Todd Squilanti Named Chief Development Officer for Performance Home Medical
Todd Squilanti is the new chief development officer at Performance Home Medical (PHM).
In an April 30 social media post, Squilanti said, “We are building a uniquely capable sleep and respiratory medical supply platform that supports our referral sources and health plan partners in chronic condition management for patients and members struggling with sleep apnea, COPD [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease] and related conditions.
“I am excited to collaborate with [CEO/chair] Larry Mastrovich and the entire PHM team in this endeavor. Would love to connect and compare notes with anyone who is also working in this sector.”
Squilanti is a health-care veteran, having previously served in management positions with InTandem Capital Partners, and health-care services investor, and Prodigy Health Group.
Performance Home Medical is based in Kent, Washington, and has offices in Washington, Idaho and Oregon. The company specializes in the sleep apnea therapy, oxygen, respiratory and continuous glucose monitoring segments.
AASM Celebrates 50 Years of Sleep Medicine
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is celebrating 50 years of sleep as a medical specialty, with a newly published paper to commemorate the milestone.
“Sleep and dreams: How the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and its members have shaped the future of the sleep field for 50 years” was published by the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine in March.
“Over the past century, sleep has transitioned from the domain of artists, poets and philosophers to the realm of scientists and clinicians,” the paper’s abstract said. “For 50 years, the AASM has played a leading role in creating and shaping the field of sleep medicine, leveraging the multi-disciplinary expertise of its members to forge a new medical specialty.”
In the last five decades, AASM has been instrumental in creating “the building blocks of a medical specialty” by developing certification programs, diagnostic classifications, clinical practice guidelines, training programs and peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Read the paper to track the beginning of AASM in 1975, through its work in building sleep education curricula for medical schools and publishing a paper on continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) to treat obstructive sleep apnea in the 1980s. The academy formalized a sleep specialty in the 2000’s, and prepared for the future in the 2010s. The paper discusses the industry’s reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and “another generational challenge when an emergency recall of millions of positive airway pressure devices was announced in June 2021.”
“It is anticipated that the next 50 years will be both exciting and challenging for the AASM and its members,” the paper said, before launching into anticipated “changes on the horizon.”
The paper is free to download.
