Life with Quantum

Quantum Rehab’s Bryan Anderson Partners with Gary Sinise Foundation

Friday, September 28, 2012

Exeter, PA – Quantum Rehab’s national spokesperson and Purple Heart recipient Bryan Anderson was recently the guest of honor at the Gary Sinise Foundation’s “Inspiration to Action” dinner. The dinner was held on Sept. 10 in Woodland Hills, CA, and celebrated the organization’s one year anniversary. Approximately 65 people attended the event that honored the Gary Sinise Foundation and recognized the accomplishments made possible as a result of the organization and its supporters’ generosity.

Over the past year, the Gary Sinise Foundation has worked to create and support unique programs designed to entertain, educate, inspire, strengthen and build communities. Whether it be building a Smart Home for a wounded veteran, contributing to the TAPS emergency relief fund, providing meals for deploying and returning troops, offering scholarship funding for veterans and their families, donating two Lt. Dan Vans dedicated to transporting first responders to and from medical facilities, or holding performances by the “Gary Sinise & the Lt. Dan Band” in communities and military bases across the country, the Gary Sinise Foundation is doing their part to respect and honor the American heroes who serve our country.

“I’m extremely proud to partner with the Gary Sinise Foundation and I encourage others to support them in their mission of helping our service men and women,” Anderson said. “The good works they do are extraordinary and they should be recognized and celebrated as a result.”

The Gary Sinise Foundation, headquartered in Studio City, CA, is a nonprofit organization committed to serving and honoring our nation’s defenders, veterans, first responders, their families, and those in need. One hundred percent of every donation goes directly to fulfilling the Gary Sinise Foundation’s mission. For more information or to make a charitable contribution, please visit http://www.garysinisefoundation.org.

Quantum Rehab®, a division of Pride Mobility Products® Corporation, designs and manufactures high-end complex rehabilitation solutions such as power chairs and power positioning seating systems incorporating technologically innovative, intelligent features enabling end-users to achieve their mobility goals. Quantum Rehab’s Q6 Power Chair Series offers end-users optimal seating and positioning functionality, power options, and advanced electronics, including the exclusive TRU-Balance® Power Positioning Systems, the innovative Q-Logic Drive Control System, and Synergy® Cushions and Backs. Headquartered in Exeter, Pa., the company has a manufacturing facility in Duryea, Pa., and also has operations in Australia, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

Quantum Rehab Launches Facebook Page

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Exeter, PA – June 15, 2012 – Quantum Rehab, a division of Pride Mobility Products Corporation, is pleased to announce the launch of the Quantum Rehab Facebook page. The social networking page provides all-new features and resources including exclusive content, videos, behind the scenes sneak peeks, exciting announcements, and customer interaction.

The new Facebook page was also designed to help further develop Quantum Rehab’s brand online. The page will assist in promoting new products and services, communicate industry news and events, share Quantum Rehab video and photo albums, and allow consumer feedback. Also, those who leave a comment or pose a question on the page will be answered directly by a Quantum Rehab representative. Quantum Rehab spokespeople Josh McDermott, Bryan Anderson, and Mark E. Smith will contribute content regularly and an in-depth look at Quantum Rehab over the years is also included via Facebook’s Timeline feature.

“We are very excited for the opportunity that Facebook presents us to engage our customers directly and expand our overall brand awareness,” said Bernie Allen, General Manager, Media Marketing. “We launched the Quantum Facebook page in conjunction with the platform’s switch to their Timeline format, in part, because it allows us to easily tell the story of the evolution of the Quantum brand.”

Visit the new Quantum Rehab Facebook page today at http://www.facebook.com/QuantumRehab and become a part of the fastest growing product owners’ community in the industry. If you have questions or suggestions, please e-mail Qfacebook@pridemobility.com.

Pride Mobility Products® Corp. is the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of mobility products including Jazzy® Power Chairs, Pride® Scooters, Pride® Lift Chairs, and Pride™ Lifts and Ramps. Quantum® Rehab, a division of Pride Mobility, manufactures innovative, complex rehab solutions. The company, headquartered in Exeter, Pa., also has operations in Australia, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Pride Mobility is dedicated to providing expertly designed, engineered, and tested products incorporating technologically innovative, intelligent features enabling end-users to achieve their mobility goals.

Pride and Quantum Acquire Pediatric Seating and Mobility Company

Monday, June 6, 2011

EXETER, PA – Pride Mobility Products Corporation and Quantum Rehab are pleased to announce the acquisition of Kids UP, a pediatric seating and mobility company based in Belgrade, Montana. The acquisition provides clinician recognized complex pediatric rehab solutions to Quantum Rehab’s product offerings.

Kids UP was founded in 2005 based on a passion to provide life-changing seating and positioning technology to children. Their foundational belief and product development flows from the idea that children with disabilities don’t have to sacrifice good positioning in order to have the freedom to move, a principle that Quantum Rehab stands firmly behind.

“The acquisition of Kids UP as a division of Quantum Rehab is a very exciting venture for our organization,” said Scott Meuser, Pride Mobility’s Chairman and CEO. “Kids UP has very unique products for the pediatric population that have gained the reputation for changing the quality of life for children and their families. These products have positively touched so many lives and we look forward to building that momentum by adding their innovative technology to our family of rehab solutions.”

Kids UP products will be integrated into Quantum Rehab’s manual wheelchair offerings and further exemplifies Quantum’s commitment of serving the pediatric market. With Quantum Rehab support, the Kids UP manufacturing facility in Belgrade, Montana – now known as Quantum Montana – will handle all product quoting, ordering and shipping. Product innovations include Kids UP’s Reaction Dynamic Seating System, the Kids FAST Chair, the ROCK 2 Chair, the ROCK 3 Chair and LifeForm, a full line of positioning components.

“We’re excited that such innovative products and the Reaction Dynamic Seating System will continue to change the world of seating and positioning,” said Jay Brislin, MSPT, Director of Quantum Product & Clinical Development. “We believe that the Kids UP products are a perfect addition to Quantum Rehab’s already exceptional line of products and expect that our combined customer focus and strength in research and design will provide some very exciting products in the future.”

For more information, please visit http://www.quantumrehab.com, call 877-454-3787 or email info@kidsupco.com.

2011 Professional Education Partnership Delivers Comprehensive and Cost Effective Educational Opportunities

Monday, February 21, 2011

EXETER, PA – Pride Mobility Products Corporation and Quantum Rehab are pleased to announce the new 2011 Professional Education Partnership. The comprehensive 24-city national tour begins on March 16 in Orlando, FL and continues through October, with a final stop in Wilkes-Barre, PA, near the company’s headquarters.

With educational opportunities at 24 different locations, the 2011 Professional Education Partnership delivers more content to providers while reducing their travel costs for even further value, offers CEU courses at a reasonable price, the best seating and positioning instructors in the industry, and first-hand demonstrations of Pride and Quantum Rehab’s newest product innovations.

“When we set out to determine the curriculum for the Professional Education Partnership, we based our plans directly on what providers are telling us they need,” says Dan Fedor, General Manager of Education & Compliance. “Pride and Quantum feel very strongly that this year’s courses are the most comprehensive to date. They are designed specifically to deliver the required educational credits demanded by the industry in a very affordable venue.”

The 2011 Professional Education Partnership curriculum will include Mobility Product Troubleshooting and Repair, Complex Mobility: Solutions to Meet the Client’s Needs, and The Science of Mat Evaluations & Wheelchair Prescription. In addition, Pride’s Silver Star Certification Course will be offered at select locations as well as Quantum Rehab Technology and Repair. CMS Quality Standards require that all complex rehab providers have at least one service technician per location be factory trained by the manufacturer of the products they sell. Quantum Rehab Technology and Repair applies toward this requirement and supplies a certificate of approval upon completion.

Professional Education Partnership presenters consist of a team of certified specialists who also are featured speakers at industry-related conferences and seminars throughout the country. This year, Jodie Stogner, PT, ATP, who is the founder of Southeastern Assistive Technology Solutions, LLC and Southeastern Assistive Technology Solutions Consultants ,LLC in Jackson, MS, and Bill Pierce, PT, who is a clinician specializing in neuro-rehab at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene, OR, and many more new and returning presenters will share their expertise.

Bryan Anderson, Quantum Rehab spokesperson, will serve as the keynote speaker at several Professional Education Partnership locations. Bryan will attend the Orlando, FL, seminar on March 16 through18; the Nashville, TN, seminar on April 7 and 8; the Dallas, TX, seminar on May 4 through 6; the Honolulu, HI, seminar on May 18; the Newport Beach, CA, seminar on June 9; the Concord, CA, seminar on June 14 and 15; the Olympia, WA, seminar on June 22; the Salt Lake City, UT, seminar on July 12 and 13; the Milwaukee, WI, seminar on July 27; the Boston, MA, seminar on September 14; and, the Wilkes-Barre, PA, seminar on September 22 and 23.

For more information, to see a complete schedule and comprehensive course list for the 2011 Professional Education Partnership, or to sign up to attend, please visit http://www.prideprovider.com or call 1-800-800-8586.

Pride Mobility Products® Corp. is the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of mobility products including Jazzy® Power Chairs, Pride® Scooters, Pride® Lift Chairs, and Pride® Silver Star Lifts and Ramps. Quantum® Rehab, a division of Pride Mobility, manufactures innovative, complex rehab solutions. The company, headquartered in Exeter, Pa., also has operations in Australia, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Pride Mobility is dedicated to providing expertly designed, engineered, and tested products incorporating technologically innovative, intelligent features enabling end-users to achieve their mobility goals.

Pride Mobility and Quantum Rehab Announce New 2011 Professional Education Partnership

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

EXETER, PA – February 2, 2011 – Pride Mobility Products Corporation and Quantum Rehab are pleased to announce the new 2011 Professional Education Partnership, formerly known as the Pride U and Quantum University Seminar Tour.

The Seminar Tour was renamed to Professional Education Partnership to more fully reflect and encompass all that Pride and Quantum deliver to providers and clinicians. The name also more aptly describes the scope of the educational services offered beyond the annual scheduled, instructional seminars throughout the country. The Professional Education Partnership is available at industry trade shows such as Medtrade Spring and Fall, the International Seating Symposium, and makes frequent on-site training visits to rehab facilities and veterans organizations.

“At Pride Mobility and Quantum Rehab, we have always understood that being a true partner to our providers requires that we deliver carefully developed value-added services to help them better meet their patients’ needs while helping their business maintain maximum efficiency. The 2011 Professional Education Partnership is a culmination of that philosophy,” said Dan Fedor, General Manager of Education & Compliance.

The Professional Education Partnership sessions present providers with the opportunity to stay current on product features and functionality and obtain the contact hours (CECs) and Continuing Education Units (CEUs) required by many state and national governing bodies. Beginning in 2011, the Professional Education Partnership will become an International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) authorized provider of CEUs.

“This transition strengthens our current continuing education policies and procedures and exemplifies our drive to offer the highest level training available in the industry,” said Fedor. “This change will also expand Pride and Quantum’s capabilities to provide informative CEU courses that increase participant knowledge and implement real-world product applications.”

IACET requires authorized providers to adhere to internationally recognized continuing education and training standards. IACET CEUs are accepted by RESNA for the ATP certification renewal, the American Occupational Therapy Association and individual Physical Therapy state associations. In addition to the accredited courses, Pride also makes available company experts in the fields of technical training, product research, design, testing, electronics, mechanical functionality, and funding in order to enhance providers’ expertise in the mobility products industry.

For more information, please visit http://www.prideprovider.com or call 1-800-800-8586.

Pride Mobility Products® Corp. is the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of mobility products including Jazzy® Power Chairs, Pride® Scooters, Pride® Lift Chairs, and Pride® Silver Star Lifts and Ramps. Quantum® Rehab, a division of Pride Mobility, manufactures innovative, complex rehab solutions. The company, headquartered in Exeter, Pa., also has operations in Australia, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Pride Mobility is dedicated to providing expertly designed, engineered, and tested products incorporating technologically innovative, intelligent features enabling end-users to achieve their mobility goals.

Pride Mobility and Quantum Rehab Host Disability Mentoring Day for Area Students

Monday, October 25, 2010

Exeter, PA – Pride Mobility Products Corporation and Quantum Rehab recently offered 10 students with disabilities an opportunity to be mentored by career professionals in the various fields at Pride and Quantum during the Disability Mentoring Day (DMD) on Wednesday, October 20 at Pride’s Exeter facility. Attendees also included Luzerne Intermediate Unit 18 Specialists and Learning Support Teachers, as well as observers from Marywood University’s Career Services Department.

DMD is designed to bring students and job seekers with disabilities into the workplace through hands-on career exploration, on-site job shadowing, and ongoing mentoring leading to internship and employment opportunities. Through Pride and Quantum’s DMD, participants were welcomed with opening remarks from Chairman & CEO Scott Meuser and had the opportunity to meet with professionals to learn the typical job responsibilities and the necessary knowledge and skills needed for a specific vocation. Careers in research and development, marketing, education, reimbursement, government affairs, sales, and technical service were highlighted. The event also included a continental breakfast and lunch.

“As with all young people, it’s important that we foster the fullest potentials of those with disabilities toward higher education and rewarding career paths,” says Mark E. Smith, Pride Consumer Research Manager. “For many young people with disabilities, their potentials truly are limitless, and by increasing their awareness of career possibilities through such events as Disability Mentoring Day, we ideally not only inspire their outlooks, but place them on an ultimate path that will impact the lives of many through great careers.”

Justin Warman, a participant from GAR Junior/Senior High School, was impressed by how many career options there are at Pride. “There are a lot of things I like about Pride, but I think the major thing is the company is so diverse,” Warman said. “You can do so many things in just one company.”

Elaine Coburn, Luzerne Intermediate Unit 18 Transition Specialist, said both she and her colleagues were extremely impressed with Pride’s product innovations and professional atmosphere. “The teachers and students were buzzing about the experience on the way home,” said Coburn. “Everyone had a very enjoyable and enlightening day. We look forward to working with Pride again in the future.”

Hosted by the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), the largest national cross-disability membership organization in the United States, DMD connects nearly 20,000 job-seekers with disabilities with thousands of employers in more than 300 locations in every U.S. State and Territory and in more than 24 countries worldwide each year. To find out more about DMD, please visit their website, http://www.dmd-aapd.org.

Pride Mobility Products® Corporation is the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of mobility products including Jazzy® Power Chairs, Pride® Scooters, Pride® Lift Chairs, and Pride® Silver Star Lifts and Ramps. Quantum® Rehab, a division of Pride Mobility, manufactures innovative, complex rehab solutions. The company, headquartered in Exeter, Pa., also has operations in Australia, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Pride Mobility is dedicated to providing expertly designed, engineered, and tested products incorporating technologically innovative, intelligent features enabling end-users to achieve their mobility goals.

Quantum West Delivers Enhanced Regional Support by Expanding Product Configurations

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Exeter, PA – Pride Mobility Products Corporation and Quantum Rehab are pleased to announce that Quantum West will expand its product configurations to include multiple power bases beginning in mid-July. Until recently, Quantum West made readily available only standard seating and single power bases. Multiple power bases, however, will be added with the Q600, Q614 and Q6000Z with TRU-Balance Power Tilt & Recline and Power Front Riggings.

To better serve providers in the Western United States, Pride and Quantum West, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, delivers enhanced regional support by reducing fulfillment times by 5 to 7 working days in 14 states. Not only do clients receive products in a timelier manner, but providers can submit their billing faster, improving business efficiency. Pride and Quantum West also positively impacts East Coast and Central Region providers by allowing for increased volumes at Pride’s East coast facility, as products are produced out of Quantum West.

A dedicated team of Quantum product specialists is in place to ensure that providers and their clients receive the same high-quality products they expect from Quantum Rehab. With efficiency a key focus of operations, Quantum West continually looks at ways to enhance processes to guarantee customer satisfaction.

“Quantum West recently celebrated its one-year anniversary,” said Eric Burkhart, Director of Global Manufacturing. “Many new and exciting things have transpired over the last year and the improvements we are making ultimately helps with efficiency and continually builds customer trust in our abilities to deliver exceptional products in a very timely manner.”
Burkhart continued, “The Quantum West team is eager for growth. They are a self-sufficient group who not only looks at the ways we are building our products, but also ways to improve the process for providers and their clients.”

Pride Mobility and Quantum Rehab Deliver Comprehensive and Cost Effective Educational Opportunities

Monday, January 25, 2010

Exeter, PA – Pride Mobility Products Corporation announces the 2010 Pride U and Quantum University Seminar Tour. The comprehensive 27-city national tour begins on February 9 in Charlotte, N.C., and continues through October, with a final stop in Wilkes-Barre, PA, near the company’s headquarters.

Pride Mobility and Quantum Rehab have invested in a comprehensive, annual Seminar Tour since 2000 that travels the country presenting Continuing Education Units (CEUs) via courses approved by the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences. As of 2010, Seminar Tour courses are also state approved by the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) and the State Physical Therapy Associations. These educational sessions present providers with the opportunity to stay current on product features and functionality and obtain the contact hours (CECs) and CEUs required by many state and national governing bodies. In addition to the accredited courses, Pride also makes available company experts in the fields of technical training, product research, design, testing, electronics, mechanical functionality, and funding in order to enhance providers’ expertise in the mobility products industry.

With seminars and educational opportunities at 27 different locations, the 2010 Seminar Tour delivers more content to our Providers while reducing their travel costs for even further value, offers CEU courses at a reasonable price, the best seating and positioning instructors in the industry, and first-hand demonstrations of Pride and Quantum Rehab’s newest product innovations.

“Every year when we set out to determine the curriculum for the Seminar Tour, we base our plans directly on what providers are telling us they need,” says Dan Fedor, General Manager of Education & Compliance. “Pride and Quantum feel very strongly that this year’s seminars are the most comprehensive to date. They are designed specifically to deliver the required educational credits demanded by the industry in a very affordable venue.”
The 2010 Seminar Tour curriculum will include Medical Diagnosis and Power Wheelchair Electronics, PMD Audit Survival Guide, Reimbursement Fundamentals for Complex Rehab, and The Science of Mat Evaluations & Wheelchair Prescription. In addition, Pride’s Silver Star Certification Course will be offered at select locations.

Seminar Tour presenters consist of a team of certified specialists who also are featured speakers at industry-related conferences and seminars throughout the country. This year, Virginia Walls, PT, MS, NCS, ATP, who is the Regional Director of National Rehab Hospital in Washington, DC, and Michelle L. Lange, OTR, ABDA, ATP, who is an Independent Clinical Consultant, and many more new and returning presenters will share their expertise on the 2010 Pride U and Quantum University Seminar Tour.

Bryan Anderson, Quantum Rehab spokesperson, will serve as the keynote speaker at several Seminar Tour locations. In his presentation, Bryan relates the story of how he was injured by an Improvised Explosive Device in Iraq, his subsequent rehabilitation at Walter Reed Medical Center, and his determination to enjoy life and take advantage of the opportunities before him. Bryan will attend the Charlotte, NC, seminar on February 9; the Nashville, TN, seminar on March 17 and 19; the Las Vegas, NV, Quantum University at Medtrade Spring seminar on May 11; the Concord, CA, seminar on June 15; the Pittsburgh, PA, seminar on August 25; the Atlantic City, NJ, seminar on September 14; and, the Wilkes-Barre, PA, seminar on October 6.

For more information, to see a complete schedule and comprehensive course list for the 2010 Pride U and Quantum University Seminar Tour, or to sign up to attend, please visit www.prideprovider.com or www.quantum-university.com or call 1-800-800-8586.