medical devices medical technology founded san antonio texas 1976 1976 headquarters san antonio texas united states key people james r. leininger founder joseph f. woody president and ceo products items related to negative pressure wound therapy and wound healing 1 revenue 1.6 billion 2010 net income 256.1 million 2010 number of employees 5 000 2013 website www.kci1.com kinetic concepts inc. kci is a global corporation that produces medical technology related to wounds and wound healing . kci produced the first product developed specifically for negative pressure wound therapy . as of 2013 update the company employs 5 000 people and markets its products in more than 25 countries . 2 its headquarters is in san antonio texas . currently kci lifecell and systagenix operate under one global medical technology brand known as acelity . contents 1 operations 2 corporate history 3 financial information 4 product lines 5 see also 6 references 7 external links operations edit kci is composed of three business units active healing solutions lifecell and therapeutic support systems that operate in the wound care regenerative medicine and therapeutic support systems markets . 3 4 the largest of these business units is dedicated to wound care 5 primarily negative pressure wound therapy for the treatment of traumatic wounds pressure ulcers chronic wounds and diabetic ulcers 6 but also assistance with surgery . 7 the therapeutic support systems developed and supplied by kci are largely for the treatment and prevention of complications associated with patient immobility . 8 these include support surfaces for hospital beds and home patients designed to address pulmonary complications in immobile patients . kci also develops specialty beds for use in hospitals or in long term care facilities . 9 kci expanded into the regenerative medicine market in 2008 . 3 through subsidiary company lifecell corporation kci develops and supplies tissue based products . these include tissue based treatments used in surgical procedures to repair soft tissue . 10 corporate history edit kci was founded in 1976 in san antonio texas by james r. leininger then an emergency room physician 8 who wanted to help prevent the pulmonary complications associated with immobility . over time the company developed or acquired a line of therapeutic specialty beds introducing a specialty bed for acute care patients with pulmonary complications . 11 initially kci s product development focused on therapeutic beds and surfaces then expanded to introduce the first commercial negative pressure wound therapy products in the mid 1990s . 7 12 kci acquired regenerative medicine company lifecell in 2008 3 in a non hostile transaction for us 1.7 billion . 13 14 in january 2012 lifecell was made a sister company to kci . financial information edit from the founding of the company in 1976 to 1988 the revenue of kci grew to us 153.2 million . the growth in revenue allowed kci to go public and trade on the new york stock exchange nyse in 1988 . 15 kci stock was traded on the nyse until 1997 when the company went private . in february 2004 kci became a publicly listed company for the second time and was listed on the nyse under the ticker symbol kci . 7 16 by the late 2000s the company s revenue was over 1 billion and reported an increase of 17 percent in 2007 to 1.61 billion . 17 revenue for 2008 was 1.88 billion increasing to 1.99 billion in 2009 18 and in 2010 increased to 2.02 billion . 19 on november 4 2011 the company went private again at a price of 68.50 per share . kci is owned by a consortium consisting of apax partners and controlled affiliates of the canada pension plan investment board and public sector pension investment board . product lines edit v.a.c. systems used for negative pressure wound therapy . 20 see also edit negative pressure wound therapy pressure ulcer references edit products . kci1.com . retrieved 17 march 2011 . fda clears new kci abdominal wound care product . san antonio business journal . 19 may 2009 . retrieved 25 january 2011 . a b c kci earnings up during second quarter . san antonio business journal . 21 july 2009 . retrieved 25 january 2011 . kinetic concepts and carroll hospital group form partnership . datamonitor newswire . 6 april 2009 . access date requires url help kci appoints kien nguyen vice president of global marketing for active healing solutions tm . business wire . 21 april 2010 . access date requires url help vacuum assisted closure wound therapy cleared for partial thickness burns . reuters health medical news . 27 january 2003 . access date requires url help a b c benesh peter 14 june 2004 . second ipo helps heal old wounds ; kinetic concepts inc. ; san antonio texas . investor s business daily . p. a09 . a b kinetic concepts inc. implements solidworks software as company wide engineering standard . business wire . 6 march 2000 . access date requires url help cite error invalid ref tag ; name solidworks defined multiple times with different content see the help page . kinetic concepts acquires rik medical . pr newswire . 6 october 1997 . access date requires url help kinetic concepts now owns lifecell corp . biomedical materials 5 . 1 july 2008 . issn 0955 7717 . kinetic concepts introduces triadyne latest addition to line of therapeutic beds and surfaces . business wire . 23 may 1995 . kci honors dr. louis argenta with research based fellowship and scholarship . business wire . 12 october 2009 . kci to acquire lifecell for 1.7 billion in cash creating a global medical technology leader . business wire . 7 april 2008 . analyst questions kinetic concepts purchase of lifecell due to high price and low revenue . the associated press . 8 april 2008 . blaker ashley 24 december 1990 . kinetic expands foreign presence with acquisitions . san antonio business journal . 4 49 1 . berko malcolm 3 august 2007 . wound care developer is a healthy company . copley news service . kci concludes 2007 on strong note . san antonio business journal . 29 january 2008 . highlights kci . msn money . msn . january 2011 . retrieved 25 january 2011 . kinetic concepts 4q profit grows 12 percent . bloomberg business news . associated press . 1 february 2011 . retrieved 4 february 2011 . kci to launch v.a.c.via an advanced mobile healing technology . business wire.com . 26 april 2010 . retrieved 25 january 2011 . external links edit official kci site official lifecell site v t e pharmaceutical companies of the united states abbott laboratories acorda therapeutics actavis aderis pharmaceuticals adolor corporation alcon alexion pharmaceuticals alkermes allergan alza amgen amylin pharmaceuticals ariad pharmaceuticals aryx therapeutics avax technologies baxter international biocryst pharmaceuticals biogen biolex biovest biovista bradley pharmaceuticals bristol myers squibb cancervax century pharmaceuticals cephalon ceragenix pharmaceuticals combe incorporated cortex pharmaceuticals cotherix covance covidien cubist pharmaceuticals cutter laboratories cytosport cytrx danco laboratories dnaprint genomics epix pharmaceuticals eli lilly and company elorac endo pharmaceuticals ethicon endo surgery ethicon inc. forest laboratories galena biopharma genvec genentech genta gilead sciences hospira imclone systems institute for oneworld health intercept pharmaceuticals ista pharmaceuticals ivax corporation janssen biotech johnson & johnson kinetic concepts king pharmaceuticals kinray kv pharmaceutical leiner health products mallinckrodt martek biosciences corporation s. e. massengill company mckesson corporation mcneil laboratories melior discovery mentholatum merck & co. miles laboratories mylan myriad genetics naurex nereus pharmaceuticals northwest biotherapeutics norwich pharma services novabay pharmaceuticals nuvelo organon international ortho pharmaceutical ortho mcneil pharmaceutical osi pharmaceuticals ovation pharmaceuticals par pharmaceutical parke davis perrigo pfizer pharmaceutical 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