American Diagnostic Corporation (ADC) is one of the world’s premier manufacturers of diagnostic medical products, personal instruments, and accessories for the healthcare industry. For more than a quarter of a century, we’ve been dedicated to designing, manufacturing, and supplying stethoscopes, blood pressure instruments, and other core diagnostic products that provide an unmatched value proposition with a purchase experience that is second to none.
Our products are marketed under our many brands, including ADC®, Medicut™, Adscope®, Proscope™, Diagnostix™, Prosphyg™, Adtemp™, Multikuf™, Adlite™, Pocket Pal™, Responder™, Adcuff™, System 5™, Adflow™, Adview®, E-Sphyg™, Adimals® and many more. We also manufacture products under OEM (original equipment manufacturer) and private label contracts for over a dozen of the world's leading manufacturers and distributors in the acute care, alternate site, nursing, extended care, student, and EMS markets. In fact, ADC is the largest branded and private-label supplier of stethoscopes and blood pressure instruments in the United States. Our products are sold on six continents, in over sixty countries, and are in use by thousands of healthcare institutions and millions of healthcare professionals worldwide.
Our Mission Statement
“To produce feature-rich, ruggedly built, value-priced professional diagnostic medical instruments for the healthcare marketplace while maintaining a stable, dependable employment environment for our associates and trading partners."
The History of ADC
Bringing together their knowledge of the medical device industry and its needs, Marc Blitstein and Neal Weingart co-founded ADC in 1984. They shared a vision of a company that built long-lasting partnerships with the best component manufacturers in the world while committing to keeping significant production and quality processes in the United States. This foundation created a company that is flexible, enterprising, and more able to work with vendors and customers to make their experience one of the best in the industry.
Today, our 44,000-square-foot facility located in Hauppauge, New York, houses our corporate offices, customer service, quality control, manufacturing, and distribution departments. Sales offices in London, England, and Tokyo, Japan service our European and Pacific Rim distribution, and additional quality control and sourcing offices in Taipei, Taiwan, and Ningbo, China, oversee ADC's Asian manufacturing facilities
Year
Milestone
1984
ADC was founded in January of 1984 as a direct marketer of emergency medical supplies and operated out of a 700 square foot storefront in Copiague, NY.
1985 Hired our first full-time employee.
1987
Relocated to a 4000 square foot facility in West Babylon. Hired our first developmentally disabled employee.
1989
Opened sourcing office in Tokyo, Japan.
1990 Produced the first sphygmomanometer aneroid gauges with luminescent dials.
1992
Voted one of the top 25 fastest growing firms on Long Island by accounting firm KPMG.
1993
Opened Taipei, Taiwan Quality/Sourcing Office. Shifted much of the Japanese stethoscope component production to Taiwan.
1993
Began sourcing sphygmomanometer components from Indonesia.
1994 Launched the Adscope™ line of premium stethoscopes.
1996
Relocated to our present 35,000-square-foot Hauppauge, NY, headquarters from West Babylon.
1997
Shifted Gauge production from Japan and Taiwan to China in exclusive agreement with Nissei.
1999
Registered the ADC trademark in the US.
1999
Began sourcing digital BP instruments and thermometers from China.
2002
Started second shift at Hauppauge facility.
2003
Marc Blitstein named by Newsday, Long Island's daily newspaper, as one of their inaugural EVERYDAY Heroes for his employment of the developmentally disabled.
2004 Hired our 100th employee.
2005 Launched the E-Sphyg™, the first and only virtually indestructible digital aneroid sphygmomanometer.
2006
Blitstein named to Long Island Volunteer Hall of Fame for his work with the developmentally disabled.
2006
Frost and Sullivan named our Digital Stick Thermometer line the best in the industry.
2007
Awarded acute care supplier of the year (small company category) by the Health Industry Distributor's Assocation - the industry trade group.
2007
Awarded ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 13485: 2003 Quality certification. One of only two companies in our class to hold these quality marks.
2008
Expanded Hauppauge Facility to 44,000 square feet.
2008 Introduced the Adimals™ line of pediatric scopes.
2009 Entered the fingertip pulse oximetry market with our Diagnostix™ 2100.
2010
Opened ADC Ningbo, a three-person quality/sourcing office in Ningbo, China.
2010
Launched the ADView™, the first modular Diagnostic Station (BP, Temperature, SpO2) in a joint venture with Suntech Medical.
2011 Re-engineered our entire blood pressure line to be completely latex-free.
2011 Incorporated Microthread technology into our Adflow™ valves for improved deflation control.
2012 Launched our completely re-imagined retail program to support our brick-and-mortar retailers.
2012 Introduced the Adscope™ 606 – world's first ultra-lightweight cardiology stethoscope.
2013 Launched our completely redesigned website to enhance the ADC Experience.
2013 Produced a dozen product videos to further enhance the online experience.
2014 Celebrated our 30th anniversary in business.
2014 Launched our Designer Series print cuffs and Cuffs for a Cause™
2014 Launched 5th generation of Advantage Home BP monitors.
2014 Introduced Bariatric Adcuff - an Industry first.
2014 Launched our expanded line of Diagnostix™ and Adstation 3.5v EENT instruments.
2014 Upgraded the Adscope line with new packaging, laser engraving, and ultra Adsoft silicone eartips.
2014 ADC Ningbo becomes an FDA registered facility.
