Founded by healthcare entrepreneur John M. Gvodas Jr., Bechtel Medical designs, develops, and manufactures medical devices focused on wound care. The Phoenixville company brings engineering and clinical insight together in technologies such as its VOX Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System, with patient safety, quality, and regulatory discipline at the center of its work.
Cork Medical, LLCFounded in 2007, Cork Medical designs and manufactures medical devices for wound treatment and prevention, with a particular focus on negative pressure wound therapy. The Indianapolis company began as an NPWT and specialty-mattress distributor before building clinical and engineering teams to develop its own Nisus system, creating products shaped by clinician needs. Its manufacturing facility is certified to ISO 13485:2016 through the Medical Device Single Audit Program, and its products are distributed across the United States and internationally.COLUMBUS, OH
GWR Medical, IncFounded in 1996 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, privately owned GWR Medical develops FDA-cleared topical oxygen therapy devices for hard-to-heal open wounds and burns. Its home-based TO2 treatment is paired with WoundMatrix, the company’s wound-imaging and measurement technology, to help clinicians and insurers track healing remotely. GWR says its therapy has been provided to 15,000 patients and has been used by the Department of Defense and Veterans Administration.CHADDS FORD, PA
NoxsanoFounded by scientists and healthcare professionals with experience at Procter & Gamble and McKesson, Noxsano is a wound-care company developing treatments for veterinary and human medicine. Its patented technology delivers nitric oxide at the wound site, with veterinary use serving as the company’s initial market before planned expansion into human care.CINCINNATI, OH
ExtriCARE USAExtriCARE USA develops negative-pressure wound therapy systems, with a singular focus on NPWT rather than a broad medical-device catalog. The company launched its first product in 2012 and builds portable, clinician-friendly pumps intended to give patients more flexible therapy, including the extriCARE 3000 and its PDAC-approved 3600 system for long-term care.