Valencia, CA Jun 29, 2010 – U.S. HealthWorks, a leading operator of occupational healthcare centers in the nation, today announced that Kevin Coyle has joined the company as its general counsel.
Mr. Coyle brings more than 20 years of high-level corporate and transactional legal experience to U.S. HealthWorks.
“Kevin has a track record of helping growing companies to succeed,” said Daniel D. Crowley, CEO of U.S. HealthWorks. “We are excited to have him join U.S. HealthWorks as we continue to build one of the premier occupational health and urgent care companies in the nation.”
Since 1999, Mr. Coyle was a partner at DLA Piper LLP and its predecessor firms, Graham & James, and Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in Sacramento. He provided legal counsel to both public and private companies in a variety of industries during mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and venture investments.
“I am looking forward to working with the team of professionals at U.S. HealthWorks during this important phase in the company’s development,” Coyle said.
Mr. Coyle received his Juris Doctorate from the University of California Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law in 1988.
U.S. HealthWorks has 161 clinics, including 27 worksite centers, in 15 states and has acquired 12 centers in the last six months and 33 centers since 2007. In January, the company announced the completion of a $175 million financing package that will support the company in its ongoing occupational health clinic acquisition strategy.
Month: June 2010
U.S. HealthWorks Acquires Sierra Occupational Services Medical Center in Stockton
Stockton, CA Jun 11, 2010 – U.S. HealthWorks, the leading operator of occupational healthcare centers in California, today announced the acquisition of the Sierra Occupational Services healthcare center at 1429 West Fremont Street in Stockton. The acquisition of this center expands the number of U.S. HealthWorks operated medical centers to 66 in California and 134 nationwide.
“We are excited to expand our footprint in the Central Valley and look forward to serving more clients and patients in the Stockton area,” said Therese Hernandez, senior vice president of operations for U.S. HealthWorks in California. “We warmly welcome the associates of Sierra Occupational Services to the U.S. HealthWorks family.”
The West Fremont center is a health facility focused on providing injury and illness diagnosis and treatment, preventive services, pre-employment and post-offer exams and testing, and return-to-work programs. Terms of the transaction, which was effective June 11, were not disclosed. U.S. HealthWorks has another center in the Stockton area, located at 3663 E. Arch Road, Suite 400.
“We’re pleased to join a respected national company like U.S. HealthWorks,” said James L. Sepiol, M.D. who will remain as center medical director. “With our current team of physicians and staff, we’re looking forward to providing the same great personalized service that we’re been known for all these years, now under their umbrella.”
“U.S. HealthWorks is the leading practice management company for occupational medicine in California and we’re pleased that a top quality facility such as Sierra Occupational Services has joined our team. Dr. Sepiol’s experience and reputation in Stockton is impressive and we are fortunate that he will be joining U.S. HealthWorks.” said national medical director Dr. Leonard Okun.
Sparta Systems Unveils TrackWise Software Version 8
Holmdel, NJ Jun 9, 2010 – Sparta Systems., Inc., the maker of TrackWise® software and the market leader in enterprise quality and compliance management solutions, today announced the general availability of Version 8 of its TrackWise enterprise quality management solution (EQMS). Already featuring the highest level of configurability of any EQMS, TrackWise 8 provides new capabilities that will enable the rapid, parallel deployment of business processes in enterprise environments as well as increase usability for the infrequent user.
Highly regulated companies are under increased pressure to accomplish more with less, while maintaining control of their processes and products. Sparta Systems’ TrackWise EQMS now offers customers an accelerated deployment capability, enabling multiple groups to simultaneously configure and deploy processes with minimal impact on one another. The added flexibility in TrackWise software will also allow companies to perform a wide variety of maintenance activities independent of new project development. This furthers companies’ ability to continue to adapt existing processes to meet changing business requirements and regulations while independently continuing the rapid build-out of new business processes.
As quality systems have become broadly proliferated enterprise systems, the number of infrequent users of these applications has gradually increased over time. This makes a clear and concise user experience even more important so the broad user base can perform their job functions efficiently and effectively. With that need in mind, TrackWise software now includes a revised form layout with new workflow visualization functionality that graphically displays where users are in the workflow, how they got there, and what they can do next.
“At Sparta Systems, we are constantly investing our resources in making TrackWise software the most complete EQMS solution available; for both new and existing customers,” said Mike Jovanis, vice president, product management, Sparta Systems. “The new enterprise-class capabilities in TrackWise 8 take an already-powerful migration platform and add a greater level of agility and concurrency to system expansion and maintenance, while our workflow visualization is aimed towards helping infrequent users work in a self-guided fashion. We will continue to partner with our customers to identify and develop new functionality and usability enhancements aligned with the needs of businesses.”
Paragon Medical Honored as Supplier to an MDEA 2010 Winner
Jun 9, 2010 – Paragon Medical was honored as a supplier to a winning product in the 2010 Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) competition, the premier awards program for the medical technology community. During the entry process for this year’s awards program, Paragon was named by MedShape Solutions, Inc. as their supplier for the award winning Morphix suture anchor.
MedShape is located in Atlanta, Georgia and is dedicated to restoring human motion by innovating unique shape-memory implant devices. Paragon’s Global Design Center got involved early in the project and assisted MedShape through the development, verification, and launch phases for this single-use suture anchor deployment instrument. The Morphix suture anchor was formally launched at the 2010 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) in New Orleans.
The deployment device is manufactured complete at Paragon’s Smithfield, Utah facility. This includes five injection molded components, metal machining, ISO class-8 clean room assembly and final packaging. Other supporting instruments including cases and trays were manufactured out of the Pierceton, Indiana facilities.
Presentation of the 2010 MDEA awards took place on Wednesday, June 9th, in a ceremony at the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) East 2010 Conference and Exposition, in New York City.
About Paragon Medical, Inc.
Paragon Medical is a tier 1, turnkey supplier of world-class solutions for custom and standard cases and trays, custom and standard surgical instrumentation, implantable components, and design services to the medical device marketplace. Incorporated in 1991 and headquartered in the orthopaedic capital of the world, Paragon has created strategic centers of excellence within the United States, Europe and Asia. Dynamic acquisitions have brought some of the industry’s most talented craftsmen to their team while regional centers of manufacturing excellence have made Paragon more versatile and allow them to adapt a wide range of services to support the strategic needs of the customer with innovative solutions. Offices and production facilities are located in Pierceton, Indiana; Indianapolis, Indiana; Smithfield, Utah; Lausanne, Switzerland and Changzhou, China. More information about the company may be found at www.paragonmedical.com
About the OIGDC
The Orthopaedic Instrument Global Design Center (OIGDC) is structured to serve the market at a higher level of participation by leveraging Paragon’s existing capabilities while closing the loop between development and manufacturing. As extended team members, the OIGDC provides full collaborative design, development, prototyping and testing capabilities for surgical instrumentation, implantable components and cases & trays. The OIGDC enables extensive collaboration between Paragon engineers and the OEM’s development teams. The OIGDC delivers solutions through sound research, development and validation protocol. Contact the Orthopaedic Instrument Design Center for more information or visit their website at www.paragonmedical.com/oigdc.