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Product launches: ResMed, Sunrise Medical, HME Home Health 

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Product launches: ResMed, Sunrise Medical, HME Home Health 

March 12, 2024HME News Staff

ResMed has launched the AirFit F40, an ultra-compact, full-face mask, in the United States. The mask is ideal for people who sleep on their side, are claustrophobic, and want the stability and seal of a universal fit mask in a minimalist design. In a ResMed clinical study, 88% of patients rated AirFit F40's mask cushion as soft and comfortable and 100% found AirFit F40 easy to use. "Most users prefer smaller and more streamlined masks, but traditional under-the-nose full-face masks can be...

HME Home Health, ResMed, Sunrise Medical


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Product launches: RRI, Medline, Sunrise Medical

January 10, 2024HME News Staff

Responsive Respiratory has added a new oxygen analyzer to its portfolio of high-pressure respiratory oxygen products. Designed to test key performance functions of supplemental oxygen systems, the O2 Checker is a must-have diagnostic and validation tool for use with most home oxygen equipment on the market today, including portable oxygen concentrators, pneumatic oxygen conserving devices, stationary concentrators and oxygen regulators up to 15 LPM flow rates, the company says. The analyzer measures...

Medline, Responsive Respiratory, Sunrise Medical


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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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Sunrise, LUCI take next step in partnership 

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Sunrise, LUCI take next step in partnership 

November 1, 2022HME News Staff

FRESNO, Calif., and NASHVILLE, Tenn. – As part of a new agreement Sunrise Medical will offer patients within Veterans Affairs the option to install LUCI’s safety technology system on its QUICKIE power wheelchairs straight from the factory. It’s the first agreement of its kind for LUCI, which launched in 2020 and which announced its compatibility with the QUICKIE line of wheelchairs in July 2021, after more than a year of collaboration between the two companies. “We’re...

LUCI, Power Wheelchair, Sunrise Medical


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Sunrise Medical makes two acquisitions

September 8, 2022HME News Staff

FRESNO, Calif. – Sunrise Medical has acquired two European companies, The Helping Hand Company and Now Tech, as part of its strategic growth plans.  "We are very excited to welcome The Helping Hand Company and Now Tech into the Sunrise Medical family,” said Thomas Babacan, president and CEO of Sunrise Medical group. “Continuously improving our global operation excellence and striving for great, breakthrough innovations has always been the center of our strategy. Both acquisitions...

Helping Hand Company, Now Tech, Sunrise Medical


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RGK launched in North America 

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RGK launched in North America 

August 9, 2022HME News Staff

FRESNO, Calif. – RGK, a range of advanced, made-to-measure manual wheelchairs, is now available through Sunrise Medical North America. RGK, which Sunrise Medical acquired in 2015, has more than 30 world champion ambassadors globally. “I don’t compromise my manual mobility, why would I expect others to?” said Josh Anderson, vice president of business development and a RGK rider. “Good is not good enough. We are committed to making a better product than we are obligated...

Manual Wheelchair, Sunrise Medical


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Funding, care coordination key for kids

August 2, 2022John Andrews

Pediatrics can be viewed as a complex puzzle consisting of disparate pieces that must fit together to furnish the comprehensive care each patient needs. HME providers serving this market are tasked with finding the funding, care coordination, clinical resources and medical equipment designed for growing bodies.  It’s a major challenge that brings major rewards, says Amy Morgan, principal product manager at Lebanon, Tenn.-based Permobil.  “The reality of serving as a CRT...

Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare, Home Medical Equipment (HME), Pediatric mobility, Pediatrics, Permobil, Pride Mobility, Quantum Rehab, Sunrise Medical


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Sunrise Medical’s Quickie Nitrum recognized

June 9, 2022HME News Staff

FRESNO, Calif. – Sunrise Medical has received a Red Dot Award for Product Design for its Quickie Nitrum ultralight manual wheelchair. The international awards recognize products with outstanding design. “We are thrilled that Nitrum has been recognized by Red Dot for its superior design,” said Thomas Babacan, Sunrise Medical’s group CEO. “The team worked relentlessly to engineer an ultra lightweight wheelchair that provides a smooth ride for users of wheelchairs.”...

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Sunrise's Presperin Pedersen on importance of service models, early education and clinical evidence 

April 2, 2022Liz Beaulieu, Editor

FRESNO, Calif. – Jessica Presperin Pedersen says her new position as director of clinical education for North America at Sunrise Medical allows her to “pull together everything I’ve done” in more than 40 years of practice in the complex rehabilitation industry.  Presperin Pedersen’s long resume includes working in all sectors of the seating and mobility industry; serving as a research assistant, assistant professor and master clinician at the Shirley Ryan Ability...

Complex Rehab, Jessica Pedersen, Sunrise Medical


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