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In brief: Sunrise Medical buys, OM integrates, ResMed accelerates  

October 4, 2023HME News Staff

FRESNO, Calif. – Sunrise Medical has acquired Ride Designs, significantly expanding the company’s custom seating offerings, clinical expertise and service capabilities.   Denver-based Ride Designs, which was founded in 1998 by Tom Hetzel and Joe Bieganek, has built a name for itself for designing and delivering highly specialized seating systems for wheelchairs using the most up-to-date technologies, including 3D printing.  “By joining forces with Ride Designs,...

Complex Rehab, Owens & Minor, ResMed, Ride Designs, Sunrise Medical


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Sunrise Medical buys Ride Designs 

October 3, 2023HME News Staff

FRESNO, Calif. – Sunrise Medical has acquired Ride Designs, significantly expanding the company’s custom seating offerings, clinical expertise and service capabilities.   Denver-based Ride Designs, which was founded in 1998 by Tom Hetzel and Joe Bieganek, has built a name for itself for designing and delivering highly specialized seating systems for wheelchairs using the most up-to-date technologies, including 3D printing.  “By joining forces with Ride Designs,...

Custom Seating, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Ride Designs, Sunrise Medical


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Also Noted

Ride Designs taps Steelman for marketing role

April 4, 2022HME News Staff

LITTLETON, Colo. – Ride Designs has named Barry Steelman of Steelman Marketing to be the company’s new director of marketing. Steelman will assist Ride Designs, a manufacturer of wheelchair seating cushions and backs, with everything from advertising campaigns to artistic design to branding to trade show booth design to video production. “We are excited to have Barry lead our marketing efforts now and into our next decade,” said Rich Salm, vice president of sales and marketing...

Barry Steelman, Ride Designs, Wheelchair


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Mobility

Q&A: Outcomes that matter

December 22, 2015Tracy Orzel

LITTLETON, Colo. - As the call for evidence-based outcome measurements grows louder, Ride Designs, a manufacturer of wheelchair seat cushions, has taken the lead by funding two university-led studies on the effects of orthotic-based seating on wheelchair users. Here's what CEO Tom Hetzel had to say about outcome measurements and how they could eventually shape reimbursement. HME News: Why are studies like these important? Tom Hetzel: If we can show that our seating systems result in upward...

Ride Designs, Wheelchair


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