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MercurysBall2 ago

CHG Healthcare Services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHG_Healthcare_Services

CHG Healthcare is an American healthcare services company that was founded in 1979 by Therus C. Kolff to deliver medical care to rural areas of the western United States.

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/comphealth-inc-history/

The key person in these developments was Dr. Therus C. Kolff, who was born in Holland in 1949. In 1950 his father Dr. Willem J. Kolff moved with his family to work at the Cleveland Clinic. Then in 1967 the Kolff family moved to Salt Lake City, where Willem Kolff became famous for his work on artificial organs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Johan_Kolff

Willem Johan Kolff (February 14, 1911 – February 11, 2009), also known as Pim Kolff, was a pioneer of hemodialysis as well as in the field of artificial organs. Willem is a member of the Kolff family, an old Dutch patrician family. ..During World War II, he was in Kampen, where he was active in the resistance against the German occupation. Simultaneously, Kolff developed the first functioning artificial kidney.[4] He treated his first patient in 1943, and in 1945 he was able to save a patient's life with hemodialysis treatment. In 1946 he obtained a PhD degree summa cum laude at University of Groningen on the subject. It marks the start of a treatment that has saved the lives of millions of acute or chronic renal failure patients ever since.

In 1950, Kolff left the Netherlands to seek opportunities in the US. At the Cleveland Clinic, he was involved in the development of heart-lung machines to maintain heart and pulmonary function during cardiac surgery. He also improved on his dialysis machine. At Brigham and Women's Hospital, with funding from New York real estate developer David Rose[6] he developed the first production artificial kidney, the Kolff Brigham Artificial Kidney, manufactured by the Edward A. Olson Co. in Boston Massachusetts, and later the Travenol Twin-Coil Artificial Kidney. He became head of the University of Utah's Division of Artificial Organs and Institute for Biomedical Engineering in 1967, where he was involved in the development of the artificial heart, the first of which was implanted in 1982 in patient Barney Clark, who survived for four months, with the heart still functioning at the time of Clark's death.

David Rose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rose_(real_estate_developer)

he founded Roses Associates with his brother, Samuel B., in 1927.[1] In 1928, they completed their first building, a six-story, 218-unit building and within two years had completed more than 900 apartments.[3] In 1930,[2] they built the 500-unit Academy Apartments in the Bronx, the first apartment building built of reinforced concrete.

Rose also contributed to the building of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.[1] He also served as a trustee of the New School for Social Research and of the Bronx YM-YWHA