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Company Background
HCI was incorporated in 1973 and was devoted to engineering and developing products for use in hospitals. Ron Meyer served as president and sole shareholder of HCI, and a general partner of the Moulton and Clark architectural firm that HCI shared space with. During this period Meyer engineered and tooled for "Big Sphyg," a recessed sphygmomanometer which served as a cosmetic application for either the aneroid or mercurial version of the blood pressure device.
During the ensuing years, Meyer has developed and patented several products for both consumer and medical applications. He has consistently followed the paradigm of manufacturing and assembling products with American, free-based labor. The automation of production techniques has steadily closed the gap between the costs of offshore manufacturing and that of its American-made counterpart. Meyer's familiarity with automation, and in particular robotics, was recognized when in 1985 he was inducted into the California Inventor's Hall of Fame. During the same year The Society of Manufacturing Engineering (SME) recognized his work in the field of robotics by awarding him membership in SME's Senior Division of Robotics. A private placement for Scarab Robotics featured an attachment labeled "Auto-Med," encompassing Meyer's proposal for an automated pharmacy to be applied at military hospitals.
Meyer's development of MMS at Electro Systems was proven a success as its first installation at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami, Florida. Subsequent installations followed at Candler General Hospital in Savannah, Georgia, St. Joseph's in Port Charlotte, Florida, and several mid-western hospitals. (Please click on the following for a complete list of Community Hospital Installations and V.A. Hospital Installations)
Recently, in search of a location with affordable housing, an educational curriculum in manufacturing, steel resources, and a pool of potential skilled and unskilled employees, HCI has come to Oregon. Meyer is presently engaged in bringing his colledtion of corporations and their assets to the attention of Oregon and Washington Investment Funds in an attempt to create a partnership, wherein all these corporations and their diverse marketing concepts, are placed under one large manufacturing roof.
HCI's current hospital development is a complete multi-story hosptial that allows for remodeling in factory modules, that may then be transported to the site and "plugged in" to an all steel structure by means of a specially designed crawler that lifts the in-place module out and then replaces the space with the remodeled module. All electrical and mechanical connections are of the quick disconnect variety and are carried within the structural members. The old module is then transported back to the factory where it may be updated and recycled.
The structural construction devices or "Uni-Blocks" designed by Meyer, employ mechanical designs which may be patentable. A limited description of the device has been submitted and forwarded to the United States Department of Commerce's Patent Office. Formal patents will be filed within two years.
© 2004 - HCI, Hospital Consortium, Inc. - a division of Meyco Industries, Inc.
