Samaritan Regional Health System provides a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services to the residents of north central Ohio. Among its specialty services are occupational health care, emergency medicine, obstetrics, rehabilitation, and home health care. Its flagship facility, Samaritan Hospital, has about 170 beds. The health system was founded in 1912.

Saint Francis Medical Center serves a five-state region from Missouri (its home base) to Arkansas with about 250 beds. Services include emergency medicine, orthopedics, rehabilitation, and women's health care. It also offers heart and neurosciences institutes, as well as diabetes education and wound healing centers. The health care provider, which was established in 1875, partners with Poplar Bluff Medical Partners to provide outpatient care at Poplar Bluff Medical Complex. Services include family practice, OB-GYN, and pain management.

Siemens Healthcare (formerly Siemens Medical Solutions) is the medical products arm of German electronics giant Siemens AG. The group makes and sells a wide range of medical equipment to diagnose and treat disease, including imaging systems (x-ray, MRI, and ultrasound), radiation and electrophysiological therapy equipment, hearing aids, respiratory machines, and patient monitoring systems. Its Diagnostics division also makes consumable laboratory diagnostic tests. Siemens Healthcare also offers information technology systems to manage patient images and other data at doctors' offices, hospitals, and clinics, and it provides technical maintenance and consulting services.

West Jefferson Medical Center keeps the suburbs of New Orleans in tune. A full-service community hospital serving Jefferson County, Lousiana, the not-for-profit hospital has about 450 beds and provides general medical-surgical care, as well as specialty care in a number of areas, including cardiovascular disease, neurosciences, orthopedics, women's health, and oncology. The medical center also operates several primary care clinics throughout it service area and provides behavioral health and occupational health services. West Jefferson Medical Center was founded in 1956.

Neoprobe makes products for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, such as lymphatic mapping instruments (including the neo2000) that help surgeons identify trends about the spread of cancer in a patient. Subsidiary Cardiosonix markets non-invasive blood flow measurement devices under the Quantix brand. Neoprobe has additional products under development including procedural tracing agent Lymphoseek to be used in lymphatic mapping and handheld radiation probe RIGScan to locate tumors. The company is also working on an activated cellular therapy technology to treat cancers and viral and autoimmune diseases. The procedure activates certain lymph nodes to boost a patient's immune system.

Silver Cross Hospital admitted its first patient in Joliet, Illinois, in 1895. Silver Cross Hospital and Medical Centers has grown to serve the Illinois counties of Will, Grundy, and Cook through its main hospital campus (with more than 300 beds) and several satellite facilities throughout the area. Its services include cardiovascular care, women's health, rehabilitation, and behavioral health care. Outpatient facilities provide primary and specialty care services, including medical imaging and dialysis. The hospital's name comes from the emblem (the Maltese Cross) of the Christian organization that founded the not-for-profit hospital, the International Order of The King's Daughters and Sons.

Optiscan Imaging makes and develops microscopes and related technologies for examining tissue at the cellular and sub-cellular level. The company's original technology, Stratum, uses fluorescent imaging in the detection and treatment of skin cancer, which has reached epidemic proportions in the nation where Optiscan Imaging is headquartered -- Australia. Optiscan Imaging later worked on the development of a miniature scanner to be used in endoscopes, which led to a partnership with Pentax. Together they developed a confocal flexible endo-microscope product, launched in 2005. Optiscan has been in business since 1988.

Ocala Regional Medical Center (ORMC) to be there to keep them healthy. The 200-bed acute care hospital and its sister facility, the 70-bed West Marion Community Hospital provide a full spectrum of health care services to residents of the Sunshine State. ORMC specializes in bariatrics, cancer care, heart and vascular ailments, neuroscience, and women's care. West Marion operates a joint care center for orthopedic surgeries and physical therapy. Locals also have access to 24-hour health advice through HCA's Consult-A-Nurse telephone service. ORMC is led by CEO H. Rex Etheredge.

HemCon Medical Technologies has been a boon to US soldiers wounded on the battlefield. The company's proprietary HemCon bandages and ChitoFlex dressings stop bleeding in trauma patients; in fact, the dressing becomes adhesive upon contact with blood and can prevent hemorrhage. HemCon bandages are made from chitosan, a polysaccharide derived from dried shrimp shells and known for its clotting abilities. Besides the military, its products are used by first responders, oral surgeons, and hospitals. The company was founded in 2001 with partial funding from the US Army; HemCon bandages are now part of every Army medic's standard kit.

Community Health Plan of Washington for health insurance coverage. The not-for-profit organization, founded in 1992 by a group of community health clinics, provides insurance coverage under contract with the state to Medicaid recipients and members of other government-subsidized health programs. It also offers Medicare Advantage HMO plans for retirees. Operating in 33 Washington counties, Community Health Plan of Washington delivers care to its members through a network of some 1,600 primary care doctors, 8,000 specialists, and 90 hospitals.

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