Johnston, IA- An Iowa-based company has been shipping medical equipment to Florida as the state prepares for a potential hurricane.
Mark Darrah, CEO of Athena GTX in Johnston tells Radio Iowa, “Athena primarily responds to catastrophes and mass casualties and when hurricanes come in and threaten this country, a lot of our customers buy our products,” he says. “and they can respond to multiple injuries simultaneously.”
The company’s equipment includes small patient monitors used in some of the tent hospitals set up in big cities two years ago during the COVID pandemic, as well as nursing home residents in the Houston Texas area following Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
“Athena focuses on highly mobile medical monitoring…so when we can produce a medical monitor that stays with the patient and is small enough to ride with the patient and then connect remotely using what you’re familiar with your iPhones and iWatches, it’s an excellent opportunity to connect a physician or a care provider to patient before they see them.”
Darrah says some of the company’s equipment has been used in Ukraine and surrounding areas since Russia’s invasion and refugees fled into Poland and elsewhere.
Senator Chuck Grassley toured the company’s Johnston office and warehouse Monday and met with some of the company’s 26 employees.
