Sharp Health Plan is a not-for-profit HMO that serves employers throughout San Diego and southern Riverside County. Formed in 1992, the plan provides comprehensive coverage, including mental health coverage as a standard benefit. Sharp Health Plan company has special options for small businesses and offers supplemental benefits such as prescription drug and vision coverage; it also sells to individuals and families. Sharp Health Plan's provider network includes about 3,000 primary care and specialist physicians and more than a dozen hospitals.

The medical technology company,CONMED Corporatioin develops and manufactures a wide range of electronic instruments such as electrosurgical systems, powered surgical instruments, and endoscopic devices. Arthroscopic (joint surgery) products represent the company's largest segment and include reconstruction tools, scopes, implants, and fluid management systems. CONMED also manufactures patient monitoring products and handheld medical accessories such as scissors, sutures, and staplers. Brands include Linvatec and Hall Surgical. The company sells its products in more than 100 countries through its direct sales force and independent distributors.

Children's Hospital of Orange County was founded in 1964. Children's Hospital of Orange County (aka CHOC) fights kid-sized ailments in southern California. The not-for-profit hospital's main campus in Orange has about 230 beds and provides a comprehensive range of care to young patients, including pediatric and neonatal intensive care. Its CHOC at Mission facility (located within the Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo) has nearly 50 beds for pediatric patients, as well as neonatal and pediatric ICUs. CHOC also runs a handful of primary care community clinics and several mobile clinics.

Southeast Alabama Medical Center (SAMC) is a 370-bed acute care hospital that serves as a primary referral center for patients in southeastern Alabama and adjacent parts of Georgia and Florida. In addition to providing comprehensive medical, surgical, and emergency care, the hospital provides specialty services including heart, cancer, and women's health care. SAMC also operates primary care physician offices and clinics specializing in diagnostics, pediatrics, and cancer care, as well as a home health agency. Affiliates include Enterprise Medical Clinic, Houston Medical Group, and Chipley Medical Group. The hospital was founded in 1957.

Astek Group could be holding some of the products your dentist uses every day. Through its operating subsidiary, Astek Innovations, the London-based holding company designs, manufactures, and distributes hundreds of disposable single-use items used in dental offices worldwide, with about 50% of sales in the US. The company's most profitable product, the Pro-Tip, is a disposable air/water syringe tip created by the company's founder and CEO, Dr. Alan Segal, a practicing dentist. Other Astek products include Kromopan alginates (used to make dental impressions), Alma denture products, and the Pegasus line of dental products.

Surgical Innovations Group makes medical devices used in minimally invasive surgeries. Its products include the YelloPort laparoscopic access system and FastClamp, an instrument used in endoscopic procedures. The company sells its products through distributors and licensing deals with other equipment makers; its customers are mainly in Europe but it also has distribution arrangements in the US and elsewhere. Though its minimally invasive surgical products represent its core business, Surgical Innovations also makes autologous blood transfusion equipment, which collects and re-infuses a patient's own blood during surgery, through its Haemocell subsidiary.

Helping the world's edentulous and incontinent is a part of Astra Tech's mandate. The company, a unit of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, concentrates on researching, developing, and manufacturing medical devices and implants used in odontology (dental surgery) and urology. Other products include wound drains and hemorrhoid ligators. Through international subsidiaries (including Astra Tech Inc. in the US), Astra Tech operates globally through more than 15 subsidiaries; more than 90% of its sales are made outside its home country. Key products include the Astra Tech Dental Implant System, the LoFric hydrophilic bladder catheter, and the Bellovac A.B.T autologous blood transfusion system.

Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital serves the health care needs of the Santa Clarita Valley in northern Los Angeles County. The not-for-profit community hospital houses more than 220 beds and provides general medical and surgical care, as well as trauma services (it is a Level II trauma center), outpatient services, psychiatric care, and emergency services, among other specialties. In operation since 1975, the hospital was built to serve the needs of the at-the-time unincorporated City of Santa Clara, on land donated by The Newhall Land and Farming Company.

A leading maker of implantable biomedical devices, the company makes defibrillators and pacemakers that shock the heart to help it beat normally. Subsidiary Medtronic Sofamor Danek makes spinal implant devices, while Medtronic CardioVascular produces catheters, stents, valves, balloons, and surgical ablation technologies used to treat vascular and heart disease. The company's neuromodulation division makes nerve and brain stimulation and drug delivery systems. Medtronic also makes devices for diabetes; ear, nose, and throat (ENT) conditions; and emergency medicine.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital has a lot to show residents of the Show-Me State. As the largest hospital in Missouri, it serves the residents of St. Louis and surrounding communities with some 1,200 inpatient beds and a medical staff of 1,800. The flagship facility of BJC HealthCare, the facility is the primary teaching hospital of Washington University School of Medicine, and it offers care in a number of medical specialties, including organ transplantation, pulmonary disease, oncology, cardiovascular disease, and orthopedics. The health center was created in 1996 through the merger of two St. Louis hospitals with roots reaching back to the early 1900s.

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