Northwest Community Healthcare has captured the hearts of northern Illinois. Located in Chicago's northwest suburbs, the health system includes the not-for-profit Northwest Community Hospital, a regional leader in providing all kinds of cardiac care, including open-heart surgery, cardiac catheterization, and rehabilitation services. Along with cardiac care, the 500-bed hospital offers a comprehensive range of acute medical and surgical care. Northwest Community Healthcare also operates ancillary facilities, including primary and specialty physicians offices, an ambulatory surgery center, a home health agency, and diagnostic imaging centers.

Children's Health System, Inc. not-for-profit system was formed in 1961. You don't have to be royalty to be a patient at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters (CHKD). CHKD is Virginia's only free-standing, full-service pediatric facility, and as such provides medical, dental, and therapeutic services to children and adolescents through the age of 21 years old. The 210-bed hospital has a staff of more than 500 physicians, and has the state's only dedicated pediatric emergency center, which gets more than 47,000 patient visits each year. CHKD also operates several outpatient pediatric centers throughout the state.

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.

HemaCare Corporation provides the customized delivery of blood products and services. HemaCare collects, processes and distributes blood products to hospitals and research related organizations. The Company operates and manages donor centers and mobile donor vehicles to collect transfusable blood products from donors, and also collects human-derived blood products which are utilized by health research related organizations. Additionally, HemaCare provides blood related services, principally therapeutic apheresis procedures, stem cell collection and other blood treatments, to patients with a variety of disorders. Blood related therapeutic services are usually provided under contract as an outside purchased service.

Methodist Hospital (also known as Methodist Hospital System) owns and operates several Houston-area medical centers, including the main Methodist Hospital in Houston and the suburban San Jacinto Methodist, Methodist Sugar Land, and Methodist Willowbrook hospitals. The flagship Methodist Hospital has 950 beds and is known for innovations in urology and neurosurgery, among other specialties. The hospital has educational and research affiliations with Cornell University's Weil Cornell Medical College, the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and other organizations. The system also manages the Methodist Hospital Physician Organization and receives funding from the Methodist Hospital Foundation.

ART Advanced Research Technologies manufactures laser-based diagnostic imaging devices for the medical and pharmaceutical industries. ART's Optix device allows scientists to use molecular imaging technology to study live animal subjects. The company's SoftScan device is used to detect and diagnose breast cancer. Both use light, rather than X-rays or soundwaves, in their applications. It also makes Fenestra contrast imaging agents. ART's products are distributed through direct sales efforts and via a strategic alliance with GE Healthcare. The company restructured under bankruptcy protection and was acquired by private financial firm Dorsky Worldwide in 2009.

Kuakini Medical Center, a 250-bed acute care hospital that provides specialty services including cancer treatment, cardiac care, and orthopedic surgery. The hospital serves as a teaching center for the University of Hawaii's John A. Burns School of Medicine. Kuakini Health System also operates the 234-bed Kuakini Geriatric Care facility, which offers nursing home and adult day care for Honolulu's senior citizens. The system also maintains two medical office buildings. The Kuakini Health System was founded by Japanese immigrants in 1900. It is a member of the Premier group purchasing alliance.

ZEE Medical is a subsidiary of health care product distributor McKesson. ZEE Medical's familiar green-and-white first aid kits are the working man's medicine cabinet. From aspirin to stretchers, ZEE Medical is one of the largest distributors of first aid kits, safety products, and training services to industrial and commercial enterprises throughout the US and (to a limited degree) in Canada. It uses a van-based delivery system to keep its customers stocked with supplies, which can be ordered directly from the company's Web site and via a direct sales force. ZEE Medical also offers Internet-based, video, and on-site training in first aid, CPR, OSHA compliance, and other workplace health and safety issues.

Q-Med seeks a smooth future, but thus far it still has a few wrinkles in its plans. The company develops and manufactures the high-tech goo Restylane dermatologists inject to fill in lines and creases in facial skin. Its Durolane product, also based on its non-animal sourced hyaluronic acids, is used as an injection to treat osteoarthritis of the knee. Its products are distributed in over 70 countries, but only Restylane has received FDA approval for use in the US. The Swedish company entered the US exchanges by buying up the shell of a public company in 2008.

Named among the "Best Hospitals in America" by USNews & World Report for five consecutive years, Clarian Health is the result of a cooperative effort of three downtown Indianapolis hospitals to combine resources, research, staff and administrative procedures for the greater benefit of our patients and the community at large.Methodist Hospital, Indiana University Hospital and Riley Hospital for Children — all preeminent, state-of-the-art hospitals with long and distinguished histories — united in 1997 under Clarian Health. A private, nonprofit organization, Clarian owns or is affiliated more than 20 hospitals and health centers throughout Indiana and is closely tied to the Indiana University School of Medicine — more than half of the IU School of Medicine's 970 physicians practice, supervise, and teach residents and fellows at one of Clarian's hospitals. In addition, the research conducted through the IU School of Medicine leads to the breakthroughs that make a difference in the lives of Clarian's patients.

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