Excela Health's hospitals and clinics hope to rank as excellent health care providers to residents of southwestern Pennsylvania. Members of the health system, which serves Pennsylvania's Westmoreland, Indiana, and Fayette counties, include Westmoreland Hospital, Latrobe Hospital, and Frick Hospital. Combined, the facilities give Excela Health some 615 acute care beds. In addition to general medical and surgical care, the hospitals offer outpatient and specialty treatment in areas such as heart disease, cancer, and women's health. The system operates ancillary businesses as well, including a home health and hospice agency, surgery centers, primary and specialty care clinics, and an ambulance service.

Roper St. Francis Healthcare (RSFH) is concerned with medical system includes the 450-bed acute-care Roper Hospital, the 200-bed Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital, and the Roper St. Francis Rehabilitation Hospital. The company serves Charleston, South Carolina, and surrounding communities, and along with the hospitals, operates several emergency, primary care, and outpatient diagnostic and treatment facilities. It also offers home health services. Roper St. Francis, which has a medical staff of some 700 physicians, was formed through the merger of Roper Hospital and Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital in 1998.

For more than 150 years, B. Braun Melsungen has made supplies to treat what ails you. With a history going back to 1839, the company makes a wide variety of medical and surgical equipment for clients all over the world. It operates through four divisions: Hospital Care (anesthesia and infusion equipment, IV solutions, and catheters); Aesculap (surgical instruments, sutures, orthopedic implants); Out Patient Market (diabetes, wound care, and nutrition products); and B. Braun Avitum (dialysis products). The company also operates dialysis clinics in Europe and provides contract manufacturing services. B. Braun plans to continue to operate as a family-run business, with no near-term plans to pursue a public offering.

KeyMed (Medical & Industrial Equipment) Ltd. is a key player when it comes to medical and industrial product distribution. A subsidiary of Japan's Olympus Corporation, KeyMed primarily makes endoscopic instruments to explore either the human body or the innards of industrial/electronic equipment. KeyMed is also the UK service-center location and exclusive distributor of Olympus' flexible and rigid endoscopes in Great Britain. The company's customers include hospitals, physician offices, and other health care settings, such as ambulatory surgical centers throughout the UK. The firm has branch offices in Scotland and Cheshire, and also distributes products in the US through subsidiary Olympus Industrial America.

Sacred Heart Hospital has acute care facility and some 260 beds and serves the residents of Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. Specialty services include pediatrics, cardiology, obstetrics, weight-loss surgery, orthopedics, behavioral health, and cancer treatment. Sacred Heart Hospital of Allentown is part of the Sacred Heart Health System, which also operates more than a dozen family practice clinics, as well as specialty clinics, long-term care facilities, and imaging and rehabilitation centers. The hospital was founded by the Missionary Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart (a Catholic religious order) in 1912.

CryoLife preserves lives by conserving the tissues that sustain it. The company takes human heart valves and blood vessels from deceased volunteer donors, processes them, and stores them in liquid nitrogen freezers (a process called cryopreservation). It then ships them to surgeons nationwide, who implant them during cardiac and vascular repair procedures. For some preserved tissue, the company uses its proprietary SynerGraft technology, which reduces the presence of donor cells and makes the tissue more compatible with the recipient. CryoLife also develops implantable biomaterials, including BioGlue, an adhesive used to seal internal surgical wounds.

Varian Medical Systems radiates success in electrotherapeutics. The company works mainly with products related to x-rays and radiation treatment of cancer. The company's oncology unit makes linear accelerators, simulators, and data management software, primarily for cancer radiotherapy. Other cancer treatment offerings include devices for brachytherapy, a treatment that protects healthy tissue through the use of radiation implants. Varian Medical Systems' X-ray unit makes imaging subsystems and X-ray-generating tubes for medical imaging, security, and OEM applications. The company markets its products through direct sales forces and distributors worldwide; it also operates global service and support centers.

Oconee Regional Health Systems (ORHS) helps people return to their natural healthy state, though sometimes using unnatural methods to do so. Oconee Regional Health Systems serves the residents of Baldwin County in central Georgia. Its Oconee Regional Medical Center, founded in 1957, has some 140 beds. Other facilities include Jasper Memorial Hospital (almost 20 beds), Primary Care Center of Monticello, The Retreat Nursing Home, and the ConvenientCare after-hours care center. Specialty services include behavioral medicine, cancer treatment, emergency care, hospice, pediatrics, and physical therapy.

Public Health Trust of Miami-Dade County looks out for the sun-baked citizens of South Florida. The trust operates the Jackson Health System (JHS), which is comprised of three acute-care hospitals, two specialty hospitals, and a psychiatric hospital. JHS also operates numerous primary care clinics, two long-term care facilities, and a network of behavioral health centers throughout Miami-Dade County. The system's flagship facility, Jackson Memorial Hospital, has roughly 1,500 beds and offers a wide variety of services, including burn treatment, trauma, pediatrics, rehabilitation, obstetrics, and transplants. It is also a teaching facility for the University of Miami School of Medicine.

1199SEIU Benefit and Pension Funds (aptly, if somewhat awkwardly named) is a not-for-profit, self-administered welfare trust fund that provides health and pension benefits to some 400,000 working and retired members of New York's 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, a union of health industry workers in New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia. Members of the union -- who work in hospitals, nursing homes, pharmacies, and home care and social agencies -- and their families can receive comprehensive health coverage, life and disability insurance, and pension benefits. The organization is funded by employer contributions negotiated by the union in collective bargaining agreements.

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