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Rhythm Healthcare increases efficiencies

April 29, 2022Liz Beaulieu, Editor

ST. PETERSBURGH, Fla. – Rhythm Healthcare has added a third distribution center in Ontario, Calif., allowing the company to better serve and grow its customer base in the western United States, says Doug Francis.  The 20,000-square-foot facility joins existing facilities in St. Petersburgh, Fla., and Memphis, Tenn.  “This allows us to open up California, Arizona, the Pacific Northwest,” said Francis, president and CEO. “I’m not saying we didn’t...

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Doug Francis

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Lifestyle Mobility Aids: Expanding – and betting on HME providers 

January 22, 2021Liz Beaulieu, Editor

ST. PETERSBURGH, Fla. – Lifestyle Mobility Aids is expanding its footprint beyond Florida and its product portfolio beyond mobility aids with long-time industry exec Doug Francis as its new leader.  The company recently opened a 40,000-square-foot distribution center in Memphis, Tenn., and launched a portable oxygen concentrator in December.  “Memphis opens up distribution to a big piece of the country,” said Francis, president...

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Embrace 'rapid maturity' of oxygen market

June 20, 2014John Andrews

Whether an oxygen provider won the second round of Medicare competitive bidding or not, the results are the same: a dramatic restructuring of the oxygen business model is necessary for continued viability in the category, market experts say. With reimbursement cuts of 45%,  it is a new era of austerity that requires wringing every dollar out of every transaction, says Scott Wilkinson, executive vice president of sales at Goleta, Calif.-based Inogen. “Forty-five percent is a hefty...

Applied Home Healthcare Equipment, Doug Francis, Inogen, Invacare, Joe Lewarski, O2 Concepts, Oxygen market, Rob Kent, Scott Wilkinson, Victoria Marquard-Schultz


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