MedTech Dive July 25, 2024
Nick Paul Taylor

Rotech will help Owens & Minor get closer to its 2028 sales goal with home medical equipment, including sleep and oxygen devices, hospital beds and wheelchairs.

Dive Brief:

  • Owens & Minor on Tuesday agreed to buy home medical equipment company Rotech Healthcare Holdings for $1.36 billion.
  • Orlando, Florida-based Rotech has more than 4,200 employees and provides products and services in 46 states. The takeover is expected to close by the end of 2024.
  • Rotech is “fairly heavily deep into sleep and oxygen,” Jonathan Leon, Owens & Minor’s interim CFO, told investors Tuesday. The acquiring company expects a significant number of patients to continue to need such products despite the growing use of GLP-1 drugs.

Dive Insight:

Owens &...

Today's Sponsors

LEK
ZeOmega

Today's Sponsor

LEK

 
Topics: Medical Devices, Mergers & Acquisitions / JV, Trends
UN warns of military brain control
Only 20% of AI devices for children used pediatric data to train: 3 notes
Medtech firms have cut thousands of jobs this year. Will layoffs continue in 2025?
Proton therapy market in the US projected to reach $2.67 billion by 2033
How Trump’s second term will affect the medtech industry

Share This Article