University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) may be steeped in history, but its services are on the cutting edge of health care. The network of hospitals and associated care facilities serve Pennsylvania's Philadelphia County and the surrounding area. The health system provides emergency, primary, and long-term care services, as well as specialties including oncology, neurology, and cardiology. Its hospitals have a total of some 1,600 beds and include the Pennsylvania Hospital (founded by Ben Franklin), Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. UPHS also conducts research programs in areas such as cancer, neuroscience, genetics, and ophthalmology.

Crawford Memorial Hospital & Health Services provides acute care to residents of Crawford County in Illinois. Its hospital has about 25 acute care beds. Specialized services include cardiac rehabilitation, orthopedics, home health care, and emergency medicine. The hospital, founded in 1961, also offers a birthing center with prenatal education and breast-feeding classes. Crawford Memorial Hospital & Health Services operates a handful of rural health clinics staffed with physicians and physicians' assistants offering primary care to medically underserved areas.

Health Advocate helps individuals and employees work through the complexities of the health care system. Acting as a patient advocate,Health Advocate company helps customers navigate their health benefit plans to reduce confusion and lower medical costs. The company's administrative, insurance, and medical experts help clients with health care issues such as care coordination, claims resolution, and locating medical specialists. Health Advocate's 5,000 commercial clients include large to small corporations, insurers and third party administrators, schools, and unions.Health Advocate company was founded in 2001 by a group of health insurance executives including CEO Michael Cardillo and chief medical officer Arthur Leibowitz.

Kaleida Health provides a kaleidoscope of services to residents of western New York. The health system operates five acute care hospitals including Buffalo General Hospital (its largest facility with about 510 beds), The Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo, DeGraff Memorial Hospital, Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital, and Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital. Community health care needs are met through a network of about 100 medical clinics. Kaleida Health also operates skilled nursing care facilities and provides home health care through its Visiting Nursing Association. To help train future medical professionals, Buffalo General Hospital is a teaching affiliate of the State University of New York.

Oxford BioSignals Limited is in the business of developing products for the health care monitoring and diagnostic markets, as well as for industrial applications. The company uses technologies that stem from research done at the famous Oxford University, focusing on advanced signal processing and neural network technology. Products range from a brain wave analyzer used to detect sleep disorders in patients to a vibration analysis system that tests for and detects operational abnormalities in military jet engines. Rolls-Royce plc is a major shareholder of the company.

Phoenix Children's Hospital (PCH) invests in the health of the next generation. Founded in 1983, the hospital provides a comprehensive range of medical services specifically for children and adolescents in the greater Phoenix area. The hospital has about 350 beds and provides care in a number of pediatric sub-specialties, including childhood cancers, neuroscience, heart disease, trauma, and orthopedics. In addition to a newborn intensive care unit (NICU) at its main campus, PCH operates a second NICU on the campus of Banner Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center (a member of Banner Health). It also has several pediatric outpatient care centers in surrounding Phoenix suburbs.

Anthem Health Plans of Virginia sings a song of health insurance to residents of the Old Dominion State. A subsidiary of WellPoint and the state's largest health insurer, the company provides PPO, HMO, and traditional indemnity health plans to individuals, groups, and government employees. Its health plan offerings include Medicare supplemental and Medicare Advantage plans, as well as HMOs (under the name HealthKeepers Plus) for Medicaid recipients. Anthem Health Plans of Virginia also sells some non-Blue insurance products including life, accident, and disability coverage. The company is a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and does business as Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

Joint Replacement Instrumentation Limited designs and manufactures joint replacement devices, including replacement hips and knees, that are distributed throughout the world under the Furlong trade name. Joint Replacement Instrumentation also sells instruments needed for the implantation of its products. JRI was founded in 1969 by orthopedic surgeon Ronald Furlong, first importing hip replacement prostheses from Switzerland and later moving on to manufacture products in-house.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield is a largest health benefits provider, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama administers individual, corporate and federal employer-sponsored, and Medicare health plans to more than 3 million members representing about 30,000 companies. Its insurance products include PPO and high-deductible health plans, as well as dental policies. The company also sells long-term care insurance (dubbed Preferred LTC), and it provides disease management services and wellness programs. It is a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.

Noridian Mutual Insurance Company provides health insurance products and related services to members in the midwestern and western US. The company's offerings include group medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, disability and disease coverage, third-party administration services, Medicaid and Medicare administration, and a pre-paid prescription drug program. Its Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota division serves 350,000 members in the state. Other Noridian Mutual subsidiaries include Lincoln Mutual Life Insurance, Noridian Administrative Services, Noridian Benefit Plan Administrators, and Noridian Insurance Services (marketing).

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