Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the top health care organizations in the country, with its network of hospitals, outpatient centers, clinics, and specialty institutes. Its medical education programs train hundreds of doctors and nurses each year, and the center's Vanderbilt Clinics receive about 1.3 million annual patient visits. Its Vanderbilt University Hospital, together with the system's clinics and specialty facilities, has more than 830 beds. VUMC boasts a children's hospital, a psychiatric hospital, a transplant center, and a rehabilitation hospital, as well as a biomedical research center and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated facility.

Source BioScience, formerly Medical Solutions, wants to be a one-stop shop for UK health care providers and drug developers. The company provides cancer screening services, through its own reference laboratory, and also distributes a Becton Dickinson cervical cancer testing system to the UK market. Additionally, the firm provides pathology testing and other analysis services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies; and through its life science research unit, called Geneservice, it offers tools and services (including DNA sequencing and gene products like DNA samples). In 2008 the company acquired Autogen Bioclear, a UK distributor of diagnostic and research products; Autogen also manufactures antibody products.

Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center is a cornerstone of health care in the Rocky Mountains. The hospital, operated by HCA-HealthONE, provides primary and tertiary care services to folks living in the Denver area and throughout Colorado. The health care facility has some 680 beds and offers more than 80 medical specialties. Presbyterian/St. Luke's also has a specialized unit dedicated to pediatrics, and it is building a new pediatric facility, the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children. Other specialty departments include centers for orthopedics, sleep therapy, weight loss, cancer care, and cardiology.

Long Beach Medical Center was founded in 1922. Long Beach Medical Center (LBMC) serves half a dozen Long Island communities. The facility has about 160 acute care beds at the main center, as well as 200 subacute care beds at The Komanoff Center for Geriatric and Rehabilitative Medicine. LBMC provides behavioral health, family health care, emergency, and rehabilitation services. Its Family Care Center offers health care to those with inadequate financial resources. LBMC has teaching affiliations with the New York College of Podiatric Medicine and the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Samaritan Regional Health System provides a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services to the residents of north central Ohio. Among its specialty services are occupational health care, emergency medicine, obstetrics, rehabilitation, and home health care. Its flagship facility, Samaritan Hospital, has about 170 beds. The health system was founded in 1912.

St. Francis Health Services of Morris was founded in 1984. St. Francis Health Services of Morris is a not-for-profit provider of long term care, assisted living, home health care, and transportation services for more than 800 people with developmental and mental disabilities. The organization operates eight nursing homes, three assisted-living facilities, and two home health care agencies in Minnesota.

Organogenesis has the skinny on replacement tissue. Flagship product Apligraf is a human skin substitute approved to treat diabetic foot ulcers and venous leg ulcers caused by poor circulation. Rejection-resistant Apligraf is bio-engineered using living skin cells and has been used to treat chronic open wounds in some 250,000 patients; the company is developing a next-generation version of the material (using its VCT technology) using all human components. In addition to Apligraf, Organogenesis offers a line of biomaterials used in a range of surgical procedures to seal or reconstruct soft tissue, and it also develops regenerative technologies in the area of cosmetic skin rejuvenation.

The Cooper Health System keeps folks along the Delaware River shoreline feeling fine. The not-for-profit organization includes clinics and hospitals located throughout southern New Jersey and the Delaware Valley, including the 560-bed Cooper University Hospital and The Children's Regional Hospital. Cooper University Hospital is a teaching campus for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Its physicians operate in about 80 specialties. Founded in 1887, the health care system provides trauma, cancer, cardiology, neuroscience, psychiatric, and orthopedic specialty centers. It also operates satellite clinics and provides home health services in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.

Regina Medical Center is a regional health care provider in southeastern Minnesota. The hospital provides acute and long-term health care services to residents of Dakota County, Minnesota. Founded in 1953, the not-for-profit Regina Medical Center has 60 acute care hospital beds and nearly 200 nursing and assisted living beds. Specialty services include cardiology, obstetrics, pediatrics, urology, and neurology. Regina Medical also operates several community health and surgery centers jointly with Allina Hospitals and Clinics.

Mother M. Angela and Sister M. Rufina Dunn of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross of Notre Dame founded Mount Carmel in 1886. Mount Carmel Health System cares for the sick in the greater Columbus area and central Ohio. The health care system boasts about 1,500 physicians at three general hospitals and a specialty surgical hospital, offering a comprehensive range of medical and surgical services Mount Carmel Health also operates a variety of outpatient centers and primary care and specialty physicians' practices, and offers home health care services. The hospital group is part of Trinity Health, one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the US.

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