Alert light method for hospital bed

A method comprising

• providing a patient support apparatus having a frame including a base frame and an upper frame supported above the base frame and configured to support a patient, the upper frame having a head end, a foot end, and a pair of laterally spaced apart sides that cooperate with the head end and the foot end to form corner regions of the frame, the head end and foot end being spaced apart in a longitudinal dimension of the patient support apparatus, and
• operating a pair of alert lights of the patient support apparatus, the pair of alert lights being coupled to the frame near the corner regions associated with the foot end of the frame, wherein operating the pair of alert lights comprises projecting a lighted field onto the floor surface in an area of the floor surface situated generally below a respective one of the corner regions associated with the foot end of the frame, wherein the lighted fields relate to a status of a monitored condition of the patient support apparatus.