Health History | Stryker — The Hospital Basement Where the Turning Frame Was Built
· 1941-12
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Health History | Stryker — The Hospital Basement Where the Turning Frame Was Built
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People treat Stryker as a Portage campus that always made implants and power tools.
The first company built hospital frames in a Kalamazoo basement.
In 1940 Homer Stryker, an orthopaedic surgeon, opened a practice at Borgess Hospital on Gull Road.
He used the basement for research after finding that existing beds would not turn injured patients without moving the spine.
In 1941 he created the Orthopedic Frame Company.
The first product was the Wedge Turning Frame.
Wartime shortages later sent the frames to the Kalamazoo Toy and Sled Company, whose toy line had stalled for lack of materials.
Articles of incorporation for Orthopedic Frame Company were filed on 20 February 1946.
The firm took the Stryker name in 1964, after Stryker retired from practice.
A public offering followed in 1979.
The hospital on Gull Road still stands, now Beacon Kalamazoo.
The basement workshop is gone.
What remains is the site where a working surgeon built the first product line that later became a listed medical-device company.
The current registered office is on Airview Boulevard.
The founding pin belongs on Gull Road, at the hospital that held the workshop.
Photo: streetscape of Kalamazoo, Michigan, via Wikimedia Commons.
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