Tag: Jerry Jones
Jerry Jones to HMEs: 'Open up your eyes'
January 26, 2010Mike Moran
IRVINE, Calif. - Apria's former CEO Jerry Jones offered some words of wisdom to HME providers during a recent telephone conversation with HME News.
"HME companies need to understand that their world is not the only one that is going to be changing," said Jones, who is now the chairman of LifeCare, a $70 million, 18-branch HME company in Southern California. "Everyone else in the healthcare system's world is going to change fairly dramatically, and they are going to have needs that maybe they haven't...
There is no place like home. Just ask Bob
January 7, 2010Mike Moran
As far as I'm concerned, 2010 arrived not a moment too soon. For the last two weeks of 2009, my wife's father, Bob, lay in a local hospital, unable to eat, a tube running up his nose and down into his stomach and a permanent port in his left breast, through which he received liquids, nutrition, and a variety of other stuff.
My mother-in-law, Karin, slept on a cot next to Bob's bed, driving back and forth to our home for a shower and for a break from the deadly dull hospital routine. We also played...