Tag: Life Tech
Advent Home Medical looks to grow beyond Midwest
March 18, 2022Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
PONTIAC, Mich. – Advent Home Medical’s recent acquisition of Life Tech gives the provider of high-acute home respiratory a platform to expand nationally, says Rob Hensley, CEO.
The deal added three states to Advent’s footprint in the Midwest, making it the largest provider of home-based invasive ventilation in the country, the company says.
“We want to dominate the region leading high-tech respiratory care in the Midwest and control that footprint,”...
In brief: FDA and Philips, Advent and Life Tech, Humana and Kindred at Home
March 11, 2022HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says efforts by Philips Respironics to notify patients and others of its recall of certain ventilators and CPAP and BiPAP devices and the risk of harm from the polyester-based polyurethan (PU-PUR) sound abatement foam used in those products have been “inadequate.”
The FDA on March 10 issued a notification order to Philips Respironics requiring the company to notify all device users, DME suppliers, distributors, retailers,...
Life Tech zeroes in on retention
September 18, 2015John Andrews
ELMHURST, Ill. - Keeping patients is at least as important as attracting them. An HME provider that doesn't retain clients won't last long no matter how effective its referral source relations are, observes Brian Dacy, president of Elmhurst, Ill.-based Life Tech, the second place winner of the 2015 HME Excellence Awards.“Life Tech has never lost a patient due to discontent and a large percentage of our patients transition to our services due to dissatisfaction with their current provider,”...