Life Line Screening
Life Line Screening is a privately run prevention and wellness company founded in 1993, with corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas and operational offices in the Cleveland, Ohio, area. The company operates community-based health screening services for adults aged 50 and up across the United States. Life Line Screening is partnered with numerous insurance companies, hospitals and organizations including Women in Technology International, Heritage Valley Health System, Carolina Vascular, Mission Hospital, and Lake Norman Regional Medical Center. History The company was founded in Florida in 1993 by Colin Scully and Timothy Phillips. By 1998, the company had expanded across the United States, offering screenings to more than 500,000 people. The company added finger-stick blood testing to its screening services to screen for complete cholesterol count (lipid panel), diabetes (glucose) and inflammation (C-reactive protein) in 2007. That same year, Life Line Screening launched its operations in the U.K. In 2008, services expanded to include atrial fibrillation screenings. In 2009, BBC News published a warning over private health scans, saying that private companies who provide screenings were often "expensive unnecessary and misleading." The article also criticized the company for not warning people of any restrictions (such as false positives and false negatives) and