Home Health, GE Healthcare
Agnes is the General Manager of Home Health for GE Healthcare and is responsible for all of GE Healthcare’s home health initiatives, including leading the new strategic relationship with Living Independently Group and the Assisted Living Research Programme in Hungary.
Agnes started her career in 1995 in the Technical Leadership Program at GE Aircraft Engines in Cincinnati, OH. Over the next eight years, she held several positions with increasing responsibilities including the CF6 Engine Project, Six Sigma, and Marketing and Sales positions. During that time, she relocated to Hungary to lead the Customer Satisfaction organization at Engine Services in Veresegyhaz. She joined GE Healthcare in 2003 as a Regional Service Manager, responsIble for Eastern Europe and Russia in its Diagnostic Imaging business. In 2005 Agnes was promoted to Vice President-Quality and Lean Six Sigma with GE Healthcare International in Buc, France before promotion to GE Healthcare’s Clinical Systems business based in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
Agnes was born in Mateszalka, Hungary and holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering and Management from the University of Magdeburg, Germany, and a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA. She is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Quality Leader. She is fluent in Hungarian, English and German.
Agnes is on the Board of Directors for the Milwaukee-based Florentine Opera Company. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Shorewood, WI.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.
GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention.
Home Health is a priority business area for the company. Our passive activity monitoring system, Quiet Care,® helps enable seniors to stay healthy and independent in their own homes as for long as possible. GE Healthcare is leading a European consortium of healthcare companies and leading universities to research home health technologies. The company recently announced a strategic partnership in Home Health with Intel€® . €
Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit their website at www.gehealthcare.com.