Temple University Health System (TUHS), a network of academic and community hospitals associated with the Temple University School of Medicine, provides primary, secondary, and tertiary care to residents in the Philadelphia County (Pennsylvania) area. The hospitals that comprise TUHS include 750-bed Temple University Hospital and two community-based hospitals providing acute and emergency care, the Jeanes Hospital and TUHS Episcopal Hospital (home to a 120-bed behavioral health unit). TUHS supports programs in pediatric and adult cardiology, organ transplantation, oncology, and pulmonary disease. Temple University Health System also includes a community-wide network of primary care physicians.

New York Blood Center holds a very literal interpretation of the meaning of life. New York Blood Center is a not-for-profit blood distribution and research organization serving New York City and it environs in New York State and New Jersey. As one of the largest blood centers in the US, it provides blood and blood products to some 200 hospitals in five regions. The center's facilities collect blood from more than 2,000 donors each day. It also operates the nation's oldest and largest public cord blood bank. In addition, its Kimball Research Institute includes more than a dozen research laboratories which study the prevention and treatment of blood-related illnesses. The blood center was founded in 1964.

Sunrise Medical, Inc. manufactures and supplies wheelchairs and wheelchair accessories, and replacement parts. Its Quickie wheelchairs range from manual to motorized, adult to child-sized, and from everyday use to sports models for athletes. Its products are targeted for use in both institutional and home use. Sunrise Medical also makes Jay brand cushions and wheelchair backs. The company's A.R.T. division designs and manufactures custom configured seating and positioning equipment. Sunrise Medical markets its products in about 100 countries around the globe through an inside sales force and through distributors.

Paynesville Area Health Care System wants is for any of its patients to be in pain. The district-owned healthcare system provides general medical care, radiology, and rehabilitative services to the Paynesville, Minnesota, region. The system includes a 25-bed critical access hospital, as well as several clinics. Specialty services include obstetrics, surgery, hospice, and emergency medicine. The system also offers education programs and support groups. Attached to the hospital is a nearly 60-bed skilled nursing home and independent senior apartment complex. The hospital's specialty clinic offers access to more than 60 specialists.

Union Health Service brings together doctors and patients in the Chicago area.Union Health Service company is a not-for-profit health care services provider which supplies health insurance to its members through HMO (health maintenance organization) and medical prepayment plans. Union Health Service also provides primary health care, as well as vision, laboratory, radiology, and pharmacy services, to its members through about 20 group practice clinics in Aurora, Chicago, Norridge, Oak Park, and other area communities. The company was established in 1955.

Crawford Memorial Hospital & Health Services provides acute care to residents of Crawford County in Illinois. Its hospital has about 25 acute care beds. Specialized services include cardiac rehabilitation, orthopedics, home health care, and emergency medicine. The hospital, founded in 1961, also offers a birthing center with prenatal education and breast-feeding classes. Crawford Memorial Hospital & Health Services operates a handful of rural health clinics staffed with physicians and physicians' assistants offering primary care to medically underserved areas.

Saint Francis takes care of the heart(s) of Hartford, Connecticut. Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center is a regional medical center with facilities specializing in cardiology, oncology, women's and children's health services, behavioral health, trauma care, and rehabilitation. Established in 1897, it now spans two campuses with more than 615 beds. Saint Francis began an affiliation with Mount Sinai Hospital 1990, and merged with it in 1995. The Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital now provides 60 beds, with care for brain trauma, sports medicine, and orthopedics.

Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida is a not-for-profit acute care teaching hospital providing a comprehensive range of health services to residents of South Florida. The medical center, which boasts some 950 beds, provides general medical and surgical care, as well as specialty care in cardiology (Miami Heart Institute), radiology, oncology, orthopedics, neuroscience, and other fields. It also performs clinical research to find better treatments for ailments including cancer, heart and lung conditions, and Alzheimer's disease, and it offers medical education programs through an affiliation with Columbia University.

Atrion Corporation develops and manufactures ophthalmology, cardiovascular, and fluid delivery devices primarily for medical applications in the United States and internationally. Atrion Corporation manufactures soft contact lens storage and disinfection cases; and the LacriCATH line of balloon catheters used in the treatment of nasolacrimal duct obstruction in children and adults. It develops the MPS2 Myocardial Protection System, a proprietary technology delivering fluids and medications to the heart during open-heart surgery; cardiac surgery vacuum relief valves; Retract-O-Tape silicone vessel loops; inflation devices for balloon catheter dilation, stent deployment, and fluid dispensing; and Clean-Cut rotating aortic punch and PerfectCut Aortotomy System, both of which are used in heart bypass surgery. Atrion manufactures various intravenous fluid delivery products comprising medical tubing clamps; swabbable luer valves; and luer syringe check valves and one-way valves. It produces inflation systems and valves used in marine and aviation safety products; one-way and two-way ‘Breather’ valves for use on electronics cases, munitions cases, pressure vessels, transportation container cases, escape slides, and other medical and non-medical applications; and a line of products designed for safe needle and scalpel blade containment, as well as the ACTester product line consisting of instrumentation and associated disposables used to measure the activated clotting time of blood. Atrion Corporation also provides contract manufacturing services for other original equipment manufacturers of medical devices; and owns and maintains a 22-mile high-pressure steel pipeline in north Alabama that is leased to an industrial gas producer that transports gaseous oxygen to its customers. It sells its products through a sales force. Atrion Corporation was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Allen, Texas.

NxStage Medical is giving some life back to those needing dialysis to treat acute kidney failure and end-stage renal disease. The medical device company's primary product, System One, is a portable hemodialysis machine, which can be used by patients at home or by professionals in a hospital setting. The FDA-approved device is also marketed to hospitals for critical care and to dialysis clinics that want to create or expand their services to home-based patients. Typically, customers rent the System One equipment, but its largest customer, DaVita, has chosen to purchase. NxStage Medical's subsidiary, Medisystems, supplies customers with disposable blood tubing and needles.

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