PLC Systems guards kidneys against ill effects of dehydration and toxic medicines. Its RenalGuard system, marketed in Europe, is a fluid balancing device that helps physicians monitor and maintain kidney fluid levels during medical imaging procedures. The company also developed the Heart Laser System, a carbon dioxide laser system that treats coronary artery disease; the system performs Transmyocardial Revascularization (or TMR) as an alternative to such conventional therapies as bypass surgery and balloon angioplasty. Novadaq is PLC Systems' exclusive distributor for its TMR business in the US; PLC agreed to sell the TMR business to Novadaq in 2010 to focus on development of RenalGuard for the US market.

DEKA Research and Development is perhaps best known for its founder and president Dean Kamen -- and for the Segway Personal Transporter he invented. DEKA is a design and engineering firm that develops innovative technologies, many of them in the field of medical devices. The Segway itself was an offshoot of the iBOT, an all-terrain, stair-climbing wheelchair the company developed with Independence Technology, a unit of Johnson & Johnson. (Kamen founded a separate company in 1999 to market the Segway.) DEKA's other products include a portable dialysis machine developed in partnership with Baxter International and an improved intravascular stent made with J&J's Cordis. DEKA was founded in 1982.

Diagnostic Laboratory Services (DLS) provides clinical laboratory and employee drug screening services in Hawaii and other Pacific islands. The company's toxicology department provides drug testing services for private companies, federal and state agencies, and health care providers. DLS' microbiology department provides infectious disease testing services. The company also provides provides diagnostic pathology lab services, including biopsy and pap smear analysis, through affiliate Hawaii Pathology Laboratory. DLS operates satellite locations throughout the Hawaiian Islands, Guam, and Saipan and has hospital-based laboratories including one at the affiliated Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu.

The Spectranetics Corporation takes its mission to heart: The company develops, markets, and distributes an excimer laser system that is used to treat various coronary and vascular conditions. Its CVX-300 laser unit and fiber-optic delivery devices (disposable catheters and sheaths) remove partial or total arterial blockages caused by plaque buildup; the laser system can also be used to remove lead wires from pacemakers and implantable defibrillators. The company's customers include major cardiac catheterization labs and hospitals in the US. Subsidiary Spectranetics International sells the company's products abroad, primarily in Europe and the Middle East.

Miami Jewish Health Systems is helping people of all ages, cultures and religious preferences enjoy longer, healthier, more enriched lives by providing leading-edge care and independence-enhancing services. The goal is to maximize the potential of each person served, whatever their age, physical state or socio-economic condition. Whether the individual wants to live in their own home, requires short-term therapy, long-term care, or specialized services, Miami Jewish Health Systems has been recognized as offering the highest quality care, the most supportive services and the broadest array of choices for our patients and residents. As the largest and most innovative provider of health care for seniors in the Southeast, Miami Jewish Health Systems treats 3,700 people daily through our Centers of Excellence, Residential Living, Community Care, Alzheimer’s and Memory Care and Nursing and Medical Care programs.

Hill Physicians Medical Group is the doctors' answer to HMOs.Hill Physicians Medical Group is an independent practice association (IPA) serving some 300,000 health plan members in northern California. Hill contracts with managed care organizations throughout the region -- including HMOs belonging to Aetna, CIGNA, and Health Net -- to provide care to health plan members. Its network includes about 3,000 primary care and specialty physicians and some 30 hospitals. PriMed, a management services organization, organized Hill Physicians Medical Group in 1984 and still runs the company.

Covenant Care was established in 1994 and is owned by private equity firm Centre Partners, as well as by members of the company's management team. Covenant Care has made a pact to provide nursing care in the midwestern and western US. The company provides skilled nursing and assisted living services at about 50 communities in more than half a dozen states. Its long-term care centers have a total of some 5,000 beds. The company also operates institutional pharmacies, and its Select Therapies division provides physical, occupational, and speech therapy services.

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta hospital system specializes in pediatric health care, research, and education. It operates three hospitals (Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, Hughes Spalding, and Scottish Rite) with a total of some 520 beds and treats more than half a million patients annually. It also operates about 20 health care facilities, including the Aflac Cancer Center, and employs about 1,600 physicians with more than 30 specialties. Children's Healthcare of Atlanta is known for its pediatric services in cardiology, oncology, neonatal, orthopedics, rehabilitation, organ transplant, and general surgery.

Fairfield Medical Center is a more than 220-bed acute care hospital serving residents of southeastern and central Ohio. In addition to providing comprehensive medical and surgical care, Fairfield Medical Center offer specialty services including cancer, cardiovascular, women's and children's health, and rehabilitation services. It also operates offsite facilities for physician practices, as well as specialty diagnostic and laboratory services. The Center employs more than 250 physicians, and is served by a number of volunteer organizations which help to support and operate it.

Advocat Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides long-term care services to nursing home patients primarily in the southeast and southwest United States. Advocat Inc. provides a range of long-term care services to the elderly, which include skilled nursing, ancillary health care services, and assisted living. It also offers various rehabilitative, nutritional, respiratory, and other specialized ancillary services. As of March 9, 2010, it operated 50 skilled nursing centers containing 5,799 licensed nursing beds. Advocat Inc. has nursing centers in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. Advocat Inc. was founded in 1994 and is based in Brentwood, Tennessee.

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