Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center is an acute care hospital serving the San Fernando Valley in the Los Angeles area. The Burbank hospital has about 430 beds and a staff of more than 650 physicians providing emergency, general health, surgery, and specialty services. Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center also provides services through its cancer center, heart and vascular center, imaging center, and rehabilitation program. In addition, the hospital operates home health and hospice programs. The hospital was established in 1943 and is part of the Providence Health System-Southern California division of Providence Health & Services.

Progressive Medical hopes its pressure therapy will make progress in getting rid of bed sores. The company sells a variety of therapeutic air and foam mattresses and related medical products to patients with wound care needs, pulmonary complications, and immobility (i.e. paraplegics and quadriplegics). Its mattresses help to prevent and also heal patients' bedsores. The company's other products include negative pressure (vacuum) wound therapy systems and durable medical equipment (wheelchairs, walkers, and commodes), as well as products for bariatric patients. Progressive Medical also provides consulting and condition assessment services.

Saint Peter's University Hospital has about 480 beds. Sponsored by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen in New Jersey, the hospital provides patients with more than 900 physicians and dentists on staff. Saint Peter's also offers a variety of services including a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, minimally invasive surgical (MIS) procedures, and specialized cancer, diabetes, and geriatric care. In affiliation with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Saint Peter's provides cardiac care for infants and children. The teaching hospital is also affiliated with the Drexel University College of Medicine. Saint Peter's University Hospital was established in 1907.

North Shore University Hospital (formerly North Shore University Hospital Manhasset) knows you shouldn't have to leave the island for quality health care. The hospital has roughly 800 beds devoted to adult and pediatric medicine, oncology, heart surgery, rehabilitation, dentistry, and trauma emergency services, among other areas. As a tertiary care facility, most of the hospital's patients are referred to North Shore by their primary or secondary physicians. It also serves as a campus for the New York University School of Medicine. The Long Island hospital is home to the Don Monti Cancer Center and the Sandra Atlas Bass Cardiology Center. North Shore is part of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System.

Biosense Webster makes products that explore, and in some cases alter, the terrain of the human heart. Its catheters and imaging systems are used by electrophysiologists and interventional cardiologists worldwide to find and treat heart arrhythmias (irregular heart rhythms.) Its CARTO XP EP Navigation System uses 3-D imaging technology to map the heart's electrical activity and lets doctors navigate the heart using the company's diagnostic catheters. Biosense Webster also makes therapeutic ablation catheters and systems that destroy faulty electric pathways in the heart that cause arrhythmias. Biosense Webster is a member of parent Johnson & Johnson's medical devices and diagnostics division.

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.

Kindred Healthcare, Inc. operates as a FORTUNE 500 healthcare services company in the United States. It operates in three divisions: Hospital, Health Services, and Rehabilitation. The Hospital division operates long-term acute care hospitals that provide services to medically complex patients, including the critically ill, suffering from multiple organ system failures, primarily the cardiovascular, pulmonary, kidney, gastro-intestinal, and skin systems. The Health Services division operates nursing and rehabilitation centers, which provide short stay patients and long stay residents with a range of medical, nursing, rehabilitative, pharmacy, and routine services, including daily dietary, social, and recreational services. It also provides specialized programs for residents suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias through its reflections units. The Rehabilitation division offers physical and occupational therapies and speech pathology services under the Peoplefirst Rehabilitation name to residents and patients of nursing centers, acute and long-term acute care hospitals, outpatient clinics, home health agencies, assisted living facilities, school districts, and hospice providers. It also offers specialized care programs that address neurologic, orthopedic, cardiac, and pulmonary recovery, as well as medical needs, such as wound care, pain management, and cognitive retraining. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 83 long-term acute care hospitals with 6,580 licensed beds in 24 states; and 222 nursing and rehabilitation centers with 27,523 licensed beds in 27 states. Kindred Healthcare was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.

Univera Healthcare wants the residents of western New York to be healthy. The not-for-profit organization provides health insurance coverage to more than 200,000 members throughout eight counties in western New York. About 30,000 of those members are retirees in the company's SeniorChoice Medicare Advantage plans. Univera's members have access to all of the hospitals in the area, as well as more than 50,000 pharmacies across the US. Univera Healthcare company provides HMO, PPO, indemnity, dental, and other health plans to small and large businesses, as well as individuals. Univera Healthcare is a business segment of The Lifetime Healthcare Companies.

Columbia St. Mary's serves Southeastern Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Ozaukee, and Washington counties) through a health care network that includes four hospitals -- Columbia St. Mary's Milwaukee Campus, Columbia St. Mary's Ozaukee Campus, Columbia St. Mary's Columbia Campus, and the Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Institute. Other members of the health system include about 50 community clinics, the Columbia College of Nursing, the River Woods Outpatient Center and the Cathedral Square Urgent Care Center. The Catholic Sisters of Charity founded St. Mary's Hospital in Milwaukee in 1848 at the request of Bishop John Martin Henni. The company is sponsored by Ascension Health and Columbia Health System.

Orange Park Medical Center (OPMC) is a 250-bed acute care hospital serving the southwestern suburbs of Jacksonville, Florida. Founded in 1972, the medical center has a staff of some 500 physicians representing a wide range of medical specialties including cardiology, oncology, women's health and maternal care, pediatrics, orthopedics, neurosurgery, respiratory care, and behavioral medicine. OPMC offers a range of inpatient and outpatient care services which include physical and occupational therapy, wound care, and occupational medicine. OPMC is part of the HCA network.

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