St. Joseph Hospital of Orange serves Orange County and surrounding area residents, providing general medical and surgical services, as well as specialty care in a number of areas. Its range of clinical services includes women's health care, mental health services, oncology, cardiology, and physical rehabilitation. Part of the St. Joseph Health System, the hospital provides primary care and specialty outpatient services through a network of affiliated physician practices. It also operates low-income and mobile clinics. Founded in 1929 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, the hospital has about 525 beds and a medical staff of some 1,000.

MacKay Life Sciences (formerly Biofield) is trying to blaze a trail in the diagnostic equipment market with its Biofield Diagnostic System, which employs single-use sensors to detect and examine changes associated with breast cancer. The system is based on the theory that epithelial cancers are characterized by changes in the electrical charge of the affected tissue; the sensors analyze these changes and identify if a lesion is malignant or benign. The process requires less than 20 minutes, and has possible applications to cancers of the ovaries, skin, prostate, and colon. Director James MacKay, through the MacKay Group, owns a majority interest in MacKay Life Sciences.

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is happy to take care of sick people. Founded in 1918 by John Sherard, the not-for-profit health care system serves the Memphis area with seven hospitals; multiple minor medical, surgical, diagnostic health centers, and home health agencies. The system has more than 1,600 beds. In addition to traditional health services, Methodist Healthcare offers extended care services, sleep disorder centers, and physical therapy. It also operates physician practices and a physician referral service. The system's flagship hospital, Methodist University Hospital has about 700 beds and is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

Founded in 1976, Audika banks on the notion that the market for senior citizens' hearing correction is not affected by economic downturns. "Paris, I can't hear you. Let me turn up my Audika." The company operates about 400 hearing correction centers in about 80 French regions, making Audika a leading network of hearing correction centers in France. It also operates some centers in Italy. The hearing-focused company uses the centers to distribute hearing aids and other related accessories such as batteries and ear protection products.

Del Sol Medical Center is working to spread good health and sunshine to South Texas citizens. Serving El Paso's east side, Del Sol has about 380 beds. The acute-care facility, part of the HCA family, also operates a rehabilitation hospital, oncology, and burn and wound management. Del Sol is a Level III trauma center and operates a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), equipped with state-of-the-art specialty technology to care for premature and critically-ill babies. Del Sol Medical Center is a campus of Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare. Its sister hospital hospital, Las Palmas Medical Center provides medical services to west El Paso.

St. Joseph's/Candler Health System is a largest health system in the region, SJ/C is anchored by two main hospitals, St. Joseph's Hospital (305 beds) and Candler Hospital (320 beds). The facilities provide a spectrum of care with specialties that include cardiac and cancer care, orthopedics, and robotic surgery. The two hospitals, which merged to become SJ/C in 1997, also administer home healthcare, as well as a variety of community outreach and education efforts through their mobile units. SJ/C operates a network of primary care clinics and outpatient rehabilitation centers scattered throughout the area.

PMC serves patients in eastern Kentucky with about 260 beds and 200 doctors providing a full range of inpatient, outpatient, and surgical services. PMC also operates a family practice clinic (through which it offers a family practice residency program) and a rehabilitation hospital. Its Pikeville Medical Development Corporation (PMDC) works to attract businesses to the area and foster collaborations between the hospital and the Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine. PMC first opened on Christmas Day in 1924.

Hays Medical Center brings big city health care to rural Kansas. The not-for-profit hospital, which has about 200 beds, provides both acute and tertiary medical care to the Midwestern plains. In addition to medical, surgical, and pediatric care, Hays Medical Center offers home care, hospice, skilled nursing, rehabilitation, and behavioral health services, along with centers for cardiac care (the DeBakey Heart Institute) and cancer treatment (the Dreiling/Schmidt Cancer Center). The organization also operates specialty and rural health clinics. Hays Medical Center grows through selective acquisitions, such as its buys of Hays Orthopaedic Clinic and, in 2010, a physician practice focused on breast health.

Founded in 1944, Mount Clemens Regional Medical Center was acquired by McLaren Health Care in 2006 to expand its reach into southeastern Michigan. Mount Clemens Regional Medical Center is an general acute care hospital serving the Macomb County area of suburban Detroit. With more than 280 beds and more than 480 physicians on staff, the hospital offers such specialties as cardiac and cancer care, family practice services, home and hospice care, and emergency care. It operates three prompt care centers in nearby townships as well as a wound treatment clinic.

Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers still knows a thing or two about resuscitation. The beleaguered hospital system emerged from bankruptcy in 2007 after two years under Chapter 11 protection, and laid out plans to build a new, smaller facility. But apparently the system was still too weak to survive and it filed for Chapter 11 protection again in 2010. It is reviewing strategic alternatives for its facilities; it closed its acute care hospital, the 440-bed St. Vincent's Hospital-Manhattan, and is selling off additional assets. Other centers still operating include St. Vincent's Hospital-Westchester as well as three skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers.

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