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Did you know? Home oxygen fires claim a life every four days in the US
The true death toll of home oxygen fires across the United States is likely to be higher than previous estimates by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), a new study – The prevalence and impact of home oxygen fires in the USA – has revealed. The study examines media reports of home oxygen fire incidents in the US between December 2017 and August 2019. It identifies news reports on 311 separate home oxygen fires over a 20-month period. These incidents resulted in a total of 164 deaths, 71 serious injuries, and 119 minor injuries, which amounts to more than one death every four days. Exploding cylinders are referenced in a third of all reported home oxygen fires, posing a significant risk to third parties, including the emergency services. In fact, 11 of the reported deaths were third parties including family members and other residents. A firefighter also fell victim to a home oxygen fire when a propane tank exploded. This new data points towards a material public health problem in the US. Home oxygen fires represent a much higher risk in the United States than the UK, where stakeholders work together to reduce risk and where the fitting of oxygen firebreaks (also known as thermal fuses) is mandatory. In fact, an American oxygen user is 10 times more likely to die in a home oxygen fire than in Japan, and 20 times more likely than in
OxyGo Announces Launch of OxyGo NEXT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 12, 2019 Orlando, FL: OxyGo LLC, a leader in the portable oxygen concentrator market announced the launch of their new six flow setting, Bluetooth enabled POC today. At only 4.7 pounds, and with 6 flow settings, the OxyGo NEXT offers the highest oxygen output per pound of weight of any portable oxygen concentrators currently on the market. Created to meet the needs of oxygen therapy patients and home medical equipment providers – for use at home, away, and for travel. OxyGo NEXT will allow healthcare providers to improve patient outcomes through a new wireless connectivity platform using Bluetooth technology. The platform includes a provider dashboard and mobile application for patient use through mobile devices. Other features include a long battery life of up to 13 hours with the optional double battery, access to the My OxyGo App, a large LCD screen, and is one of the quietest POCs on the market at 38 dB. The My OxyGo Provider Dashboard will work with the My OxyGo App to provide real-time monitoring that will aid in troubleshooting, concentrator health checks, preventative maintenance and geo-locating of patient’s POCs. Both providers and patients will be able to check battery life, column life, oxygen purity and more with the touch of a button! “Patients on oxygen are always concerned about their next breath, and providers now will be able to ensure the patients are getting their required oxygen
Is OxyGo Right for Your Patients?
ABSOLUTELY! Thousands of patients love the OxyGo® family of Portable Oxygen Concentrators, and so will yours. With their compact size, light weight, and long battery life, you can clearly see how OxyGo outperforms all other concentrators on the market. What makes OxyGo POCs so unique is their extremely high reliability rate, outstanding warranty, and innovative design that reduces unit down-time. OxyGo 5 Setting 8.75” x 3.0” x 7.25” 4.8 lbs. The original OxyGo has 5 pulse flow settings (highest portable O2 output available today), 1,050 ml output, and up to 10.25 hours* of battery life—all in a compact, portable unit that weighs less than 5 pounds. OxyGo also has user replaceable batteries and sieve beds that keeps OxyGo in the field working for patients. And with its NEW 5 year warranty, OxyGo is truly designed to Keep Going. OxyGo 5 Setting Comes With: Standard 4.75 hour battery 5 year warranty AC charger for in home, DC charger for car Durable carry bag with strap Nasal cannula # 1400-1000 # 1400-1000-16 (system with double cell battery) OxyGo FIT™ 5.9” x 2.7” x 7.2” 2.8 lbs. We named our newest POC the OxyGo FIT because it is going to “fit” into just about all of your oxygen patients’ lifestyles. It weighs just 2.8 pounds and has 3 settings, with 210 ml of oxy
Fly High with POCs
The POCs you sell or rent to oxygen patients today allow greater freedom than ever before for travel and independence. But they also require your patient to think ahead and plan travel with supplemental oxygen carefully. This is true whether your patient is traveling by car, bus, train or plane. Rules for air travel with POCs are among the most stringent. Air travel, for example, requires POC users to abide by FAA standards related to oxygen use in flight. Here Is information that will help you answer patient questions related to traveling by plane when asked. Both OxyGo® and OxyGo FIT™ are approved POCs by the FAA for air travel. OxyGo is approved because it was included on the original list of approved POCs, under a different trade name, by the FAA. OxyGo FIT is approved because it contains, in red lettering, the FAA requirement: “The manufacturer of this POC has determined this device conforms to all applicable FAA acceptance criteria for POC carriage and use on board aircraft.” When flying with POCs and oxygen there are minimal requirements that every patient needs to know: The equipment must be FAA approved. Compressed gas oxygen tanks or liquid portable units are absolutely forbidden on commercial flights. Patients needs to give airlines advance notice, usually 48-hours, that they will be taking a POC with them. The requirements vary
Is Filling Your Own Cylinders Still the Best Option?
In a world where everything keeps getting more expensive, and portable concentrators seem to the be the next big thing, you may stop and think: Do I need to use oxygen cylinders? The short answer is YES. The long answer is YES … AND you should be filling your own. Let me tell you why. Oxygen cylinders are still a necessity because not every patient’s prescription can be served by an oxygen concentrator, and cylinders are the only option if there is a power outage. This may seem like you are stuck paying high prices to buy cylinders from another company so that you can service your patients. But you aren’t. You can fill your own. And it’s really not that hard. At first it might seem daunting, but let me give you an analogy that can help explain why it’s got a big pay off. Imagine you had to eat out for every meal. You’d be stuck paying quite a bit of money for your food, and you wouldn’t have any control of when you could eat (is the restaurant open 24/7?) or what’s in your food (I asked for no onion on this burger, but I am pretty sure I see one under this cheese…). But if you could cook your meals, you’d save quite a bit of money buying and cooking your own food; plus you could eat whenever you like and know exactly what’s in it. This is just like filling your own cylinders. At first it might see
Zeroing in on the OxyGo Difference
Every company has a reason to explain its existence and survival in a challenging and harsh business environment. This is especially true in home healthcare where Competitive Bidding has forced so many companies to either rethink their business approach or shut their doors. Sometimes the difference between prospering or failing tilts on ever so small differences: a customer service problem fixed here… a finance problem fixed there… just the right person being put in just the right job… storewide teamwork an operational hallmark. The list could go on for pages. I asked Victoria Marquard, this magazine’s editor, to give me five bullet points as to what she thinks constitutes the “OxyGo® Difference”. Here’s what she said and we hope you, our valued reader and (hopefully) customer, agree. Please let us know. 1. PROVIDER LOVE We really love our providers. It sounds cheesy, but it’s true. Our Customer Care team has literally run out of their offices into the warehouse to check on products from shipping, our salesman take a personal interest in providers. We show that too by the programs we have. We want to partner with providers and help them with marketing, help them with earning cash sales in this climate and really see them succeed. 2. SHARED SUCCESS We pass along sales to our providers. We have patients call us, and when they say t
A Checklist for Picking the Right POC
More and more homecare companies are purchasing portable concentrators because they recognize the need to decrease the number of cylinder deliveries and grow their non-delivery model. These companies realize that most of their profits made in today’s lower reimbursement climate are being gobbled up by repetitive delivery costs. Here is a checklist of questions you should ask any POC salesperson. It’s not glamorous. It’s not exciting. But asking these questions will save you and your patients money and make your oxygen program much more profitable in the long run. The answers will help guide you in making the right POC purchasing decisions. Patients need the following, so don’t hesitate to ask: Does the manufacturer put in writing that its portable concentrator can be used during sleep? Does the manufacturer put in writing that its POC can be used with more than 20 feet of tubing — plus cannula? Does the POC have a built-in oxygen analyzer? Does the POC have a backup rate that will engage automatically if a breath isn’t sensed in 60 seconds? How much does it cost to replace the sieve beds? How much are replacement batteries? Can both the battery and sieve beds be replaced in literally seconds on site or does it need to go back to the manufacturer for service? (Hint—that’s expensive!) Does the POC’s battery charge, not just mai
Behind the Scenes with OxyCare Total Advantage
Serendipity: | ser%9n’dip%9d3 | noun the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. good fortune; luck. For Shirley Rice, a Sun City West, AZ, resident who was forced into early retirement by an on-the job injury, discovering OxyCare Total Advantage™ financing was a serendipitous event that made her whole life better. Shirley, a former Ventura, CA school bus driver, injured both of her arms more than six years ago lifting garage doors while on the job. No longer able to work, she retired to Arizona where she also developed COPD. Her worker’s comp insurance settlement paid for home oxygen delivery but authorized only two tanks per month. “It pretty much kept me home,” said Shirley. “I felt chained to the house.” Then came a fortuitous event. “A friend told me about POCs,” said Shirley. “I had seen them advertised on TV but really didn’t make the connection that they could help me so much in my life. The friend allowed me to borrow her POC for a month and I really loved it,” said Shirley. She liked it so much she wanted to buy one but just didn’t have the cash flow to make her POC purchase. Shirley continued: “I looked at POCs from Discount Medical Equipment in Wickenburg, AZ and really liked the OxyGo® POC. The owner, Ruben Lopez, showed me how easy they were to operate. They were much lighter t
POC Game Changer
How OxyGo Is Transforming Lives For The Better Big surprises often come in small packages that can make a huge difference in a person’s life. Read one patient’s personal story… For Cathy Work, a happy-go-lucky grandmother and resident of Sandusky, Ohio, life changed for the better when she found out about OxyGo® POCs. A small OxyGo POC gave her back a sense of independence and the opportunity to once again live a happy and meaningful life. This is Cathy’s story. When health issues related to scarred lungs forced Cathy to be put on continuous flow oxygen in her home, her life changed from happy to sad. Used to coming and going as she pleased, the restrictions of being tethered to oxygen tanks 24/7 sent her spiraling into a hurtful depression. It tested her will power and those of the loving family around her. Home HealthCare TODAY (HHCT) editor-in-chief Victoria Marquard interviewed Cathy and her daughter, Angela, in their suburban Sandusky home this past February. It was Angela who discovered that an OxyGo POC unit was available to help free her mom from the monotony and confinement of oxygen tanks. So gratified were Cathy and Angela with the freedom OxyGo gave them that they happily agreed to the interview with the hope it would encourage other home oxygen patients and providers to make the switch to OxyGo POCs. HHCT: Cathy, It’s obvious you are not a fan of having to use oxygen tanks. Please tell the home healthcare provid
Reduce Costs and Increase Sales with OxyGo "Smart Delivery"
Recently CMS announced another round of oxygen reimbursement cuts. To combat this new decrease, you need to not only reduce your costs, but win more patient referrals and gain cash sales. OxyGo’s® Smart Delivery™ Strategy does both—turning your business from not just surviving—to thriving. OxyGo’s Smart Delivery model has two unique components: The OxyGo Family of Portable Oxygen Concentrators reduces your oxygen costs by up to 38% by limiting deliveries. OxyGo POCs are reliable and easy for patients to use, so you can give them quality service without the large quantities of delivery. OxyGo is the most demanded POC by patients—which directly equates to an increase in business for you. The user-changeable batteries, extra batteries, small size and sleek appearance are features that patients and referral sources look for. And with the aging baby boomer population, OxyGo has the features that patients will pay cash for. Reduce Your Oxygen Costs with OxyGo Smart Delivery Equipment costs are only a small fraction of the cost drivers for serving oxygen patients. The majority of tangible costs or expenses of serving oxygen patients are operations costs like labor, delivery, and compliance expenses. Let’s examine how to reduce or eliminate these expenses by replacing tanks with a member of the OxyGo Portable Oxygen Concentrator Family. OxyGo eliminates the delivery, acquisition, maintenance, and hazards of
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Did you know? Home oxygen fires claim a life every four days in the US
The true death toll of home oxygen fires across the United States is likely to be higher than previous estimates by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), a new study – The prevalence and impact of home oxygen fires in the USA – has revealed. The study examines media reports of home oxygen fire incidents in the US between December 2017 and August 2019. It identifies news reports on 311 separate home oxygen fires over a 20-month period. These incidents resulted in a total of 164 deaths, 71 serious injuries, and 119 minor injuries, which amounts to more than one death every four days. Exploding cylinders are referenced in a third of all reported home oxygen fires, posing a significant risk to third parties, including the emergency services. In fact, 11 of the reported deaths were third parties including family members and other residents. A firefighter also fell victim to a home oxygen fire when a propane tank exploded. This new data points towards a material public health problem in the US. Home oxygen fires represent a much higher risk in the United States than the UK, where stakeholders work together to reduce risk and where the fitting of oxygen firebreaks (also known as thermal fuses) is mandatory. In fact, an American oxygen user is 10 times more likely to die in a home oxygen fire than in Japan, and 20 times more likely than in
OxyGo Announces Launch of OxyGo NEXT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 12, 2019 Orlando, FL: OxyGo LLC, a leader in the portable oxygen concentrator market announced the launch of their new six flow setting, Bluetooth enabled POC today. At only 4.7 pounds, and with 6 flow settings, the OxyGo NEXT offers the highest oxygen output per pound of weight of any portable oxygen concentrators currently on the market. Created to meet the needs of oxygen therapy patients and home medical equipment providers – for use at home, away, and for travel. OxyGo NEXT will allow healthcare providers to improve patient outcomes through a new wireless connectivity platform using Bluetooth technology. The platform includes a provider dashboard and mobile application for patient use through mobile devices. Other features include a long battery life of up to 13 hours with the optional double battery, access to the My OxyGo App, a large LCD screen, and is one of the quietest POCs on the market at 38 dB. The My OxyGo Provider Dashboard will work with the My OxyGo App to provide real-time monitoring that will aid in troubleshooting, concentrator health checks, preventative maintenance and geo-locating of patient’s POCs. Both providers and patients will be able to check battery life, column life, oxygen purity and more with the touch of a button! “Patients on oxygen are always concerned about their next breath, and providers now will be able to ensure the patients are getting their required oxygen
Is OxyGo Right for Your Patients?
ABSOLUTELY! Thousands of patients love the OxyGo® family of Portable Oxygen Concentrators, and so will yours. With their compact size, light weight, and long battery life, you can clearly see how OxyGo outperforms all other concentrators on the market. What makes OxyGo POCs so unique is their extremely high reliability rate, outstanding warranty, and innovative design that reduces unit down-time. OxyGo 5 Setting 8.75” x 3.0” x 7.25” 4.8 lbs. The original OxyGo has 5 pulse flow settings (highest portable O2 output available today), 1,050 ml output, and up to 10.25 hours* of battery life—all in a compact, portable unit that weighs less than 5 pounds. OxyGo also has user replaceable batteries and sieve beds that keeps OxyGo in the field working for patients. And with its NEW 5 year warranty, OxyGo is truly designed to Keep Going. OxyGo 5 Setting Comes With: Standard 4.75 hour battery 5 year warranty AC charger for in home, DC charger for car Durable carry bag with strap Nasal cannula # 1400-1000 # 1400-1000-16 (system with double cell battery) OxyGo FIT™ 5.9” x 2.7” x 7.2” 2.8 lbs. We named our newest POC the OxyGo FIT because it is going to “fit” into just about all of your oxygen patients’ lifestyles. It weighs just 2.8 pounds and has 3 settings, with 210 ml of oxy
Fly High with POCs
The POCs you sell or rent to oxygen patients today allow greater freedom than ever before for travel and independence. But they also require your patient to think ahead and plan travel with supplemental oxygen carefully. This is true whether your patient is traveling by car, bus, train or plane. Rules for air travel with POCs are among the most stringent. Air travel, for example, requires POC users to abide by FAA standards related to oxygen use in flight. Here Is information that will help you answer patient questions related to traveling by plane when asked. Both OxyGo® and OxyGo FIT™ are approved POCs by the FAA for air travel. OxyGo is approved because it was included on the original list of approved POCs, under a different trade name, by the FAA. OxyGo FIT is approved because it contains, in red lettering, the FAA requirement: “The manufacturer of this POC has determined this device conforms to all applicable FAA acceptance criteria for POC carriage and use on board aircraft.” When flying with POCs and oxygen there are minimal requirements that every patient needs to know: The equipment must be FAA approved. Compressed gas oxygen tanks or liquid portable units are absolutely forbidden on commercial flights. Patients needs to give airlines advance notice, usually 48-hours, that they will be taking a POC with them. The requirements vary
Is Filling Your Own Cylinders Still the Best Option?
In a world where everything keeps getting more expensive, and portable concentrators seem to the be the next big thing, you may stop and think: Do I need to use oxygen cylinders? The short answer is YES. The long answer is YES … AND you should be filling your own. Let me tell you why. Oxygen cylinders are still a necessity because not every patient’s prescription can be served by an oxygen concentrator, and cylinders are the only option if there is a power outage. This may seem like you are stuck paying high prices to buy cylinders from another company so that you can service your patients. But you aren’t. You can fill your own. And it’s really not that hard. At first it might seem daunting, but let me give you an analogy that can help explain why it’s got a big pay off. Imagine you had to eat out for every meal. You’d be stuck paying quite a bit of money for your food, and you wouldn’t have any control of when you could eat (is the restaurant open 24/7?) or what’s in your food (I asked for no onion on this burger, but I am pretty sure I see one under this cheese…). But if you could cook your meals, you’d save quite a bit of money buying and cooking your own food; plus you could eat whenever you like and know exactly what’s in it. This is just like filling your own cylinders. At first it might see
Zeroing in on the OxyGo Difference
Every company has a reason to explain its existence and survival in a challenging and harsh business environment. This is especially true in home healthcare where Competitive Bidding has forced so many companies to either rethink their business approach or shut their doors. Sometimes the difference between prospering or failing tilts on ever so small differences: a customer service problem fixed here… a finance problem fixed there… just the right person being put in just the right job… storewide teamwork an operational hallmark. The list could go on for pages. I asked Victoria Marquard, this magazine’s editor, to give me five bullet points as to what she thinks constitutes the “OxyGo® Difference”. Here’s what she said and we hope you, our valued reader and (hopefully) customer, agree. Please let us know. 1. PROVIDER LOVE We really love our providers. It sounds cheesy, but it’s true. Our Customer Care team has literally run out of their offices into the warehouse to check on products from shipping, our salesman take a personal interest in providers. We show that too by the programs we have. We want to partner with providers and help them with marketing, help them with earning cash sales in this climate and really see them succeed. 2. SHARED SUCCESS We pass along sales to our providers. We have patients call us, and when they say t
A Checklist for Picking the Right POC
More and more homecare companies are purchasing portable concentrators because they recognize the need to decrease the number of cylinder deliveries and grow their non-delivery model. These companies realize that most of their profits made in today’s lower reimbursement climate are being gobbled up by repetitive delivery costs. Here is a checklist of questions you should ask any POC salesperson. It’s not glamorous. It’s not exciting. But asking these questions will save you and your patients money and make your oxygen program much more profitable in the long run. The answers will help guide you in making the right POC purchasing decisions. Patients need the following, so don’t hesitate to ask: Does the manufacturer put in writing that its portable concentrator can be used during sleep? Does the manufacturer put in writing that its POC can be used with more than 20 feet of tubing — plus cannula? Does the POC have a built-in oxygen analyzer? Does the POC have a backup rate that will engage automatically if a breath isn’t sensed in 60 seconds? How much does it cost to replace the sieve beds? How much are replacement batteries? Can both the battery and sieve beds be replaced in literally seconds on site or does it need to go back to the manufacturer for service? (Hint—that’s expensive!) Does the POC’s battery charge, not just mai
Behind the Scenes with OxyCare Total Advantage
Serendipity: | ser%9n’dip%9d3 | noun the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. good fortune; luck. For Shirley Rice, a Sun City West, AZ, resident who was forced into early retirement by an on-the job injury, discovering OxyCare Total Advantage™ financing was a serendipitous event that made her whole life better. Shirley, a former Ventura, CA school bus driver, injured both of her arms more than six years ago lifting garage doors while on the job. No longer able to work, she retired to Arizona where she also developed COPD. Her worker’s comp insurance settlement paid for home oxygen delivery but authorized only two tanks per month. “It pretty much kept me home,” said Shirley. “I felt chained to the house.” Then came a fortuitous event. “A friend told me about POCs,” said Shirley. “I had seen them advertised on TV but really didn’t make the connection that they could help me so much in my life. The friend allowed me to borrow her POC for a month and I really loved it,” said Shirley. She liked it so much she wanted to buy one but just didn’t have the cash flow to make her POC purchase. Shirley continued: “I looked at POCs from Discount Medical Equipment in Wickenburg, AZ and really liked the OxyGo® POC. The owner, Ruben Lopez, showed me how easy they were to operate. They were much lighter t
POC Game Changer
How OxyGo Is Transforming Lives For The Better Big surprises often come in small packages that can make a huge difference in a person’s life. Read one patient’s personal story… For Cathy Work, a happy-go-lucky grandmother and resident of Sandusky, Ohio, life changed for the better when she found out about OxyGo® POCs. A small OxyGo POC gave her back a sense of independence and the opportunity to once again live a happy and meaningful life. This is Cathy’s story. When health issues related to scarred lungs forced Cathy to be put on continuous flow oxygen in her home, her life changed from happy to sad. Used to coming and going as she pleased, the restrictions of being tethered to oxygen tanks 24/7 sent her spiraling into a hurtful depression. It tested her will power and those of the loving family around her. Home HealthCare TODAY (HHCT) editor-in-chief Victoria Marquard interviewed Cathy and her daughter, Angela, in their suburban Sandusky home this past February. It was Angela who discovered that an OxyGo POC unit was available to help free her mom from the monotony and confinement of oxygen tanks. So gratified were Cathy and Angela with the freedom OxyGo gave them that they happily agreed to the interview with the hope it would encourage other home oxygen patients and providers to make the switch to OxyGo POCs. HHCT: Cathy, It’s obvious you are not a fan of having to use oxygen tanks. Please tell the home healthcare provid
Reduce Costs and Increase Sales with OxyGo "Smart Delivery"
Recently CMS announced another round of oxygen reimbursement cuts. To combat this new decrease, you need to not only reduce your costs, but win more patient referrals and gain cash sales. OxyGo’s® Smart Delivery™ Strategy does both—turning your business from not just surviving—to thriving. OxyGo’s Smart Delivery model has two unique components: The OxyGo Family of Portable Oxygen Concentrators reduces your oxygen costs by up to 38% by limiting deliveries. OxyGo POCs are reliable and easy for patients to use, so you can give them quality service without the large quantities of delivery. OxyGo is the most demanded POC by patients—which directly equates to an increase in business for you. The user-changeable batteries, extra batteries, small size and sleek appearance are features that patients and referral sources look for. And with the aging baby boomer population, OxyGo has the features that patients will pay cash for. Reduce Your Oxygen Costs with OxyGo Smart Delivery Equipment costs are only a small fraction of the cost drivers for serving oxygen patients. The majority of tangible costs or expenses of serving oxygen patients are operations costs like labor, delivery, and compliance expenses. Let’s examine how to reduce or eliminate these expenses by replacing tanks with a member of the OxyGo Portable Oxygen Concentrator Family. OxyGo eliminates the delivery, acquisition, maintenance, and hazards of
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