Fredrick Engels helped pen a manifesto in 1848, but Chicago-area industrialist Frederick Ingalls helped found a hospital in 1923. Ingalls Memorial Hospital still serves Chicago's south suburbs. With more than 560 beds, the hospital offers a variety of acute and tertiary health care services, including cancer treatment, cardiovascular care, orthopedic surgery, rehabilitation services, neurosurgery, and other clinical services. In partnership with nearby Proctor Hospital, Ingalls operates an inpatient addiction treatment facility. Ingalls Memorial Hospital is part of Ingalls Health System which operates a handful of family care centers, a wellness center, a cancer support center, and Ingalls Home Care.

KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) lives by the credo "women and children first." It is Singapore's largest women and children's hospital with specialists in obstetrics, menopause, surgery, reproductive medicine, sports medicine, mental wellness, and neonatology. It also offers allied health and nursing services ranging from rehabilitation and nutrition to social work and support counseling. The hospital treats more than 500,000 women and children per year. With roots going back to 1858, KKH was established as a free maternity hospital in 1924 and within a few years was home to half of all deliveries in Singapore.

The Harvard-affiliated facility has some 780 beds and includes the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, a partnership between the hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Other specialty units focus on cardiology, neurology, transplants, and obstetrics. In addition to being a teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital conducts research and clinical trials to help further medical care. It's a top recipient of research grants from the National Institutes of Health. Brigham and Women's Hospital is a founding member of the Partners HealthCare System.

The DCH Healthcare Authority is concerned with the Druid City's health. The company, which does business as DCH Health System, provides health services to residents of Tuscaloosa and several other communities in Western Alabama. Its flagship facility is the 580-bed DCH Regional Medical Center, a full-service teaching hospital located near the University of Alabama campus. DCH Health System also includes the Northport, Pickens County, and Fayette medical centers, which together house 320 acute-care beds. The hospitals offer a full range of inpatient and outpatient services, including primary, diagnostic, emergency, surgical, rehabilitative, and home health care.

Seton Healthcare Network provides medical care within Austin's city limits, as well as surrounding areas of Central Texas. The not-for-profit organization, part of Ascension Health, includes nine urban and rural acute-care hospitals, as well as psychiatric and children's hospitals and a network of community clinics. With a total of 1,600 beds, Seton's facilities (known as the Seton Family of Hospitals) offer patients a wide range of services, including regional trauma, heart transplant, neurological, and neonatal intensive care units, as well as primary and specialty care medical services for the uninsured. Seton was first established in Austin in 1902 by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.

Eyelogic's software and associated computer hardware and ophthalmic equipment are designed to make eye testing easier -- so easy that it can be performed by a technician rather than the doctor. The software can coordinate input from existing automated instruments and the system includes an automated refractor, an autolensometer, and more. According to the company, product development began after an ophthalmologist in Calgary grew bored with always having to perform manual refractions and decided to try to automate the process. Eyelogic Systems has been in business since 1996.

Astek Group could be holding some of the products your dentist uses every day. Through its operating subsidiary, Astek Innovations, the London-based holding company designs, manufactures, and distributes hundreds of disposable single-use items used in dental offices worldwide, with about 50% of sales in the US. The company's most profitable product, the Pro-Tip, is a disposable air/water syringe tip created by the company's founder and CEO, Dr. Alan Segal, a practicing dentist. Other Astek products include Kromopan alginates (used to make dental impressions), Alma denture products, and the Pegasus line of dental products.

Princeton Community Hospital serves the residents of southern West Virginia. The health care facility provides acute care, home health care services, physical therapy, behavioral medicine, laboratory, and other health care services. Specialty medical divisions include cardiovascular and cancer care, organ transplants, radiology, sleep disorder diagnostics, and women's health. The hospital has about 190 beds and a medical staff of more than 100 physicians. Affiliates include the Athens Family Practice and Mercer Medical Group outpatient clinics and the Princeton Health Care Center nursing home. Princeton Community Hospital was founded in 1970.

Sturdy Memorial Hospital has remained a stalwart provider of health care to southeast Massachusetts since 1913. In addition to comprehensive medical, surgical, and emergency care, the hospital offers cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation, women's health services, diagnostic imaging, and a center devoted to treating multiple sclerosis patients. It also operates pain management, cancer, and wound care centers. The hospital is engaged in ongoing expansion projects including the construction of a two story outpatient facility which will feature a four unit endoscopy suite; an infusion therapy center; and ambulatory offices. Outpatient physical therapy and occupational health service will occupy the second floor.

The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, founded in 1986, is a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center located on the Tampa campus of the University of South Florida. The institute carries it out its stated mission of contributing to the prevention and cure of cancer through patient care, research, and education. It operates a 200-bed medical and surgical facility, as well as outpatient treatment programs, a blood and marrow transplant program, and The Moffitt Clinic at Tampa General Hospital. Its research programs include study in the areas of molecular oncology, immunology, risk assessment, health outcomes, and experimental therapeutics.

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