Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast (formerly called NorthEast Medical Center) provides medical care for the residents of North Carolina, including immediate emergency medical services as well as continuing treatment services for cancer and other chronic diseases. The medical center also offers specialty services in areas such as behavioral health, occupational medicine, and pain management. Its medical staff includes more than 280 physicians The 450-bed hospital is part of Carolinas HealthCare System.

Wheaton makes and markets a variety of laboratory instruments, specialty glass apparatus, and liquid handling equipment. Its products include bottles, vials, closures, chromatography equipment, environmental and sampling equipment, and life science products. Wheaton distributes its wares through its own catalog as well as through more traditional global laboratory supply companies. Customers include pharmaceutical firms, research labs, and universities. The company is a subsidiary of Wheaton Industries, which is owned by private equity firm River Associates Investments.

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. manufactures and sells components and systems for injectable drug delivery and plastic packaging, and delivery system components for the pharmaceutical, healthcare, and consumer products industries. It operates in two segments, Pharmaceutical Systems and Tech Group. The Pharmaceutical Systems segment designs, manufactures, and distributes elastomer and metal components used in parenteral drug delivery for the pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and generic industries. It offers pharmaceutical packaging components, such as elastomeric stoppers and discs, aluminum seals and removable plastic buttons, elastomeric plungers, needle shields and tip caps, pharmaceutical containers, component processors, prefillable syringe systems, elastomeric components, elastomer and co-molded elastomer/plastic components, non-filled syringe components, dropper bulbs, sterile devices, and needle systems. This segment also provides laboratory and other services, including extractables and leachables testing, package/container testing, method development/validation, stability testing, process development, and problem resolution. The Tech Group segment offers injection molded components and devices, such as contact lens storage kits, pill dispensers, and disposable blood collection systems, as well as various personal care and consumer products for surgical, ophthalmic, diagnostic, and drug delivery systems. It also involves in the manufacture and assembly of systems and devices used for nasal, oral, pulmonary, and injectable delivery of drugs used to treat diseases. The company distributes its products primarily through its sales force and distribution network, as well as through contract sales agents and regional distributors in the United States, Germany, France, and other European countries. West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Lionville, Pennsylvania.

Jupiter has another important bigtime resident who's outta this world -- or at least its services are. Jupiter Medical Center consists of a nearly 160-bed, not-for-profit hospital and a 120-bed, sub-acute long-term care facility in Jupiter, Florida (just north of West Palm Beach). Specialty services include cancer treatment, cardiology, orthopedics, emergency medicine, wound care, birthing, and pain management. The hospital is affiliated with the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. Established in 1956 as the convalescence center for a retirement village, the medical center was transformed into a full-service acute-care hospital in 1979.

Falck A/S provides rescue and safety services, including emergency ambulance, fire fighting, health care, and survival training, to customers in Denmark, Norway, Poland, and Sweden. The company was formed in 2004 following the demerger of Group 4 Falck into Group 4 A/S (Group 4 Falck's former security and service operations) and Falck A/S (Group 4 Falck's former rescue and safety and Global Solutions businesses). Falck A/S sold its Global Solutions unit to Englefield Capital and Electra Partners Europe in 2004. Nordic Capital and ATP Private Equity Partners acquired Falck A/S in 2005 through Cidron. Nordic Capital owns 75% of the company.

Empi empathizes with patients who have pain, swelling, spasms, and muscle weakness. The company makes and markets a wide range of medical products, including non-pharmaceutical pain management and orthopedic electrotherapy devices. Empi's product brands include the Saunders cervical traction device used for spinal decompression therapy, the SporTX electrotherapy device for injury swelling reduction, and Minnova, a device that stimulates the pelvic floor to treat urinary incontinence. Empi sells to rehabilitation clinics and medical device distributors nationwide, as well as abroad. The company is a division of medical device maker DJO.

Angiotech Pharmaceuticals is teaching old devices new tricks. The firm develops medical products that combine devices with drugs to make them more effective with fewer side effects. Its flagship product in the Pharmaceutical Technologies segment is the TAXUS drug-eluting stent, which Boston Scientific sells and for which it pays Angiotech royalties. The stent is used to open up diseased arteries, and the drug coating keeps scar tissue from forming and creating a new blockage. The company's Medical Products segment makes the Quill wound closure system and other single-use medical products for interventional radiology, ophthalmology, and surgery. Angiotech has facilities in North America and Europe.

Parkway Holdings provides health care services in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Brunei, and India through a regional network of hospitals and health care facilities. The integrated health system includes some 20 hospitals providing services such as emergency and acute care, general medicine, diagnostic services, primary and dental care, and rehabilitative care. The system also includes managed care, home care, and other outpatient services; and specialty treatment centers for cancer, liver ailments, and other chronic medical problems. Other subsidiaries provide laboratory research and health care IT and management services. Parkway Holdings was acquired by Malaysian investment firm Khazanah Nasional in 2010.

The Lytles founded Leisure Care in 1976 and still own most of its real estate. Leisure Care provides upscale independent and assisted-living rental housing to people age 62 or older. Leisure Care takes the leisure part of its name seriously, offering residents access to vacation tour packages through its Twist Travel unit and full-services concierge and valet services at its more than 40 communities throughout the western US and Canada. President and CEO Dan Madsen bought Leisure Care, LLC from Chuck and Karen Lytle, its original owners, in 2003.

St. Clair Health operates St. Clair Hospital, an acute care hospital with about than 330 beds serving residents in Pittsburgh and southwestern Pennsylvania. The health care provider offers inpatient and outpatient services including specialized units for cancer treatment, behavioral and mental health, cardiovascular therapy, physical rehabilitation, pulmonary therapy, women and children's health, and other niche services. St. Clair Hospital was established in 1954 by members of the Pittsburgh community. St. Clair Health also operates two outpatient centers, a surgical center, an imaging unit, and an occupational medicine division.

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