Tag: Katie Stevens
Reliable Medical re-aligns roles, rebrands Orbit
August 9, 2023HME News Staff
MINNEAPOLIS – Reliable Medical is re-aligning its leadership and moving Brandon Bliss, former CEO of Orbit Medical, which it acquired in December 2022, into an executive vice president role, where he will oversee growth and operations for all divisions. The company also plans to fully integrate and rebrand Orbit as Reliable. “Under Brandon’s direction, we expect continued thoughtful and intentional growth, while maintaining a focus on our core customer and best in class service,”...
Reliable Medical buys Orbit Medical
December 2, 2022Liz Beaulieu, Editor
MINNEAPOLIS – Reliable Medical Supply’s acquisition of Chicago-based Orbit Medical on Dec. 1 allows the company to diversify its business model without changing its core products and services, says CEO Katie Stevens.
Orbit Medical, like Reliable Medical, is a full-line HME provider that specializes in power mobility and complex rehab, but it focuses on serving the needs of patients who are being discharged from the hospital or who are receiving home health care services.
“They’re...
Changing workforce requires leadership shift
August 2, 2022Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
WATERLOO, Iowa – Successful business leaders have always been tasked with driving results, but these days, it’s also important to remember, “We’re all in the people business,” says Christa Miehe.
“We can’t accomplish (goals) by ourselves, though we try,” Miehe, president of Moxie, a division of the VGM Group, said during a session at the Heartland Conference in June called “Leadership Lessons: Real Advice from Real Women Leaders.”...
Reliable Medical marches further west
May 20, 2022Liz Beaulieu, Editor
MINNEAPOLIS – Reliable Medical has staked a claim in California with its acquisition of Hometown Medical Supplies, a San Jose-based provider of primarily mobility equipment.
Right out of the gate, Reliable Medical will add three ATPs to Hometown Medical’s four ATPs, expanding the company’s ability to serve complex rehab patients from locations in San Jose, Los Angeles, Visalia and Stockton.
“There’s a strong demand in this market,” said Katie...
Katie Stevens on having a team of ‘happy people’
February 1, 2022Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
Leading through a pandemic has made Katie Stevens lean more toward the empathetic side of her nature, creating change both in how she manages employees and how she evolves her business model.
Stevens in December was named the 2021 HME Woman of the Year in a virtual presentation hosted by VGM.
“The pandemic has forced conversations not just around the way we engage with employees and listen to what they want but also to look at processes,” said Stevens, CEO of Reliable...
Katie Stevens named top female leader
December 16, 2021HME News Staff
WATERLOO, Iowa – Katie Stevens, CEO of Reliable Medical Supply, was named the 2021 HME Woman of the Year during a virtual presentation hosted today by VGM.
“There is no better recognition,” said Stevens, who became CEO of the Minneapolis-based company in 2020 following a long career with a national complex rehab provider.
HME News featured Stevens and Reliable Medical Supply in this story in September.
This year’s award drew 64 nominations for...
Reliable Medical: In it for the long haul
September 3, 2021Liz Beaulieu, Editor
MINNEAPOLIS – Reliable Medical in August entered its third partnership as part of the company’s plan to grow “in an intentional manner” under CEO Katie Stevens.
Reliable Medical, a portfolio company of Seven Hills Capital, has partnered with Complex Rehab Technologies in Stafford, Texas, after partnering with A&A Medical Supply in Ohio in 2020 and Med City Mobility in Minnesota in 2019. All deepen Reliable Medical’s foothold as “primarily a CRT company,...
Stevens expands Reliable Medical’s mission
September 3, 2021Liz Beaulieu, Editor
MINNEAPOLIS – The experiences that led Katie Stevens to become the CEO of Reliable Medical last year in her mid-30s have everything to do with her leadership style at the company.
Stevens got her start in the complex rehab industry more than 15 years ago as a customer service representative for a national complex rehab company, in what was meant to be a pit stop between her master’s dissertation and the Peace Corps.
“I just fell in love with the industry,”...