GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO—After four decades in the West, Newport Audiology Centers is relocating its corporate headquarters to Nashville. One of the nation’s largest networks of hearing care providers, it has more than 2000 locations. Founded in Southern California in 1970, Newport Audiology is currently headquartered in the Denver area.
In an interview with Hearing Health Matters, David Gligor, chief operating officer of the company, explained that the move will enable Newport Audiology to take advantage of advanced customer-management systems developed by a sister company, Hearing Planet, also based in Nashville. Newport Audiology and Hearing Planet are both owned by Sonova, the Swiss-based parent company of Phonak and Unitron.
According to the company, its new Nashville operations center will allow it to work more effectively with its key partners and expand operations across their consumer, business-to-business, and workers’ compensation segments.
Gligor said, “It will enable our retail, managed care, value-added affinity relationships and workers’ compensation division to capitalize on greater lead generation and best practices for the long-term growth of our company.”
The transition is expected to be complete by late summer or early fall.
Newport Audiology Centers is operated by Newport Health Network, which also runs Astrum Hearing Inc., a contracted workers’ compensation cost-containment hearing healthcare provider. Together, they comprise one of the nation’s largest hearing healthcare networks with about 2000 providers serving people with hearing loss.
