Publication Smart Business recognizes DME manufacturer for fifth year in a row
Publication Smart Business recognizes DME manufacturer for fifth year in a row
- By David Kopf
- May 09, 2013
Product Premiere
Blue Chip's new Tradewind seeks to blend affordability, dependability and quality care.
The demand for providers to source lower-cost support surfaces has been tough to ignore. HMEs facing increasing cuts to their funding are on a quest for mattresses that bridge the ever-widening gap between care and commerce, and the solutions aren’t always easy to find. Enter: Blue Chip's new Tradewind series of Group 2 support surfaces and pumps.
- By David Kopf
- Dec 01, 2012
Business Solutions
How can providers make a difference in their patients’ lives, as well as the bottom line?
Increasingly, providers of support surfaces need to look at how they provision services both from a therapeutic perspective and a business standpoint. This is even more true now that Group 2 support surfaces are part of Round Two of competitive bidding. How can support surface provides make a difference in not only their patients' lives, but also the bottom line?
- By David Kopf
- Sep 01, 2012
Bed Safety
How to implement a plan to maintain bed safety for bariatric patients.
Support Surface
How to monitor wound care patients’ response to their support surface.
Problem Solvers
Providers need a checklist or process to help them ensure a patient’s bed safety.
For the disabled or elderly, a bed can pose a number of safety risks. The overriding question becomes how can providers help ensure patients stay safe in their beds? It starts with leadership?
- By Cindy Horbrook
- May 01, 2012
Acquisition expands 'Made in USA' Strategic Initiative.
Acquisition expands 'Made in USA' Strategic Initiative.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Mar 07, 2012
Blue Chip gives HMEB a walkthrough of its air-fluidized therapy system at Medtrade.
Blue Chip gives HMEB a walkthrough of its air-fluidized therapy system at Medtrade.
- By David Kopf
- Nov 03, 2011
Problem Solvers
Why providers need to emphasize bed safety, and how they can do it.
Why providers need to emphasize bed safety, and how they can do it.
- By David Kopf
- Nov 01, 2011
HME providers donates 20 hospital beds to Charlotte Rescue Mission.
HME providers donates 20 hospital beds to Charlotte Rescue Mission.
- By David Kopf
- Aug 25, 2011
For patients that spend their days in mobility devices, they must have the right cushion.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Jul 01, 2011
The population of bariatric patients is increasing, and so to is the need for providers to sell mattresses that prevent and help treat wounds for patients that spend a good deal of time in bed.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Jul 01, 2011
Business Solutions
Competitive Bidding: The first 90 days as seen from the eyes of bed and support surface providers.
As a cornerstone DME service, beds are in a unique position to tell us how competitive bidding might play out for the entire industry. Have Round One bed and support surface HMEs found business models that let them breathe easy?
- By Joseph Duffy
- Apr 01, 2011
Funding Fundamentals
Driving cost out of the bed business.
- By Phil Cunningham
- Apr 01, 2011
Air-fluidized therapy comes to HME providers courtesy of Blue Chip Medical’s Airus.
Air-fluidized therapy comes to HME providers courtesy of Blue Chip Medical’s Airus.
- By David Kopf
- Dec 16, 2010
Products & Technology
Options for caring for bariatric pressure ulcer patients.
When it comes to pressure sores, bariatric patients are at greater risk due to their size and immobility. HMEs need to keep pace with technological advances in order to offer bariatric patients the kind of tailor-made solutions that give them a fighting chance against debilitating wounds.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Dec 01, 2010
Blue Chip President and owner Ron Resnick knows from experience what support surface patients need.
After undergoing life-changing gastric bypass surgery seven and a half years ago to combat the results of a thyroidectomy, his “walking in his customers’ shoes” helps guide his company’s production of bariatric products.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Dec 01, 2010
A quick summary of The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel pressure sore staging guidelines.
A quick summary of The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel pressure sore staging guidelines.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Dec 01, 2010
Cover Feature
How providers can take their understanding of this cornerstone DME to the next.
Beds and support surfaces are cornerstone DME for providers, and it is critical for them to take their understanding of how these offerings suit various patient needs to the next level. This not only includes ramping up safety and funding knowledge, but also how proper bedding can impact a patient’s emotional wellbeing.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Sep 01, 2010