Associated Healthcare Systems Restructures Management

AMHERST, N.Y.–The founder of Associated Healthcare Systems will
be stepping back from day-to-day operations at the respiratory
company, which has grown to nine branches since its opening in
1983.

Donald B. White, CEO of the $17 million HME, handed the reins
last week to Peter Storey, who has been promoted from COO to
president. Liz Woolrich has been promoted to vice president of
corporate development, and Arletta Samulak has been promoted from
controller to CFO.

“I’ll still be involved in the business. I’m not retiring, just
taking a little different focus,” White said, explaining that he
will have more involvement “in setting strategy and reviewing
opportunity,” including future growth and acquisitions.

Part of that strategy, he said, will be sales development that
will include a new referral program with area hospitals to generate
business, which is “especially [important] in the wake of lost
revenues in the respiratory medication arena.”

A longtime home care advocate and 2004 HomeCaring Award
recipient, White served as the first chairman of the newly formed
American Association for Homecare in 2001. He also played a key
role in establishing two state organizations–the Medical Equipment
Dealers Association of Western New York and the New York Medical
Equipment Providers Association, of which he served as an early
chairman.