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Christopher Ridgeway didn’t build his healthcare business in isolation. Long before Stone Clinical Laboratories existed, he had already established Stone Surgical in 2008, a medical services company that would later become the foundation for a much larger healthcare ecosystem.

Stone Surgical’s original focus centered on supplying cutting-edge techniques and technologies to examination and surgical rooms. This included medical device implants used across several specialized fields, such as neurosurgery, spine procedures, and orthopedics. In practice, this meant Ridgeway’s company worked directly with the tools and technologies surgeons rely on during some of the most technically demanding procedures in medicine.

Years later, after gaining additional experience in laboratory management and pharmacogenetics, Ridgeway recognized an opportunity to expand on that surgical services foundation. Rather than starting a completely separate venture, he built Stone Clinical Laboratories as a natural extension of Stone Surgical, adding clinical testing capabilities including toxicology, early-stage cancer detection, pharmacogenetics, pathology, and wellness testing to the existing device and surgical technology business.

This structure created something distinct in the healthcare services space: a single organization capable of supporting both the surgical technology side of patient care and the diagnostic laboratory side. Together, Stone Surgical and Stone Clinical Laboratories are positioned as a leading single-source provider, distributing medical devices while also operating as a specialty laboratory for healthcare facilities across the United States.

The advantage of this combined approach is straightforward from a physician’s perspective. Instead of managing separate vendor relationships for surgical equipment and diagnostic testing, healthcare facilities working with Ridgeway’s companies can access both under one roof, streamlining logistics and communication. This ecosystem approach reflects a broader theme running through Ridgeway’s career: building complementary businesses that reinforce one another rather than operating as disconnected ventures. From surgical device distribution to full clinical laboratory services, his companies illustrate how a healthcare business can grow by expanding around existing strengths, meeting new needs each step of the way.