ResMed makes and distributes medical equipment used to diagnose and treat respiratory disorders that occur during sleep, such as sleep apnea. Most of its products treat obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a condition in which a patient's air flow is periodically obstructed, causing multiple disruptions during sleep that lead to daytime sleepiness and possibly other conditions such as high blood pressure. Its products include air-flow generators, face masks, diagnostic products, and accessories. ResMed sells directly and through distributors worldwide to home health equipment dealers, sleep clinics, and hospitals.

The 450-bed Glendale Adventist Medical Center, founded in 1905 by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, has more than 500 physicians on its medical staff. Treating the little old lady from Pasadena and other patients throughout the suburbs of sunny Southern California, Glendale Adventist Medical Center is a stalwart community member. Glendale Adventist Medical Center provides a range of specialty services including cancer treatment, cardiology, emergency medicine, neuroscience, home care, psychiatry, rehabilitation, and women's healthcare. The hospital also has its own hour-long television show called "Healthline" that focuses on local health care issues.

PPD is a leading global contract research organization (CRO), celebrating 25 years of providing drug discovery, development and lifecycle management services. Our clients and partners include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, academic and government organizations. With offices in 42 countries and more than 10,500 professionals worldwide, PPD applies innovative technologies, therapeutic expertise and a commitment to quality to help clients and partners accelerate the delivery of safe and effective therapeutics and maximize the returns on their R&D investments.

Jupiter has another important bigtime resident who's outta this world -- or at least its services are. Jupiter Medical Center consists of a nearly 160-bed, not-for-profit hospital and a 120-bed, sub-acute long-term care facility in Jupiter, Florida (just north of West Palm Beach). Specialty services include cancer treatment, cardiology, orthopedics, emergency medicine, wound care, birthing, and pain management. The hospital is affiliated with the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. Established in 1956 as the convalescence center for a retirement village, the medical center was transformed into a full-service acute-care hospital in 1979.

Bovie Medical Corporation engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of medical products and devices, primarily electrosurgical generators and disposables in the United States and Canada. The company offers electrosurgery line of products, including desiccators, generators, electrodes, electrosurgical pencils, and various ancillary disposable products used during surgical procedures in gynecology, urology, plastic surgery, dermatology, veterinary, and other surgical markets for the cutting and coagulation of tissue. Its product line comprises Aaron 900 and Aaron 940, desiccators designed primarily for dermatology and family practice physicians; Aaron 950, a desiccator with cut capacity for outpatient surgical procedures; Aaron 1250U, a 120-watt multipurpose electrosurgery generator, as well as various digital electrosurgery generators; and the SEER line of products for liver, pancreatic, and kidney tumor therapies. The company also offers battery operated cauteries for sculpting woven grafts in bypass surgery and vasectomies; evacuation of subungual hematoma; and for arresting bleeding in various surgeries. In addition, it manufactures specialty lighting instruments for use in ophthalmology; and specialty lighting instruments for general surgery, hip replacement surgery, and for the placement of endotracheal tubes in emergency and surgical procedures, as well as offers physicians’ office use penlights. Further, the company provides a nerve locator stimulator primarily used for identifying motor nerves in hand and facial reconstructive surgery. Bovie Medical Corporation was founded in 1982 and is based in Melville, New York.

Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center cares for patients in the central and south Bronx, no doubt while rooting for the Yankees a few blocks away. The health care provider has about 960 beds on its two campuses, as well as psychiatric and nursing home facilities. Hospital specialty units include chest pain, orthopedic, cancer, and women's health centers. In addition, Bronx-Lebanon manages a network of about 70 owned and affiliated medical practices; the network -- branded as BronxCare -- includes primary care doctors and specialty clinics, as well as rehabilitation facilities. The hospital is also a primary teaching hospital for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) provides an electronic trading exchange designed for health care providers, suppliers, and manufacturers to buy and sell supplies online. GHX aims to lower supply chain costs for its users by allowing them to perform transactions with multiple parties through one electronic platform, as well as by automating the purchasing process and reducing purchase order errors. The firm was founded in 2000 by a group of five health care manufacturers: Abbott Labs, Baxter International, GE Medical Systems, Johnson & Johnson, and Medtronic. It is now owned by the original five plus a slew of other distributors, hospitals, group purchasing organizations, and manufacturers.

Young Innovations, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of supplies and equipment used by dentists, dental hygienists, dental assistants, and consumers. It offers preventive products, such as disposable and metal prophylaxis (prophy) angles, prophy paste, fluorides in gel formulation, dental handpieces and related components, and moisture control products. The company also provides infection control products, such as liquid surface disinfectants, evacuation system cleaners, gloves and masks, ultrasonic cleaning systems, and instrument disinfectants; micro-applicators, including disposable micro-applicators and bristle brush applicators; and home care kits comprising brushes, wax to protect the inside of the cheek from irritation due to brackets, a timer to monitor brushing time, and floss, as well as toothbrushes. In addition, it offers endodontic products consisting of Obtura family of endodontic units, which are gun-type, heat-softened gutta percha delivery systems, as well as ultrasonic scaling units and handpieces; and diagnostic products, including panoramic X-ray machine and cephalometric images, as well as dental X-ray supplies comprising film, film cassettes and intensifying screens, processing chemicals, and darkroom supplies. The company sells its products primarily through distributors, as well as sells directly to dental providers and dental hygiene schools, Veterans Administration healthcare facilities, and the U.S. military bases. It markets its products primarily in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, Central America, and the Pacific Rim. Young Innovations, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Earth City, Missouri.

MedDetect is lending its helping hand to the healthcare sector. The company makes the MD-2000 MedDetect Instrument Detection System, a device that scans and retrieves medical and surgical instruments for hospitals and surgery centers. Other products include the EZ Glide Bag Scanner (used for the handling and scanning of medical waste) and MD SuperFabric Reusable Gloves (offers high puncture resistance to needles and other sharp instruments). MedDetect's sales operations are located in Rochester, Illinois.

Bausch + Lomb is the eye health company dedicated to Bringing Visionary Ideas to Eye Health.Bausch + Lomb offers the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of eye health products, and the company has one of the oldest, best known and most respected healthcare brands in the world. The company began in 1853 in Rochester, New York, as a small optical shop that grew to become a multi-billion dollar corporation with approximately 13,000 employees worldwide, and with products available in more than 100 countries.At Bausch + Lomb, the company's history of innovation continues today as the company invent new materials, engineer new technologies, and create pioneering ways to help people see better.

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