Avera Health provides health care services to eastern South Dakota as well as parts of Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and North Dakota. The health care system operates an extensive network of facilities, including some 28 hospitals (totaling 1,450 acute-care beds) and 140 primary care community clinics. Other facilities include nursing homes, hospices, urgent care clinics, and home health offices. These operations are divided into five regions: Avera St. Luke's, Avera Queen of Peace, Avera Marshall, Avera McKennan, and Avera Sacred Heart. The system also operates a health care plan and Avera PACE, a hospital purchasing organization. Avera Health is sponsored by the Benedictine Sisters and Presentation Sisters.

Breastfeeding moms turn to Medela, Inc. for support. The company is the US arm of Swiss breast pump maker Medela Holding AG. The company's Breastfeeding division distributes hospital-grade and home-use breast pumps, bottles and accessories, and maternity and nursing intimate apparel. The same division also distributes phototherapy lamps and neonatal beds for newborns that don't require an incubator. The company's Healthcare division distributes Medela's medical vacuum systems, negative pressure wound care devices, and other suction equipment for hospital use. Its home-use products are sold through medical supply retailers and specialty shops.

VITAS Healthcare is a vital provider of hospice services in the US. The firm, a subsidiary of Chemed, is a top national provider, serving patients through some 45 programs in 15 states and Washington, DC. VITAS Healthcare Corporation cares for terminally ill patients primarily in their homes, but also at its own inpatient hospice facilities and in nursing homes and hospitals. Its services -- provided by teams of nurses, doctors, aides, and social workers -- focus on managing pain and symptoms, providing personal care, helping with financial arrangements, handling equipment and medications, and offering emotional and spiritual support. VITAS Healthcare Corporation also provides bereavement services and grief counseling to patients' families.

McLaren Health Care Corporation is one of the top 25 integrated health care systems in the United States. Our reach embraces 29 counties with 2,052 licensed beds and eight regional hospitals--McLaren Regional Medical Center (Flint); Lapeer Regional Medical Center (Lapeer); Ingham Regional Medical Center and Ingham Regional Orthopedic Hospital(Lansing); Bay Regional Medical Center and Bay Special Care Hospital (Bay City); Mt. Clemens Regional Medical Center (Mt. Clemens); and POH Regional Medical Center (Pontiac). Each hospital stands ready to serve you, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.McLaren Health Care has sustained a revenue growth rate of 20% annually for nearly 20 years. We began with one building, and now showcase the McLaren presence in more than 150 locations, and are a major presence in five major markets. We're 13,000 employees, more than 4,200 physicians and 2,000 volunteers strong.

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.

Lafayette General Medical Center provides general inpatient medical and surgical care, as well as highly specialized services such as trauma care and neonatal intensive care. The not-for-profit hospital, which has about 300 beds, also offers home health services, outpatient care, occupational medicine, and mental health care. Lafayette General is a member of group purchasing organization Premier and has affiliations with two small community hospitals -- St. Martin Hospital in St. Martin Parish and Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital in Vermilion Parish -- to which it provides management services.

Putnam Community Medical Center, a subsidiary of LifePoint Hospitals, has more than 140 beds and serves Florida's Putnam County area. Specialty services include emergency medicine, cardiology, physical therapy, oncology, and pediatrics. The medical center, founded in 1959, has a staff of more than 100 health care providers with some 20 specialties.

Boston Scientific Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices used in various interventional medical specialties worldwide. It offers cardiac rhythm management products, which monitor the heart and deliver electricity to treat cardiac abnormalities; and RF generators, intracardiac ultrasound and steerable ablation catheters, and diagnostic catheters for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. The company also provides interventional cardiology products, such as coronary stent systems, coronary revascularization products to treat patients with atherosclerosis and intraluminal catheter-directed ultrasound imaging catheters and systems; vascular access products, balloon catheters, stents and peripheral vascular catheters, wires, and accessories, as well as products for peripheral embolization procedures; and biliary stents, drainage catheters, and micro-puncture sets to treat, diagnose, and ease various forms of benign and malignant tumors. In addition, it offers coated and uncoated detachable coils, micro-delivery stents, micro-guidewires, micro-catheters, guiding catheters, and embolics to neuro-interventional radiologists and neurosurgeons to treat diseases of the neurovascular system; and endoscopy and interventional bronchoscopy products to diagnose and treat various digestive diseases, as well as pulmonary disease systems within the airway and lungs. Further, the company provides urology/women’s health products to treat patients with urinary stone disease, benign prostatic hyperplasia, stress urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and excessive uterine bleeding; and spinal cord stimulation system for the management of chronic intractable pain of the trunk and/or limbs. Boston Scientific Corporation markets its products through direct sales force, and a network of distributors and dealers. Boston Scientific Corporation was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan and Paris, France.

PHS Correctional Healthcare is the pioneer of the private correctional healthcare field. Since 1978, PHS has delivered quality healthcare to patients in jails, prisons and juvenile facilities across the United States.They past experience, current leadership and forward thinking are vital to providing a high level of service and care.

This government agency provides homes for heroes. The US Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH) consists of the 276-acre US Soldiers' and Airmen's Home in Washington, DC, and the 44-acre, 11-story US Naval Home in Gulfport, Mississippi. Both are continuing care retirement communities in which residents can live independently or in assisted living or long-term care facilities. The homes have about 1,600 residents (retired sailors, soldiers, airmen and women, and marines), 97% of whom served in a war theater and nearly 93% of whom retired with 20 or more years of military service.

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