A Leesburg company and a nonprofit organization are celebrating two years of a partnership they call “a win-win.”

K2M Group Holdings and Every Citizen Has Opportunities (ECHO) have worked together for two years to increase employability of people with significant disabilities. K2M is a global medical device company focused on designing and commercializing innovative technologies and techniques used by spine surgeons around the globe to treat patients suffering from complicated spinal diseases. ECHO works to further the independence, promotion and upward mobility of individuals with significant disabilities.

K2M employs a crew of 14 individuals with disabilities through ECHO. The company requires exceptional quality control before products leave its facility for the operating room, and ECHO’s clients play an important role in this. The ECHO team pays close attention to detail when scanning and indexing medical documents associated with the spinal technology product.

“Having that information and level of detail available to K2M is critical,” a press release from K2M stated. Read more.