AGA Medical Holdings works to heal broken hearts. The company specializes in making medical devices for treating structural heart defects and vascular diseases. Its AMPLATZER occlusion devices use minimally invasive small catheters, which physicians can retrieve and position without the need for multiple devices or repetition of procedures. Approved for use in both Europe and the US, the company sell its devices in more than 100 countries. Its primary customers are pediatric cardiologists, radiologists, and vascular surgeons. Dr. Kurt Amplatz and director Franck Gougeon established AGA Medical Holdings in 1995. AGA Medical is being acquired bySt. Jude Medical.

Mercury Medical manufactures the medical equipment used to administer and monitor medical gasses for respiratory, anesthesia, and critical care. It also offers technical consulting services, equipment repair, and equipment reconditioning services. Customers include hospitals, biomedical clinics, and home care clients. Along with marketing its own products, its sales team also represents products from other life-support equipment manufacturers. It distributes products directly to institutional customers in the southeastern US; elsewhere it relies on a network of distributors. Mercury Medical ships its medical supplies for home health directly to customers through its ShurShip division.

Children's Health System is an integrated health network that operates Birmingham's Children's Hospital and a group of medical offices, clinics, and outpatient facilities located primarily in the Greater Birmingham area. Not-for-profit Children's Hospital is licensed for about 275 beds and provides treatment for pediatric cancers, blood disorders, sickle cell disease, and many other childhood illnesses. It serves as a Level 1 trauma center and houses a regional burn center, a poison control center, and a pediatric dialysis facility. Founded in 1911, Children's Hospital is also a teaching hospital for the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Asante Health System, based in Medford, Oregon, is governed by local volunteers and physicians. A Board of Directors comprised of 13 community members governs Asante and its entities. The Board members give their time to ensure that the people of nine southern Oregon and northern California counties receive high-quality healthcare services provided in a compassionate manner. All decisions are made by people who live and work in our community.

Hazelden helps individuals, families, and communities struggling with alcohol abuse, substance abuse, and drug addiction transform their lives. Our locations across the United States help people at all stages of the treatment and recovery process, supporting them with our Twelve Step-based model that is the modern standard for addiction treatment and recovery services.

Operating more than 15 senior communities in seven western US states, BPM Senior Living provides housing and support services for elderly residents. Its facilities offer varying levels of care, including independent living, assisted living, and special care for patients with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. Some also offer adult day care services and the option of short-term residential stays. Services provided by BPM facilities include housekeeping, laundry, medication management, personal care (bathing, feeding, grooming), and transportation.

SleepMed was formed in December 1999 through the merger of Sleep Disorder Centers of America (SDCA), based in Columbia SC, and DigiTrace Care Services, Inc. (DCSI), based in Boston MA. SDCA was founded in 1994 by Dr. Richard K. Bogan, who has board certifications in sleep medicine, pulmonary medicine, critical care medicine and internal medicine. After becoming one of the first physicians in the nation to become board certified in sleep medicine and to accredit his sleep center through the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Dr. Bogan recognized that his practice was attracting patients from across the state of South Carolina. With a professional mission to improve a patient's access to sleep medicine, Bogan began training pulmonary specialists in other markets within the state and assisting them in setting up a sleep lab in their community hospitals. Word of mouth began to spread and, by 1999, SDCA grew to over 20 sleep labs performing over 10,000 sleep studies a year.

WellGroup HealthPartners provides medical care through a network of health care facilities in the southern suburbs of Chicago. The medical provider operates about a half dozen clinics offering general practice and specialty services. Its more than 80 doctors represent about 25 medical, diagnostic, and surgical specialties, including obstetrics, internal medicine, pulmonary health, orthopedics, endocrinology, and pediatrics. Additional services include rehabilitation therapy, behavioral health, dental, pharmacy, and laboratory offerings. WellGroup HealthPartners is part of the Sisters of St. Francis Health Services.

Dental Health Alliance looks after a million smiles. The company is a dental preferred provider organization (PPO) serving about 1 million members. Its clients include employer groups, insurance companies, third-party administrators, and associations. Dental Health Alliance boasts about 60,000 dentists nationwide and has plans for further growth through affiliations and direct contracts. Dental Health Alliance organization allows member dentists to negotiate their own fees. Founded in 1994 by a group of dentists, Dental Health Alliance is now owned by Assurant Employee Benefits, a division of specialty insurance provider Assurant.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana is state's largest private health insurer, the company provides a variety of coverage types, including traditional indemnity policies, HMOs, POS plans, and supplemental Medicare plans, to about 235,000 customers. It also administers the state's Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and participates in InsureMontana, a state-sponsored, subsidized program designed to encourage small businesses to cover their employees. The not-for-profit company's provider network includes about 1,900 physicians and all of the state's hospitals.

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