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Novum provides business strategies and consulting services to physicians and healthcare-related businesses.  The Company was formed by Ralph E. Jordan, a long-time national leader in the healthcare industry.  Jordan serves as a business advisor to help clients improve efficiencies and profitability. Jordan takes a highly personalized "partnership" approach in working with physicians and business owners to identify, analyze, and solve management, staffing, and financial planning problems that affect the bottom line.  Jordan has experience and knowledge to guide internal changes and improvements smoothly.  For challenges requiring large-scale intervention, no consultant should be without a toolbox filled with resources to address specific and unique issues. That is why Novum works with a team of specialists in every field of business to put Novum clients in touch with world-class professionals who are vetted, known entities, who have a history of working together with him.

Ralph E. Jordan

Business Advisor

Ralph E. Jordan is a recognized leader, innovator, and entrepreneur in the healthcare 
industry. In 1988, Jordan founded Trident Health Resources, an international perfusion management services company where he served as CEO until 2017.  Jordan began his career with Baxter Laboratories and with Johnson & Johnson.  He founded several successful healthcare enterprises. Among the innovative products developed, manufactured, and marketed was a state-of-the-art electrosurgical scalpel; a patented process that coated electrosurgical blades to prevent tissue adherence; helped form a biotech research company that developed a successful process using monoclonal antibodies and a fluorescence technique that successfully determined the sex of a bovine embryo; developed, marketed, and distributed a miniaturized laser that was used on the posterior capsule of the eye after cataract surgery; and developed and enhanced the design of a microsurgical instrument that was used for RK surgery (radial keratotomy).  Jordan was instrumental in the formation of Cryo-cell International a company that harvests and cryo-preserves stem cells from cord blood. Most recently, he negotiated a buy-out of Trident Health Resources, Inc. to Specialtycare Group, part of Kohlberg and Company.  He is an alumnus of Frostburg State University and served on the advisory board for the School of Business, the University Foundation, and is a founder of the Sloop Leadership Institute. He is also the Executive Director of the International Prostate Cancer Foundation. He and his wife, Charlotte, are long-time residents in the Dunedin/Palm Harbor, Florida area.
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