Tag: Advent Home Medical
In brief: Advent Home Medical buys Med Emporium, Brightree survey emphasizes interoperability
May 24, 2023HME News Staff
CHICAGO – New Harbor Capital has announced that its portfolio company Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Advent Home Medical has acquired Charlotte, N.C.-based Med Emporium, strengthening the company’s respiratory focus and paving the way for it to expand into new geographies.
It’s Advent Home Medical’s third acquisition in partnership with New Harbor Capital, which completed a majority investment in the company in March 2021.
“We are very excited to partner...
Advent Home Medical buys Med Emporium
May 23, 2023HME News Staff
CHICAGO – New Harbor Capital has announced that its portfolio company Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Advent Home Medical has acquired Charlotte, N.C.-based Med Emporium, strengthening the company’s respiratory focus and paving the way for it to expand into new geographies.
It’s Advent Home Medical’s third acquisition in partnership with New Harbor Capital, which completed a majority investment in the company in March 2021.
“We are very excited to partner...
Advent acquires Aeratech
September 21, 2022HME News Staff
CHICAGO – Advent Home Medical, a portfolio company of New Harbor, has acquired Aeratech Home Medical, a provider of home respiratory care and respiratory equipment technology.
Aeratech was founded in 1999 by Roy Neely, a respiratory therapist who wanted to reduce prolonged hospital stays for patients with complex respiratory conditions. Today, it serves approximately 1,000 patients through nine offices across Ohio and Indiana.
“This partnership is a perfect fit,”...
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,...
Advent Home Medical acquires Life Tech
March 10, 2022HME News Staff
PONTIAC, Mich. – Advent Home Medical has acquired Life Tech, doubling its size and creating the largest provider of home-based invasive ventilation in the country, the company says.
Founded in 2001, the Elmhurst, Ill.-based Life Tech specializes in providing respiratory therapy services and durable medical equipment and supplies to highly acute pediatric patients in the home, serving patients through four facilities in Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Indiana.
“This...
Advent launches pharmacy service
August 22, 2014Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Advent Home Medical has expanded its “circle of care” to help make the transition from hospital to home easier on its patients.The provider recently established a pharmacy division, Advicare Pharmacy, to provide medication and medication management services to its patients, most of who are dependent on ventilators.“We can have their medications waiting for them at home instead of them having to go to two or three pharmacies when they are discharged,”...
Advent of new era
November 22, 2013Leah Hoenen
PETOSKEY, Mich. - For Peter Primak, the best thing about Petoskey isn't the great view. The best part is knowing that from this new location, Advent Home Medical can more readily serve patients in northern Michigan.Advent Home Medical is focused on providing home ventilation care for adults and children, including those who have survived catastrophic automobile accidents. Primak manages Advent's second location, the Petoskey store, which opened Oct. 24.Advent has been serving the entire state from...