Mike Damstra

Owner and Founder CareLinc Medical Equipment & Supply

Last Reviewed: September 27, 2026

Executive Summary

Mike Damstra is the owner and founder of CareLinc Medical Equipment & Supply, a family-owned provider of home medical equipment based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He started the business in 1997 with one delivery van and three employees. It now has more than 45 locations, more than 800 employees and hundreds of delivery vehicles serving patients at home, in hospice and in long-term care across Michigan, Ohio and what the company calls its Southern Region. The company credits its approach to the home medical equipment industry to him.

Career Highlights

• Founded CareLinc in 1997 with one delivery van and three employees; the Better Business Bureau records the business as started on 10 December 1997.
• Built CareLinc into a regional durable medical equipment provider with more than 45 locations and more than 800 employees.
• Expanded the company from Michigan into Ohio and a Southern Region.
• Owner of the business, which the company describes as family-owned; the Better Business Bureau lists Derek Damstra as President.

Professional Journey

Damstra founded CareLinc in 1997. The company’s own account of its origins is modest: one delivery van, three employees, and what its About page calls “a vision of providing the highest level of service and care imaginable”. It credits the business’s direction to “the well-received, fresh approach to the home medical equipment industry first inspired by our owner and founder 28 years ago: Mike Damstra”.

CareLinc supplies durable medical equipment and related services to people at home and to hospice and long-term care settings. Its services include custom mobility, home access, hospice equipment, long-term care, mastectomy services, sleep therapy, and reorder programmes for PAP, oxygen, diabetic, CGM and insulin-pump supplies. It grew across Michigan first and then into Ohio and what it calls its Southern Region. By its own count it now has more than 45 locations, more than 800 employees and hundreds of delivery vehicles. It marked 25 years in business in 2022.

The company still describes itself as family-owned and local, and it points to philanthropy as part of its culture, saying it has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent years. The Better Business Bureau’s listing for the Grand Rapids headquarters names Michael L. Damstra as Owner and Derek Damstra as President. The company’s own site calls Mike Damstra its owner and founder.

Education

No education record was found in any source reviewed.