Meridian Holdings provides administrative, financial, management, information technology, and telecommunications support services to health care providers through its portfolio of companies. The company's Capnet IPA (Independent Physician Association) unit provides management services to a contracted network of more than 300 physicians, 15 community hospitals, and four teaching hospitals. Meridian Holdings' InterCare DX subsidiary offers software products and services. CGI Communications Services provides telecommunications, medical products, and services.

Straumann Holding AG is a global leader in manufacturing dental implants. The company also makes prosthetics, products for dental tissue regeneration, and the tools and instruments to help install its products. It has introduced a synthetic bone-replacement material to help build up jaw bone in preparation for placing implants, and the company regularly invests in additional research and development efforts. Board member Dr. Thomas Straumann holds about 30% of the company's stock.

From its humble beginning in 1918 as a small community center, Harrison Medical Center has grown into the region's busiest heath system with five campuses serving four counties in Washington State. Harrison's main campus in Bremerton provides general inpatient medical and surgical care and emergency services -- including a Level III trauma center. Its Silverdale campus provides mom and baby care, pediatrics, and specialty services including robotic surgery and weight loss surgical procedures. Harrison's locations in Port Orchard and Belfair provide urgent care services and the Poulsbo campus specializes in cancer care. Combined the five campuses employ about 400 doctors and see more than 17,000 patients annually.

Established in 1938 and named after the philanthropic leader of the Waterman Fountain Pen Company, Florida Hospital Waterman has been part of the Adventist Health System since 1992. Florida Hospital Waterman is a 200-bed community hospital serving the residents of Lake County, Florida, just north of Orlando. The hospital provides a full range of acute care services, including cardiac and cancer care, emergency services, obstetrics, pediatrics, and rehabilitation. It also offers outpatient surgery, diagnostic imaging, laboratory, and home health services, and it operates a primary care clinic.

Davis Regional Medical Center (DRMC) is a 130-bed acute care hospital which serves Iredell County, North Carolina, and surrounding counties. The medical center has a staff of more than 200 independent physicians representing 40 specialties. DRMC offers a range of emergency, general health, and specialty medical services for adults, children, and the elderly. It is home to centers for rehabilitation, wound treatment, orthopedics, diabetes care, pain management, birthing, surgery, and psychiatric care. Established in 1920, Davis Regional Medical Center is part of the Health Management Associates family of hospitals.

Davis Vision is a managed vision and eye care provider that serves about 55 million eye plan members through thousands of employer client groups. The company operates across the US through benefits contracts with companies, government agencies, unions, and insurance companies. In addition to covering eye exams and eyewear, Davis Vision offers discounted laser vision-correction surgery. Its centralized laboratories fill some 6,000 custom ophthalmic orders daily. Davis Vision also provides customers with a mail-order contact lens replacement service called Lens 123. The company was founded as a family optical business in 1917; today it is a subsidiary of Highmark.

Founded in 1988 in Queensbury, N.Y., U.S., AngioDynamics is today a NASDAQ-listed public company. We are a leading provider of innovative medical devices used by interventional radiologists, nephrologists and surgeons for the minimally invasive treatment of cancer and peripheral vascular disease. Our diverse product line includes market-leading radiofrequency ablation and irreversible electroporation resection systems, vascular access products, angiographic products and accessories, dialysis products, angioplasty products, drainage products, thrombolytic products, embolization products and venous products.AngioDynamics has distinguished itself as a dynamic brand in a technologically competitive, high-growth industry, through the company’s consistent ability to successfully develop and bring to market new technologies and products. AngioDynamics believes it is well poised to continue that trend. Looking into the future, the company plans to bring forth a continuing stream of innovations that greatly improve patient care by providing the highest-quality, best-performing products.

Konica Minolta Medical Imaging U.S.A. Inc, a North American affiliate of Konica Minolta's medical and graphic imaging business unit, makes digital and traditional imaging products for diagnostic use by hospitals, imaging centers, private physicians, and veterinary clinics. Its products include computed radiography, digital radiography, and mammography imaging systems, as well as laser image printers and film processors. Customers have includes CHRISTUS Health, Tenet Healthcare, and Universal Health Services. The company sells products throughout the US, Canada, and Latin America.

Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) has the Blues in Chicago and the Southwest. A licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, HCSC consists of four regional Blue health plans: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma. The mutually owned company provides group and individual health plans -- including traditional indemnity plans, managed care programs, and Medicare supplemental coverage -- to more than 12 million members, a majority of them in Illinois and Texas. Through some non-Blue subsidiaries, HCSC sells dental, life, disability, and property/casualty insurance.

Avera Health provides health care services to eastern South Dakota as well as parts of Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and North Dakota. The health care system operates an extensive network of facilities, including some 28 hospitals (totaling 1,450 acute-care beds) and 140 primary care community clinics. Other facilities include nursing homes, hospices, urgent care clinics, and home health offices. These operations are divided into five regions: Avera St. Luke's, Avera Queen of Peace, Avera Marshall, Avera McKennan, and Avera Sacred Heart. The system also operates a health care plan and Avera PACE, a hospital purchasing organization. Avera Health is sponsored by the Benedictine Sisters and Presentation Sisters.

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