Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute, part of the HCA system of health care providers, is a 340-bed acute-care hospital that serves Florida's Treasure Coast area. Its Heart Institute is a specialty cardiac facility. The hospital's 35-bed Lawnwood Pavilion facility provides inpatient mental health and physical rehabilitation services. The hospital also provides specialty services in the areas of women's and children's health, heart and prostate surgery, diagnostic imaging, and medical laboratory services. Lawnwood Regional is part of HCA's East Florida division.

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is a bastion of health in the thick of tobacco country. The not-for-profit system, known as WFUBMC, comprises Wake Forest University Health Sciences (founded in 1902, includes the School of Medicine), the North Carolina Baptist Hospitals (founded in 1923, with facilities devoted to geriatrics, cancer, pediatrics, and more), and Wake Forest University Physicians. The regional system includes about 20 community hospitals and primary care offices and another 100 satellite clinics, consulting operations, and health fairs. WFUBMC offers rehabilitation, skilled nursing, home health, and a unit devoted to coordinating special services for international patients.

Healthplex, Inc. company provides dental benefits and administrative services for insurance companies, HMOs, school districts, individuals and families, municipalities, and businesses of all sizes in New York and New Jersey. In New Jersey it underwrites and operates its own managed care plan through subsidiary International Healthcare Services. Additionally, Healthplex maintains a regional PPO of dental practitioners and offers provider credentialing services to other health plans. Healthplex also administers government funded plans such as Medicaid and Medicare. It is helmed by CEO Martin Kane.

Georgetown University Hospital, part of MedStar Health, is a 609-bed acute care teaching hospital serving residents of the greater Washington, DC, area, including Maryland and Virginia. The hospital's staff of more than 1,100 physicians represents a wide range of medical specializations including cardiology, oncology, neurology/neurosurgery, and surgical transplantation. Georgetown University Hospital provides a comprehensive array of inpatient, outpatient, surgical, and rehabilitative care services. The hospital is part of a local network of affiliated primary care providers.

Aesculapius, the god of medicine, won't be unleashing his wrath on this company anytime soon. Aesculap, Inc. is the US-based unit of Aesculap AG, a leading global supplier of surgical instruments, which itself is a subsidiary of German medical device manufacturer B. Braun Melsungen. The company's products include handheld surgical instruments, implants, and sutures used in neurosurgery, as well as in cardiac, orthopedic, laparoscopic, reconstructive, thoracic, and gynecological surgical procedures. Aesculap, Inc. also makes electrosurgical devices and power systems, and it offers consulting, training, maintenance, and supply chain management services.

Alamance Regional Medical Center is a not-for-profit hospital serving the residents of North Carolina. Formed in 1995, the medical center has some 240 beds. Services include cancer care, behavioral health, cardiology, radiology, women's services, and home health care. It also provides a sleep lab, pain center, and birthing center. Its satellite Mebane Medical Park includes general practice, surgery, and cancer centers, and the West End Medical Park provides primary care. Other facilities include a pediatric rehabilitation clinic, sports rehabilitation center, a nursing home, and a retirement community.

Apria Healthcare Group Inc. is owned by the Blackstone Group. With about 500 branches nationwide, Apria Healthcare Group is one of the country's largest home health firms. Serving some 1.2 million clients across the US, the company's staff provides supplemental oxygen, ventilators, nebulizers, and sleep monitoring equipment and medication to patients with emphysema, sleep apnea, and other respiratory conditions. Its infusion therapy nurses administer intravenous or injectable therapies -- including pain drugs, chemotherapy, and parenteral nutrition -- at home or in one of the company's outpatient infusion clinics. Apria also delivers home medical equipment such as walkers and hospital beds.

Dean Health Systems provides a full range of medical care services to Cheeseheads throughout southern Wisconsin. Dean Health Systems owns and operates a network of dozens of multi-specialty clinics that provide specialty and primary care. It also operates a number of clinics it co-owns with partner St. Mary's Hospital. Additionally, Dean Health Systems, which is 95% physician-owned -- offers health insurance services through Dean Health Plan and clinical and research education through Dean Foundation. SSM Health Care, a nationwide hospital operator, owns 5% of Dean Health Systems.

The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, founded in 1986, is a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center located on the Tampa campus of the University of South Florida. The institute carries it out its stated mission of contributing to the prevention and cure of cancer through patient care, research, and education. It operates a 200-bed medical and surgical facility, as well as outpatient treatment programs, a blood and marrow transplant program, and The Moffitt Clinic at Tampa General Hospital. Its research programs include study in the areas of molecular oncology, immunology, risk assessment, health outcomes, and experimental therapeutics.

Kips Bay Medical makes medical devices that help veins do their jobs in patients with coronary artery disease. The development-stage company is focused on developing and commercializing a vein support device called eSVS MESH, a mesh sleeve implanted by surgeons in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) that, when placed over a patient's vein graft, improves the graft's structure and long-term performance. It is designed to mimic the artery's job of constricting the vein and preventing harmful vessel expansion. The company is conducting clinical trials of its eSVS MESH in Europe and is awaiting approval to begin clinical trials in the US. Kips Bay Medical filed a $57.5 million IPO in April 2010.

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