HemCon Medical Technologies has been a boon to US soldiers wounded on the battlefield. The company's proprietary HemCon bandages and ChitoFlex dressings stop bleeding in trauma patients; in fact, the dressing becomes adhesive upon contact with blood and can prevent hemorrhage. HemCon bandages are made from chitosan, a polysaccharide derived from dried shrimp shells and known for its clotting abilities. Besides the military, its products are used by first responders, oral surgeons, and hospitals. The company was founded in 2001 with partial funding from the US Army; HemCon bandages are now part of every Army medic's standard kit.

At LHC Group we appreciate the value of trained professionals who work within the local community and know their patients. That's why we work with the nurses, therapists and aides who have provided quality care through local hospitals and health care agencies for years. By combining a dynamic, clinically driven operational model, an efficient management team, a high quality hometown medical staff, we are able to offer a comprehensive health care package which puts the patient's needs first. We have spent years perfecting what we see as the only way to do business in the industry. As a result, patients, their physicians, and family members alike benefit from the simplicity that our expertise brings to the table. Aside from keeping the needs of the patient first, we also keep both the physician and family involved and informed every step of the way. We consider these channels of communication an essential part of who we are. Our nurses, aides and therapists can deliver non-emergency medical care to homebound patients of all ages who choose to receive quality health care in the comfort of their own homes.

The Western Pennsylvania Hospital is a part of the West Penn Allegheny Health System. The 512-bed teaching hospital is affiliated with Clarion University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University, and Temple University. It offers specialized services such as emergency medicine, heart care, breast disease treatment, cancer treatment, orthopedics, and surgery (including microscopic surgery). Special facilities include an area burn center, cancer treatment center, and a hospice facility.

Nyack Hospital is ready to rock when it comes to medical services in New York's Rockland and Bergen counties. Formed in 1895 and originally funded by the proceeds of a town fair, the hospital is a not-for-profit, 375-bed acute care facility. It is affiliated with the New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Nyack Hospital houses specialty centers for cancer care, stroke, pediatrics, joint replacement, sleep studies, wound care, and women's wellness. The hospital has a staff of more than 650 doctors and surgeons.

Through our national footprint of community-based branch pharmacies, Critical Care Systems offers a cost-effective alternative to hospitalization. We provide pharmaceutical products and comprehensive infusion services to both pediatric and adult patients in alternate site settings, such as the comfort of their own home or in an ambulatory infusion suite.

Dehaier develops, assembles and markets respiratory and oxygen homecare products and other medical devices in China. Dehaier offer a broad range of more than 30 products that can be used in the surgery room, patient room and at home, and the company also provide technical service products to manufacturers and distributors.Since 2006, Dehaier have placed a significant emphasis on the respiratory and oxygen homecare products. Through the integration of technology, customer input and employee creativity, the company seek to provide innovative, high quality and affordable products that improve the lives of people with sleep and respiratory disorders.Dehaier have a team of about 150 people and own a distribution network with 26 offices across China. The company is maintaining stable long-term cooperation relationship with over 2,000 distributors and 3,000 hospitals. Dehaier is an important distribution agent and service provider of IMD, Timesco, JMS, ResMed, HEYER, Welch Allyn, Penlon,etc.

Audiotech's predecessor companies were founded in the 1980's to provide hearing care and related services to individuals in several B.C. communities. In 1997, management recognized the emergence of a tremendous opportunity to become an aggressive growth corporation of the highly fragmented hearing healthcare industry in North America. A dynamic management team with more than 75 years of direct industry experience was assembled and Audiotech's predecessor companies were merged with a junior capital pool company on the Alberta Stock Exchange (now part of the TSX-V) to gain access to public funding for expansion. Audiotech has since agressively expanded its clinic network and now operates and manages one of the largest networks of hearing clinics in the Pacific Northwest (British Columbia, Alberta, and Idaho).

Refractive is a $2.8 billion U.S. industry and includes LASIK, the world's most widely performed 'elective' procedure. Cataract is a $5.6 billion U.S. industry and is the world's most widely performed 'non-elective' procedure. And, by year-end 2005, 70 percent of adult Americans - 155.7 million people - were wearing some form of vision correction. At TLCVision, we see growth opportunities across the eye care industry. With over 13,700 doctor relationships, the Company positioned to take advantage of this industry growth.

Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. provides clinical laboratory testing services primarily in the greater New York metropolitan area. It offers various chemical diagnostic tests, including blood and urine analysis, blood chemistry, hematology services, serology, radioimmuno analysis, toxicology, pap smears, tissue pathology, and other tissue analysis. The company also operates a clinical knowledge management service unit, which uses customer data from laboratory results, pharmaceutical data, claims data, and other data sources to provide administrative and clinical decision support systems.

ACA Financial Guaranty provides financial guaranty insurance for municipal and other public finance bonds. Previously, the company also provided asset management services for collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) built by pooling fixed-income assets, including bonds, loans, and credit swaps; investors in the company's CDOs included banks, money managers, hedge funds, and insurance companies. While the company's guaranty business was sound, its other services led to its distress. When the US subprime mortgage market tanked, the company was forced to reorganize and place its municipal bond guaranty business into run-off. Now tending to its existing obligations, ACA is no longer writing new policies.

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