My aunt spent her last six months at home with a hospital bed in the living room. Her daughter — my cousin — had turned the entire ground floor into a care space: oxygen concentrator in the corner, bedside table with medications, a view of the garden through sliding glass doors. The only thing that didn’t belong was the bed. Steel frame, white paint, institutional head board stamped with a hospital equipment logo. It looked like a piece of the emergency department had followed her home and refused to leave. She didn’t complain about it. But I noticed she always pulled the blanket up over the head board when visitors came. The AM-B01-IV-03 is the bed I built after watching her do that.
The B01-IV-03 is a manual double-crank hospital bed — backrest and knee elevation, same positioning as the B01-III-06 — with one defining difference: the head and foot boards are solid wood. Not wood-grain laminate. Not vinyl-wrapped MDF. Actual timber — beech or oak depending on the production batch, finished with a clear medical-grade lacquer that’s resistant to disinfectant wipes and doesn’t yellow under UV exposure. The wood changes the emotional register of the bed. It says “bedroom” instead of “ward.” For a patient spending their final months at home, or an elderly parent being cared for by their children, or a long-term care facility that wants its rooms to feel residential rather than clinical — that emotional register matters more than any spec sheet admits.
The crank mechanisms are the same worm-gear drives as our clinical manual beds — smooth, quiet, and they hold position without creep. The crank handles fold away under the bed frame when not in use so they don’t protrude into the walking path of a family caregiver navigating a home bedroom. The mattress platform is perforated steel with the same ventilation design as our hospital beds — because home care patients are bed-bound for hours too, and the risk of moisture-related skin breakdown doesn’t disappear when you leave the hospital. The side rails are aluminum with a wood-tone finish, soft-close — they lower with a damped motion rather than dropping with a clank that startles a dozing patient at two in the morning.
The bed height is fixed — approximately fifty-five centimeters from floor to mattress platform. That’s a compromise compared to our height-adjustable models, and I want to be upfront about it. A fixed-height bed means the caregiver bends more during transfers and bed-making. But adding height adjustment to a wooden bed frame introduces mechanical complexity that contradicts the simplicity and aesthetic the wood is supposed to provide. If height adjustment is clinically necessary — for a caregiver with back issues, for a patient who transfers independently to a wheelchair — the electric CCXA series is the right answer. If the bed lives in a home where the family wants it to feel like furniture that happens to have medical functionality, the B01-IV-03 is the answer.
The casters are one hundred twenty-five millimeter twin-wheel with two locking. Weight capacity is one hundred seventy-five kilograms. The wood is treated with an anti-fungal coat before the lacquer finish — important in humid climates where untreated wood in a bedroom grows mold within a season. Assembly is bolt-together and takes about forty-five minutes with two people.
Model Comparison
| Specification | B01-III-06 | B01-III-13 | B01-IV-03 (Wooden) | A01-III-01 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | 2-crank manual | 2-crank manual | 2-crank wooden | 1-crank manual |
| Load capacity | 182 kg | — | — | — |
| Overall dimensions | 2100×970 mm | 2090×1040×450 mm | 2040×930×500 mm | 2100×970 mm |
| Bed board | 1900×900 mm | 1900×900 mm | 2000×900 mm | 1900×900 mm |
| Backrest | 0–80° | 0–80° | 0–80° | 0–80° |
| Legrest | 0–40° | 0–45° | 0–40° | — |
| Side rails | 5-bar aluminum alloy | ABS hydraulic lift | — | Aluminum folding |
| Headboard / footboard | ABS | Composite + anti-collision wheels | Wooden | Composite |
| Casters | 125 mm, independent brakes | Central control wheels | — | — |
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