MultiCell Technologies is working on multiple therapeutics, but still sells liver cells on the side to help pay the rent. It is developing drug candidates to treat degenerative neurological diseases. Its MCT-125 candidate is being developed as a treatment for the fatigue that comes with multiple sclerosis while MCT-175 is intended to slow the progression of the disease. Two other candidates are targeting breast and cervical cancers. MultiCell also produces liver cells (hepatocytes) and a serum-free culture medium for research. Larger firms, including Corning and Pfizer, have licensed the company's liver cell lines.

Founded in 1984, the company is a part of the worldwide orthopedic medical device firm, Stryker Corporation. Stryker UK offers joint replacements, spinal implants, orthobiologics, powered surgical instruments, surgical navigation systems, and endoscopic products. The company also sells emergency medical transport equipment and distributes medical devices from other firms.

Mount Sinai Hospital opened its doors in 1919 with 60 beds to serve the burgeoning population of Eastern European immigrants in the Windy City. The hospital's present facility is a 320-bed tertiary-care medical center. Mount Sinai Hospital also trains medical students from the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science, and it hosts health research programs. Its services include Level I trauma care and Level III perinatal care. It also operates outpatient and community health centers and offers home health care. The hospital is a part of the Sinai Health System, which also includes the Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital, the Sinai Children's Hospital, Sinai Medical Group, and the Sinai Community Institute.

Health Alliance Plan of Michigan (HAP) provides health insurance products and related services to around 500,000 members. A subsidiary of the Henry Ford Health System, the not-for-profit corporation offers managed care plans (including HMO, PPO, and consumer-directed plans) to individuals and companies throughout its service area, which covers all of Michigan and portions of Indiana and Ohio. It also offers Medicare Advantage plans and Medicare prescription drug coverage to retirees. In addition, the company offers disease management, behavioral health, and wellness programs.

Community Medical Centers keeps California's San Joaquin Valley healthy. The health system operates three acute care hospitals -- along with nursing homes, freestanding outpatient facilities, and an inpatient mental health center -- in the greater Fresno area. Its Community Regional Medical Center is a roughly 600-bed academic hospital affiliated with UCSF-Fresno; it provides advanced care in areas such as trauma, cardiac care, neuroscience, and orthopedics. Clovis Community Medical Center provides general medical-surgical care, with specialized expertise in women's health and bariatric/weight-loss surgery. Specialty hospital Fresno Heart & Surgical Hospital has about 60 beds.

ART Advanced Research Technologies manufactures laser-based diagnostic imaging devices for the medical and pharmaceutical industries. ART's Optix device allows scientists to use molecular imaging technology to study live animal subjects. The company's SoftScan device is used to detect and diagnose breast cancer. Both use light, rather than X-rays or soundwaves, in their applications. It also makes Fenestra contrast imaging agents. ART's products are distributed through direct sales efforts and via a strategic alliance with GE Healthcare. The company restructured under bankruptcy protection and was acquired by private financial firm Dorsky Worldwide in 2009.

Founded in 1953 by Ed and Marge Bridges, Marbridge began as a small working ranch for young men with cognitive disorders. From its beginning, Marbridge offered training structured around the idea that adults with cognitive disorders can learn skills that help them build self-esteem and be contributing members of the community. By the 1960s, Marbridge had already received national attention for its groundbreaking approach to helping adults with special needs. Gifts of land expanded the campus, and Mabee Village and the Villa were built in the 1980s to broaden the scope of residents that Marbridge could serve.Today, more than 220 adults live and work on the Marbridge campus, applying techniques developed for our Abilities Centered Training (ACT) program in more than 150 weekly training opportunities. As part of our mission to continue to provide residents with the best possible quality of life, Marbridge has developed a strategic plan to expand and improve the campus. A Master Architectural Plan including beautiful new residences, new training buildings, and a town square was approved by the board of trustees in early 2007. When the campus is complete in late 2012, it will truly be a premier model community helping adults with cognitive challenges reach their full potential.

Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, hospices, and a rehabilitation therapy business. Its skilled nursing facilities provide specialty care, such as chemotherapy, enteral/parenteral nutrition, tracheotomy care, and ventilator care, as well as offers various services, including room and board, special nutritional programs, social services, recreational activities, and related healthcare and other services. These skilled nursing facilities include Express Recovery, a unit that provides skilled nursing care and rehabilitation therapy for patients recovering from conditions, such as joint replacement surgery, and cardiac and respiratory ailments. Skilled Healthcare Group company’s assisted living facilities provide residential accommodations, activities, meals, security, housekeeping, and assistance in the activities of daily living to seniors who are independent or who require some support, but not the level of nursing care provided in a skilled nursing facility. Skilled Healthcare Group also offers ancillary services, such as physical, occupational, and speech therapy, as well as rehabilitation therapy service to third-party skilled nursing operators. In addition, Skilled Healthcare Group offers hospice services comprising palliative and clinical care, education, and counseling with a focus on the physical, spiritual, and psychosocial needs of terminally ill individuals and their families. As of December 31, 2009, it owned or leased 78 skilled nursing facilities and 22 assisted living facilities, together comprising 10,954 licensed beds in California, Texas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, and New Mexico. Skilled Healthcare Group has a joint venture with APS Acquisition, LLC. that operates a pharmacy in Austin, Texas. Skilled Healthcare Group is based in Foothill Ranch, California.

Employing the Latin word for breast, SenoRx's name says it all: the company develops, manufactures, and distributes biopsy systems and breast tissue markers used in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. Its primary diagnostic product, EnCor, is a vacuum-assisted breast biopsy probe system with which a doctor may collect tissue samples and biopsies through a proprietary transparent tissue collection chamber. The system allows the doctor to examine the quality of the specimen mid-probe, rather than performing numerous biopsies. Other core products include Contura MLB, a radiation therapy device. SenoRx was acquired by medical device maker C.R. Bard for about $200 million in 2010.

Home Instead has a network of some 900 franchises operating throughout the US and in more than a dozen countries internationally. Employees known as CAREGivers provide the elderly with one-on-one assistance in the home and at assisted living or nursing care facilities. Home Instead helps keep the elderly at home instead of in assisted living or nursing homes. The company -- operating under the name Home Instead Senior Care -- provides non-medical home care assistance for seniors. Its services are designed for people who are capable of managing their physical needs but require assistance, supervision, light housework, meals, errands, or simply companionship in order to remain in their homes.

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