Hillrom (NYSE:HRC) announced today that it launched its Hillrom extended care s0lution for vital signs monitoring and shifting care closer to home. Chicago-based Hillrom’s monitoring device ensures caregiver access to data-driven information with the Welch Allyn 4400 all-in-one vital signs platform that includes a patient app and clinician review portal, according to a news release. The […]
Hillrom secures EUA for use of MetaNeb system with coronavirus patients
Hillrom (NYSE:HRC) announced today that it received FDA emergency use authorization (EUA) for its MetaNeb system to help COVID-19 patients. Chicago-based Hillrom designed MetaNeb to combine lung expansion, secretion clearance and aerosol delivery into a single therapy session available for use with any ventilator. MetaNeb includes a closed-circuit design with a bacterial-viral filter to protect patients […]
Hamilton Medical, Vyaire lead the way among 7 new ventilator contracts from HHS
Hamilton Medical, Vyaire and Zoll Medical by far had the largest ventilator contracts among seven new deals that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced. The contracts, announced yesterday evening and worth a total of $1.44 billion, come on top of previously announced deals with Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG), which is receiving $646.7 million, […]
Trump uses DPA to boost supplies to certain ventilator manufacturers
President Donald Trump yesterday invoked the Defense Production Act to reduce supply-chain problems for certain manufacturers to produce ventilators. In the executive order, the president gave the secretaries of the departments of Health & Human Services and Homeland Security the power to secure materials for General Electric (NYSE:GE), Hillrom (NYSE:HRC) , Medtronic (NYSE:MDT), ResMed (NYSE:RMD), Philips (NYSE:PHG) and Vyaire Medical. Ventilator […]
U.S. ventilator manufacturing is rapidly expanding: Here’s how
Amid a shortage of life-saving ventilators due to the coronavirus pandemic, medical device companies are rapidly expanding production, trade group AdvaMed reported today. Respiratory device companies that belong to AdvaMed have boosted ventilators production to 2,000–3,000 per week — and expect to soon reach 5,000–7,000 ventilators per week. Last year, the same companies were making […]
How will coronavirus affect medtech companies that rely on elective surgeries?
One thing is likely to hurt some medtech companies more than others during the coronavirus pandemic: an elective surgical procedure slowdown. This thought had begun to emerge last week among industry watchers, but a pair of tweets over the weekend gained thousands of “likes” and retweets. The American College of Surgeons called for hospitals to […]
Hillrom shares slide despite topping Street forecast
Hillrom (NYSE:HRC) shares dipped today on first-quarter results that fell short of last year’s numbers but still topped the consensus forecast. The Chicago-based company posted profits of $39.8 million, or 59¢ per share, on sales of $685 million for the three months ended Dec. 31, 2019, for a 5.7% bottom-line slide on sales growth of 0.15%. […]
Hillrom tops estimates with fiscal Q4, 2019 numbers
Hillrom (NYSE:HRC) today posted fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year numbers that beat the consensus forecast all around. The Chicago-based medical products giant reported profits of $27.9 million, or 41¢ per share, on sales of $782.8 million for the three months ended Sept. 30, for a -69.1% bottom-line slide on sales growth of 3.1%. Adjusted to exclude […]
Hillrom offers $425m in private-placement funding notes
Hillrom (NYSE:HRC) said today that it has launched a planned private offering of more than $400 million in senior unsecured notes. The Chicago-based medtech company said it intends to use the proceeds from the $425 million offering, along with available cash, to redeem its outstanding 5.75% senior notes due in 2023, including the payment of related […]
Hillrom to pay $130m for Breathe Technologies as fiscal Q3 numbers top forecast
Hillrom (NYSE:HRC) said today that it agreed to pay $130 million in cash for Breathe Technologies and posted fiscal third-quarter numbers that topped the consensus on Wall Street. Irvine, Calif.-based Breathe Technologies developed the Life2000 ventilation system, a wearable, non-invasive mechanical ventilation device for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, interstitial lung disease, restrictive thoracic […]
Hillrom deals surgical consumables biz to Audax for $170m
Hillrom (NYSE:HRC) said today that it inked a deal to sell its surgical consumables business to private equity shop Audax for $170 million in cash. Chicago-based Hillrom, fresh from a May rebranding, said the lines being sold to Audax include its Bard-Parker scalpels and blades and other operating room accessories. The surgical consumable unit’s 500 […]
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