Leasing Dolphin FIS to VA health networks and facilities

What we do not claim, stated first

We hold no federal contract vehicle, GSA schedule, special item number or facility-level agreement that we can point you at, and nothing on this site should be read as claiming one. If your acquisition requires purchase through a particular vehicle, tell us at the start and we will say plainly whether we can meet it rather than letting a quote travel a long way toward a wall.

Nor are we Joerns Healthcare. We are an authorized dealer of their equipment. Where this page describes what the product does, it describes it as Joerns does, and Joerns states that its clinical indications are guidelines, to be taken only as recommendations for consideration during individual patient assessment by the clinician.

What a facility lease actually covers

A lease is a monthly charge per surface for as long as the surface is in your service, and it exists for the same reason a rental does on the consumer side: the need has an unknown end. A unit that will move through a dozen patients in a year is a different budgeting problem from one bought for a single long-stay resident, and leasing keeps it in operating expenditure rather than capital.

What ships is light and self-contained: Joerns lists the therapy mattress at 22 lb and the AutoVector® control unit at 10 lb, with the control unit at 11.5 by 12.5 by 6 inches, running at 115/230 VAC, 50/60 Hz. Control units are classified to UL 60601-1 and CAN/CSA C22.2 No. 601.1 in North America, which is the line your clinical engineering department will want in the intake record. Surfaces are cleaned and inspected between deployments following the cleaning instructions in the Joerns user-service manual; we hold no named reprocessing certification and do not claim one.

Fit is specified per frame, not per order. Widths are 35, 42 and 48 inches, lengths 82 inches with an 88 inch step-deck version and an expandable model rated 80 to 92 inches, depths 8 or 10 inches. Joerns states the equipment is not to be used on frames that leave gaps of even a few inches at the head panel, foot panel or rails, so a mixed estate of frames needs the frames identified before quantities are agreed.

• Monthly lease per surface, or outright purchase, on the same configurations
• Configuration matched to each receiving unit’s bed frames
• Freight quoted per receiving site, with dock or inside-delivery arrangements
• Setup on the frame and a handover for unit staff
• Cleaning and inspection between deployments, on our side
• Collection at end of term

VA health networks

VA purchasing and leasing runs through VA contracting channels rather than through Medicare DME rules, and it runs on your timetable. Our part is the same as for any facility: specification, quote, documentation, delivery to the receiving arrangements you specify, and support for the units while they are in service.

What is useful to send with a first enquiry is the station and the receiving site, the configurations and quantities or the requirement they have to satisfy, the frames in the units concerned, whether you are leasing or purchasing, and the acquisition route your office intends to use. If there is a threshold, a vehicle or a competition requirement that shapes the answer, that is the thing to tell us first.

Trials and phased deployments

Facilities often want a small number of surfaces in service before committing to an estate decision, and that is a reasonable way to buy equipment at this price. Tell us what you need to observe and over what period, and we will scope what is actually available against stock and freight rather than agreeing in principle to something that cannot be resourced.

Phased deployments across several sites are quoted per site, because the freight, the receiving arrangements and the frames differ at each one. A single blended number across a network would be a tidier document and a less accurate one.