August 1997	Joseph Piekarski rents space in the basement of his grandfather's office and Home Medical Supply, Inc. is born.
January 1998	First television and radio campaign is launched, airs in the New York metropolitan area on The Price is Right, Judge Judy and Rush Limbo.
December 1998	Home Medical Supply moves from its basement office and opens their corporate office in a historic building in New York City.
February 1999	Home Medical Supply changes its name to 1-800-Wheelchair.
September 1999	1-800-Wheelchair opens its second distribution center in Chicago to better serve the mid-west and west coast.
May 2000	The domain name 1800wheelchair.com is registered and design and development of the website begins with the vision of becoming the first major online player in the medical supply industry.
January 2001	1-800-Wheelchair.com is launched!
March 2002	1-800-wheelchair becomes a vendor of the U.S. Air force
April 2002	1-800-wheelchair signs an exclusive contract to provide wheelchairs to JetBlue Airways.
January 2003	1-800-wheelchair partners with drugstore.com to become their exclusive provider of wheelchairs and medical assisted living products.