Community Therapy Podcast
Welcome to the Community Therapy Podcast, hosted by Community Therapy founder and director, Scott Lynch. Scott absolutely loves community healthcare and is passionate about healthcare businesses being built on the delivery of great healthcare! Scott commenced his professional career as a Physiotherapist and continues to love nothing more then supporting clients. Most of his time is now spent being privileged and blessed to support and be surrounded by the Community Therapy team. You will find a mix of interviews with:- health professionals about evidence based health care in the community- business founders and managers about how to operate outstanding healthcare businesses- organisations that support the community health sector. We aim to spread awareness about all aspects of community healthcare to ensure people have access to outstanding community and mobile healthcare services.
Community Therapy Podcast
Episode 14 - Alpha Lifecare
In this episode Scott Lynch (Managing Director of Community Therapy) and Anton Croxford, (National Accounts Manager at Alpha Lifecare).
Scott is Chair of the Australian Physiotherapy Association’s NSW Gerontology Committee and Managing Director of Community Therapy; a company he started 5 years ago that has grown to a team of 70 Physios, OTs, Dietitians, Speech Pathologists and Massage Therapists. Community Therapy delivers values-driven community, aged and disability allied health services across the Hunter and Central Coast regions of NSW.
Today’s Guest
Anton Croxford is the National Account Manager at Alpha Lifecare which was formed after a merger between Astris Lifecare and Alphacare in Feb 2021.
Alphacare has been around for over 20 years and Astris Lifecare has been around over 40 years
Alpha Lifecare has a mission to support medical professionals, aged care residents and rehabilitating patients on their healthcare journey with comfortable facility fit-outs and refurbishments, high-quality equipment and innovative tools.
Things you will learn
- What Alpha Lifecare does
- How the equipment market has changed over the last 5 years
- Complexities about equipment prescription in the community healthcare sector
- How a collaborative approach is critical to successful community equipment prescription
- How community healthcare challenges a your communication skills
- How important procurement teams are at present with complex freight changes with imported equipment
- How quality and compliance is a key focus in the equipment market
- The challenges of a company merger during a pandemic
Resources
- LinkedIn - Scott Lynch https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottlynchct/
- LinkedIn - Anton Croxford https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton-croxford-272709104/
- Alpha Lifecare - https://www.alphalifecare.com.au/