Celtic Insurance Company tends to shy away from group mentality. With a focus on low-cost individual coverage rather than group coverage, Celtic provides a variety of health insurance products to more than 30,000 policyholders nationwide. The company's products include Celtic Basic Health Plan, a low-cost plan, and CeltiCare Preferred, which provides comprehensive coverage for families, kids, and adults. It also offers a health savings account plan known as CelticSaver HSA. Celtic is licensed in all states except New York and provides coverage in most of them. It sells its insurance online and through direct sales agents. Celtic is a subsidiary of Medicaid health plan provider Centene.

Medela is just working to make mothers and babies happy and healthy. The company is a leading maker of breast pumps and breastfeeding accessories for hospital, rental, and home use. Medela's neonatology division develops specialized lamps used to treat jaundiced newborns. Its suction technology division offers aspirators, pumps, medical gas regulators, fluid management systems, for use in hospital and homecare settings. Medela has branched out from mothers and babies into wound care with its Invia system of negative pressure products. Medela Holding AG operates more than a dozen subsidiaries in China, Europe, the UK, and the US. Medela is owned by the family of founder Olle Larsson.

Oculus isn't the name of an all-seeing ancient Latin god or superhero, though it does use super-agents in its fight against the evil super-bug MRSA. Oculus Innovative Sciences works with proprietary platform technology Microcyn, a super-oxidized water-based solution designed to safely (i.e., without any known side effects) eliminate a wide range of annoying pathogens (including MRSA) attempting to infect patients with open wounds. Aside from use in wound care, the solution has potential applications for use in disinfectants and sterilization, as well as respiratory, dermatology, veterinary, and dental markets. Oculus' products are primarily sold through partnerships with distributors.

Sheridan Community Hospital certainly lives up to its "community" moniker. Local volunteers are considered a mainstay of the hospital, logging more than 4,000 hours of service every year. The facility offers residents of Montcalm, Michigan and surrounding counties emergency services, occupational health, cardiology, orthopedics, and general surgery. The hospital has begun testing the waters of 21st century technology by investing in digital imaging and high-tech scanning systems. Sheridan Community Hospital has also opened Edmore Care-West, its second family practice location in Edmore.

Cambridge Home Health Care arranges home health care services on behalf of traditional health care providers. Cambridge Home Health Care, Inc. serves customers including managed care organizations, hospitals, doctors, and independent patients from about 35 offices in Ohio and Pennsylvania. It provides traditional medical, pediatric, mental health, and rehabilitation nursing, as well as homemaker and companion services, to chronically ill patients or those recovering from surgeries and medical treatments. CEO Nancy Diller-Shively founded Cambridge Home Health Care in 1994. Sister company Bridgeport Home Health Care operates in Florida.

Sysmex America is systematic about the analysis of the circulatory system. The company, a subsidiary of Japanese medical diagnostic equipment manufacturer Sysmex, manufactures and markets clinical laboratory testing devices and automation systems for hematology, immuno-chemistry, particle counting, and urinalysis. Subsidiary Sysmex Reagents America manufactures and distributes diagnostic reagents specifically for use in Sysmex's hematology, coagulation, and urinalysis analyzers. Its customers are pathology labs and health care providers located in the US, Canada, and Latin America; the company's products are distributed primarily through a network of independent distributors.

West Jefferson Medical Center keeps the suburbs of New Orleans in tune. A full-service community hospital serving Jefferson County, Lousiana, the not-for-profit hospital has about 450 beds and provides general medical-surgical care, as well as specialty care in a number of areas, including cardiovascular disease, neurosciences, orthopedics, women's health, and oncology. The medical center also operates several primary care clinics throughout it service area and provides behavioral health and occupational health services. West Jefferson Medical Center was founded in 1956.

ICON plc, a contract research organization, provides outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries primarily in the United States, Ireland, and rest of Europe. It specializes in strategic development, management, and analysis of programs that support clinical development from compound selection to Phase I to IV clinical studies.

TransMedics works to transport transplants. The company has developed a system to circulate warm blood through hearts and other transplant organs while they are being transported, as opposed to the cold transport system currently in use. The portable device makes it possible to actually deliver a beating heart to the surgeon. TransMedics' Organ Care System (OCS) is already in use in the European Union for heart transplants; it must still complete clinical trials in the US to receive FDA approval. A system for lungs, livers, and kidneys is also in the works. TransMedics was formed in 1998.

Manor Care is a lord of the manor in the nursing home kingdom. Operating as HCR Manor Care, the firm runs about 500 nursing homes, assisted living centers, and rehabilitation facilities in about 30 states. Its facilities, which operate under the names Heartland, ManorCare Health Services, and Arden Courts, provide not only long-term nursing care, but also rehabilitation services and short-term, post-acute care for patients recovering from serious illness or injury; many of them house special units for Alzheimer's patients. In addition to its nursing and assisted-living facilities, Manor Care offers hospice and home health care through offices across the US. It is owned by private equity firm The Carlyle Group.

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