Silver Cross Hospital admitted its first patient in Joliet, Illinois, in 1895. Silver Cross Hospital and Medical Centers has grown to serve the Illinois counties of Will, Grundy, and Cook through its main hospital campus (with more than 300 beds) and several satellite facilities throughout the area. Its services include cardiovascular care, women's health, rehabilitation, and behavioral health care. Outpatient facilities provide primary and specialty care services, including medical imaging and dialysis. The hospital's name comes from the emblem (the Maltese Cross) of the Christian organization that founded the not-for-profit hospital, the International Order of The King's Daughters and Sons.

Athens Regional Medical Center, Inc.Established in 1921, the regional hospital provides general medical, surgical, and diagnostic services, as well as a wide range of specialty care in such areas as oncology, rehabilitation, pediatrics, and radiology. ARMC is part of Athens Regional Health Services which also operates four urgent care centers, an HMO, and home health care. Its Regional FirstCare unit provides occupational health care services to injured or ill employees of local companies.

Queens-Long Island Medical Group (QLIMG) cures medical ailments in the Queens-Long Island area. A physician-owned practice group boasting some 350 primary and specialty care doctors, QLIMG was established in 1991. The group operates more than 20 medical clinics, as well as urgent care centers, serving residents in New York's Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties. It is also affiliated with the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System network of acute care and specialty hospitals. QLIMG's physician's specialties include pediatrics, women's health, immunology, cardiology, radiology, rehabilitation, and neurology; the group also has disease management programs for chronically ill patients.

Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center tends to the sick of southern New Jersey. The hospital is a general acute care facility with about 410 inpatient beds. In addition to general medical and surgical care, the hospital specializes in organ transplantation, rehabilitation, dialysis treatment, cardiac care, and perinatal (birthing) care. The hospital also offers nursing and other medical training programs, and it provides community health and outreach services. Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, part of Catholic Health East's Lourdes Health System, is sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, New York.

Washington County Health System (WCHS) provides a wide range of medical services to patients living in western Maryland, southern Pennsylvania, and adjacent portions of West Virginia. Its flagship facility, the not-for-profit Washington County Hospital, has some 350 beds and offers acute, tertiary, and long-term care, including inpatient behavioral health services, cardiac care, obstetrics, cancer treatment, rehabilitation, and trauma care. WCHS also operates the for-profit Antietam Health Services, a provider of outpatient health care, including diagnostic imaging, laboratory services, and ambulatory surgery. In addition, it provides general practice care at the Robinwood Medical Center.

Ardent Health Services invests in quality health care. In people, technology, facilities and communities, Ardent makes considerable investments – producing high quality care and extraordinary results. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Ardent subsidiaries own and operate health systems in the U.S. Our network includes seven acute care hospitals, a rehabilitation hospital, a multi-specialty physician group, a 220,000 member health plan, retail pharmacies and a nationally-recognized medical laboratory.

HFN offers a variety of managed care products and services for members throughout the Prairie State. The company provides health plans (PPO), long term care, and workers compensation insurance, as well as a Medicare Select product for seniors. HFN also offers an Internet-based claims repricing system for clients. HFN company opened its doors in 1985.

Abiomed, Inc. and its subsidiaries manufacture and sell medical devices in circulatory support that offer a continuum of care in heart recovery to acute heart failure patients. It offers various disposable products for the surgery suite, which comprise BVS 5000 blood pump and AB5000 ventricle for temporary support of acute heart failure patients in profound shock, including patients suffering from cardiogenic shock after a heart attack, post-cardiotomy cardiogenic shock, or myocarditis; integrated cannula system that connects the ventricle or blood pump to the heart and an associated artery; and Impella LD that provides temporary left ventricular assist devices support for recovery from post-cardiotomy hemodynamic instability and cardiogenic shock. The company also provides disposable products for the cardiac catheterization lab and the surgery suite that include Impella 2.5 and 5.0 catheters, which are percutaneous micro heart pumps with integrated motors and sensors for use in interventional cardiology and heart surgery; and IAB, a percutaneous intra-aortic balloon used to support various prophylactic, pre-shock, and profound shock conditions. In addition, it offers driver console products, such as AB5000 console for BVS 5000 blood pump and AB5000 ventricle; mobile pump consoles for Impella products; iPulse console, a multi-purpose driver console for IAB, AB5000, BVS 5000, and other manufacturers’ IABs; and portable discharge driver for AB5000 for in-hospital and out-of-hospital patients. Further, Abiomed provides AbioCor implantable replacement heart, a self-contained artificial heart for severe biventricular heart failure. It sells its products through direct sales representatives and clinical support personnel in the United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Ireland; and internationally. ABIOMED, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Danvers, Massachusetts.

US LABS is a leading esoteric oncology and hematopathology laboratory focused on quality, innovation, and client services. Our passion for quality and attention to detail is evident in the time and care our pathology staff takes with each case. Reading more than 250,000 cases a year, our pathologists have a broad range of experience to approach diagnostic challenges. US LABS delivers a personal touch in removing any barrier between client and pathologist, as our doctors are available throughout the day for consultation on difficult cases.

Orpea owns and operates facilities scattered all over the country. Chairman and CEO Jean-Claude Marian owns a little over a third of Orpea. No, you're not having a senior moment. Orpea -- not Opera -- is one of France's leading providers of long-term care to the elderly or infirm. Orpea started out running facilities that included retirement homes and assisted-living residences, which are still operated under the Orpea name, but it has branched out to also provide care in physical therapy and psychiatric clinics, which operate through the company's Clinea subsidiary.

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