OhioHealth aims to keep Buckeyes healthy. The not-for-profit system runs eight acute care hospitals and is affiliated with another nine community hospitals and area health systems. All told, OhioHealth has about 2,000 staffed beds in and around Columbus. Additional facilities offer urgent care, physical rehabilitation, diagnostic imaging, and sleep diagnostics services. Subsidiary HomeReach provides home health care and hospice care. Its WorkHealth program offers workers' compensation care management and occupational rehabilitation services. OhioHealth Group, OhioHealth's joint venture with The Medical Group of Ohio, operates the HealthReach PPO.

Geisinger Health System provides health care to a large section of the Keystone State, serving residents of about 40 counties in the central and northeastern portions of Pennsylvania. Founded in 1915, the system's flagship facility is Geisinger Medical Center, a 400-bed medical-surgical hospital in Danville that includes the Janet Weis Children's Hospital. With joint venture partner HealthSouth, the organization runs a rehabilitation hospital in Danville. The system also includes the 240-bed Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center and numerous outpatient facilities and doctors' offices throughout the region. Additionally, Geisinger runs the Geisinger Health Plan, a not-for-profit HMO with some 230,000 members.

Nanosphere is offering molecular diagnostics for the masses: Its molecular testing system is intended for use in hospital-based laboratories that don't have the money or expertise to maintain the complex genomic testing equipment often reserved for reference labs and research centers. Known as Verigene, the company's diagnostic system is a more compact and simpler workstation designed to perform multiple genomic and protein tests simultaneously on a single sample. The company also sells Verigene-compatible tests, including hematology, cystic fibrosis, and influenza diagnostic assays. Nanosphere has several other tests, including HPV (the virus that causes cervical cancer) in the works.

Antares Pharma, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, focuses on self-injection pharmaceutical products and technologies, and topical gel-based products. It offers injection devices, which include Medi-Jector Vision for insulin; Zomajet 2 Vision, Zomajet Vision X, Twin-Jector EZ II, and Tjet for human growth hormone; Vibex pressure assisted auto injector platform that enables a controlled pressure delivery of drugs into the body utilizing a spring power source; and disposable pen injectors, which are needle-based devices designed to deliver multiple injections from multi-dose drug cartridges. Antares Pharma also develops/commercializes Anturol, an oxybutynin ATD (advanced transdermal delivery)gel, which is in Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of overactive bladder; Elestrin, a transdermal estradiol gel for the treatment of moderate-to-severe vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause; LibiGel, a transdermal testosterone gel that is in Phase III clinical studies for the treatment of female sexual dysfunction; Nestorone contraceptive formulation products, which has completed Phase II clinical trials; and Ropinerole to treat a central nervous system. Antares Pharma, Inc. markets its products to pharmaceutical companies primarily in the United States and Europe. It has collaborative arrangements and license agreements primarily with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.; BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Population Council, Ferring Pharmaceuticals BV; Eli Lilly and Company; JCR Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.; and Solvay Pharmaceuticals BV, as well as a strategic alliance with Uman Pharma. Antares Pharma, Inc. was formerly known as Medi-Ject Corporation and changed its name to Antares Pharma, Inc. in January 2001. Antares Pharma, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is based in Ewing, New Jersey.

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.

Audiotech's predecessor companies were founded in the 1980's to provide hearing care and related services to individuals in several B.C. communities. In 1997, management recognized the emergence of a tremendous opportunity to become an aggressive growth corporation of the highly fragmented hearing healthcare industry in North America. A dynamic management team with more than 75 years of direct industry experience was assembled and Audiotech's predecessor companies were merged with a junior capital pool company on the Alberta Stock Exchange (now part of the TSX-V) to gain access to public funding for expansion. Audiotech has since agressively expanded its clinic network and now operates and manages one of the largest networks of hearing clinics in the Pacific Northwest (British Columbia, Alberta, and Idaho).

Ministry Health Care's flagship facility was founded in 1890 by the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother as a Catholic health care system to contribute to the well-being of the community. Part of the Marian Health System, Ministry Health Care is a network of hospitals, clinics, and other health facilities serving all of Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota. The network includes 15 acute and tertiary care hospitals (such as the 500-bed Saint Joseph's Hospital of Marshfield), as well as about two dozen physician clinics, long-term and assisted living facilities, home health agencies, hospices, and other community health programs and services.

Washington Regional Medical System (formerly Washington Regional Medical Center) provides acute care services to the people of northwestern Arkansas. The system's main hospital has about 370 beds, and also includes assisted living facilities, home health and hospice services, and general practice and specialty clinics. Specialty services at the medical center include cardiac and vascular care (Walker Family Heart and Vascular Institute), emergency medicine, kidney dialysis, women's health services (Johnelle Hunt Women's Center), cancer treatment, and rehabilitation.

National Elevator Industry Benefit Plans (NEIBP) is the health insurance and retirement benefits plan for members of the the International Union of Elevator Constructors, a 25,000-strong union for North American workers who make, maintain, and install elevators. The organization's health plan, offered through Blue Cross and Blue Shield, provides medical coverage; NEIBP offers other specialty coverages (including prescription drug, vision, substance abuse, and dental) through partners such as EyeMed Vision Care and ValueOptions. MassMutual handles the organization's retirement planning options, which include annuities and 401k products.

Parma Community General Hospital provides medical care to residents of Ohio's Cuyahoga County and surrounding areas along the northern Lake Erie shoreline. The independent, not-for-profit, 320-bed acute care medical center has a staff of more than 500 physicians representing some 30 medical specialties. It offers a broad range of inpatient care services, including cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, and rehabilitation. Its outpatient and community outreach programs include home health care, hospice care, senior care, and various community health clinics. The hospital was founded in 1961.

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