Universal Health Services, Inc. owns or leases about two dozen acute care hospitals with more than 6,000 total beds, as well as seven outpatient surgery centers, radiation therapy centers, and surgical hospitals. In addition to these medical facilities, UHS runs about 200 psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals. The company's facilities are located mainly in smaller towns and cities with limited competition, but it does have operations in some larger markets, including Las Vegas, Memphis, and Austin, Texas.

Dental Benefit Providers (DBP) is a subcontractor of dental benefits to HMOs, unions, insurance companies, municipalities, and large corporations. DBP offers dental health maintenance organization plans (DHMO), preferred provider organization plans (PPO), point of service plans (POS), and preventive plans. Coverage ranges from routine cleanings to orthodontics and oral surgeries. The company also manages Medicaid and Medicare plans. Customers include its enterprise clients, plan members, and dentists. DBP has more than 6 million members through some 100,000 dentist offices nationwide. Dental Benefit Providers is part of OptumHealth, a division of UnitedHealth Group.

Baptist Health Care strives for coastal health excellence. The firm operates hospitals, clinics, and a home health agency in northern and western Florida, as well as southern Alabama. Founded in 1951, the Pensacola, Florida-based not-for-profit health care system operates four acute-care hospitals, including the 490-bed Baptist Hospital and 65-bed Gulf Breeze Hospital. Baptist Health Care, in conjunction with its affiliates, provides a wide variety of services such as home health care, rehabilitation services, and behavioral health services. Its Baptist Manor in Pensacola provides sub-acute care and long-term care, and the Andrews Institute provides sports medicine services.

Cookeville Regional Medical Center (CRMC) serves east-central potions of Tennessee. Specialty units include The Heart Center (cardiac rehabilitation), The Cancer Center (cancer treatment), and The Spine Center (spinal surgery). Other services include orthopedics, sports medicine, physical therapy, vascular surgery, pediatrics, and critical care. Founded in 1950, the community hospital has about 250 beds and more than 140 physicians with 36 specialties on its medical staff. The Foundation at CRMC provides non-profit fundraising and charity programs.

The leading provider of hospital medicine in the U.S., IPC The Hospitalist Company delivers management services to hospitalist practices operating in more than 500 facilities. IPC providers deliver high quality care efficiently and cost-effectively, supported by IPC-Link®, the most sophisticated, comprehensive hospitalist-centric software. IPC facilitates dramatic improvements for three constituencies:

North Philadelphia Health System (NPHS) is there to help. The system is comprised of two acute care hospitals with a total of just over 300 beds. The Girard Medical Center provides long-term care, outpatient mental health services, and general medical and surgical care. St. Joseph's Hospital provides general medical and surgical care, as well as critical care, primary care, and specialty clinics. NPHS was incorporated in 1990 as a not-for-profit corporation to own and operate Girard Medical Center and St. Joseph's Hospital after both filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Saint Louis Hospital provides medical care to the residents and visitors of Bangkok, Thailand. The not-for-profit hospital offers a variety of medical services in specialty areas ranging from internal medicine to pediatrics and physical rehabilitation. Among its other operations are a heart institute, child development department, nephrology clinic, and dermatology center. It also operates an accident and emergency center, a health check-up center, and a Thai traditional massage service. Saint Louis Hospital was founded in 1898 by Archbishop Louis Vey and is led by CEO Rev. Tweesak Kitcharoean.

This government agency provides homes for heroes. The US Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH) consists of the 276-acre US Soldiers' and Airmen's Home in Washington, DC, and the 44-acre, 11-story US Naval Home in Gulfport, Mississippi. Both are continuing care retirement communities in which residents can live independently or in assisted living or long-term care facilities. The homes have about 1,600 residents (retired sailors, soldiers, airmen and women, and marines), 97% of whom served in a war theater and nearly 93% of whom retired with 20 or more years of military service.

Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics earns an A+ in Chemistry. The Johnson & Johnson subsidiary develops and markets diagnostic tools, including VITROS instrumentation systems that use clinical chemistry and immunoassay technologies to diagnose a range of maladies such as cancer, heart disease, and infectious diseases. It also markets laboratory automation systems under the enGen brand. In addition to making clinical diagnostics products, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics is a leading maker of instruments and reagents used by blood banks and hospitals to screen blood donations for disease and contaminants, as well as blood typing systems that guarantee patient-donor compatibility for transfusions.

HFN offers a variety of managed care products and services for members throughout the Prairie State. The company provides health plans (PPO), long term care, and workers compensation insurance, as well as a Medicare Select product for seniors. HFN also offers an Internet-based claims repricing system for clients. HFN company opened its doors in 1985.

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