Wake Forest, NC – Carla Baker, President of Southeastern Emergency Equipment, has announced the creation of a Pharmaceutical Department and the hiring of Eric Arner as Director of Pharmaceutical Operations.
“Eric comes to Southeastern with an extensive career history of taking care of EMS customer’s pharmaceutical needs from when he lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains,” states Baker.
Arner is not new to pharmaceuticals or the EMS industry. For 5 years, he served as the Manager of Operations and Finance for Blue Ridge Medical, Inc. a specialty pharmaceutical distributor serving the pre-hospital market. Arner began his career with Blue Ridge Medical packing boxes in the warehouse and worked his way up the ranks during his high school and college years. A graduate of the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of business with a degree in operations management, Arner’s education has helped him to respond to the ever-changing pharmaceutical regulations and supply chain while maintaining the highest levels of customer service and compliance.
Southeastern has sold pharmaceuticals for many years, but now with the creation of the new department will be actively engaged in the actual distribution. “This will result in faster delivery of product to our customers because pharmaceuticals will be shipped with the rest of their order from our warehouse in North Carolina,” said Baker. It also means longer expiration dates for our customers because we order pharmaceuticals daily so we are constantly rotating our inventory allowing us to ship the newest available product, she said.
Southeastern Emergency Equipment is currently licensed in 15 states as a pharmaceutical distributor and is in the process of expanding its licensing to be able to offer more products to more customers in more places.
About Southeastern Emergency Equipment
Southeastern Emergency Equipment is a privately-owned business that was founded in 1979. Throughout the years, Southeastern has evolved into an international distributor of emergency medical equipment and supplies. Thanks to the dedicated team, SEE is now a full-line distributor with a support and sales team that focuses on premium service before and after the sale. Over the past few years Southeastern has implemented a comprehensive training and education department which offers Emergency Medical Services (EMS) classes as well as American Heart Association (AHA) classes to better serve the educational needs of its customers and the community.
For more information about SEE and its products, or to register for one of its AHA classes or CECBEMS-approved courses, visit www.seequip.com.