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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El Dorado Hills, CA USA – American River Medical has launched a project to officially define the commonly used word phrase “Medical Cart” for the benefit of the greater medical cart industry. Originally defined online in 2011 by American River Medical, now the project is going in front of the dictionary officials at Merriam-Webster for review and acceptance.

Project Basics – see complete project to learn more

Project: Medical Cart Definition – Define What You Do

What: Define What You Do – After eight years in medical carts around 2011 American River Medical President, Tagg Neal, heard a motivational speech which said, “Define What You Do.” He had dedicated nearly a decade of his career to medical carts and asked the question, “What is the definition of a medical cart?” After research he found it had never been defined – a definition did not exist. He performed a process to define the word phrase “Medical Cart” which was used dozens of times a day in his life. After distillation and refinement he posted his proposed definition on this website in 2011 and it has been American River Medical’s working definition ever since:

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

Who: American River Medical is a innovation, design and service company focused on medical cart and storage systems for healthcare. We welcome the opportunity for potential project collaboration

Why: Our mission is to provide medical cart systems, services, and solutions that make healthcare professionals’ calling more meaningful, efficient and effective

Example: The hospital utilizes various “Medical carts” to optimize the storage, mobility, and access of medical equipment, supplies, medication, and electronic data for their staff’s practice of healthcare

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Who We Are: American River Medical is a innovation, design and service company focused on medical cart and storage systems for healthcare. We embrace project based work, collaboration, and thinking “Outside the box” that offer opportunities to positively impact medical cart system solutions for healthcare. We fuse our experience to apply innovation where inefficiencies exist, and creativity to apply design improvements for medical cart system solutions. True Solutions. We are a certified Veteran Owned Small Business and a sought after diversified supplier for hundreds of healthcare systems. As a medical professional, you’ve dedicated yourself to patient care. Our mission is to provide medical cart systems, services, and solutions that make your calling more meaningful, efficient and effective.

We welcome inquiries from healthcare facilities as well as suppliers and manufactures of medical cart solutions to learn how collaboration with American River Medical works for our clients.

See our Services page to learn more and contact us today for product #AR-VAR

Who We Are: American River Medical is a innovation, design and service company focused on medical cart and storage systems for healthcare. We embrace project based work, collaboration, and “Thinking outside the box” that offer opportunities to positively impact medical cart system solutions for healthcare. We fuse our experience to apply innovation where inefficiencies exist, and creativity to apply design improvements for medical cart system solutions. True Solutions. We are a certified Veteran Owned Small Business and a sought after diversified supplier for hundreds of healthcare systems. As a medical professional, you’ve dedicated yourself to patient care. Our mission is to provide medical cart systems, services, and solutions that make your calling more meaningful, efficient and effective.

Whether you’re expecting a medical cart delivery or still looking to start your order – let us assist with medical cart delivery assist services so you can remain focused on healthcare. You’ll be glad you did!

See our Services page to learn more and contact us today for product #AR-DAS

Who We Are: American River Medical is a innovation, design and service company focused on medical cart and storage systems for healthcare. We embrace project based work, collaboration, and “Thinking outside the box” that offer opportunities to positively impact medical cart system solutions for healthcare. We fuse our experience to apply innovation where inefficiencies exist, and creativity to apply design improvements for medical cart system solutions. True Solutions. We are a certified Veteran Owned Small Business and a sought after diversified supplier for hundreds of healthcare systems. As a medical professional, you’ve dedicated yourself to patient care. Our mission is to provide medical cart systems, services, and solutions that make your calling more meaningful, efficient and effective.

El Dorado Hills, CA USA – American River Medical has launched a project to identify solutions for the well known associated problems with today’s “Medical cart mobile power systems.”

Project Basics – see complete project to learn more

Project: Medical Cart Mobile Power Systems

What: medical cart mobile power systems are the on board (on cart) power supply systems or components that power adjunct peripherals, typically of the IT category, and potentially the cart’s own access control system.

Problem: medical cart power systems are negatively impacting workplace safety, costs and quality of care

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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.