American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Health Plan is the health plan division of the American Postal Workers Union, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO. Providing health benefits to some 140,000 members, the not-for-profit organization is a self-administered and self-underwritten health plan. It provides a fee-for-service plan featuring a preferred provider network, as well as a lower-cost, high-deductible option with a health reimbursement account. The plan's provider network includes some 6.000 hospitals and nearly 600,000 health care providers across the US and its territories. The APWU Health Plan was founded in 1960.

University of North Carolina Hospitals (UNC Hospitals) is at the heart of the UNC Health Care system. The organization provides acute care to the Tar Heel State through North Carolina Memorial Hospital, North Carolina Children's Hospital, North Carolina Neurosciences Hospital, and North Carolina Women's Hospital. Combined, the facilities have some 760 beds. Specialties include cancer treatment (at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated facility), organ transplantation, cardiac care, orthopedics, wound management, and rehabilitation. The not-for-profit system is owned by the state of North Carolina and is affiliated with the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine.

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.

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.

Cookeville Regional Medical Center (CRMC) serves east-central potions of Tennessee. Specialty units include The Heart Center (cardiac rehabilitation), The Cancer Center (cancer treatment), and The Spine Center (spinal surgery). Other services include orthopedics, sports medicine, physical therapy, vascular surgery, pediatrics, and critical care. Founded in 1950, the community hospital has about 250 beds and more than 140 physicians with 36 specialties on its medical staff. The Foundation at CRMC provides non-profit fundraising and charity programs.

West Virginia United Health System (WVUHS) helps residents in the Mountain State stay on top of their health. The system operates United Hospital Center (in Clarksburg), as well as hospitals in the West Virginia University Hospitals (WVUH) system, including City Hospital (Martinsburg), Jefferson Memorial Hospital (Ranson), and WVUH's home hospital in Morgantown. In addition, WVUHS operates WVUH's Cheat Lake physicians ambulatory center, as well as a network of about a dozen primary care clinics located throughout central and northern West Virginia. Combined, the system's hospitals and clinics have more than 1000 beds and treat approximately 1.4 million patients annually.

Waterbury Hospital hopes it is to its cardiologists. The community teaching hospital, serving western Connecticut, has been named one of the top hospitals in the nation for cardiac intervention. Of course, hearts aren't the only body parts Waterbury Hospital treats; the full-service facility has about 360 beds and offers services that include inpatient and outpatient behavioral health care, an orthopedic center, and an outpatient surgery center. Waterbury Hospital, founded in 1890, forms the cornerstone of the Greater Waterbury Health Network, which provides area residents with a range of outpatient health services, from nursing care to hospice, imaging, and laboratory services.

PerkinElmer company makes a wide range of instruments used for chemical and thermal analysis, including calorimeters, chromatographs, and spectrometers. PerkinElmer reorganized its business into two segments: Human Health and Environmental Health. Human Health includes the company's Bio-discovery, Genetic Screening, and Medical Imaging operating units. Environmental Health comprises the Analytical Sciences, Laboratory Services, and Detection and Illumination (formerly Sensors and Specialty Lighting) units. The majority of PerkinElmer's sales are to customers outside the US.

Abiomed, Inc. and its subsidiaries manufacture and sell medical devices in circulatory support that offer a continuum of care in heart recovery to acute heart failure patients. It offers various disposable products for the surgery suite, which comprise BVS 5000 blood pump and AB5000 ventricle for temporary support of acute heart failure patients in profound shock, including patients suffering from cardiogenic shock after a heart attack, post-cardiotomy cardiogenic shock, or myocarditis; integrated cannula system that connects the ventricle or blood pump to the heart and an associated artery; and Impella LD that provides temporary left ventricular assist devices support for recovery from post-cardiotomy hemodynamic instability and cardiogenic shock. The company also provides disposable products for the cardiac catheterization lab and the surgery suite that include Impella 2.5 and 5.0 catheters, which are percutaneous micro heart pumps with integrated motors and sensors for use in interventional cardiology and heart surgery; and IAB, a percutaneous intra-aortic balloon used to support various prophylactic, pre-shock, and profound shock conditions. In addition, it offers driver console products, such as AB5000 console for BVS 5000 blood pump and AB5000 ventricle; mobile pump consoles for Impella products; iPulse console, a multi-purpose driver console for IAB, AB5000, BVS 5000, and other manufacturers’ IABs; and portable discharge driver for AB5000 for in-hospital and out-of-hospital patients. Further, Abiomed provides AbioCor implantable replacement heart, a self-contained artificial heart for severe biventricular heart failure. It sells its products through direct sales representatives and clinical support personnel in the United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Ireland; and internationally. ABIOMED, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Danvers, Massachusetts.

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.

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