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Invacare Appoints Former NATO Commander To Its Board Of Directors

Invacare, struggling, like several of its competitors with reimbursement, Asian sourcing pressure and cost issues has just announced that it has appointed General James L. Jones, United States Marine Corps (ret.) to its board. General Jones has recently retired as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and Commander of the United States [...]

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Invacare Reorganizes In The Second Largest Homecare Market – Germany

Invacare announced today that they were consolidating their sales organizations in the second largest homecare market in the world – Germany. The new organization will be known as Invacare Aquatec. Following the acquisition 2 years ago of Domus, the Aquatec and Invacare organizations in Germany had remained in separate locations (one in the north and [...]

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Invacare and AEIOMed CPAP Partnership

Invacare is adding to its sleep line to better compete with market leaders Resmed and Respironics. Invacare Corporation Expands Its Sleep Division Through Distribution Agreement With AEIOMed, Inc. “Invacare is rapidly adding to its sleep product line and is on its way to becoming the third major player in the sleep industry,” said Ann MacGregor, [...]

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Invacare 2Q 2006 earnings

Invacare – a world leader in home healthcare, rehabilitation and mobility products – has just released their earnings for Q2 2006. The pressure of Medicare reimbursement on the earnings is no big surprise – especially to readers of this blog.

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The Respiratory Homecare Industry- before its too late

Perhaps learning from recent experience in the homecare mobility (and oxygen) business the Sleep Manufacturers Alliance has been formed. More details at RTmagazine When arch rivals such as Embla, Fisher & Paykel, Invacare, Pro-Tech, Puritan Bennett, ResMed, Respironics, Sunrise Medical, and VIASYS get together you have to believe that there are huge industry challenges on [...]

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Two Home Healthcare Titans – Two Strategies…

In the last few days two (at least) interesting things have happened in the home healthcare industry. People even remotely close to the industry know that by watching the activities of Sunrise Medical and Invacare Corporation – aggressive competitors and both leaders in their own right, you can understand a lot about what is going [...]

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