Stryker's surgical products include such instruments as drills, saws, rasps, even cement mixers. The company's Orthopaedic Implants category includes artificial joints, spinal rods and screws, artificial vertebral discs, bone cement, and other orthopedic implants and supplies. The orthopaedic division also makes OP-1, a biological product to grow bone. The MedSurg Equipment segment includes facial and hand surgery instruments, endoscopy equipment, and communications and patient handling equipment. Stryker's products are marketed globally to hospitals, doctors, and other health care facilities via direct sales personnel and distributors.

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 Providence Service Corporation provides and manages government sponsored social services to individuals and families. It offers home and community based counseling, foster care, and provider management services. The company’s home and community based counseling services include home based and intensive home based counseling, substance abuse treatment, school support services, misdemeanant private probation supervision, and workforce development. Its not-for-profit managed services comprise administrative support, information technology, and accounting and payroll services; intake, assessment, and referral services; monitoring services; and case management

Syneron Medical makes and markets laser-based medical devices designed to rejuvenate human skin, reduce wrinkles, and treat vascular and pigmented lesions as well as acne and cellulite. Syneron also manufactures products used to remove unwanted body hair. Operating in the cosmetic surgery or "aesthetic medical treatment" space, Syneron markets its products directly to doctors and other health practitioners globally. The company's products combine optical energy derived from light waves with electrical energy and use specially designed software. Syneron acquired rival aesthetic-device maker Candela in a 2010 deal worth about $65 million.

Paradigm Medical Industries wants to keep those baby blues seeing clearly with its ophthalmic surgical and diagnostic equipment. Its FDA-approved products include its Blood Flow Analyzer, which measures pressure and blood flow within the eye and is used for early diagnosis of glaucoma, and a line of ultrasound biomicroscopes, which create high-resolution images of the eye that doctors use to diagnose and treat disease. The company has stopped development on its laser cataract removal system (branded Photon) because of lack of funds; it is focusing instead on marketing its diagnostic product line to ophthalmologists and optometrists.

UPMC is a leading not-for-profit health care delivery system for the western region of the state. UPMC operates about 20 hospitals, including campuses in the Pittsburgh area, regional and community hospitals, and specialty facilities such as Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and the Magee-Womens Hospital. Combined, UPMC has about 3,400 inpatient beds. In addition, the system provides care through hundreds of physician practices, outpatient clinics, cancer treatment facilities, and rehab centers; it also offers home health care, long-term care through about 15 senior living facilities, and health insurance.

Avera Health provides health care services to eastern South Dakota as well as parts of Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and North Dakota. The health care system operates an extensive network of facilities, including some 28 hospitals (totaling 1,450 acute-care beds) and 140 primary care community clinics. Other facilities include nursing homes, hospices, urgent care clinics, and home health offices. These operations are divided into five regions: Avera St. Luke's, Avera Queen of Peace, Avera Marshall, Avera McKennan, and Avera Sacred Heart. The system also operates a health care plan and Avera PACE, a hospital purchasing organization. Avera Health is sponsored by the Benedictine Sisters and Presentation Sisters.

BEST Life and Health Insurance really says it all with its name. BEST Life and Health Insurance company specializes in employer-sponsored group insurance and employee benefits. The insurer, which primarily serves customers in the western and midwestern US, provides products including life, medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance. Through affiliated companies (Best Health Plans and Best Re), BEST Life and Health Insurance company provides group health plans, benefits plan administration, and employer medical stop-loss insurance. Founded as Westgate Life Insurance Company in 1962, BEST Life and Health Insurance is licensed in nearly 40 states.

CareFusion Corporation, a medical technology company, provides various healthcare products and services in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Critical Care Technologies, and Medical Technologies and Services. The Critical Care Technologies segment develops, manufactures, and markets equipment and related supplies for infusion, medication and supply dispensing, and respiratory care products. Its products include intravenous medication safety and infusion therapy delivery systems comprising disposables, software applications, and related patient monitoring equipment; automated dispensing machines and related applications for distributing and managing medication and medical supplies; and equipment and supplies for ventilation, and respiratory and sleep diagnostics. The Medical Technologies and Services segment develops, manufactures, and markets disposable infection prevention products, software-based infection detection services, surgical and diagnostic instrumentation, and neurological monitoring equipment. It offers skin disinfectant and other patient-preparation products, hair-removal and skin-care products, infection detection software, and custom surgical procedure kits; surgical instruments and related products and services, and interventional specialty products, such as diagnostic trays and biopsy needles, drainage catheters and vertebral augmentation products, and neurological monitoring and diagnostic products. CareFusion Corporation serves hospitals and other healthcare facilities comprising oncology clinics, ambulatory surgical centers, clinics, long-term care facilities, and physician offices. CareFusion Corporation sells its products and services through a combination of direct sales representatives and third-party distributors. CareFusion Corporation is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Children's Health System, Inc. not-for-profit system was formed in 1961. You don't have to be royalty to be a patient at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters (CHKD). CHKD is Virginia's only free-standing, full-service pediatric facility, and as such provides medical, dental, and therapeutic services to children and adolescents through the age of 21 years old. The 210-bed hospital has a staff of more than 500 physicians, and has the state's only dedicated pediatric emergency center, which gets more than 47,000 patient visits each year. CHKD also operates several outpatient pediatric centers throughout the state.

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