Network Cabling
Nurse call systems for nursing homes, assisted living communities and hospitals, installed by one certified team
Hard-wired or cloud-based, bedside station to code blue: Hiscall designs, installs and supports nurse call and call light systems built around how your units actually run, integrated with your phones and paging, and inspected to the regulation your facility is held to.
What's included
- Systems
- Hard-wired & cloud-based
- Coverage
- Bedside to code blue
- Integration
- Phones & paging
- Facilities
- Nursing homes to hospitals
- Support
- 24/7 on contract
1995Year founded
2service centers
18Industries served
25+Technology partners
24/7Certified staff on call
SystemsHard-wired, wireless & cloud-based
FacilitiesNursing homes to hospitals
IntegrationPhones, paging & clocks
Support24/7/365, Midsouth based
Nurse call goes by different names depending on who you ask. A nursing home usually calls it a call light system; a hospital calls it nurse call. Both mean the same thing: a resident or patient presses a button, and the right staff member finds out fast. What actually varies is the technology underneath it, hard-wired systems that have run reliably for decades, wireless systems for a building where re-cabling isn't practical, and newer cloud-based systems that report and integrate more easily with phones and paging. Hiscall installs and supports all three, and integrates whichever one you choose with the rest of your building, instead of leaving it as a system nobody but its original installer understands.
Choosing a system
Hard-wired, wireless or cloud-based: the right nurse call system for your building
There's no single right answer. It depends on your building, your existing cabling, and how many sites you're managing.
Hard-wired nurse call
The proven standard for a facility with existing infrastructure to build on, or a new construction project where cabling is planned in from the start. Reliable, and the easiest to inspect to regulation.
Wireless nurse call
For a building where pulling new cable isn't practical, or a faster retrofit is the priority. Gets a facility current without a full rewire.
Cloud-based nurse call
Reporting, response-time data and remote visibility across multiple sites, with easier integration into phones and paging than an older stand-alone panel.
Facilities we install nurse call in every week
The same certified technicians, whether it's a single building or a multi-site operator.
- Nursing homes & skilled nursing facilities. Call light systems built around how your floors actually run and inspected to state regulation. See our assisted living & senior living page for the full communication picture.
- Assisted living & senior living communities. Nurse call integrated with the phone system and overhead paging already covered on our assisted living industry page.
- Hospitals & surgery centers. Full nurse call and code blue, integrated with clinical phone systems. See our healthcare industry page for HL7 integration and more.
- Care homes & memory care wings. Nurse call sized to a higher level of resident oversight, alongside the access control and monitoring memory care wings typically need.
What's actually included
What comes with every Hiscall nurse call installation
- Bedside stations and pull cords. Sized and placed for how your units actually run, not a generic layout.
- Code blue escalation. A routine call escalates instantly to a full emergency response when a unit needs it.
- Staff notification and paging integration. Alerts route to handsets, mobile devices or paging depending on the unit, so staff aren't watching a separate panel.
- Clinical phone system integration. Nurse call, paging and the phone system designed to talk to each other from day one, not bolted together after the fact.
- Regulatory-ready installation. Nurse call is often required by state and local regulation, and inspected accordingly. We install and document it that way.
- 24/7 support. A Hiscall employee who knows your building, not a ticket queue, with unlimited service calls on contract.
What else we install
The other systems in your building, from the same team
Nurse call rides the same cabling backbone as your phones, paging and clocks. Most of our nurse call projects sit alongside one of these.
Telecommunications
Cloud and premise-based VoIP, SIP trunking and dial tone, with unlimited moves, adds and changes on contract.
Telecommunications →Security Solutions
Video surveillance, access control and ID badge printing under Tennessee CCTV License #1405.
Security Solutions →IT Services & Data Networking
Network infrastructure, wireless and ongoing IT support from the same team that wired the building.
IT & Data Networking →Audio Visual
Conference and training room AV, video conferencing, digital signage and sound masking.
Audio Visual →Questions we hear
Nurse call system questions
Is a nurse call system required by regulation?
Often, yes. Nurse call is frequently required by state and local regulation for nursing homes, assisted living communities and hospitals, and is inspected accordingly. We install and document it to meet that inspection.
Do you install call light systems, or only hospital-style nurse call?
Both. "Call light system" and "nurse call system" describe the same underlying technology, and we install and support it under either name, sized to a nursing home floor or a hospital wing.
Can nurse call and our phone system talk to each other?
Yes, and integrating them is usually the point. Alerts can route to handsets, mobile devices or paging depending on the unit, so staff aren't watching a separate panel.
Our current system is past end of life. Can you replace it without disrupting care?
Yes. Parts for an aging system are often hard to find and the original vendor has frequently moved on. We replace it, integrate it with your phone system, and keep the facility running through the cutover, usually overnight or across a weekend with a phased plan.
Hard-wired, wireless or cloud-based, how do we choose?
It depends on your building, your existing cabling, and how many sites you're managing. That's exactly what the free site survey is for, we'll give you a straight recommendation rather than pushing whichever system happens to be easier for us to sell.
Products & services
Explore the rest of what we install
Tell us what your facility needs
We'll walk the building, look at what's already there, and give you a straight answer about what to replace and what to keep. No charge for the survey.