Ron Bacon had no idea how much of a positive effect that a recommendation from Father Dewig would eventually have on his life when he was growing up on Evansville’s West Side. As a boy, Ron helped out his family working in Bacon’s Grocery that was established by his grandparents as Reif’s Grocery before being passed to the succeeding generation. Ron humbly admits that he was a life loving C student at Mater Dei, who concentrated more on life outside of the classroom than his teacher’s would have preferred. Despite his late start in appreciating academic rigor, he did have the duty and discipline to become an Eagle Scout.
Father Dewig, with a good eye for recognizing personal qualities, took young Bacon aside and recommended that he apply for entry to a training program in inhalation therapy at Deaconess Hospital. The good father had recognized a passion and energy for caring and service that perhaps Ron didn’t even recognize about himself at such a young age. Of the 120 applicants to the program, 4 were accepted, 3 graduated and today only one is still practicing. Ron Bacon became one of a very few people who was fortunate enough to find his life’s work at a young age. The C student was graduated from his program with flying colors and was onto a series of career steps that eventually lead to entrepreneurship and the founding of Freedom Medical in 1977.
Freedom Medical, under Mr. Bacon’s guidance provides its customers with home medical equipment and supplies. With an emphasis on exemplary service, patient comfort, and freedom to choose from many options, Freedom Medical offers an extensive line of oxygen delivery systems, hospital beds, manual wheelchairs, scooters, lift chairs, bath safety equipment, walking aids, incontinent supplies, diabetic shoes and supplies, braces and splints and of course respiratory equipment such as C-Pap devices and their accessories. Ron insists upon offering over 20 interface options to assure the most comfortable C-Pap experiences possible for the client base of Freedom Medical.
As much as Ron concentrates on the care and compassion involved in providing excellent products and around the clock services, he also is tasked along with his wife and daughters with the challenges of running a successful business. Despite the current challenges and the changing complexion of being a service provider in the medical business, Freedom Medical employs 25 people who have been extensively trained under Mr. Bacon’s tutelage to deliver the same caring competence that he demands for his clientele. Freedom Medical’s mantra of “we help make tough times easier†is easily recognized in Ron’s staunch refusal to compromise the quality of service that they deliver.
Ron Bacon, after a lifetime of excellence is still a “C†student. The “C’s†associated with Freedom Medical and with Ron himself are Care, Compassion, Competence, Choice, Confidence, and Commitment to service. From my perspective during my brief time with Ron at Freedom Medical, he should get an “A+†in all of those subjects that start with C. It is not easy to thrive or even survive in today’s business atmosphere. Freedom Medical would make Father Dewig along with Ron’s entrepreneurial parents and grandparents very proud.
This man of faith through dedication and compassion continues to make Evansville and Southwest Indiana a better place to live. Ron’s commitment to family and legacy business will continue. A succession plan is underway to assure that the medical expertise, the financial acumen, and the day to day operation of this business will stay in the Bacon family for the next generation.
To contact Ron or Freedom Medical drop by any of their locations between Boonville & Chandler at Highway 62 and Baker Rd, on Evansville’s Westside on Franklin St. near St. Joe, or in the Washington Square Mall. You may also visit their website at www.freedommedical.biz, or call toll free at 1-(800) 558-7620.
Contributed by: Joe J. Wallace, Hadannah Business Solutions, hadannahbusiness@aol.com.
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