Over the seasons of your life, your needs change. With more than 15,000 people in its care at more than 400 facilities, Four Seasons Health Care is one of the largest care home (nursing home) operators in the UK. The company runs nursing homes with specialized care for dementia, end of life care, and palliative care. Its Huntercombe division operates specialized health care centers which provide services to persons with neurodisabilities, brain injuries, mental health disorders, and addictions. To reduce its debts, Four Seasons Health Care has given its lenders significant equity stakes; Royal Bank of Scotland's stake accounts for some 40% of company shares.

Acadian Ambulance Service provides ground and air medical transportation service for some 3 million residents in the southeastern US, including portions of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Acadian Ambulance Service operates more than 250 ground ambulances, as well as a handful of helicopter ambulances operated by affiliate Metro Aviation. It also provides telemedicine (remote patient monitoring) and paramedic training services. Through subsidiary Executive Aircraft, the firm offers chartered transportation services. Its Safety Management Systems unit provides emergency medical services to offshore oil projects. Established in 1971, the company is owned by its employees through a private stock option plan.

Optos has opted to provide improved imaging tools to eye doctors. The company is a manufacturer of digital diagnostic imaging equipment used by ophthalmologists and other eye care professionals in the detection and management of eye disease. The company's Optomap laser ophthalmoscopes are used by ophthalmologists to perform precision retinal examinations. Its tools are used to detect ailments such as retinal detachments, age-related macular degeneration, and glaucoma and are marketed to physicians in Europe and North America. Optos was founded in 1992 by executive vice chairman and engineer Douglas Anderson after his son's retinal disorder was overlooked by eye doctors.

SUNY Downstate Medical Center brings a healthy dose of education, research, and patient care to Brooklyn. SUNY Downstate is the borough's only academic medical center. It comprises colleges of medicine, nursing, graduate studies, and health-related professions, as well as the University Hospital of Brooklyn, a 400-bed teaching hospital that serves more than 2 million residents in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. The state-run hospital has intensive care, operating room, and emergency room units; an ambulatory care center with some 75 clinics; three satellite health centers; and a dialysis facility. SUNY Downstate's research laboratories study everything from alcoholism and Alzheimer's Disease to HIV/AIDS.

Biohit wants to be a hit in laboratories worldwide. The company manufactures fluid-handling products and diagnostic test systems for health care, research, and industrial laboratories worldwide. Its main liquid-handling products are electronic and mechanical pipette systems (or sample dispensers), as well as related accessories including controllers, stands, and disposable tips. Biohit also provides maintenance and user training services for its fluid-handling products. The company also develops and sells biological diagnostic products, including testing assays and instruments, used in the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal ailments and other diseases. Biohit was founded in 1988.

TearLab (formerly OccuLogix) can read your tears. TearLab diagnostics company has developed and commercialized the TearLab Osmolarity System, a tear collection and analysis system for use at the point of care. The system detects biomarkers that indicate ophthalmic conditions; its first testing product aids in the diagnosis of dry eye disease (DED). After several failed attempts to develop medical therapies for ophthalmic ailments including glaucoma and macular degeneration,TearLab company became focused on diagnostic testing; it changed its name to TearLab in 2010.

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.

OstoMART sells, and delivers to the home, a range of garments and prescription products across the UK to ostomy patients. (An ostomy is a surgical opening in the body for releasing body wastes). OstoMART has service centers in Larne, Nottingham, and Peterborough. Products include ostomy pouch covers, adhesive tape, protection shields, and other specialized supplies. OstoMART also manufactures and sells support garments, underwear, and swimwear. The company was established in 1991 by nurse Dorothy Waller.

Caritas Norwood Hospital gets to the hearts (and other body parts) of the people of Norwood. Part of the Caritas Christi Health Care family of health facilities, the facility is a more than 260-bed community hospital that serves patients in and around Norwood, Massachusetts. Founded in 1902, the hospital is an acute care facility and provides area residents with emergency and general health care and medical transport services. Caritas Norwood Hospital is also home to specialized programs including behavioral health services, cancer treatment, cardiology, obstetrics/gynecology, orthopedic medicine, pediatrics, rehabilitation, sleep disorder treatment, and surgery.

AIM Health Group, one of the largest health care providers in Canada, offers health and wellness services to patients, and health-related services to health care providers, employers, unions, pharmaceutical companies, and hospitals, among others. AIM operates about 65 medical facilities throughout Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec, and provides services including family medicine, physiotherapy, nutrition counseling, and massage therapy. Its subsidiary -- Workplace Health & Cost Solutions (WHCS) -- provides occupational health services. Med-Emerg, which AIM acquired in early 2009, provides staffing services (primarily doctors and nurses), and infusion and chronic pain management services.

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