Abstract: An adjustable hospital bed for laterally positioning a patient includes a support frame having a top end and a bottom end, a plurality of wheels secured to the bottom end of the support frame, and a body pad having a head end and a foot end and a plurality of back pad mortises around its periphery. The bed also includes a back pad having a top edge, a bottom edge, and a plurality of back pad tenons that extend from the bottom edge and are removably inserted into the plurality of back pad mortises of the body pad to support the back pad on its bottom edge at an angle relative to the body pad. In addition, the bed includes a linear actuator configured to lift the head end of the body pad and a tilt adjustment mechanism configured to laterally tilt the body pad.