Tag: Distribution
Medline celebrates latest robot installation
April 2, 2024HME News Staff
WILMER, Texas – Medline hosted more than 100 community leaders, local officials and health care partners on March 28 to celebrate the AutoStore installation at its Wilmer, Texas, distribution center. Today, the 800,000-square-foot distribution center manages more than $1 billion in medical supplies. “This distribution center and Medline’s other recent investments in infrastructure, operations and technology reflect our unwavering commitment to making healthcare run better in Texas,”...
Doug Harper honored
January 29, 2024HME News Staff
ATLANTA – Doug Harper has been named to the 2024 class of the Medical Distribution Hall of Fame sponsored by Repertoire Magazine, a publication that serves the health care distribution channel. He will be honored during a dinner here on April 18, 2024, with proceeds going to charity. Harper, who has more than 40 years of service to the health care industry, is currently executive vice president and senior advisor to MTMC, an outsourced health care sales organization. Previously, he was president...
Avera Health, OM to open Integrated Service Center
October 2, 2023HME News Staff
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Avera Health, an integrated health system based here, is partnering with Owens & Minor on plans for a 330,000-square-foot commercial building for supply distribution and other services.
The new Integrated Service Center will consolidate eight different locations.
“Serving over 72,000 square miles for our health system comes with logistical complexities, redundancies and challenges,” said Sara Henderson, vice president for supply chain at Avera...
Cardinal Health unveils two distribution centers
April 25, 2023HME News Staff
DUBLIN, Ohio – Cardinal Health will host ribbon cutting celebrations for two new distribution centers in central Ohio in April, with both facilities focused on supporting the company’s U.S. Medical Products and Distribution (USMPD) and at-Home Solutions businesses. The openings are part of Cardinal Health’s multi-year warehousing and modernization plan for its Medical Segment to support business growth and expansion and to accelerate service for existing customers. "Central Ohio remains...
Belluscura signs distribution agreement
September 22, 2022HME News Staff
LONDON and PLANO, Texas – Belluscura has signed a distribution agreement with a leading DME provider and distributor in the United States, it has announced. Belluscura, which makes the X-PLOR portable oxygen concentrator, says the DME provider has been supplying home oxygen therapy for more than 50 years through 1,000 brick-and-mortar locations throughout the country, as well as online. “This agreement, with one of the largest supplemental oxygen providers in the U.S., significantly increased...
Medline opens new distribution center
July 12, 2022HME News Staff
GRAYSLAKE, Ill. – Medline will host a ribbon cutting ceremony on July 20 for its new 1.4 million-square-foot, LEED-certified distribution center in Grayslake, Ill. The ceremony will feature local dignitaries and representatives from major hospitals, nursing homes and health care providers in the region. The center, estimated to be the largest medical grade distribution center in the U.S., will service facilities throughout the Midwest. The center represents a $125 million investment in Grayslake...
Sunset Healthcare Solutions adds StrongArm Cane to portfolio
March 22, 2022HME News Staff
CHICAGO – Sunset Healthcare Solutions will be StrongArm Comfort Cane’s main distribution partner in the home care market. The distributor will feature the cane at its booth at Medtrade West, April 4-6 at the Phoenix Convention Center. “We are excited to provide this new, unique and innovative product for our customers,” said Tom Munar, business and product development at Sunset Healthcare Solutions. “We’ve been strategically targeting distribution partners in new...
Distribution: Practice proactive, not reactive, purchasing
October 13, 2021Colton Mason
Q. Where did all the crutches go?
A. According to a recent poll conducted by HME News, providers say they’re increasing on-hand inventory levels to try and combat supply chain disruptions. So, when an item like adult crutches goes on backorder with a big-name brand, providers start ordering up and clearing out the warehouses of other manufacturers for fear that they may not be able to procure that item in the short-term, in many cases, doubling the amount of inventory they are carrying on...
Compass Health finds 'right partner' to offer CBD
June 26, 2020HME News Staff
CLEVELAND - Compass Health has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Well Care Brands to promote and sell their P�rCare line of CBD products. The partnership with Compass Health will allow Well Care Brands to target the HME segment for their P�rCare line, which is specifically designed for the “over 40 market.” “We have been eager to enter the CBD segment of the market but needed to find the right partner, a partner who understands the unique needs of both the HME...
Distributors see home care as winning market
December 16, 2019HME News Staff
Medical supply distributors and manufacturers are turning their attention to the rapidly growing field of home health care. They are also realizing something that may come as no surprise to you—it's a really complicated field that's undergoing a lot of change.
A group of more than 40 experts gathered in November at a Home Care Thought Leaders event in Arlington, Va., hosted by the Health Industry Distributors Association. They met to better understand the market and to strategize about how...