Sutter Health is just a stone's throw away. The Northern California, not-for-profit health care system is one of the nation's largest. After being formed more than a decade ago through the merger of Sutter Health and California Healthcare System, Sutter Health now caters to residents of more than 100 communities from the Bay Area to the Central Valley. Its services are provided through about 3,500 affiliated doctors from a host of health care facilities, including more than 25 acute care hospitals, home health/hospice networks, and skilled nursing facilities.

If you've lost the spring in your step and need a little care, Memorial Medical Center will be there. As the flagship facility for Memorial Health System in Springfield, Illinois, this acute care and teaching hospital provides a wide range of medical and surgical services as well as emergency medicine. Its myriad specialties include cardiovascular care, maternity services, neuromuscular disorders, orthopedics, and burn medicine. A second campus, called Koke Mill Medical Center features an urgent care clinic, X-ray and mammography facilities, and an outpatient physical therapy center. The 560-bed hospital is a teaching affiliate of the Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Medicine.

PeaceHealth provides patients with a tranquil place to recover. Make that several tranquil places to recover. PeaceHealth serves residents in southeastern Alaska, coastal regions of Washington, and central portions of Oregon. The health system includes six acute care hospitals: Ketchikan General Hospital (some 90 beds), St. Joseph Hospital (about 250 beds), St. John Medical Center (180 beds), Sacred Heart Medical Center (more than 430 beds), Cottage Grove Community Hospital (about a dozen beds), and Peace Harbor Hospital (about 15 beds). Other operations include physician practices, community health clinics, hospices, chemical dependency rehabilitation clinics, and other outpatient care facilities and services.

Titusville Area Hospital, an acute care health facility, provides diagnostic, primary treatment, and emergency health services to more than 30,000 residents in the Crawford County, Pennsylvania region. Specific services at Titusville include birthing, home health care, lithotripsy, and pain management. Titusville Area Hospital opened its doors in 1901.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) is the state's largest and oldest health insurance provider. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida company provides a wide range of health insurance products and related services to some 7 million members in Florida. Its health plans include group and individual HMO, PPO, traditional indemnity, and supplemental Medicare policies. BCBSF also provides accident and dismemberment, long-term care, dental, disability, life, and workers' compensation insurance. Other services include the administration of pharmacy programs and health savings accounts. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida company is a not-for-profit mutual insurance firm owned by its policyholders. It is an independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association licensee.

Ohio Valley General Hospital is a full service 120-bed community hospital serving residents of Pennsylvania's Allegheny County and the western suburbs of Pittsburgh. The hospital's staff of about 300 doctors (representing more than 35 medical specialties) provides emergency, acute, diagnostic, and specialty care, and a variety of inpatient and outpatient care services. Ohio Valley General's programs include cardiology, occupational medicine, pain treatment, rehabilitation, sleep disorder diagnosis, ophthalmic surgery, and wound care. The facility, founded in 1901, also operates senior living communities and sponsors a school of nursing and a school of radiography.

Lifetime Healthcare wants good health to last a lifetime for New Yorkers. Lifetime Healthcare company, which operates as The Lifetime Healthcare Companies, is a not-for-profit holding company that provides health insurance and related services to some 1.7 million members in New York State through its various subsidiaries. The company's core products are the health insurance plans offered through its Excellus BlueCross BlueShield subsidiary. Long-term care insurance is provided through the company's MedAmerica subsidiary. Primary care is provided to members via the company's Lifetime Health Medical Group. Lifetime Healthcare company also provides third-party administration services through its EBS-RMSCO subsidiary.

Calvary Hospital works to keep adult patients in the advanced stages of cancer as comfortable as possible. The facility, founded in 1899, specializes in palliative care, the practice of relieving the pain and symptoms associated with the illness (not curing the illness itself.) Calvary Hospital offers both inpatient and outpatient services through two campuses; the main hospital has about 200 beds and a satellite location in Brooklyn, New York, has about 25 beds. Its home health care program provides on-call nurses who are available at all hours of the day as well as a range of therapy services including physical, speech, and occupational therapy.

Wuesthoff Health System provides a broad range of health services to residents of Brevard County and visitors to Florida's "Space Coast" region. The system is comprised of two hospitals (300-bed Wuesthoff Medical Center-Rockledge and 115-bed Wuesthoff Medical Center-Melbourne) and other facilities that provide diagnostic, behavioral health, assisted living, and primary and specialist care services. The system includes hospice care, community health, and home health programs. Wuesthoff Health System was acquired by Health Management Associates (HMA) in 2010.

Sangui BioTech International focuses on the fluid of life -- blood. The firm specializes in developing oxygen-carrying agents to treat blocked arteries, anemia, or acute blood loss through its Sangui GmbH subsidiary. Also in the pipeline at Sangui is an implantable blood glucose monitor for diabetics. Other products include Pure Moisture, an anti-aging skin care product; HemO2Spray, a spray-on wound treatment; and Chitoskin, a wound dressing that is said to facilitate rapid healing of wounds. Professor Wolfgang K. Barnikol founded the company in Germany in 1995.

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