Monitoring of patient supports

A system for use in a healthcare facility, the system comprising:

• a secondary patient support having a first patient detector operable to detect the presence or absence of a patient on the secondary patient support,
• a bed spaced from the secondary patient support and having a second patient detector operable to detect the presence or absence of a patient on the bed, the bed including a display operable to render a graphical user interface (GUI) to interface with a user and allow the user to set one or more alarms, wherein each alarm corresponds to an alarm triggering event triggered by an action of a patient relative to the bed or secondary patient support;
• communication circuitry on the bed to communicatively couple the bed to a healthcare communication system and to communicatively couple the bed to the secondary patient support;
• and
• a control system on the bed to monitor data of the bed and the secondary patient support based on the set alarms, detect whether an alarm triggering event occurred at either the bed or the secondary patient support based on the monitored data, and, in response to a determination that the alarm triggering event occurred, provide a signal indicative of the alarm triggering event to the healthcare communication system,
• wherein the GUI is further configured to facilitate a wireless network connection for wireless transfer of alarm data between the bed and the secondary patient support, and
• wherein the GUI of the bed has a user input for setting an alarm of the secondary patient support.