Health Grades (which does business as HealthGrades) takes the health care industry to school.Health Grades company offers report cards on hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, home health agencies, and other health care providers. It sells the quality and patient safety information to a number of constituencies, including consumers, employers, and insurance companies. Hospitals themselves represent its biggest customer base, with highly rated providers typically license HealthGrades' ratings and trademarks to use in their marketing campaigns. They also come to the company for quality improvement consulting. HealthGrades was taken private by Vestar Capital Partners in 2010.

Sklar Corporation company distributes handheld surgical and medical instruments, as well as dental and veterinary instruments, to clients around the globe. Sklar also provides hospitals, clinics, and physicians with instrument care and cleaning products, sterilizing kits, and medical sponges. Its instruments and equipment are used in such fields as cardiology, dermatology, obstetrics/gynecology, dentistry, and orthopedics. Sklar Corporation, doing business as Sklar Instruments, traces its roots back to 1892.

Devax, Inc., a medical device company focused on developing next generation products for interventional cardiology, today announced that the Company has completed patient enrollment in the DIVERGE clinical trial evaluating its novel AXXESS™ Bifurcation Stent System. The DIVERGE trial, a prospective, multi-center trial which enrolled 302 patients, is the largest study conducted to date with a drug-eluting stent specifically designed for treating bifurcation lesions.

Universal Hospital Services (UHS) has a whole galaxy of offerings. Founded in 1939,Universal Hospital Services company leases movable medical equipment to hospitals and care providers throughout the US. UHS has a pool of more than 500,000 pieces of equipment in specialty areas such as critical care, respiratory therapy, and newborn care. UHS's programs include the Asset Management Partnership, which supplies, maintains, manages, and tracks equipment for customers.Universal Hospital Services company, which was formed in 1939, also sells new and used equipment and disposable supplies, and it provides equipment maintenance services. UHS is owned by an affiliate of Irving Place Capital Merchant Manager.

Caring for life is what LifeCare Solutions is all about. The company provides a variety of home health care services, such as respiratory and infusion therapy and home care medical equipment. LifeCare's nutritional services include residential visits from a registered dietician, educational materials, and a line of enteral nutrition products for tube feeding. Other wares include sleep apnea monitors, nebulizers, and oxygen equipment. LifeCare operates more than a dozen locations in Arizona, California, and Washington State. The business is part of private investment firm Westar's portfolio of companies. LifeCare is led by CEO Tom Robbins, a long-time veteran of the home health care industry.

Nordion is a global leader in providing innovative technologies for use in medical imaging and radiotherapeutics, and sterilization technologies benefiting the lives of millions of people in 60 countries around the world through the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.The products and services are used daily by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, medical-device manufacturers, hospitals, clinics and research laboratories. They have a well-diversified, global base of over 600 customers who count on Nordion to supply isotopes for cardiac imaging, targeted cancer treatments and sterilization of medical products.

Metropolitan Health Networks (MetCare) provides a way to keep Florida's senior citizens healthy. Through contracts with health insurance giant Humana, the company -- an operator of a provider service network (PSN) -- provides health benefits to more than 35,000 of Humana's Medicare Advantage members in Florida. The company, which offers health care services through its network of primary physicians and other affiliates, receives a percentage of premiums paid to Humana. It operates throughout a dozen or so counties in Central and South Florida and offers a variety of other services, including utilization review, claims adjudication, and referral processing.

Hawaii Dental Service company provides dental benefits to more than half a million members throughout the islands and is a not-for-profit affiliate of Delta Dental Plans Association. Hawaii Dental Service provides dental plans to individuals, families, companies, associations, not-for-profit organizations, and unions in a variety of industries. Its network includes nearly all practicing dentists in Hawaii, as well as many in Guam and Saipan. Hawaii Dental Service's membership in Delta Dental provides members with access to tens of thousands of dentists across the US. Hawaii Dental Service company was founded in 1962 by a group of community dentists.

The not-for-profit Kadlec Regional Medical Center, founded in 1944, has some 200 inpatient beds, including pediatrics and intensive, intermediate, and critical care capacity. Kadlec Regional Medical Center is an acute care hospital facility serving southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon. In addition to providing comprehensive medical, surgical, and emergency services, the hospital operates a freestanding diagnostic center that features state-of-the-art imaging equipment. Other programs include neonatal intensive care, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, interventional cardiology, neurology, and cancer care.

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.

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