An equipment management system (10) provides an equipment support (16) for supporting patient care equipment. The equipment support (16) may be mountable on an arm (20) that extends from a wall, on a column depending from the arm (20), on a wall mount (22), on a stand (18), or on a patient support (12). Various methods may be used to vertically move the equipment support (16) up and down to engage and disengage the equipment support (16) from supporting devices.
