Tahara tables

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David Zinner

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Jun 18, 2014, 5:30:52 PM6/18/14
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Does your funeral home have a tahara table that drains water well? Could you describe it and give a manufacturer and model number? Or is it customized?

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Dr. Joel Etra

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Jun 19, 2014, 7:49:24 AM6/19/14
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The one I work at is very good it consists of bars with a sink under the entire length and width. Any water that we do not pour too wide of the table goes right into the bottom part. I also work at a number of others and they all use an inclined platform with short walls and a small drain at the bottom. 
I don't know the manufacturer but will try to find out. 

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Libby Bottero

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Jun 19, 2014, 8:49:21 PM6/19/14
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The tables at the funeral homes we use are all similar -- stainless steel tables with locking wheels.  The tables have an adjustable slant with a drain at the bottom that goes into a very large sink or into a drain on the concrete floor. Hot and cold water comes from hoses attached to the sink.  Simple and easy to use and clean.  I don't know the manufacturers -- they've had these same tables for decades -- but will ask at the funeral homes if they know.

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Sandy Lassen

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Jun 19, 2014, 8:51:38 PM6/19/14
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I wish!


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Daniel Leger

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Jun 19, 2014, 10:27:23 PM6/19/14
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Many of the older funeral homes (including the only Jewish owned funeral home in town) where our chevra kaddisha performs tahara still have the old porcelain, very heavy tables which have long since ceased to function well in their original hydraulics systems. They drain well, have a fairly deep lip, but lots of water still gets on the floor. Their heavy stability is a plus, but their inability to move easily in all directions makes placing the met in the aron difficult at times. One funeral home which we work with a fairly frequently recently replaced their old porcelain table with a new “ Ferno Hydraulic Embalming Operating Table model 101H” which lists at $3,745.00 from Ferno Mortuary Supply Co. It is really good to work with, drains well, can be easily moved in all directions (including up and down) and has sturdy locking wheels. Since the tahara room where this table is placed is very narrow and the drainage sink is in an odd position in the room, this table makes it very easy to move it into more ergonomically advantageous positions and places in the room. These factors have made it easier to more prayerfully devote our attention to our task and the met and make it much safer and easier to move the met from the table into the aron.

Dan Leger

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Kerry Swartz

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Jun 20, 2014, 8:25:30 AM6/20/14
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Our community community Chevra Kadisha has a permanent table much like the ones previously described.
It has a shallow flat bottom surface for a well with three or four body bridges which atop sits a wooden palet base that the deceased lie on.
It is plumbed and water poured over meit/meitah drains down through the boards and bridges and runs towards the drain. The drain end has been modified to include a large sink into which buckets can sit, be filled, etc. There is also a retractable hose along the side of the sink/drain area we can pull out to spray/wash clean the meit/meitah if necessary and is used to clean the table.
It is a custom piece done by a local scientific/medical products firm, Scientek Medical Equipment of Richmond BC, part of their TSM Engineered Products Division. Photos available upon request.
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