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.

Tornier B.V. makes the kind of implants that you head to the orthopedic surgeon for, not the plastic surgeon. The company manufactures joint prostheses for the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, hip, knee, ankle, and foot. Its Aequalis shoulder joint is a top prosthetic for arthroplasty -- more than 100,000 people have it. Tornier's orthobiologics division makes a reconstructive material for soft tissue (tendons, ligaments, and cartilage) repair, branded as Conexa. Altogether, Tornier offers more than 70 products for joint replacement, trauma, and sports medicine, which are sold in about 35 countries. The company was bought by Warburg Pincus in 2006 and filed to go public with a $205 million IPO in mid-2010.

STERIS has hygiene hysteria. The company makes sterilization systems for health care, pharmaceutical, research, and industrial markets. In addition to the company's sanitizing lotions and soaps, health care professionals use the firm's steam and chemical sterilization systems to sterilize surgical and diagnostic devices. STERIS also makes disinfection systems and infection prevention consumables. The company sells such surgical support products as exam lights, surgical tables, and scrub sinks. STERIS sells its equipment and consumables in more than 60 countries. In North America, its Isomedix unit also offers contract sterilization for health care, industrial, and consumer products makers.

Care UK is a leading independent provider of health and social care. Working in close partnership with local authorities, PCTs and SHAs, the company draws on over 25 years of experience to provide tailor-made service solutions, including residential, community, specialist, primary and secondary care. Care UK operates over 50 nursing and residential homes for older people and provides over 120,000 hours of care and support every week to people in their own homes. We offer supported living services for people with learning disabilities and mental health needs. We operate a range of specialist children’s services including residential care and fostering.In the health sector we are the largest operator by far of independent sector treatment centres in the UK and we are very active across a wide spectrum of primary care services. We operate GP practices, NHS Walk-in Centres and GP out-of-hours services, as well as highly innovative Clinical Assessment and Treatment Services (CATS). Today one in five people in the UK population has access to one of the many Care UK facilities. We currently serve all of the Strategic Health Authorities, we work with one in three PCTs and we provide social care and support services to over half the commissioning local authorities.

Licking Memorial Health Systems was founded in 1898 by the Newark Hospital Association. The health care provider operates the 230-bed Licking Memorial Hospital and a multi-specialty physician group called Licking Memorial Health Professionals. Specialty services at the hospital include cancer care, home health, occupational health, rehabilitation, and cardiology. Licking Memorial Hospital administers behavioral health care (including substance abuse treatments) through its Shepard Hill department. The physicians' group operates through about 40 practices with 90 doctors spanning over about a seven-town area.

Ramsay Health Care rules Australia's private hospital industry. As that continent's largest private hospital group, the company operates about 115 hospitals and day-care facilities in Australia as well as in Europe and Asia. With roughly 10,000 beds and 25,000 employees, Ramsay hospitals provide care for just about any medical or surgical problem for which a patient may need treatment. Acquisitions (at home and abroad) have boosted the company's holdings, and while about half of Ramsay's hospitals are in Australia, the company is intent on expanding into new international markets. Ramsay was established in 1964 as a psychiatric hospital by Paul Ramsay.

Community General Hospital founded in 1963, has specialty centers in the areas of wound care, breast care, and sleep disorders, and it operates area primary and specialty clinics. The not-for-profit hospital, which has about 300 acute-care beds, is a general medical and surgical facility. It offers emergency and intensive care services, as well as inpatient orthopedic, psychiatric, and women's health services. Additionally, Community General Hospital houses a skilled nursing center and performs outpatient diagnostic testing, physical therapy, and cardiac rehabilitation.

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.

Health Grades (which does business as HealthGrades) takes the health care industry to school.Health Grades company offers report cards on hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, home health agencies, and other health care providers. It sells the quality and patient safety information to a number of constituencies, including consumers, employers, and insurance companies. Hospitals themselves represent its biggest customer base, with highly rated providers typically license HealthGrades' ratings and trademarks to use in their marketing campaigns. They also come to the company for quality improvement consulting. HealthGrades was taken private by Vestar Capital Partners in 2010.

RegionalCare Hospital Partners is looking for the nearest emergency room. The company formed in 2009 with the intention to acquire hospitals in smaller cities or rural areas, where it's the only game in town. It plans to improve a local hospital's service by providing access to capital, but allow local management to maintain day-to-day operations. RegionalCare Hospital Partners is the brainchild of CEO Martin Rash and president John Rutledge, who found success with Province Healthcare using the same business model. (They sold Province Healthcare in 2005 to LifePoint Hospitals for $1.7 billion.) Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has pledged up to $300 million to fund the first investments.

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