Health Grades (which does business as HealthGrades) takes the health care industry to school.Health Grades company offers report cards on hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, home health agencies, and other health care providers. It sells the quality and patient safety information to a number of constituencies, including consumers, employers, and insurance companies. Hospitals themselves represent its biggest customer base, with highly rated providers typically license HealthGrades' ratings and trademarks to use in their marketing campaigns. They also come to the company for quality improvement consulting. HealthGrades was taken private by Vestar Capital Partners in 2010.

Covance, with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, is one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive drug development services companies, with annual revenues greater than $1.8 billion, employees in more than 60 countries, and more than 10,000 employees worldwide The drug development industry has come along way in the last two decades. In the 1980s and early 1990s, when the focus was on cost-savings and capacity management, contract research organizations (CROs) were used primarily as spillover capacity. The work was done and often done well, but our relationship with our pharmaceutical clients was tactical, and CRO growth rates and profitability were volatile. From roughly 2000 to 2005, biotechnology and specialty pharmaceutical companies began to use CROs more strategically, which stabilized demand and improved the performance and return on investment of CROs.

Akron General Medical Center is proud to provide health information and care to the residents of Northeast Ohio. Akron encourage all of our patients, volunteers and friends to ask questions or just let us know how we are doing.

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.

Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) provides an electronic trading exchange designed for health care providers, suppliers, and manufacturers to buy and sell supplies online. GHX aims to lower supply chain costs for its users by allowing them to perform transactions with multiple parties through one electronic platform, as well as by automating the purchasing process and reducing purchase order errors. The firm was founded in 2000 by a group of five health care manufacturers: Abbott Labs, Baxter International, GE Medical Systems, Johnson & Johnson, and Medtronic. It is now owned by the original five plus a slew of other distributors, hospitals, group purchasing organizations, and manufacturers.

ProMedica Health System is a not-for-profit health care provider offering a full spectrum of medical services to residents of Ohio and southeastern Michigan. The system is composed of about 10 hospitals (including the 800-bed Toledo Hospital) and nearly 300 other facilities, such as long-term care and rehabilitation centers, a physicians' group, research facilities, and urgent care centers. In addition, ProMedica has a comprehensive elder care program featuring assisted living, skilled nursing, and hospice facilities. The organization also provides HMO services. Founded in 1986, ProMedica is led by CEO Randy Oostra.

The mission of the ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI) is to develop effective therapeutics that stop ALS as soon as possible. Focused on meeting this urgent unmet medical need, ALS TDI executes a robust discovery program, as well as a multi-pronged approach to validate potential therapeutics; including small molecules, protein biologics, gene therapies and cell-based constructs. The Institute's unique, industrial-scale platform allows for the development and testing of dozens of potential therapeutics each year. Built by and for patients, the Institute is the world's largest ALS research center and the only nonprofit biotechnology company with more than 30 professional scientists focused on a single disease indication. In addition, the Cambridge, Massachusetts based research Institute collaborates with leaders in both academia and industry.

Holy Cross Hospital established in 1955, is operated by the Sisters of Mercy religious order. It has about 570 beds and offers inpatient and outpatient medical services along with a cancer treatment center, heart and vascular center, women's health center, orthopedic unit, and home health division, as well as outpatient imaging centers. The organization's Holy Cross Medical Group physician practice has some 100 doctors working at about 30 clinics in Florida's Broward County. Holy Cross Hospital is part of Catholic Health East.

Catholic Health Initiatives is a national nonprofit health organization with headquarters in Denver. The faith-based system operates in 19 states and includes 73 hospitals; 40 long-term care, assisted- and residential-living facilities; two community health-services organizations; and home health agencies. In fiscal year 2010, CHI provided almost $590 million in charity care and community benefit, including services for the poor, free clinics, education and research. With annual revenues of approximately $9 billion, CHI is the nation's third-largest Catholic health care system. Catholic Health Initiatives thrives on our vision of Catholic health care as a vibrant ministry, ready to provide compassionate care of the body, mind and spirit through the 21st century and beyond.

US LABS is a leading esoteric oncology and hematopathology laboratory focused on quality, innovation, and client services. Our passion for quality and attention to detail is evident in the time and care our pathology staff takes with each case. Reading more than 250,000 cases a year, our pathologists have a broad range of experience to approach diagnostic challenges. US LABS delivers a personal touch in removing any barrier between client and pathologist, as our doctors are available throughout the day for consultation on difficult cases.

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