Tag: Katie Stevens
Reliable Medical leverages Katie Stevens’ ‘superpower’
October 25, 2024Liz Beaulieu, Editor
FRANKLIN, Tenn. – Reliable Medical’s Katie Stevens made employee recruitment, retention and culture a big focus as CEO, but now she can double down as the company’s new chief people officer.
Reliable Medical named Charles Sargeant CEO over the summer, replacing Stevens and allowing her to transition into this new role.
“My superpower is really in the people sphere, and I determined that that would be the best way to continue serving the organization,”...
Reliable Medical strives for ‘one system’
September 27, 2024Liz Beaulieu, Editor
FRANKLIN, Tenn. – Reliable Medical has grown significantly in the past three years and now it has a new CEO that can help the company “catch up.”
Charles Sargeant, who was previously Reliable Medical’s COO and who has more than 20 years of experience at National Seating & Mobility and Apria Healthcare, was named CEO this summer, replacing Katie Stevens, who is now the company’s chief people officer.
“The company has grown rapidly and evolved quickly,...
Women leaders in HME: ‘This is kind of cool’
July 12, 2024Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
Trend toward diversity: The HME industry is catching up with wider trends, and more women are taking high-profile roles. A mobile workforce seeking cultural alignment is driving this shift.
Educational opportunities: Over the past decade, educational opportunities have expanded, including stronger master’s programs in health administration. Women now have more options for pursuing management careers.
Support and empowerment: Women leaders face biases and pay gaps, but there’s...
Reliable Medical re-aligns roles, rebrands Orbit
August 9, 2023HME News Staff
MINNEAPOLIS – Reliable Medical is re-aligning its leadership and moving Brandon Bliss, former CEO of Orbit Medical, which it acquired in December 2022, into an executive vice president role, where he will oversee growth and operations for all divisions. The company also plans to fully integrate and rebrand Orbit as Reliable. “Under Brandon’s direction, we expect continued thoughtful and intentional growth, while maintaining a focus on our core customer and best in class service,”...
Reliable Medical buys Orbit Medical
December 2, 2022Liz Beaulieu, Editor
MINNEAPOLIS – Reliable Medical Supply’s acquisition of Chicago-based Orbit Medical on Dec. 1 allows the company to diversify its business model without changing its core products and services, says CEO Katie Stevens.
Orbit Medical, like Reliable Medical, is a full-line HME provider that specializes in power mobility and complex rehab, but it focuses on serving the needs of patients who are being discharged from the hospital or who are receiving home health care services.
“They’re...
Changing workforce requires leadership shift
August 2, 2022Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
WATERLOO, Iowa – Successful business leaders have always been tasked with driving results, but these days, it’s also important to remember, “We’re all in the people business,” says Christa Miehe.
“We can’t accomplish (goals) by ourselves, though we try,” Miehe, president of Moxie, a division of the VGM Group, said during a session at the Heartland Conference in June called “Leadership Lessons: Real Advice from Real Women Leaders.”...
Reliable Medical marches further west
May 20, 2022Liz Beaulieu, Editor
MINNEAPOLIS – Reliable Medical has staked a claim in California with its acquisition of Hometown Medical Supplies, a San Jose-based provider of primarily mobility equipment.
Right out of the gate, Reliable Medical will add three ATPs to Hometown Medical’s four ATPs, expanding the company’s ability to serve complex rehab patients from locations in San Jose, Los Angeles, Visalia and Stockton.
“There’s a strong demand in this market,” said Katie...
Katie Stevens on having a team of ‘happy people’
February 1, 2022Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
Leading through a pandemic has made Katie Stevens lean more toward the empathetic side of her nature, creating change both in how she manages employees and how she evolves her business model.
Stevens in December was named the 2021 HME Woman of the Year in a virtual presentation hosted by VGM.
“The pandemic has forced conversations not just around the way we engage with employees and listen to what they want but also to look at processes,” said Stevens, CEO of Reliable...
Katie Stevens named top female leader
December 16, 2021HME News Staff
WATERLOO, Iowa – Katie Stevens, CEO of Reliable Medical Supply, was named the 2021 HME Woman of the Year during a virtual presentation hosted today by VGM.
“There is no better recognition,” said Stevens, who became CEO of the Minneapolis-based company in 2020 following a long career with a national complex rehab provider.
HME News featured Stevens and Reliable Medical Supply in this story in September.
This year’s award drew 64 nominations for...
Reliable Medical: In it for the long haul
September 3, 2021Liz Beaulieu, Editor
MINNEAPOLIS – Reliable Medical in August entered its third partnership as part of the company’s plan to grow “in an intentional manner” under CEO Katie Stevens.
Reliable Medical, a portfolio company of Seven Hills Capital, has partnered with Complex Rehab Technologies in Stafford, Texas, after partnering with A&A Medical Supply in Ohio in 2020 and Med City Mobility in Minnesota in 2019. All deepen Reliable Medical’s foothold as “primarily a CRT company,...