Tag: Quality Biomedical
Outsourcing eases operational strains
December 18, 2024Tracy Orzel
As the HME industry navigates a more and more complex landscape, companies that provide outsourcing services are emerging as sustainable solutions. By transferring logistical tasks to specialized partners, providers can focus on patient care—a model more suited to the industry's future, these companies say.
Staffing headwinds
The industry is under strain from higher salary expectations, rising living costs, and the significant expense of onboarding and training. Add to...
In brief: Philips settlement, Compass Health network, NHIA fellows
December 27, 2023HME News Staff
SAN DIEGO – Philips Respironics has paid almost $2.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by giving kickbacks to sleep laboratories, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California has announced.
The settlement resolves allegations that, from 2016 through 2021, Philips Respironics provided sleep labs with free masks used to treat and diagnose sleep-related respiratory disorders to induce physicians at the labs to write referrals...
Compass Health adds Quality Biomedical to network
December 26, 2023HME News Staff
MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio – Compass Health Brands has expanded its authorized service center network with the addition of Quality Biomedical. Through this new agreement, the Boulder, Colo.-based Quality Biomedical will support Compass Health customers with in-warranty and out-of-warranty repairs for stationary and portable oxygen concentrators, CPAP and BiPAP devices, ventilators and other equipment. “Partnering with Quality Biomedical dovetails perfectly with Compass Health’s focus...
Quality Biomedical expands to meet demand
November 8, 2023HME News Staff
BOULDER, Colo. - Quality Biomedical is expanding into larger facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area to meet the growing demand for its services. “Texas has always been a strategic market for us,” said Jim Worrell, chief commercial officer. “We have experienced considerable growth in Texas and the surrounding states, necessitating the need for much larger facilities. Our new 20,000 square-foot service center allows us to provide enhanced levels of service to our customers in this...
In brief: Aeroflow boosts advocacy, Joerns adds Winncare, Great Plains Rehab sells
June 23, 2023HME News Staff
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Aeroflow Healthcare has created a government relations program and hired Mindi Walker, an experienced lobbyist, to lead it.
The move will allow Aeroflow, a large supplier of products and services in the maternity, incontinence, sleep and diabetes markets, to help ensure equitable access to care at both the state and federal level.
“Aeroflow Healthcare has completed numerous advocacy initiatives to improve patient outcomes over the years, with the most...
Quality Biomedical partners with Flight Medical
June 21, 2023HME News Staff
BOULDER, Colo., and WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Quality Biomedical, a biomedical equipment management service provider to the post-acute and HME markets, and Flight Medical, a provider of single and dual patient circuit limb ventilators, have announced an exclusive national service and parts distribution agreement. “As our U.S. market share has grown, we want to consolidate all warranty and out-of-warranty product support and centralize parts distribution,” said Shauna Winston, director...
CAIRE taps Quality Biomedical for repair network
June 14, 2023HME News Staff
BALL GROUND, Ga.– CAIRE has added Quality Biomedical to its Authorized Service Center, a nationwide provider of fleet management services, and specialists in respiratory equipment maintenance and repair. Through this new agreement, the Boulder, Colo.-based company will support CAIRE customers with in-warranty and out-of-warranty repairs, which are critical to support the needs of HME providers and other major healthcare institutions, including hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, long-term...
Quality Biomedical names president
May 25, 2023HME News Staff
BOULDER, Colo. - Quality Biomedical has named Will Ross president and COO. He has served as COO since 2021 and before that led the company's marketing efforts. “Will’s leadership brings focus and clarity to our growth goals, as we continue to provide the best service and technology to our customers,” said PK Bala, CEO. As COO, Ross has been responsible for guiding the company’s operations and overseeing the creation of new service solutions. He says technology like Quality...
Respiratory market emerges from ‘whiplash’
January 31, 2023John Andrews
The respiratory market has undergone a series of shifts over the past two-and-a-half years, due to the pandemic and other issues, like supply chain disruptions. But now it appears that external forces have waned, creating a more stable environment for providers, respiratory manufacturers say.
Jim Worrell, chief commercial officer for Pinellas Park, Fla.-based Quality Biomedical, called the past couple of years “a roller coaster ride” as the industry continues to emerge...
Popularity of EVs squeezes access to compound used in concentrators
January 25, 2023HME News Staff
BOULDER, Colo. – As the demand for electric vehicles has grown, the price of lithium, which, when combined with zeolite, allows oxygen concentrators to generate oxygen at purity levels of 90% or higher, is experiencing significant increases, according to a bulletin from Quality Biomedical.
Lithium is a key component of the batteries used in EVs and certain sieve beds of oxygen concentrators.
“As the demand for EVs has increased, the price of lithium is experiencing significant...