Regence BlueShield of Idaho aims to keep Gem State residents sparkling with health. Regence BlueShield of Idaho, a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, provides health insurance to more than 200,000 members throughout Idaho, as well as two counties in Washington State. Regence BlueShield company offers individual and group health plans, as well as Medicare plans, supplemental dental and life coverage, pharmacy benefits management, health savings accounts, and other health resources for its members. Established in 1946, the company is a subsidiary of The Regence Group, which serves more than 3 million people in the Northwest.

PRIM started its business on more than just a shoestring. Tracing its roots to an orthopedic shoe store founded by Pedro Prim Fernández in 1870, PRIM now makes and markets hospital supplies in Spain and orthopedic supplies throughout Europe, Latin America, and the US. PRIM has expanded globally through several alliances: It works in the US with Camp International and it operates a joint venture with Enraf Nonius Delft in Portugal and Latin America, as well as domestically. In France PRIM works with Eurosurgical to develop items to aid surgery of the spine. With another three European prosthetic companies, PRIM owns 92% of Boston Brace Europe, an Irish company that makes aids for the treatment of scoliosis.

Phoenix Children's Hospital (PCH) invests in the health of the next generation. Founded in 1983, the hospital provides a comprehensive range of medical services specifically for children and adolescents in the greater Phoenix area. The hospital has about 350 beds and provides care in a number of pediatric sub-specialties, including childhood cancers, neuroscience, heart disease, trauma, and orthopedics. In addition to a newborn intensive care unit (NICU) at its main campus, PCH operates a second NICU on the campus of Banner Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center (a member of Banner Health). It also has several pediatric outpatient care centers in surrounding Phoenix suburbs.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana is state's largest private health insurer, the company provides a variety of coverage types, including traditional indemnity policies, HMOs, POS plans, and supplemental Medicare plans, to about 235,000 customers. It also administers the state's Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and participates in InsureMontana, a state-sponsored, subsidized program designed to encourage small businesses to cover their employees. The not-for-profit company's provider network includes about 1,900 physicians and all of the state's hospitals.

Apria Healthcare Group Inc. is owned by the Blackstone Group. With about 500 branches nationwide, Apria Healthcare Group is one of the country's largest home health firms. Serving some 1.2 million clients across the US, the company's staff provides supplemental oxygen, ventilators, nebulizers, and sleep monitoring equipment and medication to patients with emphysema, sleep apnea, and other respiratory conditions. Its infusion therapy nurses administer intravenous or injectable therapies -- including pain drugs, chemotherapy, and parenteral nutrition -- at home or in one of the company's outpatient infusion clinics. Apria also delivers home medical equipment such as walkers and hospital beds.

You can spin a disc, or burn a disc, but when you blow a disc in your back the fun stops, and Amedica steps in. The company develops, manufactures, and commercializes joint and spine implants made of silicon nitride ceramic, a material thought to be more durable, resistant, and patient-compatible than traditional implant materials. Amedica's lead product candidates are its Valeo spinal implants which are intended to restore and maintain vertebrae alignment in the neck and lower back. Valeo spinal spacer implants have received FDA and EU approval for use as vertebra replacements. The company's other candidates include ceramic hip and knee implants with material that mimic the porous structure of natural bone.

UCSD Medical Center, part of the University of California, San Diego, is an acute-care teaching hospital that provides a comprehensive range of health services to residents of the San Diego area. UCSD Medical Center's facilities consist of UCSD Thornton Hospital in La Jolla and UCSD Medical Center Hillcrest (with a combined 500 beds), as well as several area primary and specialty outpatient clinics. Services provided by the medical center and its affiliates include general medicine, trauma care, women's health, infant care, oncology, and ophthalmology. The medical center is also home to specialty centers for neurosurgery, orthopedics, and transplantation, and it has extensive academic and research programs.

Kips Bay Medical makes medical devices that help veins do their jobs in patients with coronary artery disease. The development-stage company is focused on developing and commercializing a vein support device called eSVS MESH, a mesh sleeve implanted by surgeons in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) that, when placed over a patient's vein graft, improves the graft's structure and long-term performance. It is designed to mimic the artery's job of constricting the vein and preventing harmful vessel expansion. The company is conducting clinical trials of its eSVS MESH in Europe and is awaiting approval to begin clinical trials in the US. Kips Bay Medical filed a $57.5 million IPO in April 2010.

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is a leading provider of health benefits in Massachusetts, the not-for-profit organization also offers plans to residents of New Hampshire and Maine. It has more than 1 million members enrolled in its HMO, PPO, point-of-service, and government plans. Those members have access to regional and nationwide networks of hospitals and doctors. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care also targets multi-state employers with its Choice Plus and Options PPO plans, offered through a partnership with UnitedHealth. The Harvard Pilgrim Foundation provides community health and wellness programs.

Hospital for Sick Children is a full-service pediatric hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto. Along with providing general surgical and medical care, Sick Kids is also a teaching hospital and a research facility. The Hospital for Sick Children is funded primarily by the Canadian government, and it receives support from the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation. The hospital has a long history, having been established by a group of women in Toronto in 1875. It is now part of the Ontario Children's Health Network, a partnership between the city's six pediatric hospitals.

Inviting Real Estate Agents, Job Placements Agents, Educational Institutes, Software Service Providers, Real Estate Builders, Marriage Bureaus, Travel Agents, Restaurant Owners, Health & Fitness Centers and other Local Businesses to Post a FREE Classified Advertisement on Cootera.com Classifieds Website.