A health care bed includes a floor engaging base frame and a first bed sectionhaving awide central frame portion with a first width and having left and right wingsections with bothretracted and extended positions relative to its wide central frame portion; asecond bedsection hingedly connected to the first bed section, having a narrow centralframe portion witha second width less than the first width, and having left and right wingsections with bothretracted and extended positions relative to its narrow central frame portion;and wherein atleast one of first and second bed sections is mounted to said floor engagingbase frame.