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OMED and TEKNO Medical announce partnership

OMED of Nevada is pleased to announce the addition of TEKNO Medical products to its growing line of medical instruments, equipment and parts. As a distributor of the TEKNO line of products, OMED can now provide the outstanding quality surgical instruments at cost-effective prices.

FDA-certified, the Germany-founded TEKNO Medical guarantees top quality products that allows them to distribute products in the USA. The wide TEKNO range includes instruments for general surgery, endoscopy and dental applications, as well as specialties in heart surgery, thorax and lung surgery, abdominal surgery, plastic surgery, ophthalmology, micro and neuro surgery, among others.

OMED of Nevada purchases surplus medical electronic equipment, refurbishes and resells worldwide, and also services medical equipment in the Reno Tahoe Carson area. In the business for over 15 years, OMED has pharmacy licenses for operation in both Nevada and California.

Click here to discover TEKNO's catalog of superior quality surgical instruments today.

OMED Now an Official Practice Greenhealth Member

OMED of Nevada LLC has recently joined Practice Greenhealth, committing to sustainable and environmentally-preferable operations. The used medical equipment dealer has been working under their Green Policy, which stresses taking responsibility of the environmental effects of the company’s operations.

OMED is now one of Practice Greenhealth’s 993 members, which include hospitals, health centers, medical companies, and other healthcare organizations. As a non-profit membership organization, Practice Greenhealth’s mission is “to collaborate and provide education, tools and information about the best environmental practices to help healthcare organizations supercharge their operational efficiency, increase regulatory compliance, and improve the health of their communities”.

"We have done so in an effort to become publicly more known as a good steward of the environment. Our efforts to be a good recycler, minimizing our environmental foot print are dear to our company’s philosophy – we want this to become known to our business partners. We want this to be a differentiator from our competition", OMED Nevada CEO, Heinz Roesch said about joining Practice Greenhealth.

Published by the end of last year, OMED’s Green Policy was penned by Roesch. Key points focus on minimizing waste and emissions, promoting recycling, meeting environmental laws, implementing training programs and raising environmental awareness, and choosing viable products with “lesser environmental impact”. For more information, visit www.omednevada.com.

Dave Ogren, founder of used medical equipment dealer Omed of Nevada LLC., has retired today, nearly two years after selling his company, the Reno-based business said.

Ogren, 69, spent more than four decades in the used medical industry, and for the past 10 years has helped grow the California Medical Instrumentation Association into one of the largest biomed groups in the country, Omed said. He served as chairman of the CMIA for two years, ending 2010.

Orgen founded Omed in 1995, and sold it to Terry Vander Ploeg and Heinz Roesch, the current owners, in 2009. The company has 11 employees, and operates out of a 24,000-square foot warehouse.

According to a 2009 interview with Ogren published in Northern Nevada Business Weekly, the company began to really take off in 2002, and was growing 10-25 percent a year when it was bought by Ploeg, a former executive with Motorola, and Roesch, an ex-Deutsche Bank executive.

An avid fisherman and hunter, Ogren and his wife, Paula, split their time between Reno and Oceanside, Calif., where Ogren enjoys the seaside climate and "spoiling their three grandkids," Omed said. Although a golfer, he often jokes, "I am not going to get old enough to shoot my age," Omed said.

"He golfs very well," the company added.

Room for expansion and ease of purchase are among the reasons OMED of Nevada’s new partners bought into the business.

Terry Vander Ploeg and Heinz Roesch purchased majority interest in the Reno company from founder Dave Ogren. OMED of Nevada sells refurbished medical electronic equipment to medical facilities and clinics throughout the United States and internationally. The company has clients in 17 countries, including South America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

"We take the surplus medical electronic equipment, refurbish it, and remarket it to its highest and best use,"Ogren says.

Ogren founded OMED in 1995 in a 1,500- square-foot warehouse on Rewana Way off Peckham Lane. Business took off in earnest in 2002, Ogren says, and the company has grown by 10-25 percent per year in the past three years. Its major markets include private practice physicians looking to set up their own medical practices, and medical facilities that need to expand but cannot afford high-cost new equipment — especially in developing countries.

OMED currently occupies 7,000 square feet at Capital Court in Reno and another 24,000 square feet at 800 Stillwell Road, but the company plans to consolidate its operations at Stillwell Road at the start of 2010.

OMED buys much of its equipment with the help of organizations such as the California Medical Instrumentation Association, which alerts OMED to organizations that are upgrading older equipment. "They let us know when equipment is ready to be discarded by the hospitals, so we will come in and make a bid on it, buy it and bring it into our facility for refurbishing," Ogren says.

Vander Ploeg and Roesch, who met while working in Tokyo, were seeking business opportunities after long and successful corporate careers. Vander Ploeg is a former executive with Motorola, while Roesch was an executive at Deutsche Bank and UBS. Vander Ploeg was in Reno to meet with business broker Katrina Loftin Winkel of BTI Mergers and Acquisitions, and when he heard about OMED he moved quickly.

Purchase of the company was privately financed. "When I met with Dave I thought it was going to be an hour, and it was four hours," Vander Ploeg says."It was just perfect. We had looked at a lot of different business models, and Dave’s fit what we were looking for with the expansion capabilities and the market he was in." Ogren will stay on and guide OMED of Nevada’s sales and marketing, while Vander Ploeg is OMED’s president and chief financial officer and Roesch its chief executive officer.

The company employs seven but is considering expanding its operations into other western states. The recession has had little adverse affect on OMED, as emerging and expanding medical facilities throughout the world seek to save money by adding low-cost equipment.

Reno Gazette Journal Coverage

The publication ‘Business Matters’ is a publication of the Reno Sparks Chamber of Commerce.
BY PACK TO THE RENO GAZETTE JOURNAL  
April 6th, 2011

"They can take advantage of what is considered surplus in American but is highly prized equipment internationally, Ogren says.

Northern Nevada Business Weekly Coverage

‘Northern Nevada Business Weekly’ is a publication of Northern Nevada Communications, LLC.
BY PACK TO THE NORTHERN NEVADA BUSINESS WEEKLY 
September 13th, 2011

"We have a couple of guys constantly in the field acquiring equipment from hospitals in Nevada and California, and our niche is to take everything they've got.", Ploeg says.