Sanford Health-MeritCare combines two Dakota health care legends: South Dakota's Sanford Health and North Dakota's MeritCare Health System. Both date back to the 1890s, and today the combined not-for-profit health care provider is one of the largest integrated health care systems in the US. It serves many rural areas in the Midwest with about 30 regional and community hospitals (housing more than 1,600 beds) in the Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Its medical centers offer services in such areas as cancer, cardiology, emergency care, orthopedics, pediatrics, trauma, and women's health. Sanford Health-MeritCare also boasts expanded research and education capabilities as a result of its 2009 merger.

Vanguard Health Systems wants to lead the way to better health care. The company operates more than a dozen for-profit acute care hospitals located in mostly affluent urban and suburban markets in Arizona, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Texas; all told, the hospitals have more than 4,000 licensed beds. Vanguard's medical campuses generally include outpatient facilities and medical office buildings that form local health care networks providing a continuum of care. Vanguard also runs three managed health care plans that serve more than 200,000 members in Arizona and Illinois (though its hospitals account for about 75% of its sales). The Blackstone Group owns a majority stake in the company.

DJO Incorporated is one of the world's largest orthopedic medical device makers, the company develops and manufactures products that are used in rehabilitation, pain management, and physical therapy. They range from ankle braces and traction systems to electrotherapy and bone growth stimulation devices. DJO also makes and distributes surgically implanted joint replacement products for the knees, hips, and shoulders. Its products are sold globally under a host of market-leading brands, including Aircast, Compex, DonJoy, Empi, Ormed, and ProCare. The company sells its products directly and through dealers and distributors mainly in the US and Europe.

South Jersey Healthcare, often simply known as SJH, is happy to be stuck in the middle: The company operates health care facilities in an area midway between Atlantic City and Philadelphia. Some of those facilities include the SJH Regional Medical Center, a 260-bed facility with specialty cancer and diagnostic centers, and the smaller SJH Elmer Hospital. In total the system houses about 420 beds. SJH also offers outpatient care, home care and hospice services, and a network of community-based health clinics. The company also provides wellness programs for the public. South Jersey Healthcare originated in 1898 as Bridgeton Hospital.

Adventist Health mission is to share God's love by providing physical, mental and spiritual healing.Adventist Health, headquartered in Roseville, California, operates health care facilities throughout California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington. Our system includes 17 hospitals with more than 2,500 beds, approximately 18,600 employees, numerous clinics and outpatient facilities, the largest system of rural health clinics in California with additional sites in Oregon and Washington, 14 home care agencies and four joint-venture retirement centers. As a faith-based, non-profit organization, we are motivated by mission rather than stock dividends. So find out more about us—and find an Adventist Health facility near you.

Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital serves the health care needs of the Santa Clarita Valley in northern Los Angeles County. The not-for-profit community hospital houses more than 220 beds and provides general medical and surgical care, as well as trauma services (it is a Level II trauma center), outpatient services, psychiatric care, and emergency services, among other specialties. In operation since 1975, the hospital was built to serve the needs of the at-the-time unincorporated City of Santa Clara, on land donated by The Newhall Land and Farming Company.

Porter Health provides a wide range of health services to residents of Porter County and surrounding communities in northern Indiana. The hub of the network is Porter Valparaiso Hospital, an acute care medical center with more than 300 beds. Its Portage Hospital Campus has 33 private inpatient suites and provides pediatric care, adult care, intensive care, and diagnostic imaging services. The network also includes clinics and community health centers, outpatient facilities, and primary care physicians' practices. Hospital giant Community Health Systems acquired the group, then named Porter Memorial Health, in 2007.

No, the Six Million Dollar Man isn't working at hearing technology firm Advanced Bionics. The company has the technology not to make a person "better, faster, and stronger," but instead to help people with severe to profound hearing loss to hear. A leading provider of cochlear hearing devices, Advanced Bionics makes the Harmony HiResolution Bionic Ear System, which includes a cochlear implant, sound processor, and other equipment that together can restore hearing to the deaf. The company provides mentoring and support services to implant customers worldwide. Advanced Bionics was acquired by global hearing aid manufacturer Sonova for $489 million in early 2010.

PinnacleHealth helps central Pennsylvanians reach aspired-for levels of good health. PinnacleHealth System provides a comprehensive continuum of health services to resident of southern and central Pennsylvania. The system includes two acute-care hospitals (Community General and Harrisburg Hospital), that provide general and specialty services in areas such as oncology, cardiovascular medicine, neurology, women's health, and orthopedics. PinnacleHealth also operates the Simpson Rehab Hospital and the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, as well as a network community health, diagnostic, ambulatory surgery, and outpatient health centers. The system also includes home care and hospice care programs.

Vision-Sciences, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets products for endoscopy. The company operates through two segments, Medical and Industrial. The Medical segment designs, manufactures, and sells a line of endoscopy-based products, including flexible endoscopes and sheath or EndoSheath disposables primarily to the ENT, urology, gastroenterology, and pulmonology markets. The Industrial segment designs, manufactures, and markets flexible borescopes under the Machida brand name. This segment offers various products, such as modulars, slim levers, knobs, battery operated portable flexible borescopes, industrial videoscopes, and portable video processors primarily to the aircraft engine manufacturing and aircraft engine maintenance industries. The company offers its products to the ENT doctors, urologists, gastroenterologists, primary care physicians, pulmonologists and other airway management doctors in hospitals, medical clinics, and physicians’ private offices. It provides its products through sales representatives in the United States; and through independent distributors in Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, the Middle East, Africa, and Central and South America. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in Orangeburg, New York.

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