Thoratec Corporation company makes ventricular assist devices (VAD) for patients suffering late-stage heart failure, including those awaiting a heart transplant. Thoratec offers external and implantable products that provide circulatory support for both acute and long-term needs. The company's International Technidyne Corporation (ITC) subsidiary sells blood coagulation diagnostic equipment and skin incision devices used for drawing blood. Thoratec also sells Vectra, a graft used in renal hemodialysis.Thoratec Corporation company works closely with hospitals and cardiac surgery centers primarily in the US and Europe. Its incision products are sold worldwide through distributors.

Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, at the heart of the Gundersen Lutheran health system, is a 325-bed teaching hospital serving patients in western Wisconsin. It is a designated clinical campus for the University of Wisconsin's medical and nursing schools. The hospital features a level II trauma center, other specialty services include bariatrics, behavioral health, cancer care, orthopedics, palliative care, pediatrics, rehabilitation, and women's health. The medical center is affiliated with a group of regional clinics and specialty centers.

Corpus Christi Medical Center was founded in 1962 as a 26-bed care center. Corpus Christi Medical Center provides health care services to Texans living along the Gulf Coast. Part of the HCA family, the hospital system includes facilities spanning four campuses. The center boasts some 580 beds and offers acute care services. Corpus Christi Medical Center includes Doctors Regional, Bay Area, The Heart Hospital, and Northwest. Specialties include breast cancer treatment, heart disease care, orthopedic medicine, and neonatal intensive care. Most facilities include doctors' offices as well.

Universal Health Services, Inc. owns or leases about two dozen acute care hospitals with more than 6,000 total beds, as well as seven outpatient surgery centers, radiation therapy centers, and surgical hospitals. In addition to these medical facilities, UHS runs about 200 psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals. The company's facilities are located mainly in smaller towns and cities with limited competition, but it does have operations in some larger markets, including Las Vegas, Memphis, and Austin, Texas.

Valley Health is not-for-profit organization operates six hospitals that house a combined total of roughly 550 beds. Hospitals include flagship facility Winchester Medical Center as well as Warren Memorial Hospital, Shenandoah Memorial Hospital, and a handful of smaller community hospitals. Valley Health also operates an outpatient surgery center, nursing home, rehabilitation facility, ambulance service, and home health care agency, among other things. The system can trace its beginnings back to the opening of Winchester Memorial Hospital in 1903.

Established in 1941, Miles Memorial Hospital is a subsidiary of Lincoln County Healthcare. Its board of trustees is comprised of individuals who live throughout Lincoln County. The administration and management teams serve both Miles Memorial Hospital and St. Andrews Hospital in Boothbay Harbor. Miles' most unique characteristic is its broad range of health care services. Miles has developed a full Circle of Care to meet the medical, rehabilitation, wellness and retirement needs of Lincoln County and the surrounding area. Most of these services are located together on the Miles Memorial Hospital campus in Damariscotta.

Cook Children's Health Care System takes care of children of all ages in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. It encompasses the Cook Children's Medical Center (with rougly 300 beds), Cook Children's Home Health, and Cook Children's Health Plan. In addition, its physician network has offices at dozens of locations in Denton, Hood, and Tarrant counties. Specialties include behavioral health services, bone marrow transplants, craniofacial reconstruction, oncology, and nuclear medicine. Cook's Life After Cancer Program is funded by the Lance Armstrong Foundation and helps people manage and survive cancer.

Med BioGene Inc. (MBI: TSX Venture) is a life science company focused on the development and commercialization of genomic-based clinical laboratory diagnostic tests.The company develops gene expression assays (lab tests that examine organic samples on a molecular level) used to examine cancerous tumors. Its primary offering, LungExpress DX, is a late-stage assay candidate used to test lung cancer tumors in order to assist physicians in determining treatment options for their patients. The biotech firm's pipeline also contains similar methods for testing lymphoma and cardiovascular disease. Med BioGene filed for a US IPO in 2010, but fell short of funding and announced plans to review strategic alternatives later that year, including a possible sale or liquidation of the company.

Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics earns an A+ in Chemistry. The Johnson & Johnson subsidiary develops and markets diagnostic tools, including VITROS instrumentation systems that use clinical chemistry and immunoassay technologies to diagnose a range of maladies such as cancer, heart disease, and infectious diseases. It also markets laboratory automation systems under the enGen brand. In addition to making clinical diagnostics products, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics is a leading maker of instruments and reagents used by blood banks and hospitals to screen blood donations for disease and contaminants, as well as blood typing systems that guarantee patient-donor compatibility for transfusions.

Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. provides clinical laboratory testing services primarily in the greater New York metropolitan area. It offers various chemical diagnostic tests, including blood and urine analysis, blood chemistry, hematology services, serology, radioimmuno analysis, toxicology, pap smears, tissue pathology, and other tissue analysis. The company also operates a clinical knowledge management service unit, which uses customer data from laboratory results, pharmaceutical data, claims data, and other data sources to provide administrative and clinical decision support systems.

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