Patient support apparatus having alert light

A patient support apparatus comprising

• a plurality of sensors, each of the sensors measuring a different characteristic of the patient support apparatus and configured to output a signal indicative of the characteristic,
• an indicator capable of being illuminated in a plurality of different colors, the indicator being included in a horizontally oriented light bar located at a foot end of the patient support apparatus, the indicator including a plurality of light emitting diodes each being illuminable in a single color that is a different color than the other light emitting diodes of the plurality of light emitting diodes, the light bar being devoid of any manual user inputs for controlling any functions of the patient support apparatus and being lower in elevation than a touchscreen display unit of the patient support apparatus, the touchscreen display unit comprising a liquid crystal display that displays at least some of the user inputs few that are touched on the liquid crystal display to control at least some of the functions of the patient support apparatus,
• a footboard located at the foot end of the patient support apparatus, the indicator being closer to a downwardly facing bottommost surface of a main body of the footboard than to an upwardly facing topmost surface of the main body of the footboard,
• a processor coupled to the sensors and the indicator, and
• a memory device coupled to the processor, the memory device including instructions that, when processed by the processor, cause the processor to monitor signals from the sensors, evaluate the signals from the sensors to determine if any signal from a respective sensor indicates that the respective characteristic meets a first condition, operate the indicator to illuminate a first color if the first condition is met, and illuminate a second color different from the first color if the first condition of each of the sensors is not met.