SyntheMed helps keep surgery patients from getting scars. The company develops polymers aimed at preventing or reducing post-operative adhesions (scar tissue) for a variety of surgical procedures. In 2006 its REPEL-CV product received marketing approval from European Union regulatory authorities for prevention of scar tissue in open heart surgeries; the company launched the product in Europe and some Asian markets through a network of independent distributors. It has received approval from the FDA for use in pediatric cardiac surgery patients in the US. SyntheMed is developing similar products for use in gynecological, abdominal, orthopedic, spinal, and general surgeries.

Paramount Care helps Midwesterners take care of their most important asset: their health. The managed care organization provides health coverage to more than 187,000 members in 26 counties of northwestern Ohio and southeastern Michigan. With a network that includes 34 hospitals and 1,900 physicians, it offers a variety of commercial health plans, including HMO, PPO, and point-of-service options. For seniors, it provides Medicare supplemental coverage and Medicare Advantage plans. Its Paramount Insurance unit offers life policies, and Paramount Preferred Network unit provides workers' compensation services to area employers. Formed in 1988, Paramount Care is a subsidiary of ProMedica Health System.

UnitedHealthcare National Accounts is big on health care plan management.UnitedHealthcare National Accounts company, a division of health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group, provides health benefits administration and consulting services, with a focus on large employer groups (those with 3,000 or more employees). Its network-based services include enrollment, member eligibility, claim processing, billing, banking, and document issuance. In addition, customers can tap into UnitedHealth Group's wide array of health insurance plans and services. UnitedHealthcare National Accounts also provides prescription benefit management, disease management, behavioral health, and wellness program coordination.

Founded in 1913, Grand View Hospital has about 200 beds. Grand View Hospital hopes to give patients a glimpse of great health care. The hospital provide emergency, cardiology, orthopedics, surgical, sleep diagnostic, rehabilitation, women's and children's care, and other medical services to the Bucks County region of Pennsylvania. Grand View Hospital's oncology program is affiliated with the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. The medical center also operates primary care and outpatient clinics in the region, and it provides home health, hospice, fitness, and community outreach programs.

Sacred Heart Health System serves residents of Northwestern Florida, primarily through the Sacred Heart Hospital of Pensacola. The 460-bed acute care medical center includes the Sacred Heart Children's Hospital, the Sacred Heart Women's Hospital, and the Sacred Heart Regional Heart and Vascular Institute. Sacred Heart Hospital of Pensacola also specializes in trauma care, heart disease, cancer care, weight loss, stroke care, neurology, and orthopedics, and it has an educational affiliation with Florida State University College of Medicine. Sacred Heart Health System operates additional acute, long-term, primary, and specialty care centers in the region.

Residents of Cowtown don't suffer from gunshot wounds as much as they did back in the day; however, if they're searching for health care, they still need look no further than JPS Health Network. Founded in 1906 in Fort Worth, Texas, flagship facility John Peter Smith Hospital has approximately 460 beds and provides specialty services including orthopedics, cardiology, and women's health. JPS Health Network also includes behavioral health treatment center Trinity Springs Pavilion and the JPS Diagnostic & Surgery Hospital of Arlington. The company provides pediatrics, family medicine, and dental care through dozens of health care centers in northern Texas.

Universal American provides unified coverage for the silver-haired set. The holding company owns several insurance firms aimed at serving US senior citizens. It covers about 240,000 members with such products as Medicare HMO, PPO, fee-for-service (Medicare Advantage), and supplemental insurance. Some 1.7 million customers are covered by its Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit plan products marketed under such names as Community CCRx and Prescriba Rx. Universal American company also offers senior life insurance, annuity, and final expenses insurance sold under the Senior Solutions banner. Other subsidiaries market disability and hospitalization insurance and related products to self-employed individuals in the US.

MVP Health Plan is for about 700,000 most valuable people. Operating as MVP Health Care, MVP Health Plan company provides health insurance and employee benefits to its members in upstate New York, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Outside its home base, the company works with CIGNA HeatlthCare to offer benefits jointly. MVP, a not-for-profit organization, offers a variety of plans including HMOs, preferred provider organizations (PPOs), indemnity, and dental. Subsidiaries MVP Select Care and Upstate Administrative Services provide third party administration (TPA) services for self-insured employers. MVP Health Plan was founded in 1983 as Mohawk Valley Physicians' Health Plan.

Pro-Dex, Inc. engages in the development and manufacture of technology-based solutions that incorporate miniature rotary drive systems, embedded motion control, and fractional horsepower DC motors. The company primarily designs, develops, and manufactures rotary drive systems for the medical device and dental industries. It sells various types of private label rotary drive systems for use in dental procedures, as well as cranial, spinal, arthroscopic, and orthopedic surgery. Pro-Dex also designs and manufactures miniature pneumatic motors, fractional horsepower DC motors, and motion control systems for industrial applications in the semi-conductor, automotive, aerospace, and apparel industries. In addition, it offers dental products primarily to original equipment manufacturers and dental product distributors. Further, the company manufactures and supplies embedded multi-axis motion controllers used to regulate the motion of servo and stepper motors for the factory automation, scientific research, and medical analysis equipment industries. Pro-Dex markets its products to hospitals, dental offices, medical engineering labs, commercial and military aircraft, scientific research facilities, and high tech manufacturing operations worldwide. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

UC Irvine Medical Center is the only Level I trauma center in Orange County. It also offers acute- and general-care services from about 400 specialty and primary care physicians. The medical center operates one of four cancer centers in California (its Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center) and outpatient clinics throughout the region. The UC Irvine Medical also boasts neuropsychiatric and regional burn centers. Together UC Irvine Medical and University Physicians & Surgeons -- a faculty practice organization -- comprise UC Irvine Healthcare.

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