Founded in 1975, Brownsville-Valley Regional Medical Center is part of the HCA healthcare system. The Brownsville-Valley Regional Medical Center provides health care to residents of Brownsville, Texas, and the surrounding region (generally called "the Valley"). The acute care facility has about 215 beds and offers primary and emergency care services. Its operations include a specialty center devoted to women's care, a minor and major trauma center, and community outreach programs. It also provides neonatal, neurology, cardiology, and orthopedic care.

Most syringes are designed to inject medication into blood vessels, but Mercator MedSystems' (formerly EndoBionics) MicroSyringe is designed to go inside blood vessels and inject medication outside the vessel wall, allowing for a more targeted application of medication that reduces the amount dispersed to areas where it is not needed. In addition to delivering traditional injectable drugs, it can deliver stem cells and gene therapies. The MicroSyringe, which was approved for use by the FDA in 2004, can be used to treat tumors and vascular, cardiac, and neurological diseases.

Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon has the operating room all sewn up. The company's Ethicon Products division is a leading maker of sutures and wound-closure products, including sutures, Dermabond skin glue, surgical mesh products, and wound drains. Another division, Ethicon Biosurgery, provides a line of absorbable hemostats and other products that help control bleeding during surgery, while its Biopatch product offers infection-resistant wound dressings. Ethicon Women's Health and Urology makes surgical grafts, devices, and equipment under the Gynecare brand. Through its Mentor unit, Ethicon also makes a line of sutures, breast implants, and other plastic surgery products.

WakeMed is a network of medical centers including two hospitals, outpatient and emergency clinics, rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing centers, laboratories, physicians' offices, and home care service agencies. Its hospitals, the WakeMed Raleigh Campus and the WakeMed Cary Hospital, include specialty divisions such as heart care, stroke, trauma, critical care, diabetes, asthma, and children's and women's centers. Combined, its facilities offer about 870 beds. WakeMed also conducts research and medical training programs.

Kaleida Health provides a kaleidoscope of services to residents of western New York. The health system operates five acute care hospitals including Buffalo General Hospital (its largest facility with about 510 beds), The Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo, DeGraff Memorial Hospital, Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital, and Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital. Community health care needs are met through a network of about 100 medical clinics. Kaleida Health also operates skilled nursing care facilities and provides home health care through its Visiting Nursing Association. To help train future medical professionals, Buffalo General Hospital is a teaching affiliate of the State University of New York.

HealthCare.com is an Internet search company serving millions of healthcare-related searches every month and connecting our site visitors with the information or providers that they seek. The company's core search categories today are centered on health insurance, health care providers and health information. Through both its owned properties and through its extensive partner network, HealthCare.com targets down to the local level, providing highly-contextual and location-specific advertising to consumers who are actively searching for health care products, content and services.

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.

Accellent provides the nuts and bolts for the medical device industry. The company offers outsourced design, engineering, and manufacturing of custom components, subassemblies, and completed devices, primarily for medical device firms. Its customers include such industry leaders as Medtronic, Abbott Labs, Stryker, and Johnson & Johnson. Accellent specializes in equipment used for cardiac rhythm management, interventional cardiology, neurology, and orthopedics, as well as urology and minimally invasive procedures (especially in the field of endoscopy). It also offers its customers complete supply chain management. The company owns or leases about 25 locations in North America and Europe.

Fletcher Allen Health Care operates an academic medical center in alliance with the University of Vermont College of Medicine. The integrated health system (formed in the 1995 merger of Fanny Allen Hospital, Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, and University Health Center) serves residents of Vermont and northern New York through some 35 patient care sites and 100 outreach clinics. Its three primary hospital campuses have a combined 560-bed capacity and a medical staff of some 800 health care providers representing medical specializations including emergency/trauma care, pediatrics, and women's health. The health care system receives some 54,000 emergency visits each year.

Midwest Security Insurance Companies offers group health and dental insurance. Its primary customers are small businesses seeking preferred provider plans, or self-funded health insurance plans. It's name is still quite accurate: the company operates regional offices in Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and it serves employers in those states as well as Indiana, Iowa, and Ohio. Health care insurance giant UnitedHealth Group purchased the company in 2002. Following the acquisition, UnitedHealth merged Midwest Security's third-party administration business, along with several others, into UMR.

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