Celebrating 15 Years of Carts and Storage for Nursing, American River Medical is reflecting with gratitude.

In 2008 Founder and President Taggart Neal found himself with an opportunity to serve a hospital cart client beyond his current role of employment. Over that time American River Medical has performed countless medical cart, workstation cart, and medical storage solution proposals, service and sales for hospital nursing staff. Primarily focused on acute care hospitals in the western US, American River Medical has enjoyed over ten sales representatives and territory managers, six college interns, and greater than fifty suppliers and manufacturers.

Contributing to its success are its unsurpassed personalized service, and its discriminating product portfolio. Word of mouth, referral, and repeat clientele continue to be the engine behind its medical cart business opportunities of service before and beyond “The quote.” American River Medical only represents the very best in medical cart and storage product lines for nursing.

“We do more than make a call and email a quote, we show up and listen, listen, and listen some more, then deliver the best carts that elevate nurses ability to provide superior patient care. That’s our role and we love it!”

The relationships formed over these years with nurses in over ten states are the greatest pride and joy of American River Medical. These relationships are based on trust, respect, industry knowledge, and level of service ARM is small enough to accept and big enough to deliver.

President and Founder Taggart Neal says, “We do more than make a call and email a quote, we show up and listen, listen, and listen some more, then deliver the best carts that elevate nurses ability to provide superior patient care. That’s our role and we love it!” When asked what has been the most valuable lesson in the fifteen years in business Neal thinks for a minute and opines, “We spent two to three years learning what we do great and what we do pretty good or okay. Learning to be disciplined and stay in our lane doing only what we do great is likely our most valuable lesson in terms of growing business by being the best we can be for hospital nursing staff. We eat, sleep and dream medical carts. We are medical carts for nursing.”

American River Medical has sold and delivered carts into over ten states where their focus areas reside in California, New Mexico, Nevada, and Arizona. Technology has advanced their offerings to mobile computing carts, tele-health / tele-medicine carts, tablet carts, wall arm desk workstations, of course medical carts of various applications for every department in a hospital. The global pandemic COVID-19 saw the addition to ARM’s portfolio of single patient use carts, as the HEROCart™ from TAGCarts® was deployed and served various pop-up and temporary environments of care.

In 2023 American River Medical enjoys representing a small group of medical and workstation cart manufacturers and suppliers, as they focus only on bringing the most innovative and highly designed cart solutions to their existing and prospective hospital clientele. The company has received various awards and acknowledgments over the years, is in the accounts payable systems of over 750 hospitals, and is a proud diversified supplier as a Veteran Owned Small Business.

American River Medical thanks all nurses for performing a very difficult and exhausting job. We are grateful to all of our suppliers past and current, who enable us to be small part of making nurses’ work safer, more efficient, and rewarding along the way.

Cheers to 15 Years!

– Team American River Medical (Kari, Tina, Tami and Tagg)

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This Anesthesia Cart provides abundant, controlled, mobile, and optimized anesthesia supply storage – American River Medical.

Anesthesia Cart medication drawer supply storage is controlled, optimized, and mobile – American River Medical

In the surgery suites the Anesthesia Cart really plays three primary functions for the Anesthesiologist or CRNA (Certified Nurse Anesthetist): 

• Access Control
• Mobility
• Supply Optimization

Anesthesia Cart supply storage is controlled, optimized, and mobile – American River Medical

The access control on the anesthesia cart must provide security for the contents of the cart while simultaneously giving authorized users access. It should be pointed out that this is “Critical Access” as the patient is sedated and/or anesthestitized during the procedure and quick and direct access is literally a life or death matter. The anesthesia cart itself will typically have dual credentialed access. This means that one credential is required to access the cart itself, while a secondary access credential is required to access the medications and narcotics. This feature allows the benefit of staff to access and restock the non substance controlled supplies and equipment without having access to the controlled substances drawer(s) of the cart. 

Once the primary access credential has been utilized to access the main cart, the anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist may provide a secondary credential to access the medications, narcotics, and controlled substance area of the anesthesia cart. 

Primary and secondary credentials can be Keys (key plus core lock), numeric codes or sequences entered into an electronic keypad, or RFID proximity cards presented to a reader integrated with the anesthesia cart. In the early years of this millennial there was a wide spread adoption of the proximity cards for anesthesia cart access control. However this trend has reversed in the last five years due to the laborious processes involved in maintaining user databases for the cards. Temporary anesthesia groups may be contracted one year and gone the next, anesthesia technician staff turnover is frequent, and another factor is the replacement of lost or misplaced cards. The hard costs of implementing the proximity card feature as well as the soft costs of operationally maintaining the compliance of that feature have caused a trend back toward the electronic keypad and numeric sequences assigned to individual users. The electronic keypad numerical sequence seems to provide the best of both worlds in simplicity and compliance. 

Mobility 
The anesthesia cart give the supplies, equipment, and medication mobility. Mobility gives the surgical department three primary options for their Anesthesia Cart Systems. 

1. Mobile Anesthesia Carts allow for a Anesthesia Cart Exchange System. A surgery department with ten suites may have twenty to twenty four anesthesia carts. The anesthesia technicians are reconciling the supplies in the carts from the prior days use, and “Exchanging” them at the end of the day. Thus the surgical suites have brand new reconciled anesthesia carts with complete supplies at the ready to start their day’s surgical procedures. Then they restock the other ten to twelve carts to switch out at the end of that day. This requires increased PAR levels of anesthesia equipment, supplies, and medication, but makes for a seamless and continual use of anesthesia carts fully optimized for patient care. 
2. Mobile Anesthesia carts allow for a Multi-Use Anesthesia Cart System. In contrary to the anesthesia cart exchange system, some surgical departments with the same ten suites may only utilize seven to eight carts. In some instances surgical suites are not used concurrently and therefore there is no need to have the sum of anesthesia carts equal to the sum of surgical suites. A multi-use anesthesia cart system provides the benefits of reduced PAR levels of supplies, equipment, and medications. When a procedure is completed in one suite, the anesthesia cart can be rolled into another suite that is about to be operated in. They can also all be rolled into the anesthesia room at the end of the day for restocking, and then rolled back into the specific suites where the first procedures of the following day will take place. 
3. Mobile Anesthesia Carts may also provide for Physician Specific Anesthesia Cart Systems. Physician Specific Anesthesia Cart Systems provide for each anesthesiologist (or CRNA) to have their own specific Anesthesia Cart. Anesthesiologist have a critical role in patient surgical outcomes. A Physician Specific Anesthesia Cart System empowers them to individually optimize their own cart on a day to day basis, maintaining one hundred percent accountability for their practice. In this system you may see a potpourri of different cart types, manufacturers, and even premier sound systems which often play anything from Johann Sebastian Bach to Pink Floyd for a tranquil operating environment. 

Supply Optimization 
Anesthesia Carts provide for anesthesia supplies, equipment, and medication to be optimally stored in a logical orientation. This includes syringes, needles, medications, tracheal tubes, oxygen masks, and much more. The cart represents individual storage compartments in the way of drawers (which have additional subdivided trays and dividers), Clear Tilt Bins, shelves, and a worktop surface. Having all of their necessary “Tools” at their disposal, organized, and yet in one comprehensive location enhances their ability to deliver optimal care to the patient during surgical procedures. 

Avalo Anesthesia Cart supply storage controlled, optimized, and mobile – American River Medical

Summary

Anesthesia carts provide access control, mobility, and supply optimization. American River Medical has the expertise, resources, and experience to learn about your Anesthesia Cart System and offer a custom tailored True Solution to fit your needs. Critical care requires critical procedures, protocols, and systems. Old and outdated anesthesia carts may contaminate supplies, jeopardize compliance, prevent optimal delivery of care, or all of the above. An Anesthesia Cart Refresh with American River Medical may be just what the doctor ordered. 

To learn more about anesthesia carts or all things medical carts please visit the #1 Google ranked medical cart blog, cartadvocate.com 

About – American River Medical is the west coast medical cart and storage leader for the industry’s leading manufacturers and suppliers. We are focused and purposeful in serving clients’ complete medical cart and storage experience. Our commitment to clients is demonstrated through service centered representation of only the best brands. American River Medical’s cart and storage systems improve quality of patient care through optimized storage of equipment, supplies, medications, and data. ARM’s core competency in carts and storage combined with value-add services and strategic partnerships deliver a proven, unique, and refreshing value proposition. True Solutions.

Fluid ULT Wall Mounted Workstation: 

Maximum Stability & Flexibility

El Dorado Hills, CA USA – Fluid ULT Wall Mounted Workstation: Maximum stability and flexibility by Capsa Solutions Rubbermaid Healthcare is showcased in video above. This point of care solution can be provided, installed, and integrated by American River Medical. Contact American River Medical here or call 1-eight00-two8five-twenty3hundred

Point of Care Refresh with Capsa Solutions Rubbermaid Healthcare and American River Medical

Point of Care Refresh with Capsa

El Dorado Hills, CA USA – Point of Care Refresh with Capsa Solutions Rubbermaid Healthcare. American River Medical performs “Mobile Computing Fleet Analysis” for hospital information system and nursing informatics teams in hospitals. This provides and indepth report of their existing technology platforms utilized to power their EHR’s.

Mobile computing carts and workstations continue to play the most vital role for hospital EHR technology platforms. Mobile computing carts are powerful, mobile, ergnomic, and intuitive. Healthcare professionals constantly utilize their carts for EHR management and optimal patient care.

The Problem

The current problems is an age old problem of the technology curve: Obselesence. Since the mandatory implementation of Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) circa 2012 many hospitals are experiencing mobile computing fleets that are simply outdated, underpowered, and aesthetically used and abused. EHR is paramount to patient care outcomes in the following ways:

• Patient healthcare record data access and input 
• Medication Administration and Dispensing
• Revenue Charge Capture

Collectively these represent major character roles in any successful healthcare setting. The paramount function of patient healthcare record data collecting and access, medication administration and dispensing, and revenue charge capture requires a technology platform that can exececute at speeed and accuracy of today’s modern age.

Outdated point of care technology platforms are burdensome on hospital information system teams. Thus, outdated mobile computing carts are not only inhibiting a hospital’s ability to perform they are costing them valuable resources in ongoing deferred maintenance and operation.

The Solution

Performing as an individual team, point of care mobile computing carts and workstations are the empowering trifecta. They empower clinical healthcare professionals,  hospital pharmacy staff, and EHR patient record and billing staff. How your point of care mobile computing fleet executes these functions directly impacts a hospitals ability to deliver optimal patient outcomes and the bottom line.

Point of Care Refresh 2017

Hospitals engage American River Medical to perform “Mobile Computing Fleet Analysis.” With a team approach from our product manufacturer Capsa Solutions Rubbermaid Healthcare we provide hospitals with a comprehensive analysis that includes detailed focus on performance, power, compliance, technology interface, and ergonomics. By performing this analysis we demonstrate where a hospital’s mobile computing fleet has been, where it is now, and what it looks like in the future along the same path or with a “Refresh” of new technology in the form of an advanced fleet of mobile computing carts.

Hospitals that practice continual improvement in patient care and outcomes will review their EHR interface technology. The mobile computing cart and workstation is the pinnacle hardware technology interface in that equation.

Contact American River Medical to schedule your Point of Care Refresh with Capsa Solutions Rubbermaid Healthcare today by calling 1-8hundred-2eight5-twenty3hundred or emailing here and scheduling your Mobile Computing Fleet Analysis

 Avalo Medical Carts – Capsa Solutions

Avalo Medical Carts – Capsa Solutions: Secure. Flexible. Reliable.

Avalo Medical Carts by Capsa Solutions are secure, flexible, and reliable. American River Medical offers the Avalo brand medical carts in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada. Our clients continue to request and purchase these medical carts for the primary reasons of:

• Aesthetics
• Modularity – Access Control/Drawer & Bin Configuration
• Accessory Capacity

Bedside Carts, IV Carts, Code Blue Crash Carts, Supply Carts, Medication Carts, Treatment Carts, and many types of Specialty Carts have all been medical cart applications that make Avalo our overall best selling medical cart.

American River Medical’s expertise in medical carts combined with brands like the Avalo from Capsa Solutions give clients and easy path to superior mobile cart solutions.  To learn more about various medical cart solutions please visit our blog at: www.cartadvocate.com

Please View & Learn more about the Avalo medical cart’s features and benefits by viewing the video above and give American River Medical a call to help with your medical cart needs. 1-800-2eight5-twenty3hundred

Our “Mobile Solution Spotlight” for May is the MX Series Medication Workstation by Capsa Solutions. The MX offers all of the five major components with several customizable peripheral features that tailor it to your exact medication administration workflow protocols. As with all types of mobile computing, medication workstations have several departments involved in the selection process due to use, critical data, and of course maintenance and service. The MX Medication Workstation is a True Solution.

Medication Workstation MX Series is our “Mobile Solution Spotlight” of the month for May 2015 and a winner for medication administration with Nursing and IS / IT

EHR Computer Interface

The MX has raving fans from IS/IT due to it’s ability to work with hospital standardized computing platforms; Laptops, Small Form Factors, AIO’s, and mounted Tablets). In addition the ease and speed of battery change out is an absolute favorite feature of the MX Medication Workstation. The eMAR scanning gun for bar code administration is conveniently mounted and also customizable.

Software

Medication Workstations also support medication administration management software (MAMS) to integrate with hospital systems’ electronic healthcare records (EHR). The latop or computer interface on the MX will support your team’s MAMS. As for software to manage your fleet of carts and users – the MX series offers a robust software in Cartwatch Remote Management System. Cartwatch is a web based laptop cart IT security management software. It enables administrators to update and control access to carts quickly and easily. It eliminates the need to visit all carts individually for audits and reprogramming. Cartwatch sports an intuitive and friendly user database and delivers automatic, customized, and detailed reporting for the entire hospital medication workstation fleet.

Mobility

Nursing staff continue to praise the MX Workstation’s for their mobility and user interface. The MX has a sturdy but minimal footprint with 4″ polyurethane all swivel ball bearing wheels that offer smooth maneuverability on any surface (carpet, wood, laminate, or tile). The aluminum column offers mounting accessories for tablets or wire baskets, and offers convenient workstation heights with manual or electronic height adjust. With additional features like pull out keyboard, optional floor lighting, and ergonomic handles with anti-microbial properties, the MX Medication Workstation serves nursing staff the user interface they demand and deserve.

Power Supply

The MX Medication Workstation medical cart series offers AC, DC, and other power supply options. These features allow the hospital to tailor their medication workstations for their use, maintenance, and budget all maximizing their “Up Time” and value.

Medication Bins

We’ve learned over the last decade that no two hospital medication administration workflow systems are exactly the same. The MX Medication Workstation shines in it’s ability to offer multiple configurations of medication bins. This permits different nursing units to specify the medication bins to meet their unit’s needs; And optimize their Point-of-Care medication administration.

Medication Workstation MX Series medical carts are American River Medical’s “Mobile Solution Spotlight” for May 2015

Medication Workstation MX Series “Mobile Solution Spotlight” May 2015 Features:

• Software – web based cart remote management
• Multiple power supply options
• Customizable Computer Interfaces (AIO, form factor, laptop)
• Medication bin configurations (5.5″ w or 8.25″w for cassettes)
• eMAR scanning for use at point-of-care
• Mobility and maneuverability excellence
• Multitude of customizable features (floor lighting, electronic height adjust…)

 The American River Medical Advantage

Our team’s experience and leadership in medication workstations consistently provides clients the personable service they enjoy and the professional expertise to perform. American River Medical understands the obstacles, departments involved, and how to serve your needs throughout the various stages of medication workstation procurement. Our team utilizes internal systems, software and personnel to maintain levels of accountability and excellence – providing your team transparency and updates in real time along the way.  Industry leading manufacturer’s and suppliers partner with American River Medical giving us the best in class medication workstation solutions. When we combine our service centered dedication with these solutions – your team wins, and we like that.

To learn more about this Medication Workstation call American River Medical, LLC at 800-2eight5-23hundred, view our Medication Workstations and Mobile Computing Carts here, Request a Quote or Demo here, or Connect with us here.

The Medication Workstation MX Series medical cart is our “Mobile Solution Spotlight” for May 2015, a leader in it’s market, and a True Solution.

About – American River Medical, LLC is a medical manufacturers’ representative group of True Solutions. The team is focused and purposeful in serving clients’ complete medical cart and storage experience. The commitment to clients is demonstrated through service centered representation of only the best brands. American River Medical’s cart and storage systems improve quality of patient care through optimized storage of equipment, supplies, medications, and data. ARM’s core competency in carts and storage combined with value-add services and strategic partnerships deliver a proven, unique, and refreshing value proposition. True Solutions.

The Avalo AM-10-MC Isolation Cart by Capsa Solutions is a leader in it’s market. It’s unique HDPE material cart design make it inherently lightweight, scratch resistant, and able to handle the bumps and bruises over it’s lifetime travel. It’s 5″ precision ball bearing polyurethane all swivel casters enable it to roll with ease, and it is available with one, two or no handles. Isolation Cart favorite accessories like IV pole, Slide Thru Shelf, Sharps Bracket, Waste Container, and Label Holders can readily be added.

This Isolation Cart leader comes in Compact, Intermediate, and Standard heights. The Yellow color is standard on the end panels, but the Avalo Isolation Cart is also available in all Beige with Yellow drawer accents only.

• Lightweight
• Durable
• HDPE Exterior Material Design (non-metal)
• Modular (Drawers, Height Options, Handles and Accessories)
• Looks Great in Yellow
• Is available for Demo

The AM-10-MC Isolation Cart shown here is a healthcare  market leader and American River Medical’s “Mobile Solution Spotlight” winner for March 2015

To learn more about this Isolation Cart give American River Medical, LLC a call at 800-2eight5-23hundred, view our Isolation Cart product page here, Request a Quote or Demo here, or Connect with us here.

All in all, the Avalo AM-10-MC Isolation Cart is our “Mobile Solution Spotlight” for March 2015, a leader in it’s market, and a True Solution.

About – American River Medical, LLC is a medical manufacturers’ representative group of True Solutions. The team is focused and purposeful in serving clients’ complete medical cart and storage experience. The commitment to clients is demonstrated through service centered representation of only the best brands. American River Medical’s cart and storage systems improve quality of patient care through optimized storage of equipment, supplies, medications, and data. ARM’s core competency in carts and storage combined with value-add services and strategic partnerships deliver a proven, unique, and refreshing value proposition. True Solutions.

The VX and LX Point of Care solutions offer multiple power and drawer configurations. Call 1-800-285-2300 for an American River Medical team member to contact you today.

Capsa Solutions, LLC is a world leader in mobile computing, storage, and medication administration systems. Capsa has a comprehensive family of solutions for hospital / acute care, long term care, as well as ambulatory and clinic environments. The Capsa family of products are quickly becoming the “Go-To” for storage solutions that secure and mobilize the healthcare clinical and medication processes. The Capsa Solutions site here, offers a complete viewing of all their product solutions – and library with readily available support manuals, brochures, warranties, and other client related literature.

The ACMi Medication Workstation provides healthcare professionals both optimum medication storage and mobile computing administration. Multiple power options and over 490 bin configurations are available to customize to your workflow.

Medical Cart – noun, /med-i-kul – ‘kart/; “Mobile systems, solutions, or workstations that optimize the storage, mobilization, and access of healthcare equipment, supplies, medication, and electronic data.” -American River Medical, LLC

Medical carts are an omnipresent part of hospital and healthcare workers’ daily and hourly workflow. Capsa Solutions provides the following market solutions to American River Medical’s portfolio:

-Mobile Computing
-Medical Carts
-Medication Carts
-Med Administration, Tables & Workstations, and Computer Wall Mount Arms

The Avalo Isolation cart features industry leading engineering and design. It is lightweight and durable to optimize functionality. Available in compact, intermediate, and standard (shown 10-High) heights.

American River Medical’s representation of Capsa Solutions now includes Central California, Northern California, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. Whether your hospital is looking at a fleet of mobile computing carts, laptop workstations, medication carts, code blue crash carts, isolation carts, anesthesia carts, or adding wall mounted computer arms near the patient bedside – ARM has a solution for you. American River Medical is now performing complimentary Cart and Storage Analysis for clients. Take the first step to schedule a representative here.

About – Capsa Solutions is a worldwide leader in developing and delivering innovative products to mobilize the healthcare clinical and medication control processes. With combined product lines that include medication carts, medical carts, computer carts, and processing solutions, Capsa Solutions offers its markets decades of experience and a unique ability to meet the demands of diverse healthcare environments. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Capsa Solutions has an additional management, manufacturing, and distribution facility in Columbus, Ohio.

About – American River Medical is a medical manufacturers’ representative group of True Solutions. The team is focused and purposeful in serving clients’ complete medical cart and storage experience. The commitment to clients is demonstrated through service centered representation of only the best brands. American River Medical’s cart and storage systems improve quality of patient care through optimized storage of equipment, supplies, medications, and data. ARM’s core competency in carts and storage combined with value-add services and strategic partnerships deliver a proven, unique, and refreshing value proposition. True Solutions.

San Francisco, CA  USA –  Northern California’s newest medical center is set to open February 1, 2015. American River Medical was recently onsite to support the roll out and integration of their integrated mobile computing carts.

All fun and games for cart cowboys after throwing cardboard and pallets on the receiving dock – Michael snags Tagg with bunny ears!

The carts’ consist of all in one mounted computers, RFID access control, bar code scanners, as well as keyboard and mouse. The culmination of these features optimize EHR (electronic healthcare records) at the point of care. The ACMi models (shown above) offer drawer configurations of 2-3″, 2-6″, and 1-10″ with extra side utility drawers of the same configuration top to bottom. Five inch premium steel-boot casters, LCD screen user interface, push handle, and high density poly-ethylene (HDPE) / steel frame construction are features that make this cart best in class. UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay’s staff and facility are fabulous. American River Medical is grateful to provide their mobile medical cart point of care solutions.

Integrated Med Carts selected are ACSi and ACMi Avalo series by Capsa Solutions.

About – American River Medical is the medical manufacturers’ representative group of True Solutions. The team is focused and purposeful in serving clients’ complete medical cart and storage experience. The commitment to clients is demonstrated through service centered representation of only the best brands. American River Medical’s cart and storage systems improve quality of patient care through optimized storage of equipment, supplies, medications, and data. ARM’s core competency in carts and storage combined with value-add services and strategic partnerships deliver a proven, unique, and refreshing value proposition. True Solutions.