ABOUT THE COMPANYFuller Rehabilitation Independent Living Aids was a provider of power wheelchairs and other mobility equipment, with seven locations in four states. It employed 82 people.
Struggling to cope with new federal regulations and burdened by too much debt, Ringgold, Ga.-based Fuller Rehabilitation has gone out of business.
The durable medical equipment company announced to employees last Friday that it would close its doors that day. Northwest Georgia Bank, its lender, has seized the company’s assets.
“The family has been in this business for 21 years. They fought an incredibly hard fight to keep this business open,” said Brent Beasley, former compliance officer for the company. He is the son-in-law of Mike and Leila Fuller, the Ringgold couple who owned Fuller Rehab.
The company owners secured jobs for 50 of their 82 employees with a consultant company they had hired, Beasley said. Before the business closed, the Fullers sent out final paychecks for hours worked the last two weeks of January, Beasley said.