Medtrade West Delivers On In-Person Promise

After more than a year on hiatus, the home medical equipment (HME) industry’s largest trade show returned in person in July, with Medtrade West meeting in Phoenix.

“We made it! We’re back in person,” Associate Show Director York Schwab said on the first day of the show, which ran July 12-14. “It’s so great to see people after being gone for 16 months. … It’s great to see the familiar faces and get together with people because you never know what’s going to happen in an in-person setting. I think we’ve just discovered what we missed being at home for a year.”

New Location, New Format

Medtrade West last took place in Las Vegas, Nevada, in March 2020, just before the pandemic forced many businesses to move remote. Even during the show, there were signs of what was to come, with some booths from Asia standing empty due to travel restrictions, and attendees attempting unfamiliar elbow bumps.

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