Sunrise Medical – Evolution

In a far reaching move to be ahead of the game in the new world order of NCB (National Competitive Bidding), reimbursement cuts worldwide and Asian competition – Sunrise Medical CEO Mike Hammes has announced a fundamental structural change.

As from July Sunrise Medical will split into two distinct organizations, Sunrise Mobility and Devilbiss Healthcare. Hammes while being overall group chairman will run Sunrise Mobility and Kees Regeling will run Devilbiss Medical as its President and CEO. The change is not purely superficial and customers will be required to order their products from the distinct responsible business.

In addition to the above the sales force of the specialty ART group will be combined with the Sunrise Mobility salesforce.

In an excellent communication package – including a video, Hammes outlines clearly the reason for change as well as admitting to not necessarily having all of the answers in this change process.

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About Frank Barlin

Frank is the founder and managing partner at Sibaya. He provides recognized leadership in homecare consulting and has advised firms ranging in size from those listed on the NYSE and the LSE to early stage startups. Frank’s international experience is broad-based, having spent his professional life based in Europe, the United States and South Africa. Prior to founding Sibaya in 2002 he was European Vice President for a publicly traded healthcare company. In addition he has held various country general management positions and directorships. Recent home healthcare projects include European business development, acquisition strategy and advice, competitive benchmarking, Asian outsourcing and turnaround management. He works out of the Paris office.

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