Forte Homecare Icon Mattress - Soft, Medium, Firm

The Forte Icon Homecare Mattress offers low-medium risk* consumers the ideal balance of specialized care, unmatched comfort, and durability.

The tried-and-trued design of the Forte Icon provides great pressure injury prevention, safety, mobility, and independence without sacrificing exceptional user comfort, satisfaction, and enhanced rest.

Single, King Single, Double, Queen, and Split Queen sizes of the Icon are available in Soft, Medium, and Firm configurations. Because of this, the Icon is a flawless ready-made solution.

Leading hospitals and healthcare professionals rely on Forté Healthcare's Icon collection, which is created in Australia and is known for its quality, performance, lifespan, and usefulness, to produce great clinical results.

Firm Side Walls

The Homecare ICON mattress has inbuilt firm side walls constructed of an ultra-high density foam, engineered with a profile hinge system to reduce falls risk and provide enhanced stability. Side walls significantly help reduce the effort required to transition on or off sleep surface and assist with repositioning and other tasks. Therefore side walls are important for any users with limited strength.

Inbuilt strengthened sides reduce the risk of foam compression on the mattress edge, and subsequent user ‘roll-out’. Firm, rigid edging provides structural support for transfer, ingress, and egress. Forté side walls make primary care easier and suit the use of transfer and mobility aids such as slide boards.

Forte side walls have been designed with a unique integrated hinge system to reduce tension & compression in foam when used with a profiling bed. Reducing tension aids overall mattress longevity. The hinge system allows the mattress to easily articulate for the maximum benefit of electronic bed function.

Versatility; An Option For Everyone 

The Homecare ICON mattress range is a relatively new name to the market, designed to meet some specific demands from the community market:

• a genuinely quality mattress that delivers reliable care and can be trusted to perform. i.e. undergone stringent clinical evaluation, Australian made etc. All foams used in the Homecare ICON are higher grade foams, treated with special anti-microbial treatment for optimal performance in the acute care application to meet the standards for a “high specification mattress” according to the Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Injuries: Clinical Practice Guideline. The International Guideline 2019.
• a mattress that has firm strengthened sides to prevent risk of falls and assist with transfers and bed mobility
• a mattress that the consumer wants and likes – so a medical mattress that still has that luxury feel
• held in stock for quick supply
• easy to understand and sell/prescribe, without taking shortcuts which may impact on reputation
• easily customizable, should the need arise

 Medical Foam Technology

Foams used by Forté in the Homecare ICON mattress are specifically formulated for use within high humidity applications, typical within Hospital applications where the mattress has low rest periods and is fitted with Moisture Vapour Permeable Covers. ‘Humidity’ treatment ensures that the structural integrity of the foams remains within conditions that would otherwise have a significant degrading effect on foam performance. It also ensures postural support is maintained for comfort and prevents excessive pressure forces because of foam collapse. It is crucial to pressure injury prevention that the foam maintains its support to prevent a ‘bottoming out’ effect and ensure immersion and envelopment.

Foams are also treated with Eversheild Anti-Microbial protection to prevent the growth of mould and bacteria. Maintaining healthy conditions within the foams reduces risk of infection control, cross patient contamination and mould.

The Forte production facility in Armidale is specifically dedicated to Medical Mattress’ design, development, and production. This ensures unrivalled expertise and process control for superior quality, value, and performance. Forté utilizes leading global technology and research in the design and development of each medical device. Products manufactured by Forté in Australia are produced in compliance with local regulatory standards and exceed clinical standards recommendations such as European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel and Pan Pacific Pressure Injury Alliance – a quality you can trust!

Australian made by Forté Healthcare in Armidale NSW, the Homecare ICON range is synonymous with quality, performance, longevity, and functionality and is trusted by leading Hospitals and healthcare professionals to deliver clinical results and positive outcomes.

Features

Airoform Memory Breathe Immersion Interface Layer 

• High Temperature Stability to deliver consistent immersion, performance andcomfort
• Maximises Patient contact with Support Surfaces Providing Pressure
• Redistribution
• Alleviates localised pressure points
• Depth calibrated to maximise functionality and patient mobility
• Unique Airoform Breathe ventilation system minimises heat entrapment and enhances core circulation providing a cooler sleep surface
• Visco-elastic/Memory Foam cell structure provides low-shear surface
• Firmness: Available Soft, Medium, Firm

 Deluxe Grade Mid-Layer

• Open cell high quality foam
• Provides exceptional comfort and postural support for repositioning and patient care
• Available Soft, Medium, Firm

 Premium Firm Foundation Layer

• Provides protection against ‘bottoming-out’ during transfer, repositioning and whilst in the inclined/fowler position
• Provides exceptional comfort, support for repositioning and patient care
• Available Soft, Medium, Firm

 Hinged Strengthened Sides

• Increase lateral stability of support surface
• Improves patient safety and encourages central patient positioning
• Make patient transfers easier
• Unique hinge profile reduces foam fatigue and allow mattress to easily
• conform to varied bed positions
• Enables ease of primary patient care

 Luxury Quilted Homecare Cover 

• Luxury Quilted QC1000 Open Weave Material: 4-Way Stretch, anatomically contouring, Anti-Shearing, plush comfort, White
• Superior Breathability & Micro-Climate: encourages air circulation
• Infection Control & Compliance: Non-Waterproof, residential mattress comfort
• Construction: Two-sided / 180° zipper, Sewn Seams

Height Options And Their Benefits

Option 1                                  

15cm Thickness

• Maximises the benefit of the profiling bed
• Maintains correct alignment of knee elevation function by ensuring the user is not positioned too far down the bed surface.
• Provides optimal protection for users with reduced mobility considered at risk of falls.

Option 2                                  

20cm Thickness

• Extra thickness provides the visual appeal of a conventional residential mattress creating a homely look and feel whilst maintaining the medical performance and care synonymous with the Forté Range
• Supports higher weight capacity whilst maintaining option of plush comfort.
• Improved longevity/performance through greater pressure displacement within the foams and reduced compression.

 Product Codes and Sizes

 Enhanced  Safety  

 A real medical mattress has inbuilt strengthened sides to reduce falls risk & increase stability

INBUILT STRENGTIInbuilt Strengthened Sides

• Reduces risk of foam compression on mattress edge and subsequent user ‘roll-out’. 
• Firm, rigid edge provides structural support for transfer, Ingress and Egress.
• Suits the use of transfer and mobility aids such as slide boards.
• Suits users with limited strength by reducing the effort required to transition on or off sleep surface. 
• Safety and security of sides brings peace of mind to clients and caregivers that they will be able rest and transfer without the mattress collapsing. 

Unique Profile Hinge System 

• Reduces tension & compression in foam, aiding longevity.
• Allows mattress to easily articulate for maximum benefit of electronic bed function.
• Minimizes the build-up of pressure areas in profiled mattresses

Clinical  Compliance  

Foams specifically formulated for use within high humidity applications, typical within Hospital applications where the mattress has low rest periods and is fitted with Moisture vapour Permeable Covers.  

‘Humidity’ treatment ensures that structural integrity of the foams remain within conditions that would otherwise have a significant degrading effect on foam performance. 

Ensures postural support is maintained for comfort. 

Prevents excessive pressure forces as result of foam collapse. 

Foams are individually sourced and selected as raw materials by Forté Healthcare from verified manufacturers within Australia, Europe and United States for guaranteed compliance to International standards. 

Forté Healthcare provide complete supply chain transparency, benefiting the user by ensuring ultimate governance on quality and raw material safety especially necessary as Medical Mattresses are used in very close physical proximity to vulnerable users. 

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