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.

St. Vincent's Health System is a not-for-profit healthcare system founded in 1916 by the Daughters of Charity. As a part of Ascension Health, St. Vincent's serves the regions around Jacksonville, Florida. The system, also known as St. Vincent's HealthCare, includes its flagship St. Vincent's Medical Center in Jacksonville. Other operations include nursing care facility, as well as other outpatient, laboratory, pharmacy, transportation, and home health care services. St. Vincent's has acquired the St. Luke's Hospital in Jacksonville and has integrated it into the St. Vincent's system.

Formed in 1921 to build a better thermometer, Terumo is one of Japan's largest health care product suppliers. The company makes and sells a wide range of general hospital products and equipment, including disposable supplies (syringes and wound dressings), blood glucose monitors, dialyzers, infusion pumps, and intravenous liquid nutrients. It also makes blood transfusion bags, as well as cardiac and vascular products, such as heart-lung machines used in open heart surgery, vascular grafts, and catheters. And yes, it still makes thermometers, which are part of its consumer health care product portfolio. Terumo operates in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. It sells its products in some 150 countries worldwide.

Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital's goal is to give residents of the Mile High City exemplary care. The acute care facility has nearly 570 beds and specializes in cardiovascular disease, cancer, and high-risk labor and delivery. The Catholic not-for-profit hospital sees about 50,000 emergency department visits annually. To ease the strain on its ER, the facility installed an observation unit where patients who need longer care but don't necessarily need to be admitted can be seen for up to 23 hours. The hospital also offers residency programs in family practice, internal medicine, OB-GYN, and general surgery. Founded as Colorado's first private hospital, Exempla Saint Joseph is part of Exempla Healthcare.

Regions Hospital can help with your medical needs. The private hospital provides long-term medical and emergency services and special programs in behavioral health, burn, cancer, heart, senior services, and women's care. The hospital has more than 400 beds and offers home, hospice, and senior services through Integrated Home Care, Hospice Services, and affiliate PartneringCare. It is a teaching center for the University of Minnesota Medical School. Established in 1872, Regions Hospital is affiliated with HMO provider HealthPartners.

The organization serves western Wisconsin, including Eau Claire and surrounding communities, through its Luther Hospital, Midelfort Clinic, and other facilities. The health care system has been part of the Mayo Foundation since 1992. Luther Hospital, founded in 1905, maintains more than 300 beds and specializes in comprehensive cardiac, trauma, and intensive care. The adjacent Midelfort Clinic houses more than 200 primary and specialty doctors' offices. The Luther Midelfort system also includes nearly a dozen community family care clinics, and provides pharmacy and home health services.

Loyally protecting Shytown's health through a network of teaching hospitals and clinics is Loyola University Health System (LUHS), part of Loyola University. The flagship property of the private Jesuit Catholic network is an 800-licensed-bed institution that includes the Loyola University Medical Center campus (with its Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, the Ronald McDonald Children's Hospital of Loyola, Burn/Trauma Center, and Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine) and the 36-acre Gottlieb Hospital campus. LUHS also operates a network of specialty and primary care clinics in Chicago's western and southwestern suburbs. The system has been providing health care to the region for more than 35 years.

Hospital Physician Partners, Inc. company supplies hospitals in 20 states with thousands of physicians and allied health care professionals. Hospital Physician Partners specializes in emergency medicine and hospitalist program management and recruitment. (Hospitalists coordinate the care of hospital patients.) Through its PhyAmerica Government Services subsidiary, Hospital Physician Partners supplies medical personnel to military hospitals, clinics, and urgent-care centers. It also provides staffing for state-run facilities and other government health care entities. Hospital Physician Partners is owned by private-equity firm Beecken Petty O'Keefe.

Vanguard Health Systems wants to lead the way to better health care. The company operates more than a dozen for-profit acute care hospitals located in mostly affluent urban and suburban markets in Arizona, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Texas; all told, the hospitals have more than 4,000 licensed beds. Vanguard's medical campuses generally include outpatient facilities and medical office buildings that form local health care networks providing a continuum of care. Vanguard also runs three managed health care plans that serve more than 200,000 members in Arizona and Illinois (though its hospitals account for about 75% of its sales). The Blackstone Group owns a majority stake in the company.

Palomar Medical Technologies' laser light show is more functional than flashy. Palomar makes laser and pulsed-light systems, along with related disposable products, for use in aesthetic procedures. The company's products include the EsteLux, StarLux, and MediLux systems. The systems, which are paired with a variety of handpieces, are used for skin resurfacing and acne treatments, hair removal, and treatment of leg veins, among other procedures. Additionally, Palomar's Q-YAG 5 laser removes tattoos and pigmented lesions. The firm markets its products through a direct sales force and distributors around the world.

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