Medi Lend Nursing Services Inc history

“There will be a ‘loan closet,’” read an article dated October 29, 1908, “with bed linen, night clothes, rubber rings, and other nursing appliances, which are furnished patients during their illness.”

Copy on file, Army Nurse Corps Section, Personnel Division, S. G. O. (8) Letter from Bessie S. Bell to Dora E. Thompson, July 25, 1918.

11, functioned from January 6,1919, to May 10, 1919, and accepted Army, Navy, and Red Cross nurses and American women civilian personnel who were on sick or convalescent leave.

In 1944, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) was established as an agency separate from the original Henry Street Settlement.

In 1948, Thomas M. Storke, then publisher and editor of the Santa Barbara News-Press, broke his leg and was in need of a wheelchair for a brief period of time.

In 1965, Sally Hall was on the VNA Board of Directors and worked in the “little red house” at 133 East Haley Street, along with a nurse and two other administrative staff.

In 1975, Barbie Free was the matriarch of the modern day Loan Closet.

Founded in 1977, Millard-Wayne sold IBM AS/400-based practice management systems to mid-sized and large medical practices and clinics, adding another 2,000 healthcare providers to InfoCure's customer base.

Within a decade, it became clear that the entire operation was outgrowing the landmark “little red house,” and in 1983, VNA headquarters and the Loan Closet moved to North Milpas Street.

They founded International Computer Solutions, Inc. (ICS) in 1985 and set up shop in a small office in Atlanta, initially sharing the same desk.

Over the next 13 years, Fine and Price built up ICS's business, so that by 1996 it was providing DOS, Windows, and Unix-based practice management systems to about 2,500 healthcare providers.

The acquisition of the founding companies coincided with InfoCure's initial public offering (IPO), which was completed in July 1997 and netted the company nearly $7 million.

In January 1998 InfoCure continued to act as a consolidator, adding Micro-Software Designs, Inc., which primarily served oral and maxillofacial surgery practices, and Medical Software Integrators, Inc., provider of practice management systems to anesthesiology practices.

In July 1999 InfoCure signed an agreement with a subsidiary of Sybron International Corp., the largest supplier of dental products in the world, to allow InfoCure customers to buy orthodontic supplies online worldwide.

The company reported a 15 percent drop in sales for the second quarter in 2000 and investors punished the stock, which lost 87 percent of its value from January to August 2000, dropping from a high of $37.38 to less than $5.

Fine stayed on as InfoCure's chairman, but in June 2001 he gave up that post as well to Walsh.

After suffering through two years of significant losses, VitalWorks returned to profitability in 2002, posting net income of $24.1 million on revenues of $114.8 million.

Sales fell off in 2003 to $111.5 million and net income dropped to less than $8 million, but also during the course of the year the company made an acquisition that changed the direction of the company once again.

2005: Company is renamed AMICAS, Inc.

By 2016, the Loan Closet was loaning medical equipment to more than 4,000 people annually and the staffing and volunteers again increased to meet the need.