Our History

From a community clinic in west Texas to hundreds of medical centers across the country, Concentra Physical Therapy's parent company – Concentra Inc. – has grown, innovated, and diversified to become the nation’s largest provider of occupational health services. This timeline highlights key events in Concentra’s history.

Year Information Medical Centers
1979 Dick Rehm, MD, and Peter Fagan, MD – co-chairs of the Texas Tech Medical School Family Practice Residency Program – open a medical center in Amarillo, Texas 1
1983 Tom Fogarty, MD, joins the practice 1
1985 The partners open their second center in Garland, Texas 2
1990

The practice grows to five centers (original location in Amarillo and four in Dallas), each serving approximately 150 patients per day

Medical practice adopts a successful business model

Recognizing the market’s need for a network of quality occupational health centers, the partners decide to expand aggressively in the next five years

5
1991

Company implements Outcome Assurance services

7
1992

Company implements physical therapy services

24
1993

Company expands outside of Texas

36
1995 Company offers medical centers in 12 states 64
1996

The company – now called OccuSystems – expands and offers 109 centers throughout Texas, the Midwest, and the Northeast

Company develops OccuSource and outcome information reporting software

109
1997

OccuSystems merges with CRA Managed Care and becomes Concentra Operating Corp.

140
1999

Company has largest growth year, adding 53 centers

201
2000

Concentra Occupational Health Research Institute is established

219
2001 Company has over 100 on-site programs

Concentra serves 6.25% of the nation’s workers’ compensation cases
232
2002

Concentra clinicians and researchers publish multiple research articles and the company's first book: Low Back Pain: An Evidenced-Based, Biopsychosocial Model for Clinical Management

Concentra is named the largest rehabilitation service provider, ranked by revenues from services provided directly to employers, by Business Insurancemagazine

241
2003 Concentra is named the largest rehabilitation service provider for second consecutive year by Business Insurancemagazine 246
2004

Concentra publishes its Guide to Medical Certification of Commercial Drivers

Concentra is named the largest rehabilitation service provider for third consecutive year by Business Insurancemagazine

252
2005 Concentra offers 300 medical centers in 34 states and 500 clinicians in 83 markets 300
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