100% Australian Owned with Unmatched Quality and Service
Forté Healthcare is a leading Australian company dedicated to excellence in the design and manufacture of Patient Support Surfaces, Medical Mattresses and Pressure Care Products. Originally founded in 1995, we remain a family owned and operated company in our 2nd generation of management, with a continued commitment to quality and exceptional service.
Forté Healthcare has established a reputation among healthcare professionals as the Australian leader in the medical mattress industry, supported by decades of knowledge and expertise. We are trusted to supply major Government divisions including NSW Health, NT Health, QLD Health, SA Health, TAS Health, and the Victorian State Wide Equipment Program.
Combining Innovation, Manufacturing Expertise and Service to Bring you Superior Patient Care
We are innovators and manufacturers that facilitate superior patient care and advanced nursing practice through a unique combination of technical and clinical expertise.
Through personalised customer care, agility, hard work and a positive team spirit, we create lasting relationships underpinned by our commitment to the highest ethics.
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Small Enough to Care, Large Enough to Deliver
Every individual has the right to quality care, comfort and well being which is underpinned by quality rest and sleep. The team at Forté Healthcare acknowledge this. That’s why our entire company – from product development to customer service and production – is geared to meet any need that arises. From the elderly clients in remote Australia requiring a custom size mattress, to a medical equipment store that wants to procure a solid mattress range for resale, we go above and beyond to ensure our clients’ needs are met.
Whether it’s an individual patient or the busiest city Hospitals, Forté Healthcare’s passion to improve patient outcomes is unrivalled. No enquiry is ever too large or small – each receives consistent, personalised care to support long-standing client relationships.
A Special Focus on Pressure Injury Prevention
Pressure Injuries are life-threatening, painful, traumatic, and very costly.
Forté medical support surfaces are designed and manufactured with specific features that reduce and prevent the risk of Pressure Injury incidence.
Forté Healthcare maintains a close, collaborative relationship with internationally recognised clinicians specialising in Pressure Injury Prevention. Together with an unbiased and in-depth understanding of raw material technologies, Forté Healthcare is an organisation that enables the unique application of research and findings to Medical Mattress development and production. This creates unique innovations that improve patient outcomes and enhance best-practice nursing.
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Dedicated Medical Mattress Experts
From research and development to production and delivery, Forté Healthcare is 100% dedicated to supplying superior medical mattress solutions. This specific focus enables a standard of mattress performance that is unrivalled and ensures patients receive excellent quality of care.
The Faces Behind our #CultureofCare
Committed to Quality Care and Patient Comfort Our team is dedicated to reducing pressure injuries and enhancing life quality with compassionate, responsive service.
Our mission is to reduce pressure injuries, enhance comfort, and improve quality of life for patients and caregivers. With a friendly, responsive team and a commitment to tailored solutions, we support unique needs at every step. Through ongoing staff development and partnerships, we prioritize innovation and excellence, building lasting relationships with healthcare providers and patients alike. Discover the faces behind our culture of care below.
Stephen Sargeant
Greg Sargeant
Laurie Sargeant
Bradley Fowler
Ashleigh Kennerley
Carol Arkcoll
Katie Doyle
Denver Scott
Crystal Seeto
Nicky
Hugh Taylor
Nicole Morris
Karl Triebe
Brock Whittley
Greg Doyle
Chris Spokes
Quality and Performance: A Unique Blend of Global Technology
Forté Medical Mattresses are constructed from a unique blend of global technology. With strategic supply partners in Australia, Europe and United States, Forté Healthcare partners with innovative and world leading raw material suppliers to ensure our mattresses provide the highest possible standards of performance and patient care, supported by a robust supply chain.
Our Complete Solution Process
A medical device such as a Support Surface can impact an individual’s condition.
CONSULTATION
To ensure agility is a constant with the ever dynamic and evolving patient-care challenges, Consultation with recognised clinical experts on the front line of the medical industry is maintained.
Clinicians and caregivers alike can specify, customise, and individualise pressure care support surfaces. From caregivers to patients, pressure care to logistics, a holistic view ensures no requirement is overlooked.
TECHNICAL PRODUCT DESIGN
Pre-production product design is imperative to meeting the needs of each individual accurately.
Computer Aided Design and 3d Modelling Consultation with world-leading support surface and pressure injury professionals Referral to current best practice and international guidelines for optimal performance.
CLINICAL EVALUATION
Product evaluation and testing utilising the in-house laboratory.
- Clinical evaluation of products includes testing of: Immersion, Therapeutic weight loading, Horizontal stiffness, and Microclimate Control.
- Direct access to world-class laboratories ensures close scrutiny of raw material for performance and longevity.
SPECIALISED FOAM CONVERSION
Large blocks of raw foam are intricately converted into beautifully complex support surfaces. A choice of over 30 foams, including custom specification foam ensures everyone has a mattress to suit them best.
Computer controlled precision cutting machinery allows for flawless manufacturing to ensure each product continually performs to its full potential.
MEDICAL COVER PRODUCTION
With a focus on infection control, raw material quality, and world leading manufacturing techniques, the Forté Medical Mattress Cover has its user and carers primarily in mind.
Leading on from the clinical and practical evaluations for each individual circumstance, carers and patients alike can trust in a proven result. Forté designs and manufactures support surfaces and covers together, ensuring each aspect perfectly complements the other.
AIR SYSTEM FABRICATION
Consistent performance is integral to a successful outcome.
Utilising optimal raw materials and unique, yet proven manufacturing techniques, Forté air systems ensure both clinical effectiveness is at its absolute peak and comfort is fully maintained for every single user.
CLINICAL SUPPORT
Pressure injuries are one of the most versatile foes in the medical world, requiring a sophisticated, international strategy to minimise its prevalence and conquer the global issue.
Forté ensures success through a multi-faceted approach with clinicians, manufacturers, and industry experts, offering clinical support, training, maintenance, and guidance tailored to each situation.
IMPACT OF THE SUPPORT SURFACE
A medical device such as a Support Surface can impact an individual’s condition and can mean the difference between life and death and a slow or speedy recovery.
Some of the impacts of the Support Surface include:
- General Impact Upon Comfort: Particularly with users already in discomfort or constant pain. Generalised discomfort means the body is less sensitive to ‘mild’ localised pressure pain. Just one complaint from the user about ‘mild’ pressure/pain can mean a pressure injury is stopped as early as possible or even prevented entirely.
- Complicated Care: Pressure injuries are an additional, highly complicated care aspect and in many ways can have severe impact on overall condition and quality of life.
- Lack of Sleep: an obvious yet often ignored impact. Compromised sleep means more fatigue. Increased fatigue leads to lack in body stamina and ultimately effectuates a declining condition.
- Increase in Pain: The overall impact of declining condition amplifies the need for pain and sleep medication. Additional medication often elicits a reduced cognitive state and involves increased strain on the care regimen.
COMPLICATION
We all sleep. We all need rest.
Some need more sleep than others and we all have our own individual requirements when it comes to our bed and mattress. These requirements range from our comfort level to our ability to perform the basic task of getting in and out of bed. Your mattress or Support Surface, has many tasks to perform and many complications to address, particularly in an area where higher levels of medical care is needed.
Identifying the functions of a Support Surface that will meet an individual’s needs is complex and vitally important. The analysis of risk factors, consideration of the principles of Pressure Injury Prevention and other key areas of medical care as well as making a clinical judgment are only some of the aspects that complicate support surface decision making.
Standard & Custom Made
The unique Forté manufacturing facility located in Armidale combines three production divisions. These are:
The Forté mattress range includes everything from static foam mattresses to complex air systems and specialised bed and pressure care accessories. Forté has developed a core range of standard products that have been tried and tested in the industry for years.
In addition, Forté has the capacity to custom make items via modifying any existing design or by embarking on an entirelynew product development project. Speak to Forté today if you can’t find the product you’re looking for, and our innovative team will engineer a solution.
If you can not find the product you are looking for, speak to Forté today and our innovative team will engineer a solution for you.
A Strong Commitment to Environmental Care
As manufacturers, Forté Healthcare is committed to playing our part in environmental conservation. This includes:
Recycling
All raw foam and plastic waste is 100% recycled. Raw foam waste is reconverted for use in carpet underlay for the domestic and commercial markets. Forté healthcare has very minimal waste that is non-recyclable.
Lean Production
Forté Healthcare has a lean production model which minimises excess manufacturing waste, reducing the environmental impact and footprint of our activities.
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Forté Healthcare demonstrates long-term environmental commitment with the ‘Triple R’ Scheme: Return, Repurpose, Reuse.
Disposing of used mattresses poses cost and environmental challenges, as polyurethane foams are non-biodegradable. The Triple R Scheme redirects mattresses from landfills, repurposing them for industrial uses like carpet underlay. Through intensive mechanical and chemical treatments, foams are sanitized, ensuring safe and sustainable reuse.
Sustainable Mattress Repurposing with Forté Healthcare
At Forté Healthcare, we also have the in-house capabilities to collect* and compress the old, expired mattresses and compress them into large dense bales. This facilitates efficiency in the process and aligns Forté Healthcare with suitable, large-scale partners that perform the shredding, adhesive and block forming process.
Whilst the re purposing process is performed free of charge, some costs may apply for collection* and handling of mattresses.
* Forté Healthcare reserves the right to refuse collection of mattresses should excessive bio hazards present in the used mattresses.