Home Instead has a network of some 900 franchises operating throughout the US and in more than a dozen countries internationally. Employees known as CAREGivers provide the elderly with one-on-one assistance in the home and at assisted living or nursing care facilities. Home Instead helps keep the elderly at home instead of in assisted living or nursing homes. The company -- operating under the name Home Instead Senior Care -- provides non-medical home care assistance for seniors. Its services are designed for people who are capable of managing their physical needs but require assistance, supervision, light housework, meals, errands, or simply companionship in order to remain in their homes.

Retractable Technologies knows you can't be too safe when you work around needles all day. Retractable Technologies company develops, makes, and markets safety syringes and other injection technologies for the health care industry. Its flagship VanishPoint syringe retracts after injection, reducing the risk of both syringe reuse and accidental needlesticks (both are means of transmitting HIV and other infectious diseases). Retractable Technologies also makes blood collection needles and IV catheters using the VanishPoint technology, which was invented by the company's founder, CEO, and majority owner Thomas Shaw. The firm sells to hospitals and other care providers in the US and abroad, both directly and through distributors.

Boekel resides in a modern 70,000 sq ft facility today located 35 miles north of Philadelphia, PA. The company has continued to update products and processes over the past several years and we will continue our dedication to make new innovative research tools for the scientist. Boekel make products for the Environmental, Clinical, Food, Life Sciences, Schools, Veterinary and Physician office markets.Boekel has moved ahead in many areas over the past few years and has progressed as a leader in new products. Boekel has a new extensive line of hybridization products including the company's new microslide hybridization oven.Boekel has introduced many new carousels to keep up with demands for smaller samples and to be able to accommodate the researcher whether you use tubes, bottles, slides or microplates and blocks.All of the company's Incubators feature mechanical convection. The incubators are available in new sizes with either solid or clear, see-thru doors.

MAKO Surgical Corp. developed and markets the MAKOplasty partial knee resurfacing system, a minimally invasive alternative to traditional knee replacement surgery for patients with early- to mid-stage osteoarthritis. Proprietary components of the system consist of visualization technology and a robotic arm (RIO) that help orthopedic surgeons prepare the knee joint for insertion of MAKO's resurfacing implants (RESTORIS) through a small incision. With marketing approval in the US and Europe, MAKO Surgical markets to hospitals and surgeons via a direct sales force and independent orthopedic product agents and distributors.

The development-stage medical device company,EnteroMedics Inc. uses neuroblocking technology called VBLOC therapy to combat obesity. Its initial product in development, the Maestro System, is a device laparoscopically implanted near the diaphragm that uses electrical impulses to limit the expansion of the stomach, thereby producing a feeling of prolonged fullness. The Maestro System is in US and international clinical trials, with FDA approval and commercial sales anticipated by 2010. EnteroMedics plans to build a direct sales force to market the product to bariatric surgeons and weight management specialists.

Jefferson Regional Medical Center (JRMC) provides acute care and other health services to residents of Pine Bluff and an 11-county area of southern Arkansas. The private, not-for-profit hospital has about 450 acute care beds and offers general medical and surgical care, as well as services in a range of specialties, including geriatrics, cardiology, and oncology. It also has a 25-bed skilled nursing unit that cares for patients transitioning to long-term care or home care. A network of hospital-owned and affiliated clinics offers outpatient surgery, diagnostic imaging, wound care, and other ambulatory health services. Additionally, the health system operates a nursing school and home health and hospice agencies.

St. Luke's Health System strives to live up to its namesake. The regional not-for-profit health system provides a range of health services to residents of Idaho, eastern Oregon, and northern Nevada. St. Luke's is home to four general acute care hospitals with a total of about 800 beds. Its flagship facility is the 400-bed St. Luke's Boise Regional Medical Center, which also includes a full-service children's hospital. St. Luke's also runs a network of cancer care sites under the name Mountain States Tumor Institute, as well as diagnostic imaging and breast cancer detection centers.

St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital, a part of St. John Health, boasts more than 535 beds and two campuses: one in Warren and another in Madison Heights, Michigan. It offers cancer care services through its Webber Cancer Center and provides gynecologic, medical, pediatric, radiation oncology, and hematology. The hospital also offers specialty care in the areas of behavioral medicine, cardiovascular services, obstetrics, physical rehabilitation, emergency care, and women's health. Its Webber Healing Arts Center promotes well-being through alternative medicine and techniques that complement traditional health care. The center was formed through the 2007 merger of St. John Macomb and St. John Oakland hospitals.

Empowering our patients to achieve their goals. Comprised of the nation’s best clinicians and practitioners. Providing world-class resources and leadership. This is the story of Physiotherapy Associates…the only national provider solely dedicated to outpatient rehabilitation and orthotics and prosthetics services. Getting to where we are today was purposeful. We selected the best clinicians and practices to join our family. We provided them with the best resources available to serve the diverse and unique issues each of our patients face. Together, we designed highly effective programs that are customized to the individual needs of our patients.

Children’s National Medical Center is the only exclusive provider of pediatric care in the metropolitan Washington area and is the only freestanding children’s hospital between Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Norfolk, and Atlanta. Serving the nation’s children for 140 years, Children’s National is a proven leader in the development and application of innovative new treatments for childhood illness and injury.Children’s internationally recognized team of pediatric healthcare professionals care for more than 360,000 patients each year who come from throughout the region, nation and world. Serving as an advocate for all children, Children’s is the largest non-governmental provider of pediatric care in the District of Columbia, providing more than $50 million in uncompensated care. In addition, Children's serves as the regional referral center for pediatric emergency, trauma, cancer, cardiac and critical care as well as neonatology, orthopaedic surgery, neurology, and neurosurgery.

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