Sunrise Senior Living, Inc. provides senior living services in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany. It offers independent living services, which include housing, meals, transportation, activities, and housekeeping, as well as licensed skilled nursing services for residents who require 24-hour skilled nursing care; and determination of the appropriate level of care and service for such resident. The company’s assisted living communities also offer a reminiscence neighborhood that provides specially designed accommodations, service, and care to support cognitively impaired residents, including residents with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of memory loss. In addition, it provides medication management program, which includes the storage of medications, the distribution of medications as directed by the resident’s physician, and compliance monitoring. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 384 communities, including 335 communities in the United States, 15 communities in Canada, 27 communities in the United Kingdom, and 7 communities in Germany, with a total unit capacity of 40,400 units. Sunrise Senior Living, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

Corpus Christi Medical Center was founded in 1962 as a 26-bed care center. Corpus Christi Medical Center provides health care services to Texans living along the Gulf Coast. Part of the HCA family, the hospital system includes facilities spanning four campuses. The center boasts some 580 beds and offers acute care services. Corpus Christi Medical Center includes Doctors Regional, Bay Area, The Heart Hospital, and Northwest. Specialties include breast cancer treatment, heart disease care, orthopedic medicine, and neonatal intensive care. Most facilities include doctors' offices as well.

Amedisys, Inc. is the nation's leading health care company focused on bringing home the continuum of care. Each day Amedisys delivers personalized health care services to more than 35,000 individual patients and their families, in the comfort of patients' homes. Amedisys has two divisions, home health care and hospice, and employs more than 16,000 skilled clinicians across the country. The Company's state-of-the-art advanced chronic care management programs and leading-edge technology enables it to deliver quality care based upon the latest evidence-based best practices. Amedisys is a recognized innovator, being the first in the industry to equip its clinicians with point-of-care laptop technology and referring physicians with an internet portal that enables real-time coordination of patient care seamlessly. Amedisys also has the industry's first-ever nationwide Care Transitions program. Amedisys Care Transitions is designed to reduce unnecessary hospital readmissions through patient and caregiver health coaching and care coordination, which starts in the hospital and continues throughout completion of the patient's home health plan of care.

St. John Hospital & Medical Center is part of the larger Detroit area-based St. John Health regional health care system. The 800-bed teaching hospital is affiliated with Wayne State University. Besides providing acute and trauma care, St. John operates specialized cancer and pediatric centers, a hip and knee center, an inpatient mental health unit, and a Parkinson's Disease clinic. It also operates the only emergency trauma center on Detroit's East Side. The hospital was established in 1952 and has grown to include a 200-physician medical team specializing in more than 50 medical and surgical fields.

Chemed Corporation brings a professional dignity to times of transition and sewer line clogs. Operating through two major subsidiaries, Chemed Corporation offers hospice care to terminally ill patients through its VITAS Healthcare subsidiary which operates in some 15 US states. VITAS employs doctors, nurses, and other professionals to provide at-home and inpatient services in care facilities. Chemed's better-known Roto-Rooter subsidiary offers plumbing and drain-cleaning services for residential and commercial customers through company-owned, contractor-operated, and franchised locations, some 600 total. A stalwart of the industry, Roto-Rooter offers services throughout the US and in parts of Canada.

Swissray International makes and sells film-less X-ray imaging equipment. The company's products, based on its direct digital Radiography (ddR) technology platform, include X-ray systems used in nearly all fields of radiology, including orthopedic and bone density scans. The company's eXpert workstation and SwissVision software can enlarge X-ray images and transfer the data through central networks. Swissray markets its products to care providers worldwide through its own sales force, as well as through partnerships with other medical equipment firms and distribution companies. Switzerland-based affiliate Swissray Medical handles international operations.

Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, at the heart of the Gundersen Lutheran health system, is a 325-bed teaching hospital serving patients in western Wisconsin. It is a designated clinical campus for the University of Wisconsin's medical and nursing schools. The hospital features a level II trauma center, other specialty services include bariatrics, behavioral health, cancer care, orthopedics, palliative care, pediatrics, rehabilitation, and women's health. The medical center is affiliated with a group of regional clinics and specialty centers.

National Dentex Corporation designs and makes dental prosthetic devices. Its products fall into three categories: restorative (crowns and bridges), reconstructive (partial and full dentures), and cosmetic (porcelain veneers and ceramic crowns). The devices are made from impressions, models, and X-rays submitted by dentists. The firm serves roughly 24,000 dentists from about 40 dental laboratories in the US and Canada. Each NDX lab operates under its own name and has a local sales staff. NDX was taken private in 2010 after being acquired by dental and orthodontic firm GeoDigm Corporation in a deal valued at about $100 million.

The Stereotaxis NIOBE System is used to treat coronary artery disease and abnormal heart rhythms known as arrhythmias. Via digital remote control, doctors steer catheters, guidewires, and stent delivery devices through blood vessels all the way to the chambers of the heart (and all the way back out, if necessary) in a procedure that is less invasive than traditional heart bypass surgery. Stereotaxis markets the cardiology instrument control system to interventional surgery labs (or "cath labs"), research hospitals, and large commercial medical centers worldwide.

Optiscan Imaging makes and develops microscopes and related technologies for examining tissue at the cellular and sub-cellular level. The company's original technology, Stratum, uses fluorescent imaging in the detection and treatment of skin cancer, which has reached epidemic proportions in the nation where Optiscan Imaging is headquartered -- Australia. Optiscan Imaging later worked on the development of a miniature scanner to be used in endoscopes, which led to a partnership with Pentax. Together they developed a confocal flexible endo-microscope product, launched in 2005. Optiscan has been in business since 1988.

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