Carclo Technical Plastics (CTP), a division of UK plastics injection molding company Carclo, develops and manufactures disposable pharmaceutical and medical devices and other injection-molded components and assemblies made from plastic for the medical, telecom, automotive, electronics, and optics industries. CTP's products include automotive cooling and fastening systems, infusion devices, and inhalation devices; it owns the COIL brand of magnifiers and aids for the visually-impaired. CTP provides such product development services as assembly, design, packaging, and rapid cavity manufacture. Located in southern England, the company markets its products globally.

American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Health Plan is the health plan division of the American Postal Workers Union, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO. Providing health benefits to some 140,000 members, the not-for-profit organization is a self-administered and self-underwritten health plan. It provides a fee-for-service plan featuring a preferred provider network, as well as a lower-cost, high-deductible option with a health reimbursement account. The plan's provider network includes some 6.000 hospitals and nearly 600,000 health care providers across the US and its territories. The APWU Health Plan was founded in 1960.

Southern Cross Healthcare Group is the largest nursing home provider in the UK. The company operates some 700 nursing and residential care homes with beds totaling approximately 37,000. Southern Cross Healthcare offers a range of services, including senior living, specialty nursing, rehabilitation, and long-term and intermediate care for people with physical and learning disabilities. The health care provider operates homes in England, Scotland, and Wales under the Active Care Partnerships, Ashbourne Senior Living, and Southern Cross brands.

ApolloMD is a private US group practice owned and operated by its physicians. With more than 750 medical directors, doctors, and mid-level practitioners, the group provides clinical outsourcing services focused on anesthesia, emergency medicine, and radiology to high-volume hospitals, surgery centers, and health systems primarily in the Southeast and Midwest. Boasting about a 97% physician retention rate, ApolloMD uses a performance-based compensation model, which pays physicians equitably according to the amount of clinical work they accomplish rather than seniority. Its PaymentsMD division offers health care providers a medical billing and payment collections system that allows patients to pay bills online.

Children's Health Care was founded in 1924. Children's Health Care (better known as Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota) is one of the largest pediatric health organizations in the US, with two full-service hospital campuses in Minneapolis and St. Paul, as well as a number of specialty clinics in the region. With more than 330 beds between its two hospitals, the not-for-profit Children's Health Care specializes in diagnosing, treating, and researching diseases that afflict babies and children, including epilepsy, diabetes, cancers, and cystic fibrosis. It also runs a Teen Age Medical Service, which provides reproductive health care, counseling, and other medical services to adolescents.

Unity Health Plans Insurance provides health insurance, wellness education, and disease management services to the residents of some 20 rural counties in southern Wisconsin. The insurer has some 90,000 members, primarily in Dane County. In addition to its HMO coverage, Unity Health Plans offers PPO and point-of-service (POS) plans, as well as health savings accounts. Members have access to Unity's network of area hospitals, clinics, and primary care physicians. Unity Health Plans Insurance company is a subsidiary of University Health Care, which also operates The University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics Authority and is part of the larger UW Health organization.

Scripps Health has its medical script down pat. The not-for-profit hospital group serves the San Diego area through about a half dozen acute-care hospitals with some 1,400 beds and 20 outpatient clinic locations. The system also offers home health care and operates community outreach programs. Its hospitals, along with outpatient Scripps Clinic and Scripps Coastal Medical Center locations, include more than 2,600 affiliated general practice and specialty physicians. Scripps Health is affiliated with The Scripps Research Institute, which performs biomedical research. The Scripps Foundation for Medicine and Science serves as a fundraiser for both the hospital group and the research institute.

Alphatec Spine designs, develops, manufactures and markets a full line of spinal implants and surgical instruments. Since our company's founding in 1990, we have developed a full-line of innovative products for spine surgeons. During that time, our focus has been on working to improve the quality of life of patients with spine disorders and to continue to innovate new products that advance the science of spinal surgery. Moving forward, we will continue this core mission. However, in analyzing our business and our product pipeline, we will also stake a leadership position in a segment of the spine market that has been underserved - the aging spine.Aging spine patients (65 years and older) have a desire to alleviate the pain and discomfort caused by disorders such as osteoporosis (which results in 700,000 annual vertebral compression fractures), adult scoliosis (which is prevalent in 60 percent of this age group) and spondylolisthesis (which afflicts 12 percent of men and 30 percent of women in the aging population). According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, one in two women and one in four men over age 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis. It is estimated that 10 million Americans currently suffer from osteoporosis and 34 million more are at risk of developing it.

Teleflex helps medical professionals manage fluids and oxygen and it helps airlines keep cargo contained. Through its Medical segment, Teleflex makes surgical instruments, medical devices, and disposable supplies for hospital procedures, especially catheters for all parts of the body. While medical products are its main focus. The company's Aerospace segment provides aircraft cargo handling systems under the Telair International and Nordisk brands. Teleflex distributes its products in more than 140 countries around the globe.

Genesis HealthCare is owned by a group of private equity investors from Formation Capital and the private equity arm of real estate investment firm J. E. Roberts. Genesis HealthCare Corporation cares for people when care is what counts. The company operates about 200 assisted living and skilled nursing facilities in more than a dozen states throughout the eastern US. Its facilities have some 25,000 beds total. Genesis HealthCare's rehabilitation division provides speech, physical, and occupational therapy services through contracts with health care providers. The company also offers respiratory therapy, adult day care, Alzheimer's care, dialysis, and home and hospice care.

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