Stryker's surgical products include such instruments as drills, saws, rasps, even cement mixers. The company's Orthopaedic Implants category includes artificial joints, spinal rods and screws, artificial vertebral discs, bone cement, and other orthopedic implants and supplies. The orthopaedic division also makes OP-1, a biological product to grow bone. The MedSurg Equipment segment includes facial and hand surgery instruments, endoscopy equipment, and communications and patient handling equipment. Stryker's products are marketed globally to hospitals, doctors, and other health care facilities via direct sales personnel and distributors.

TechniScan (formerly TechniScan Medical Systems) is developing a gentler means of mammography. Its Svara ultrasound imaging system uses a water bath and ultrasound reflective tomography technology to produce scans of the entire breast in about 10 minutes. TechniScan's images are intended to be used when further testing is needed following a conventional mammogram screening. The development stage company was founded in 1984. TechniScan shortened its name when it completed a reverse merger with shell company Castillo Inc. to become a public entity in 2009.

AcuNetx, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of diagnostic, analytical, and therapeutic devices to the health providers, law enforcement officers, and employers in high-risk industries in the United States. The company offers neurological diagnostic equipment that measures, tracks, and records human eye movements utilizing its proprietary technology and computer software as a method to diagnose problems of the vestibular (balance) system and other balance disorders. It also provides devices designed to test individuals for impaired performance resulting from the influences of alcohol, drugs, illness, stress, and other factors that affect eye and pupil performance. In addition, the company offers orthopedic and cranio-maxillofacial surgery products, which generate new bone through the process of distraction osteogenesis. Further, AcuNetx, Inc. provides SmartDevice-Connect that establishes product registry to individual patients and tracks device behavior for post-market surveillance, adverse event, and outcomes reporting, as well as the creation of smart devices that gather and transmit physiological data concerning the device and its interaction with patients. Additionally, it provides repair and maintenance, consulting, and education services to its customers. AcuNetx offers its products through manufacturer representatives, international dealers, and private label distributors, as well as through direct sales force. AcuNetx, Inc. is headquartered in Torrance, California.

South Dakota State Medical Holding Company, operating under the name DAKOTACARE, is a statewide HMO plan. Product offerings include comprehensive group and individual medical plans, flexible spending and COBRA plans, Medicare Advantage coverage, and dental, life, and disability policies. All hospitals and nearly all physicians in South Dakota contract with the firm. In addition to serving some 100,000 customers in its home state, third-party administration (TPA) subsidiary DAKOTACARE Administrative Services is active in over a dozen neighboring states. Founded in 1986, DAKOTACARE is the managed care affiliate of the South Dakota State Medical Association.

Ascension Health is transforming healthcare by providing the highest quality care to all, with special attention to the poor and vulnerable. Ascension Health, which provided $1.08 billion in care of persons who are poor and community benefit last year, is the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health system, and the third-largest system (based on revenues) in the United States. Our mission-focused Health Ministries provide acute care services, long-term care, community health services, psychiatric, rehabilitation and residential care. Our sponsors began this ministry of faith hundreds of years ago. Today we continue their legacy through the work of more than 113,000 associates serving in more than 500 locations in 20 states and the District of Columbia.

A hospital was established in Conway in 1921 when Colonel John E. Little donated a tract of land to the city for a building site. In 1938, the hospital was organized as Conway Memorial Hospital, a non-profit corporation with seven board members. The hospital moved to its present location across the street from the original building in July, 1957, with sixty beds. Today, Conway Regional Health System provides complete health care services to the growing communities of north Central Arkansas including Faulkner, Conway, Perry, Van Buren and Cleburne counties.

Guardian Home Care Holdings provides medical and non-medical home health care services to private patients -- as well as through contracts with health insurers, hospitals, and nursing homes -- in Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas. Primarily working under Medicare and Medicaid funding programs, Guardian's health care personnel provide skilled nursing services, physical and speech therapy, social work services, and assistance with daily activities such as cleaning and bathing. The company also provides hospice services in Nashville, Tennessee. It operates as Texas Home Health in Texas and under the Guardian name in its other markets.

Micro Identification Technologies Inc. ("MIT"), formerly Micro Imaging Technology is a development stage public company (OTCBB "MMTC"), objectives are to become a global leader in developing, supporting and marketing rapid systems and processes that detect and identify microbial organisms. MIT has developed and patented a technology for rapid microbe identification. The technology is a non-biological identification process that is extremely fast, easy to use and does not rely on conventional chemical or biological processing, fluorescent tags, gas chromatography or DNA analysis. The system measures scattered light intensity as individual microbes pass through a laser beam. The intensity pattern of the scattered light is a direct consequence of the size, shape and external and internal optical characteristics of the microbe. By measuring scattered light at specific angles, the system detects and differentiates objects the size of bacteria, protozoa, yeasts and molds.

HealthTronics' cup runneth over with urological healthcare services and equipment. The company contracts with medical facilities to provide urology treatment services including the provision of equipment, scheduling, training, and clinical technicians. It makes, sells, and services such equipment as lasers and lithotripters, which use shock waves to break up kidney and gall-bladder stones. HealthTronics also offers urological pathology testing and cryosurgical (freezing of tissue) treatments for enlarged prostate and prostate cancer. In addition, HealthTronics offers related consumable supplies and maintenance services. The company is owned by Endo Pharmaceuticals.

Teleflex helps medical professionals manage fluids and oxygen and it helps airlines keep cargo contained. Through its Medical segment, Teleflex makes surgical instruments, medical devices, and disposable supplies for hospital procedures, especially catheters for all parts of the body. While medical products are its main focus. The company's Aerospace segment provides aircraft cargo handling systems under the Telair International and Nordisk brands. Teleflex distributes its products in more than 140 countries around the globe.

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