Several weeks ago I asked about how to handle such a move. We are nearing completion of an addition (don't know the exact start date yet so I can't make firm arrangements until then) and I started calling around how to handle this. Here is what I found: Check with the bed manufacturer to get them to move the beds. However, mother has a different bed than my father so I would need two different companies to move the beds. The bed manufacturer does not move patients so I found a company that would move my parents. The coordination of this is going to be tricky because of two bed manufacturers coming at different times and then working simultaneously with the patient moving company. I also called the county non-emergency patient transport and they can move patients but it all depends on how busy they are that day and they don't take appointments. So I can't count on them because this process needs to be done simultaneously. I also called several moving companies to move the beds but most did not want to move hospital beds because of the liability issue. So my plan is to move my parents' beds on separate days with the different bed manufacturers but use the same patient mover. Please let me know if there is anything else I can try. Thank you for any suggestions!
As to your parents, just because they spend their days in these beds doesn't mean they can't spend time in a chair or on a couch until the beds are set up. I get that you would need help to get them down the stairs, but are you totally unable to transfer them without a patient transfer service? Do they never get lifted into a chair/wheelchair or get the opportunity to bathe/shower?
(just trying to understand)
It's not so much that these people would be the ones to ask to come back, because I expect they're contractors who work for the manufacturer. But just cast your mind back to the day the beds arrived, and surely installing them wasn't that big a deal, was it?
The trouble with a project like this is that it starts to look overwhelming because you're trying to visualise doing it all at once. But although it's time consuming and painstaking, if you break it down into its component steps - transfer A to stretcher or wheelchair, wrap him up warm and comfortable, strip bed, remove mattress, unplug bells and whistles, dismantle headboards, move same in order to new room, etc etc etc - none of them should actually require superhuman knowledge or more than standard manpower. It'll be a tiring day but it shouldn't be as hard (or as expensive!) as it seems to be looming.