J. C. Blair Memorial Hospital was established in 1911 by Kate Fisher Blair in memory of her husband, John Chalmers Blair. J. C. Blair Memorial Hospital serves Huntingdon County in central Pennsylvania. With more than 100 beds, the community hospital has about 40 physicians on staff representing a variety of specialties including cancer care, pediatrics, cardiology, and orthopedics. J. C. Blair also offers patients a range of hospital services including emergency, behavioral health, diagnostic, birthing, and surgical care, as well as ambulatory outpatient services.

International SOS heeds the call of foreign travelers in distress.International SOS company responds to traveler emergencies and calls for assistance through more than 30 International SOS medical care clinics and 25 alarm response centers staffed with doctors, security experts, translators, and air and ground transportation providers. These facilities are located across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East. International SOS sells memberships to its global assistance network to individual travelers and small groups, as well as large multinational corporations, governments, not-for-profit agencies, and schools that have employees visiting or working abroad.

HCA (AKA Hospital Corporation of America) operates roughly 170 acute care, psychiatric, and rehabilitation hospitals in the US and England. It also runs about 100 ambulatory surgery centers, as well as cancer treatment and outpatient rehab centers that form health care networks in many of the communities it serves. HCA has facilities in 20 states; about three-quarters of its hospitals are in the southern US (approximately 70 are in Florida and Texas). The hospital giant's HCA International operates its hospitals and clinics in the UK. HCA is planning to go public through a $4.6 billion initial public offering.

CommunityCare Managed Healthcare Plans of Oklahoma has got you covered. The for-profit company provides health insurance products and related services to more than 250,000 members throughout the state. Its products include HMO and PPO health care plans, as well as Medicare supplemental insurance, and Individual Health Plans for, well, individuals seeking health care coverage. One division also offers its subscribers online prescription refills. A partnership consisting of Tulsa's Saint Francis Hospital and St. John Medical Center owns the company.

Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) is affiliated with the Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California. The 975-bed health care network includes the main acute care LLUMC hospital and the Loma Linda Children's Hospital. Other facilities include a satellite community hospital, a behavioral health center, a heart and surgery hospital, and various regional clinics. LLUMC primarily serves the Inyo, Mono, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties in California. Founded in 1967, the not-for-profit medical center offers specialized services such as oncology, neurology, transplants, and rehabilitation. LLUMC and its affiliates are supported by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Atria Senior Living Group owns or manages roughly 120 senior living communities in upscale areas in more than 25 states throughout the country. Atria Senior Living Group, Inc. has agreed to be acquired by health care investment trust Ventas for about $1.5 billion. Atria Senior Living Group keeps the elderly close to its heart. Atria Senior Living Group, Inc. operates retirement and assisted-living centers for the elderly who may need assistance with routine daily tasks, but who don't need comprehensive skilled nursing. Its services range from independent living units in private apartment settings to more specialized care facilities for residents suffering from Alzheimer's disease or who require respite care.

Synergy Health (formerly Synergy Healthcare) provides outsourced medical and surgical support services to hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care providers, primarily in the UK and the Netherlands. Its Healthcare Solutions division sells continence and wound care products, protective clothing, and infection control services. The company's surgical instrument decontamination and sterilization unit is a top provider of such services to the UK National Health Service. Synergy Health's Linen Management Services and Laboratory Services handle clean linens and lab testing, respectively. Its Isotron unit offers sterilization services for medical devices and supplies in Europe, Asia, and South Africa.

UCI Medical Affiliates seeks out doctors looking to avoid paperwork.UCI Medical Affiliates company provides practice management services to about 60 freestanding medical clinics, mostly in South Carolina. (It has one center in Tennessee.) The clinics operate primarily under the Doctors Care and Progressive Physical Therapy names. UCI provides nonmedical management and administrative services, such as planning, accounting, insurance contracting and billing, non-medical staffing, and other office services. Its Doctors Care locations are urgent care clinics that handle minor emergencies and provide primary care services. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina is the company's principal stockholder.

Mission Hospitals is an 800-bed regional referral center for the western quarter of North Carolina and portions of adjoining states. A not-for-profit community hospital system, Mission is located in Asheville, North Carolina, on two adjoining campuses: Memorial and St. Joseph's. It provides tertiary-level services in neurosciences, cardiac care, trauma care, surgery, pediatric medicine, and women's services. It also includes the Mission Children's Hospital facility. Mission Hospitals is part of the Mission Health System, which is made up of Blue Ridge Regional Hospital, McDowell Hospital, and other facilities.

Trius Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative antibiotics for serious, life-threatening infections. They are currently conducting Phase 3 trials for torezolid phosphate (TR-701), an IV and orally administered second generation oxazolidinone, for the treatment of serious gram-positive bacterial infections, including those caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). With the continuous increase in bacterial resistance to currently marketed drugs, serious infections are becoming more difficult, if not impossible to treat, and this has led to a clear need for novel therapeutics to treat multi-drug resistant bacterial infections.

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