Tag: Quality Medical
Equipment management: Strategize your warehousing
December 21, 2018Will Ross
A. When using vendors that combine equipment service and warehousing for your medical devices, you can move inventory around in a much more controlled and efficient manner. Below are a few ways these capabilities can improve your business. Reduced turnaround time on serviceRight now, your team likely sends in a device for service, and then waits for it to come back. With more integrated programs that incorporate warehousing, when your staff initiates an RMA for a device needing preventative maintenance,...
Equipment managment: maximize ROI
October 30, 2018Will Ross
A. The decision between buying or renting equipment has challenged business owners for years. The question most business leaders ask is “Do I have the right systems and processes in place to get a good ROI on what I purchase?” Here are the areas you need to focus on to get the best ROI on your equipment:
Negotiate price, warranty and financing
Think about the total offer from the beginning. Manufacturers have many levers to pull to keep your business; be a smart purchaser....
Equipment managment: Make your equipment fleet visible
October 2, 2018Will Ross
A. The methods of keeping organized equipment service records are as varied as the companies themselves. When we consult with our HME customers regarding equipment service and the related service records, we find organization methods that include records in spiral notebooks, Excel sheets, three-ring binders and, of course, files in filing cabinets. The most important elements of a robust service records database are:• Complete and accurate service records on all your clinical equipment.• The...
Chart Industries taps Quality Medical for repairs
February 7, 2017HME News Staff
BALL GROUND, Ga. - Chart Industries has appointed Largo, Fla.-based Quality Medical as the authorized service center for its customers in the Southeast. Quality Medical will perform both warranty and non-warranty service for Chart products from its new service facility in Cartersville, Ga. Chart manufactures the AirSep, CAIRE and SeQual brands of stationary and portable oxygen concentrators. “Quality Medical is an experienced service provider for a wide range of biomedical equipment and will...
Quality Medical opens new service facility
February 7, 2017HME News Staff
LARGO, Fla. - Quality Medical has opened a new service facility in Cartersville, Ga., to better serve customers in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina. “One of the most important elements of great service is turnaround time and this new facility helps us deliver great service in less time,” said PK Bala, CEO of Quality Medical. The new facility services and repairs respiratory, infusion, and patient monitoring equipment from a variety of healthcare companies...
Quality Medical takes total control
January 6, 2017Liz Beaulieu, Editor
LARGO, Fla. - The new owners of Quality Medical have set the company up for a robust 2017.The company, which offers repair and preventative maintenance services for respiratory equipment and infusion pumps, has hired a new regional director, Teresa May, to manage client relationships in south Florida; and has rented an additional 3,000-square-foot facility in Cartersville, Ga., that it plans to open in late January.“I like to call ourselves a 13-year-old startup,” said Jim Worrell, senior...
In brief: Bill seeks to change LCD process, Apria provides notice of security breach
October 7, 2016HME News Staff
WASHINGTON - Two senators recently introduced a bill that seeks to improve the transparency and accountability of the local coverage determination (LCD) process performed by the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs).The Local Coverage Determination Clarification Act of 2016 would: require open and public meetings with the MACs that are on the record; require disclosure by the MACs of the rationale for an LCD and the evidence for that decision at the beginning of the process; provide stakeholders...
Quality Medical takes total control
October 5, 2016HME News Staff
LARGO, Fla. - Quality Medical has rolled out a suite of programs called “Total Equipment Control (TEC)” that allows HME providers to outsource supply chain, warehousing, transportation, financing, engineering, and repair and service.
The central element to TEC is a cloud-based inventory management application solution that's integrated with warehousing, transportation and third-party preventative maintenance and repair services.
“Quality Medical's new high-value asset management...