DESCO, a company that specializes in medical equipment maintenance and hospital and surgery centers assistance when it comes to equipment issues, is reportedly moving its company headquarters to Hadley.
According to a press release from the company itself, DESCO, or the Diagnostic Equipment Service Corp., is currently in the process of getting all the necessary town permits to construct a one-story building with a 4,000 sq. ft. space. The new headquarters is reportedly getting built on the last vacant parcel in University Business Park located just off North Maple Street. At present, the company has its headquarters based in Norfolk.
Per Andrea Bordenca, who owns the company, said that the company intends to hire around four to six full-time employees for the new site at Hadley, which according to her, will also be both a place for professional development and a regional dispatching site. Presently, DESCO has employees throughout the country, operating in 15 states, including all of New England.
As a company, DESCO sends customer service representatives to medical centers as a direct response to encountered problems using the defibrillator, beds, EKGs, and other surgery, laboratory, and rehabilitation equipment.
According to Bordenca, the new facilities (all 750 feet of it) will then be used to house the company's own workshops for those in the pre-health and biomedical equipment repair field. These workshops will then be teaching them how to operate (and maintain) medical devices, such as the ones mentioned above.
"My goal as a business owner in western Massachusetts is to help our region educate and retain area residents," Bordenca said in a recent company release.
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To help increase the visibility of technology, science, engineering, and math, or STEM, programs to middle school and high school students, the company is also planning on partnering with local schools, as well as the workforce boards of Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties. Furthermore, the company will also help push a paid internship program through the Springfield Community College, a university that as of late, has started its own biomedical engineering technology (BMET) program.
The hearing for the project will reportedly continue come the 16th of April, as the building still needs a site plan special permit, another one for business use in the aquifer and finally, a special permit under the erosion and sediment control bylaw.
