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.

Alteer wants doctors to tear up their paper charts. Founded in 1996, Alteer provides health care management software and services, including practice enhancement and process reengineering, designed to help providers eliminate paper charts and automate workflow processes. The company's services integrate electronic medical records, electronic charting, billing, and reporting, for more than 1,200 doctors' offices and medical practices in the US. Alteer knows that software only works when customers know how to use it, so it emphasizes hand-holding services to help its customers in their quests for efficiency. Alteer is a subsidiary of American Healthcare Holdings, a provider-based health care technology company.

Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH) provides Boston's western suburbs with a full range of medical, surgical, and diagnostic services. Programs at the 290-bed hospital include a full-service diagnostic imaging department, a multiple sclerosis clinic, physical and occupational therapy, and inpatient psychiatric care. In addition, the Partners Reproductive Medicine Center offers infertility treatment in collaboration with two other area hospitals. Part of the Partners HealthCare family, Newton-Wellesley a teaching hospital for Tufts University's School of Medicine.

The Crest of the Congregation of Alexian Brothers Immaculate Conception Province is a modified version of the Seal of the Congregation of Alexian Brothers. The upper half shows a pelican nourishing her young with her heart's blood - a symbol of the self-consuming character of real Christian love. The two spades represent the burial work performed by early Brothers in times of calamity. The flying raven symbolizes the feeding of the destitute, a virtue practiced by the Congregation for centuries. Surrounding the symbols are the words of St. Paul: "Caritas Christi Urget Nos," or "With us, the love of Christ is a compelling motive." (Corinthians 5:14) The cross projecting form the top of the logo indicates that in the cross is salvation.

St. Luke's Hospital serves a 17-county region in the chilly climes of northeastern Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin, and parts of Michigan. In addition to acute care services, the organization offers primary and specialty health care services through a network of nine family clinics. Founded in 1881, St. Luke's Hospital has a staff of nearly 400 physicians. Services offered span the spectrum of health care and include cardiology, emergency medicine, pediatrics, oncology, rehabilitation, and vascular surgery.

The Puerto Rican Family Institute (PRFI) wants to keep families intact and healthy. It offers more than 20 social and health care programs to families who live in primarily Latino neighborhoods in New York and New Jersey, as well as Puerto Rico. Services include mental health treatment through clinics in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Manhattan, and Queens; crisis intervention; foster care placement prevention programs; and Head Start programs. PRFI also reaches out to the mentally and developmentally disabled by operating intermediate care and residential alternative facilities. The not-for-profit serves those infected with AIDS through counseling, psychiatric services, and case management.

BHS was founded in 1892 and took its present form in 1985. The system is sponsored by the Benedictine Sisters of St. Scholastica Monastery in Duluth, Minnesota. Benedictine Health System (BHS) is a provider of senior care services in the Midwest. The health system mostly serves rural and smaller communities in seven states. It operates about 40 long-term care facilities including nursing homes, assisted-living centers, and independent senior housing developments. Other offerings include adult day-care, transitional care, and outpatient rehabilitation. Many of its facilities are integrated campuses that provide a spectrum of services.

Appalachian Regional Healthcare, a health system serving residents of eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia. The not-for-profit organization (one of the largest rural health systems in the US) comprises nine hospitals with more than 1,000 beds, as well as dozens of clinics, home health care agencies, and retail pharmacies. Its largest hospital in Hazard, Kentucky, has 310 beds and features an inpatient psychiatric unit that serves as the state mental health facility. Several of the system's hospitals are Critical Access Hospitals, a federal government designation for rural community hospitals that operate in medically underserved areas.

ACI Medical helps your blood go with the flow. The company manufactures and markets pneumatic compression devices used to increase blood flow for patients with severe vascular conditions. Products include: ArtAssist, which increases arterial blood flow in the legs using compression; VenaPulse, which creates pressure to a patient's limbs during vascular testing; and VenAssist, which works to prevent deep vein thrombosis (clots). Its APG device is a diagnostic tool designed to evaluate the type and severity of vascular conditions a patient may have. The company also manufactures miniature pumps and does custom injection molding. ACI Medical was founded in 1984.

Caritas Christi puts the care in Caritas. Acute and tertiary care hospitals under the Caritas Christi umbrella include Caritas Carney Hospital, Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Center, Caritas Holy Family Hospital and Medical Center, Caritas Norwood Hospital, Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, and Saint Anne's Hospital. Several of the hospitals are affiliated with Boston-area medical schools. Operated by the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, the company (also known as Caritas Christi Health Care) is a top health care provider in New England; its territory ranges from Rhode Island to eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. Caritas Christi was acquired by Cerberus Capital Management in 2010.

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