Tag: Hygiene
New company Essity lists on Nasdaq
June 20, 2017HME News Staff
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PHILADELPHIA - Essity, a global hygiene and health company, listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm on June 15. The listing follows SCA Group's decision to split into two independently listed companies: forest products company SCA, and Essity. Essity says it plans to continue to expand on the market growth of the Tork, TENA and JOBST brands. “With the launch of Essity we have a new name and an even stronger sense of purpose—improving well-being by providing leading hygiene...
Providers fight flu with hygiene
February 21, 2014Leah Hoenen
YARMOUTH, Maine - With flu activity elevated nationally, HME providers are doing their part to stay healthy by hand washing, and wearing gloves and masks.“The mantra is wash, glove, wash,” said Chris Rice, CEO of Diamond Respiratory Care. “That's all the time, that's every patient we see. That's why we buy so many gloves.”For the week of Feb. 2-8, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that the national proportion of people seeing their healthcare provider...