Discovery Medical, Inc. (DMI) wants to help doctors and nurses stay germ-free. The company makes soap dispensers, touchless faucets, automatic hand dryers, latex gloves, and other cleaning and sanitation products. Established in 1987, DMI provides its product line for the medical, dental, industrial, safety, food service, and janitorial industries.

East Texas Medical Center (ETMC) Regional Healthcare System helps meet the health care needs of residents of the Piney Woods. The not-for-profit health system operates about a dozen hospitals across eastern Texas, along with behavioral, rehabilitation, and home health care businesses. Its flagship 450-bed Tyler location serves as the hub and referral center for satellite medical centers located in more rural locations. The system also features numerous primary care and outpatient clinics throughout the region. In addition, ETMC operates an emergency ambulance service subsidiary and a clinical laboratory, which provide services to the facilities of ETMC Regional Healthcare System.

It's not quite the Fantastic Voyage, but Given Imaging's PillCam is in the same genre. The company makes the Given System, one component of which is the PillCam, an ingestible capsule with an enclosed miniature video camera that takes photos of a patient's intestines or esophagus. As the PillCam moves through a patient's system, it transmits images to a wireless data recorder. The FDA-approved system, which also includes a computer workstation and imaging software, is a noninvasive alternative to traditional endoscopy. Given Imaging markets the system to gastroenterologists and hospitals worldwide. Discount Investment Corporation and its minority-owned subsidiary Elron Electronic own about 40% of the firm.

ICU Medical, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of disposable medical connection systems for use in vascular therapy applications in the United States and internationally. Its disposable medical devices protect patients from catheter related bloodstream infections, and healthcare workers from exposure to diseases through accidental needle sticks or hazardous drugs. The company offers I.V. therapy lines consisting of a tube running from a bottle or plastic bag containing an I.V. solution to a catheter inserted in a patient’s vein for use in hospitals and ambulatory clinics; CLAVE product, a needleless I.V. connection device, which could be used with conventional peripheral or central vascular access systems for venous and arterial applications; custom infusion sets, custom oncology sets, and custom critical care sets; and CLC2000, a one piece swabbable connector used to connect I.V. lines to catheters to prevent the back-flow of blood into the catheter. It also provides critical care products that monitor vital signs and specific physiological functions of key organ systems, including pressure monitoring devices, blood sampling systems, angiography kits, sensory catheters, pulmonary artery thermodilution catheters, and multilumen central venous catheters. In addition, the company provides TEGO for use in dialysis; a line of oncology products, including Spiros male luer connector device; the Genie vial access device; the Orbit 90 diabetes set; and custom I.V. sets and ancillary products for oncology therapy. ICU Medical, Inc. sells its products through I.V. product manufacturers and independent distributors, as well as directly to the end users. ICU Medical, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Clemente, California.

Memorial Health System of East Texas operates deep in the heart of East Texas. The hospital system is anchored by its 230-bed Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin facility, a full-service general acute-care hospital offering everything from rehabilitative and diabetes care to specialized centers in heart disease and cancer treatment. The Lufkin hospital also includes a long-term ward for critically ill patients. Memorial Health System of East Texas also features two critical access hospitals in Livingston and San Augustine, offering a more limited range of service, including emergency care and diagnostic imaging. Additionally, the system operates several primary care clinics throughout its service area.

Echo Therapeutics,Inc. develops instruments for transdermal (through the skin) drug delivery and diagnostics. Its devices use gentle abrasion and ultrasound technologies to painlessly extract analytes or introduce drugs without breaking the skin. The firm's proprietary Prelude SkinPrep technology platform is being developed for use in glucose monitoring under the name Symphony. Echo is also developing a system to provide needle-free drug administration of lidocaine and other pharmaceuticals. Echo is also developing Azone, a transdermal technology used for reformulated drugs already on the market.

Ardent Health Services invests in quality health care. In people, technology, facilities and communities, Ardent makes considerable investments – producing high quality care and extraordinary results. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Ardent subsidiaries own and operate health systems in the U.S. Our network includes seven acute care hospitals, a rehabilitation hospital, a multi-specialty physician group, a 220,000 member health plan, retail pharmacies and a nationally-recognized medical laboratory.

Sklar Corporation company distributes handheld surgical and medical instruments, as well as dental and veterinary instruments, to clients around the globe. Sklar also provides hospitals, clinics, and physicians with instrument care and cleaning products, sterilizing kits, and medical sponges. Its instruments and equipment are used in such fields as cardiology, dermatology, obstetrics/gynecology, dentistry, and orthopedics. Sklar Corporation, doing business as Sklar Instruments, traces its roots back to 1892.

St. Luke's Miners Memorial Hospital, founded in 1910, provides health care services to residents in eastern Pennsylvania. The hospital is an acute-care medical center with some 50 beds. It also operates the St. Luke's Miners Memorial Geriatric Center, a nursing home with another 50 beds, and a home health care agency. Its medical staff includes about 100 physicians with some 25 specialties such as psychiatry, cardiovascular care, rehabilitation, sleep disorders, and emergency medicine. The not-for-profit health care provider is part of St. Luke's Hospital & Health Network.

McLean Hospital is a comprehensive psychiatric hospital committed to providing easy access to superior quality, cost-effective mental health services in the Boston area, Massachusetts and beyond. McLean Hospital is accredited by the The Joint Commission (TJC), licensed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH), and certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Since 1811, McLean Hospital has been a world leader in the treatment of mental illness and chemical dependency, research into the cause of mental illness and the training of generations of mental health care providers.McLean Hospital is an affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital and a member of the Partners HealthCare System, Inc., which allows for comprehensive coordination of medical and psychiatric services. A major teaching facility of Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital maintains the largest program of research in neuroscience and psychiatry of any private psychiatric hospital in the United States. A large program of clinical trials for new psychopharmacological agents allows patients access to many experimental medications before they are generally available.

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