John T. Mather envisioned a legacy that would keep his community of Port Jefferson in good health. John T. Mather Memorial Hospital came to fruition in 1929, one year after it's namesake's death. The not-for-profit hospital has some 250 beds and provides a variety of health care services to the residents of Port Jefferson and Suffolk county. Services include emergency care, occupational therapy, psychiatry, and radiology. The hospital is a member of Long Island Health Network, an association of about a dozen affiliated hospitals all serving Long Island.

B. Braun Medical Ltd. is the UK arm of German medical supplier B. Braun Melsungen. The company manufactures and distributes a wide range of medical and surgical supplies. While it supplies such operating room basics as sutures and fluid administration equipment, it also makes larger computer-assisted surgery guidance systems and implant materials. Orthopedic implants and devices for trauma care are manufactured at the company's Sheffield headquarters. Its Sterilog facilities provide equipment sterilization services for hospitals. Its disposable products are destined for use in hospitals, medical offices, and home care settings. B. Braun Avitum provides dialysis treatment through 15 centers in the UK.

Navilyst Medical is charting a new course for itself in the world of vascular disease. Formerly part of Boston Scientific, Navilyst Medical was spun off, acquired by private equity firm Avista Capital Partners in February 2008, and given a new name. The medical device maker will continue to market its two main fluid management and vascular access products to cardiologists, oncologists, and radiologists around the world. Its NAMIC kits, which account for about 60% of revenue, are used to manage fluids during cardiac catheterization procedures. Its Pressure Activated Safety Valves (PASV) account for the remaining 40% and are used to administer drugs during such procedures as chemotherapy.

St. Joseph's Wayne Hospital helps its patients get back into a healthy realm. The acute care facility serves the residents of northern New Jersey. Part of St. Joseph's Healthcare System, the hospital has some 230 beds and more than 300 physicians on staff, and offers services including ambulatory, cardiopulmonary, endoscopy, pathology, radiology, and senior care. It also includes an onsite rehabilitation facility. Its emergency department treats about 30,000 patients each year. Established in 1871, the Catholic hospital is sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth.

United Healthcare of Georgia, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, provides health insurance products and related services for nearly one million people in the Peach State; its provider network includes thousands of doctors and more than 150 hospitals. Products include dental, disability, health, life, and vision insurance coverage, as well as pharmacy benefits, for companies, their employees, and individual customers. UnitedHealth Group is the second-largest health insurer in the US (behind WellPoint) and has operations in all 50 states.

The products Hollister makes may not be fun to use, but they are necessary. The employee-owned company manufactures medical devices used for wound, continence, and ostomy care as well as various related accessories. Its vast range of products include catheters, collection devices, and wound dressings. The company makes its devices at five manufacturing centers scattered throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. John Dickinson Schneider founded the company in 1921 as JDS Printer Craftsman. Its first products were birth certificates printed for the Franklin C. Hollister Company. In 1948, John Schneider purchased the Hollister name and began developing medical products.

Lawrence & Memorial Hospital connects Connecticut residents with health care, no matter if they're near the Rhode Island border or enjoying the Connecticut River. The not-for-profit hospital, founded in 1912, provides services to a ten-town region on the Connecticut shoreline and neighboring areas in the Northeast. Lawrence & Memorial has 280 beds and provides general acute care, including medical, surgical, rehabilitative, pediatric, psychiatric, and obstetrical services. Its facilities boast a cardiac catheterization lab, a cancer center, a sleep disorder unit, and a neonatal ICU. The hospital also runs a handful of community physician practices and specialty clinics.

Nephros, Inc., a medical device company, engages in developing and marketing filtration products for therapeutic applications, infection control, and water purification. It primarily develops hemodiafiltration (HDF) products and technologies for treating patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). The company also offers OLpur HD 190 high-flux dialyzer cartridge for use with hemodialysis or HDF machines. It has three products in various stages of development in HDF modality to deliver therapy to ESRD patients, which include OLpur MDHDF filter series consisting of MD190 and MD220 diafilters for HDF therapy; OLpur H2H, an add-on module designed to allow the common types of hemodialysis machines to be used for HDF therapy; and OLpur NS2000 system, a stand-alone HDF machine and associated filter technology. In addition, the company also develops dual stage ultrafilter water filtration system. It markets its products primarily to healthcare providers, such as hospitals, dialysis clinics, managed care organizations, and nephrology physician groups. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in River Edge, New Jersey.

WellPoint, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a health benefits company in the United States. It offers various network-based managed care plans to large and small employer, individual, Medicaid, and senior markets. The company’s managed care plans include preferred provider organizations; health maintenance organizations; point-of-service plans; traditional indemnity plans; and other hybrid plans, including consumer-driven health plans, hospital only, and limited benefit products. WellPoint also provides various managed care services comprising claims processing, underwriting, stop loss insurance, actuarial services, provider network access, medical cost management, disease management, wellness programs, and other administrative services. In addition, it offers specialty and other products and services, including pharmacy benefit management; specialty pharmacy; life and disability insurance benefits; dental, vision, and behavioral health benefits; radiology benefit management; analytics-driven personal health care guidance; and long-term care insurance and flexible spending accounts. Further, WellPoint serves as an intermediary providing administrative service for the Medicare program that offers coverage for persons, who are 65 or older and for persons who are disabled or with end-stage renal disease. As of December 31, 2009, the company served approximately 33.7 million medical members. It markets its products through a network of independent agents and brokers, as well as through in-house sales force. The company, formerly known as Anthem, Inc., was founded in 1944 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

BSN medical is a global medical device company - and one of the world’s leading suppliers in the product segments of casting, bandaging, traditional wound care and compression stockings. Several of the company's well-known brands – Gypsona®, Orthoglass®, JOBST®, Radiante®, Deltacast®, Tricodur® and Leukoplast® – are among the most trusted names in the healthcare profession.BSN medical has production facilities in Germany, France, Columbia, Mexico, Pakistan, South Africa and the U.S, operating all over the world via affiliates, joint ventures and distribution agents.

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