St. Lucie Medical Center, part of the HCA network of health care providers, is an acute-care hospital serving the Port St. Lucie community in Florida's Treasure Coast region. The hospital has about 200 beds and 250 physicians on staff. Specialty programs and services include cancer care, women's care, orthopedics, physical rehabilitation, and outpatient surgery services. St. Lucie Medical Center, founded in 1983, is part of the HCA East Florida division. Affiliate Integrated Regional Laboratories provides medical testing services for St. Lucie and other area hospitals.

Bluegrass Family Health (BFH) does provide health care services in the Bluegrass State. Bluegrass Family Health company is a not-for-profit subsidiary of Baptist Healthcare System that offers HMO, POS, and PPO health insurance plans to its customers. Established in 1993, BFH serves hundreds of thousands of members in counties throughout Kentucky, as well as in areas of Indiana and Tennessee, through direct sales agents and independent brokers. BFH contracts with hospitals, physicians, pharmacies, and other health care providers to offer services to its enrollees. The firm is led by CEO James Fritz.

Guardian Home Care Holdings provides medical and non-medical home health care services to private patients -- as well as through contracts with health insurers, hospitals, and nursing homes -- in Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas. Primarily working under Medicare and Medicaid funding programs, Guardian's health care personnel provide skilled nursing services, physical and speech therapy, social work services, and assistance with daily activities such as cleaning and bathing. The company also provides hospice services in Nashville, Tennessee. It operates as Texas Home Health in Texas and under the Guardian name in its other markets.

Cardiac Science Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets diagnostic and therapeutic cardiology devices and systems in North America, Europe, and Asia. Its cardiac monitoring products primarily include resting ECG systems that allow physicians to record and analyze patient ECG waveforms; cardiac stress testing systems to monitor and analyze the performance of the heart under stress; Holter monitoring systems to record and assess the performance of a patient’s heart; cardiac rehabilitation telemetry systems to monitor the patient’s heart rate, heart rhythm, and ECG waveform data during rehabilitation exercises; vital signs monitors to monitor noninvasive blood pressure, pulse rate, temperature, and oxygen saturation; and cardiology data management systems that automate the processing, storage, retrieval, and editing of electrocardiograms and other patient data. Cardiac Science Corporation also offers cardiac monitoring related products and supplies comprising lead wires and electrodes, and thermal chart paper, as well as an array of complementary products, such as temperature and blood pressure monitors, spirometers, and pulse oximeters. In addition, it provides defibrillation products consisting of public access automated external defibrillators (AEDs) that are deployed in various settings; professional AEDs for use by hospital personnel, medical professionals, and emergency medical technicians; traditional defibrillators that are positioned in hospitals at various locations; and defibrillation supplies and accessories, including replacement electrodes and batteries, training devices, wall cabinets, and carrying cases. Further, the company offers training, maintenance, and support services. Cardiac Science Corporation sells its products through its sales force, independent distributors, direct sales representatives, and third party distributors under the Burdick, Quinton, and Powerheart brand names. Cardiac Science Corporation was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Bothell, Washington.

Carle Physician Group takes care of patients in east central Illinois. Carle Physician Group, formerly named Carle Clinic Association, is a not-for-profit physician-owned group made up of some 300 physicians practicing in more than 50 medical specialties at about a dozen locations. The organization's facilities, which are spread out over seven different towns, are linked by a network of electronic medical records, allowing Carle Physician Group's medical providers to access a patient's medical information at any of its locations.Carle Physician Group company also has its own managed care company, Health Alliance Medical Plans. Carle Physician Group was acquired by Carle Foundation, parent of Carle Foundation Hospital, in 2010.

China Medical Technologies, Inc. (the "Company") is a China-based medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets advanced in-vitro diagnostic ("IVD") products using Enhanced Chemiluminescence ("ECLIA") technology, Fluorescent in situ Hybridization ("FISH") technology and Surface Plasmon Resonance (“SPR”) technology to detect and monitor various diseases and disorders. China Medical Technologies was listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on August 10, 2005 and trades under the ticker "CMED". ECLIA is operated through our wholly-owned subsidiary Beijing Yuande Bio-Medical Engineering Co., Ltd. ("Yuande") in China. Yuande was established in 1999 and its headquarters and manufacturing facilities are located in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area. The Company was awarded ISO 9001 certification and ISO 13485:2003 certification in 2006.Our first ECLIA analyzers and reagents were launched in 2004. In light of the Company's extensive research in chemiluminescence technology, we believe we are one of the first China-based companies to successfully develop the products and, more importantly, the first to offer an integrated platform including self-developed analyzers and reagents. We manufacture both the equipment and reagents that detect and monitor various diseases and disorders by analyzing blood through laboratory evaluation. FISH and SPR are operated through our other wholly-owned subsidiary, Beijing GP Medical Technologies, Ltd., which was established in 2006. We acquired our FISH business in March 2007 and launched our FISH-related products in the same year. We believe the FISH products will complement our existing ECLIA diagnostic products by providing proprietary tests for the diagnosis of prenatal and postnatal disorders as well as various cancers that arise from genetic mutations.

In 1816, James Leacock published a series of experiments carried out in Edinburgh, which showed that blood transfusion could save the life of animals. James Blundell, a contemporary of Leacock's during his training in Edinburgh Medical School, was the first to transfuse humans with human blood in 1818. Some of the earliest attempts to emulate Blundell and the largest series of transfusion in the 19th century were carried out in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE). However, it was not until Landsteiner discovered the major A, B and O blood groups in 1901 that blood transfusion could develop as a rational treatment.

Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center have plenty of reasons to feel good about their efforts. The 440-bed Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center is part of Catholic Health Services of Long Island and serves the south shore community of West Islip, New York. As a full-service hospital, it offers a complete range of health care, counseling, and rehabilitation services. The hospital provides emergency medicine and trauma care, in addition to oncology, cardiology, pediatrics, and surgical care. It also operates the Good Samaritan Nursing Home, a 100-bed skilled nursing facility, as well as satellite clinics and a home health care agency.

PAML, a full-service reference laboratory located in Spokane,WA, is owned by Providence Health & Services (PH&S) and Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI). Since its founding in 1957, PAML's spectrum of laboratory testing services, specialized expertise and sophisticated technologies has grown significantly. PAML is currently ranked among the top reference laboratories in the nation and also considered an industry leader in joint venture partnerships with community-based hospitals.

MHM Services (MHM) is there for inmates who get a bad case of the blues. Through its MHM Correctional Services subsidiary, the company contracts with jails and prisons across the US to provide mental health services to inmate populations. It operates in about 15 states (usually via statewide contracts) and provides psychiatric staff, as well as pharmacy and clinical management programs. Founded as Mental Health Management in 1981, the company started out providing mental health services to hospitals and community agencies. The firm began to focus on state correctional facilities in the late 1990s. MHM is led by CEO Michael Pinkert, who owned about 35% of the company before it went private in 2001.

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