West Penn Allegheny Health System makes wellness a priority for Steel Town residents. The health system, which operates with nearly 2,000 beds, is a network of affiliated hospitals serving the greater Pittsburgh area, including Allegheny General Hospital, Alle-Kiski Medical Center, Canonsburg General Hospital, and The Western Pennsylvania Hospital. Among its specialty services are cancer treatment, emergency medicine, and orthopedics. The system's clinical campuses are affiliated with Drexel University and Temple University. West Penn Allegheny Health System admits more than 79,000 patients and handles 200,000 emergency visits each year. The system also helps to deliver more than 4,000 newborns annually.

Sparrow Hospital, has two campuses and more than 700 beds. Its Clinton Memorial Hospital has about 30 beds, and affiliate Carson City Hospital has roughly 80 beds. Sparrow Health System's other operations include a long-term-care center (located on the St. Lawrence campus of Sparrow Hospital), a hospice care provider, and medical equipment rental unit. The health system got its start in 1896 when a group of women set out with $400, a house on Ottawa Street (in Lansing, Michigan), and a mission to care for the sick.

Zimmer designs and markets orthopedic products, including reconstructive implants used in knee or hip replacement surgery, spinal stabilizers, shoulder implants that restore function in arthritic joints, and dental implant systems and bone and tissue grafting materials. It also makes spinal implants to fix aching or injured backs and trauma products (such as plates, screws, and pins) that help broken bones to heal. Additionally, Zimmer makes surgical products used in orthopedic surgeries, including tourniquets and devices for wound cleansing. Zimmer operates worldwide, with direct operations in more than 25 countries.

CardiacAssist's products get your blood pumping, for real. The company makes the TandemHeart pVAD (percutaneous ventricular assist device), which pumps blood through the bodies of patients suffering from heart failure. Unlike most cardiac-assist devices, TandemHeart is available as both an external pump and an implantable device; meaning it can be used by interventional cardiologists in a cath lab and by cardiac surgeons in an operating room to provide short-term circulatory support. The company supplies its the device (and related accessories) to US hospitals through an in-house sales team and internationally through a network of European distributors. CardiacAssist was founded in 1996 by a group of investors.

St. Luke's Hospital - Allentown Campus specializes in acute care and family health services. The hospital, which has some 140 beds, is part of St. Luke's Hospital & Health Network. Among the Allentown hospital's specialty services are cardiology, emergency care, obstetrics, podiatry, occupational medicine, and pediatrics. The facility has specialty centers for cancer treatment, sleep disorders, imaging, and weight loss surgery. It also offers free health screenings to the community and works with a weekly school-based health center at a local middle school. St. Luke's Hospital - Allentown Campus traces its roots to the 1945 founding of the Allentown Osteopathic Medical Center.

Atrion Corporation develops and manufactures ophthalmology, cardiovascular, and fluid delivery devices primarily for medical applications in the United States and internationally. Atrion Corporation manufactures soft contact lens storage and disinfection cases; and the LacriCATH line of balloon catheters used in the treatment of nasolacrimal duct obstruction in children and adults. It develops the MPS2 Myocardial Protection System, a proprietary technology delivering fluids and medications to the heart during open-heart surgery; cardiac surgery vacuum relief valves; Retract-O-Tape silicone vessel loops; inflation devices for balloon catheter dilation, stent deployment, and fluid dispensing; and Clean-Cut rotating aortic punch and PerfectCut Aortotomy System, both of which are used in heart bypass surgery. Atrion manufactures various intravenous fluid delivery products comprising medical tubing clamps; swabbable luer valves; and luer syringe check valves and one-way valves. It produces inflation systems and valves used in marine and aviation safety products; one-way and two-way ‘Breather’ valves for use on electronics cases, munitions cases, pressure vessels, transportation container cases, escape slides, and other medical and non-medical applications; and a line of products designed for safe needle and scalpel blade containment, as well as the ACTester product line consisting of instrumentation and associated disposables used to measure the activated clotting time of blood. Atrion Corporation also provides contract manufacturing services for other original equipment manufacturers of medical devices; and owns and maintains a 22-mile high-pressure steel pipeline in north Alabama that is leased to an industrial gas producer that transports gaseous oxygen to its customers. It sells its products through a sales force. Atrion Corporation was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Allen, Texas.

Main Line Health system consists of four acute-care facilities (Bryn Mawr Hospital, Lankenau Hospital, Paoli Hospital, and Riddle Memorial Hospital) with a total of some 1,200 beds. It also operates physician practices, a research institute, a rehabilitation hospital (Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital), an addiction recovery facility (Mirmont Treatment Center), and various other facilities. Main Line Health provides home health care services and care for the elderly through senior programs. It operates several ambulatory-care centers and provides occupational health as well.

Woman's Hospital founded in 1968, the hospital was one of the first women's specialty hospitals in the US. The not-for-profit hospital offers women's health classes as well as other educational resources and delivers thousands of babies each year. Services include breast care, cosmetic surgery, general surgery, genetics counseling, occupational therapy, and speech therapy. Woman's Hospital is building a new campus to replace its aging facilities with a five-story hospital building, medical office buildings, and increased capacity for its inpatient rooms and neonatal intensive care unit.

Univera Healthcare wants the residents of western New York to be healthy. The not-for-profit organization provides health insurance coverage to more than 200,000 members throughout eight counties in western New York. About 30,000 of those members are retirees in the company's SeniorChoice Medicare Advantage plans. Univera's members have access to all of the hospitals in the area, as well as more than 50,000 pharmacies across the US. Univera Healthcare company provides HMO, PPO, indemnity, dental, and other health plans to small and large businesses, as well as individuals. Univera Healthcare is a business segment of The Lifetime Healthcare Companies.

Echo Therapeutics,Inc. develops instruments for transdermal (through the skin) drug delivery and diagnostics. Its devices use gentle abrasion and ultrasound technologies to painlessly extract analytes or introduce drugs without breaking the skin. The firm's proprietary Prelude SkinPrep technology platform is being developed for use in glucose monitoring under the name Symphony. Echo is also developing a system to provide needle-free drug administration of lidocaine and other pharmaceuticals. Echo is also developing Azone, a transdermal technology used for reformulated drugs already on the market.

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