Wexford, Pa. -- Medical Resources Alliance (MRA), Tom Quinn's new firm, is a membership organization that matches facilities with services. Facilities include outpatient clinics, surgery centers, imaging centers and doctors' offices. And service providers include ISOs, and companies performing maintenance on various devices, doing construction, selling or buying equipment. MRA services also extend to higher-level business support such as financing, selling facilities, consulting, business improvement, temporary staffing, even temporary equipment.

"MRA is a very new concept built on what has always been available--need and product," said Quinn, a long-time insider of the used medical equipment industry. It's literally everything a member may need to run a facility or office smoothly and efficiently. If a medical facility, an imaging center, or any of our members need anything at all, they come to us and we have a provider for them to consider."

MRA prequalifies service providers to ensure satisfactory results; qualification standards will not be easy to meet, according to Quinn.
"MRA does not interfere with the relationship between members and providers, unless there is a dispute and we're asked by both parties to intervene," he noted. MRA also helps its member/providers with business development, compliance issues, safety and other consulting if needed.

"MRA's main job is bringing together members and providers," Quinn said. "Providers benefit by not having to make cold calls or hire marketing staffs. They can expand into new areas without the overhead of marketing as well as having customers waiting to talk to them. As MRA grows, providers will be part of, yet also independent of, the alliance."

MRA will be looking for providers in New York and New Jersey very shortly as well as most of the East Coast states by year's end. The effort is expected to grow to cover the U.S. and ultimately overseas clients and vendors. The alliance is currently marketing to a base of more than 165,000 potential members.

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