AUSTIN, April 5, 2019 – US Med-Equip (“USME”) announced today it has acquired Medical Support Products, Inc. (“MSP”), headquartered in Lititz, Pennsylvania.
Founded in 1989 by Nelson Shertzer, Medical Support Products is a leading regional provider of hospital respiratory products, movable medical equipment (“MME”) rentals, Sales and other biomedical repair services to primarily to hospitals and long-term acute care centers in the Northeastern US. MSP focuses its services predominantly on respiratory clinical applications. In addition to its headquarters and operations in Lititz, PA, MSP maintains another location in Troy, VA. With a staff of 26 employees across this footprint, MSP actively serves customers in 7 states.
“This is an exciting event for USME, and we look forward to our partnership with MSP,” said USME CEO Gurmit Bhatia. “Nelson and his team have built a strong organization that share our core values. We look forward to integrating MSP’s business into USME’s growing footprint in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions.”
“We believe the MSP team will complement USME’s high quality service offerings for our hospital customers,” said Greg Salario, Chief Development Officer of USME. “Leveraging USME’s infrastructure, technology resources, and GPO & IDN relationships, we are excited to offer an expanded product portfolio and value add solutions to MSP’s existing customers. Additionally, we are excited to provide additional service locations for USME’s existing GPO & IDN customers in the Northeast region.”
Headquartered in Houston, TX, USME is nationally recognized leader in MME market, as well as other technology-enabled services to the healthcare market. USME rents a wide range of moveable equipment across several clinical applications, including, respiratory, neonatal, infusion, among others. USME maintains a rental fleet of more than 30,000 pieces of equipment and serves its customers across 30 facilities.
“On behalf of the MSP organization, I am excited to partner with Gurmit, Greg and the entire USME team,” said Nelson Shertzer, founder and CEO of MSP. “USME is a world-class organization and this event marks the start of the next phase of growth for MSP’s business. With access to expanded resources and tools, our team will be empowered to do more for our long-term customers.”
For additional information, please visit www.usmedequip.com or contact Greg Salario gregs@usmedequip.com or 713-983-8860.