homes here, and what fits in them

Housing in the south-west changes sharply from one community to the next. Woodbine was 87% single-family in the 2019 civic census, and Oakridge, Lakeview and Aspen Woods were all close to three-quarters. Braeside has a large townhouse share at 35%. Kingsland and Haysboro are roughly half apartments. The inner-city communities lean to infill: Altadore was 42% single-family and 19% duplex, Richmond 26% duplex, and Killarney/Glengarry 22% duplex. Each kind of home raises a different first question. In a detached house with a front stoop it is how to get in; in a townhouse or two-storey duplex it is which floor the bedroom is on; in a Kingsland or Haysboro apartment it is the elevator.

For the bed, many families choose a main-floor room near a bathroom, because the stairs to an upstairs bedroom are the hard part of recovery, not the bed. The bed itself travels in sections and can usually be carried up a staircase, but ask the care team whether the person should be climbing one yet. For the entrance, a modular aluminum ramp comes in 10 to 20 foot runs with handrails available and goes in without concrete. We design to the 1:12 guideline used in Alberta’s accessibility code, one inch of rise for every twelve inches of ramp. At a private house that is a guideline rather than a legal requirement, and gentler is easier in snow. Measure from the ground to the top of the landing before you call; if the front rise is too tall for the yard, a side or back door is often the better entry.