With great pride and excitement CHME, Inc. (“CHME” or “California Home Medical Equipment”) announces that the company is celebrating their 20th year in business. CHME was founded in May, 2003 by Bernie Zimmer, Alan Oiwa and other experts in the home medical equipment (“HME”) field, all of whom spent their entire professional careers serving patients in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Staying true to their initial vision, CHME continues to be a full service, independent HME Company providing respiratory care, including ventilators, custom rehab equipment and a broad range of medical supplies, including the latest continuous glucose monitor products. CHME prides itself on providing everything one needs to transition to care at home.
The management team is extremely proud of their many accomplishments since 2003, including achieving CHAPS accreditation in the company’s first year of business, even before accreditation was a mandatory HME industry requirement. CHME has maintained accreditation status with CHAPS ever since and consistently receives high marks during its reaccreditation surveys. CHME just completed its 2023-2026 Survey on May 4th 2023 and received no recommendations or action items and received high praise from the surveyor on how well CHME performs.
Today, California Home Medical Equipment is one of the largest HME providers in Northern California serving patients and contracted partners throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Alameda County, and Santa Clara County and beyond. As we celebrate this milestone anniversary CHME is excited to announce that the company will be expanding its footprint and adding new product lines to continue on its growth path.
CHME is also excited to introduce a new patient SMS APP that will allow up-to-the-minute delivery timeframes for both live and 3rd party deliveries. In addition to our new SMS APP CHME will be introducing our new Patient Hub that will allow patients to message CHME about many facets of their accounts such as orders, scheduled deliveries, insurance demographic changes and much more. Management continues to explore the company’s technology footprint to insure we provide the best Patient experience possible.
The last three years have been challenging for everyone in our country and beyond and CHME could not be more proud of how the company continued to provide the highest level of patient care while keeping our team, their families and our patients and referrals safe.
CHME is planning to host some very exciting public events with our partners, patients and team members to celebrate our 20 year milestone with our partner’s patient and team members. Details of those events will be announced soon.
Thank you all for your support over the last 20 Years.
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