Company Overview

American Diagnostic Corporation (ADC) is one of the world’s premier manufacturers of diagnostic medical products, personal instruments, and accessories for the healthcare industry. For 40 years we’ve been dedicated to designing, manufacturing, and supplying stethoscopes, blood pressure instruments, and other core diagnostic products that provide an unmatched value proposition with a purchase experience that is second to none.

Mission Statement

To produce feature-rich, ruggedly built, value-priced professional diagnostic medical instruments for the healthcare marketplace while maintaining a stable, dependable employment environment for our associates and trading partners.

History

Bringing together their knowledge of the medical device industry and its needs, Marc Blitstein and Neal Weingart co-founded ADC in 1984. They shared a vision of a company built on long-lasting partnerships with the best component manufacturers in the world, while committing to significant production and quality processes in the United States. The result is a company that's flexible, enterprising, and more able to work with vendors and customers.

Brands

Our products are marketed under many brands, including ADC®, Medicut™, Adscope®, Proscope™, Diagnostix™, Prosphyg™, Adtemp™, Multikuf™, Adlite™, Pocket Pal™, Responder™, Adcuff™, System 5™, Adflow™, Adview®, E-Sphyg™, and Adimals®. We also manufacture products under original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and private label contracts for more than a dozen of the world's leading manufacturers and distributors in the acute care, alternate site, nursing, extended care, student, and EMS markets. In fact, ADC is the largest privately held branded and private-label supplier of stethoscopes and blood pressure instruments in the United States. Our products are sold on six continents, in over sixty countries, and are in use by thousands of healthcare institutions and millions of healthcare professionals worldwide.

Locations

Today, our 44,000-square-foot facility in Hauppauge, New York, houses our corporate offices, customer service, quality control, manufacturing, and distribution departments. Sales offices in London, England, and Tokyo, Japan, service our European and Pacific Rim distribution. Additional quality control and sourcing offices in Taipei, Taiwan, and Ningbo, China, oversee ADC's Asian manufacturing facilities.

Key Milestones

Year		Milestone
1984		ADC founded in January 1984 as a direct marketer of emergency medical supplies, operating out of a 700-square-foot storefront in Copiague, New York
1985		Hired our first full-time employee
1987		Relocated to a 4,000-square-foot facility in West Babylon, New York; hired our first developmentally disabled employee
1989		Opened sourcing office in Tokyo, Japan
1990		Produced the first sphygmomanometer aneroid gauges with luminescent dials
1992		Voted one of the Top 25 Fastest Growing Firms on Long Island by accounting firm KPMG
1993		Opened quality/sourcing office in Taipei, Taiwan; shifted much of the Japanese stethoscope component production to Taiwan
1993		Began sourcing sphygmomanometer components from Indonesia
1994		Launched the Adscope line of premium stethoscopes
1996		Relocated to our present-day headquarters in Hauppauge, New York, then with 35,000 square feet of space
1997		Shifted gauge production from Japan and Taiwan to China in exclusive agreement with Nissei
1999		Registered the ADC trademark in the U.S.
1999		Began sourcing digital blood pressure instruments and thermometers from China
2002		Started second-shift production at Hauppauge facility
2003		Marc Blitstein named by Newsday, Long Island's daily newspaper, as one of their inaugural Everyday Heroes for his employment of the developmentally disabled
2004		Hired our 100th employee
2005		Launched the E-Sphyg, the first and only virtually indestructible digital aneroid sphygmomanometer
2006		Blitstein named to Long Island Volunteer Hall of Fame for his work with the developmentally disabled
2006		Frost and Sullivan named our digital stick thermometer line the best in the industry
2007		Awarded Acute Care Supplier of the Year (Small Company Category) by the Health Industry Distributor's Association
2007		Awarded ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 13485:2003 quality certification. One of only two companies in our class to hold these quality marks
2008		Expanded Hauppauge facility to 44,000 square feet
2008		Introduced the Adimals line of pediatric scopes
2009		Entered the fingertip pulse oximetry market with our Diagnostix 2100
2010		Opened ADC Ningbo, a three-person quality/sourcing office in Ningbo, China
2010		Launched the ADView, the first modular diagnostic station (blood pressure, temperature, SpO₂) in a joint venture with SunTech Medical
2011		Re-engineered our entire blood pressure line to be completely latex-free
2011		Incorporated Microthread technology into our Adflow valves for improved deflation control
2012		Launched our re-imagined retail program to support our brick-and-mortar retailers
2012		Introduced the Adscope 606, the world's first ultra-lightweight cardiology stethoscope
2013		Launched our completely redesigned website and published a dozen product videos
2014		Celebrated our 30th anniversary in business
2014		Launched our Designer Series print cuffs, Cuffs for a Cause, our fifth generation of Advantage Home BP monitors, and a bariatric cuff -- an industry first
2014		Launched our expanded line of Diagnostix™ and Adstation 3.5v EENT instruments
2014		Upgraded the Adscope line with new packaging, laser engraving, and Adsoft Plus snap-on silicone eartips
2014		ADC Ningbo becomes an FDA registered facility
2015		Moved final production of 700 items to the U.S.
2016		Launched the ADView 2 modular diagnostic station and our re-engineered line of Adcuff SPU blood pressure cuffs
2016		Redesigned our product labels to be UDI compliant, as much as two years ahead of schedule
2016		Launched a line of Pro's Combo Plus super-premium professional scope/sphyg sets
2017		Launched our PMV 3.5v Otoscope and doubled the EENT offering to over 1200 SKUs
2017		Opened a new office In the UK to support our European expansion
2017		Entered into a joint venture to open a manufacturing facility in Suzhou China
2018		Launched the Adscope LE limited edition line of decorated stethoscopes in 21 models
2018		Worldwide employment tops 160
2018		Finalist in the HIA-LI Large Employer of the Year
2019		Celebrated our 35th Anniversary
2019		Launched the e-sphyg 3 NIBP monitor
2020		Winner of the HIA-LI Large Employer of the Year