First reported by the San Antonio Business Journal, the company will cut about 265 employees, 200 from its Alamo City site and the rest from its Charlotte facility. The cuts are part of a restructuring and will be handled over time, rather than all in one fell swoop of pink slips.
Acelity, the parent company of KCI USA, Inc., is cutting more than 250 jobs across its Texas and North Carolina facilities.
First reported by the San Antonio Business Journal, the company will cut about 265 employees, 200 from its Alamo City site and the rest from its Charlotte facility. The cuts are part of a restructuring and will be handled over time, rather than all in one fell swoop of pink slips. The company told the Journal that the cuts were part of a strategy to use the savings from the cuts to “invest in and transform its customer support and experience capabilities.” Acelity also intends to use some of the funding to improve its technology platform, the Journal said.
According to the Charlotte Business Journal, the layoffs in North Carolina will begin in July and are scheduled to be completed by Sept. 27. The majority of the positions being cut in Charlotte are in order-fulfillment support and management. The remaining positions being eliminated are in billing and collections, customer support and administrative support, the Journal reported. When the layoffs are complete, the Charlotte Acelity facility is expected to be shut down. Acelity spokesperson Maggie Fairchild told the Journal that about 30 North Carolina-based employees will continue to work remotely from home.
Acelity’s headquarters in San Antonio employs about 1,000 people. Last year, the company laid off about 68 people.
In December, Acelity launched the V.A.C.RX4 Therapy System in the United States. The V.A.C.RX4 System was initially developed at the request of the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Department of Defense to help military personnel treat multiple battlefield wounds with a single negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) device. Acelity’s V.A.C.RX4 System uses a multichannel design that allows constant pressure to be delivered to multiple wounds at the same time. Acelity said the wound treatment device is now available to civilian healthcare professionals in order to allow clinicians to effectively manage multiple wounds on trauma patients.
“In trauma centers and burn units, physicians encounter patients who are suffering from multiple wounds that could benefit from negative pressure wound therapy without an effective, convenient way to do so,” said R. Andrew Eckert, president and chief executive officer of KCI USA. “As an organization, we are committed to expanding the boundaries of what’s possible in wound healing so that we may develop innovative new solutions for our customers, while also increasing ease of use and maintaining the highest standards of care.”
