WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 5, 2017)—As home medical equipment providers and manufacturers seek better ways to improve patient outcomes, they are frustrated by reimbursement methodologies that lag behind innovations in products and services.
ROSEVILLE, Calif. (January 4, 2017)—Always Best Care Senior Services, one of the leading senior care franchise systems in the United States, announced today that Michael Friedberg and his partner Di Guo have acquired the Philadelphia Main Line territory. Always Best Care of Main Line provides senior care services in the Philadelphia metro area and surrounding communities. The new business is a family operated business.
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. & DARTMOUTH, Mass. (January 4, 2017)—Care Resource, an East Providence-based home health agency, homecare and medical supply company serving Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts, announces it has once again earned full accreditation from the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) through 2019 for both the East Providence, Rhode Island, and Dartmouth, Massachusetts locations.
ATLANTA (January 4, 2017)—On December 20, 2016, GF Health Products, Inc. ("Graham-Field"), Fond du Lac Manufacturing welcomed Representative Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District. The senior vice president of Manufacturing Operations, Kurt Hellman, conducted a brief plant tour to highlight the facility's product lines and plant capabilities. Following the tour, Representative Grothman addressed the Fond du Lac team with a question and answer session.
EXETER, Penn. (January 4, 2017)—Quantum Rehab and Georgia Tech are pleased to announce that they have embarked on a landmark research study that examines how power adjustable seat height is clinically utilized by wheelchair users in their everyday lives.
SAN DIEGO (January 4, 2017)—ResMed today announced that it has achieved a new record in digital connected care: One billion nights of sleep data have been downloaded using ResMed's revolutionary remote patient monitoring platform, AirView.
EXTON, Penn. (January 4, 2017)—Edentech Solutions Group LLC has reached 100 percent coverage in the United States by announcing the addition of Alaska and Hawaii to its base of Excluded Providers Lists. These are now choices available to subscribers on the secureepls.com website. With the addition of these two states, the service now contains the Excluded and Sanctioned Provider Lists of all federal and state.
WATERLOO, Iowa (January 2, 2017)—VGM Group, Inc. has appointed Jeff Rummel to serve as the company’s new chief financial officer.
Rummel will take on the position previously held by VGM’s chief executive officer, Mike Mallaro, a position that has been in transition since Mallaro became CEO earlier in 2016. In his new role, Rummel will be responsible for providing strategic and financial perspectives to business decisions made at VGM.
TUCSON, Ariz., (January 3, 2017)—Health care M+A advisory firm Vertess continues its global market expansion with the addition of Teresa Gonzalo, a pharmaceutical and biotechnology entrepreneur with extensive experience in the European market, as a managing director.