A portable alert communication system for use in a health care facility comprising a local display device for use by a healthcare administrator, with the local display device having a level-of-care mechanism, a display screen, and an acknowledgment indicator； and a remote display device for use by a healthcare provider, with the remote display device having a level-of-care indicator and an acknowledgment mechanism； and whereby the healthcare administrator can use the local display device to send a level-of-care alert relating to the needs of a patient to the remote display device, which can display the level-of-care alert to the healthcare provider, who can then use the acknowledgement indicator to send an acknowledgment response to the local display device, which can use the acknowledgment indicator to display the acknowledgment response from the healthcare provider to the healthcare administrator, indicating whether the healthcare provider accepts or declines the healthcare administrator's request to attend to the needs of the patient.
