Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, hospices, and a rehabilitation therapy business. Its skilled nursing facilities provide specialty care, such as chemotherapy, enteral/parenteral nutrition, tracheotomy care, and ventilator care, as well as offers various services, including room and board, special nutritional programs, social services, recreational activities, and related healthcare and other services. These skilled nursing facilities include Express Recovery, a unit that provides skilled nursing care and rehabilitation therapy for patients recovering from conditions, such as joint replacement surgery, and cardiac and respiratory ailments. Skilled Healthcare Group company’s assisted living facilities provide residential accommodations, activities, meals, security, housekeeping, and assistance in the activities of daily living to seniors who are independent or who require some support, but not the level of nursing care provided in a skilled nursing facility. Skilled Healthcare Group also offers ancillary services, such as physical, occupational, and speech therapy, as well as rehabilitation therapy service to third-party skilled nursing operators. In addition, Skilled Healthcare Group offers hospice services comprising palliative and clinical care, education, and counseling with a focus on the physical, spiritual, and psychosocial needs of terminally ill individuals and their families. As of December 31, 2009, it owned or leased 78 skilled nursing facilities and 22 assisted living facilities, together comprising 10,954 licensed beds in California, Texas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, and New Mexico. Skilled Healthcare Group has a joint venture with APS Acquisition, LLC. that operates a pharmacy in Austin, Texas. Skilled Healthcare Group is based in Foothill Ranch, California.

The Queen's Medical Center was founded in 1859 by Queen Emma and King Kamehameha IV, Hawaiian royalty. With more than 530 beds and a staff of more than 1,200 physicians, the acute care facility is the largest private hospital in Hawaii and operates as a regional referral center. The not-for-profit medical center operates a cancer care and heart health center. Queen's Medical Center also offers specialty services such as behavioral health, diagnostics, orthopedics, physical therapy, women's health, and surgery. It also has community health care and laboratory services operations through an affiliated network of providers called The Queen's Health Systems.

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.

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.

Lester E. Cox Medical Centers, dba Cox Health, provides myriad medical services to people in some 25 counties in southwestern Missouri and northern Arkansas. Cox Health's network includes four acute care hospitals with some 770 beds and more than 60 clinics. Centers for cardiac care, cancer treatment, orthopedics, mental health, and women's health are among Cox Health's specialized care options. Other operations include an ambulance service offering both ground and air transportation, the Cox Health Systems HMO, and the Oxford HealthCare home health company.

Bostwick Laboratories is a full-service laboratory specializing in uropathology, featuring an exceptional staff of board-certified, internationally renowned pathologists dedicated to the diagnosis, treatment and subsequent management of prostate cancer, kidney disease, cancer of the bladder and all urologic conditions.

Deltex Medical helps doctors keep an eye, or an ear, on their patients' blood flow. The company makes and markets CardioQ, a heart monitor used on critically ill patients and patients undergoing surgery. Via proprietary software and disposable ultrasound probes inserted into the esophagus, the CardioQ system is designed to measure and monitor circulating blood volume in an effort to detect hypovolemia, or decreased blood volume, in patients. With such information in hand, doctors can administer fluid and drugs as necessary, which may help patients with recovery. Deltex markets CardioQ in more than 30 countries worldwide.

AGA Medical Holdings works to heal broken hearts. The company specializes in making medical devices for treating structural heart defects and vascular diseases. Its AMPLATZER occlusion devices use minimally invasive small catheters, which physicians can retrieve and position without the need for multiple devices or repetition of procedures. Approved for use in both Europe and the US, the company sell its devices in more than 100 countries. Its primary customers are pediatric cardiologists, radiologists, and vascular surgeons. Dr. Kurt Amplatz and director Franck Gougeon established AGA Medical Holdings in 1995. AGA Medical is being acquired bySt. Jude Medical.

Good Samaritan Hospital opened its doors in 1965 as an acute care hospital with a staff of about 400. Good Samaritan Hospital helps keep Silicon Valley's techies in tip-top shape. The facility, part of the HCA family of for-profit hospitals, administers care through campuses in San Jose (the main campus) and Los Gatos, California. Good Samaritan Hospital provides general acute care as well as a host of tertiary services that include cardiology and cardiovascular surgery; oncology; obstetrics and gynecology; and psychiatry (both inpatient and outpatient care). The main campus hospital has some 400 patient beds and the Los Gatos outpatient and short-stay facility houses approximately 100 beds.

Manatee Memorial Hospital provides general medical, surgical, and community health services to land-dwelling humans in southwestern Florida. The nearly 320-bed hospital also operates a FirstCare community clinic, which offers such additional services as an inpatient adult behavioral health center and outpatient surgery. Manatee Memorial has four specialty units, including adult and pediatric care, coronary care, intensive care, and surgical intensive care. A satellite hospital, Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, has 120 beds. Manatee Memorial is part of the Universal Health Services family.

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