Lifespan Corporation helps to increase the longevity of the residents of Rhode Island. Founded in 1994, the multi-hospital health system includes the state's largest acute care facility, Rhode Island Hospital. Rhode Island Hospital has about 720 beds and provides general and advanced medical-surgical care in a wide range of specialties, including organ transplantation, neurosurgery, and orthopedics. It also performs biomedical research in areas such as cancer and vascular disease. Rhode Island Hospital and its sister facility, the 250-bed Miriam Hospital, serve as teaching facilities for Brown University's medical school.

Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, part of Health Management Associates, serves southeastern Missouri with general and acute care services. The hospital's offerings range from cardiology and pediatrics to home care and maternity services. It also has centers devoted to such areas as cancer care, pain management, and rehabilitation. The two-campus hospital has about 425 beds.

Established in 1996 in Seattle, WA, by healthcare professionals who observed the damaging effects of excess weight in their patient population, Sound Health Solutions is dedicated to reducing health risks and to improving the global health of individuals through sustainable weight loss. After adding a second clinic in 2004, the company continued to grow, introducing its nationwide Sound Health CONNECT™ program in 2005 and expanding into the pre- and post-surgery market that same year. We are proud to be offering a professional, cost-saving solution to the growing epidemic of obesity.

Grady Health System provides a broad range of health services to residents of Georgia's Fulton and DeKalb counties. At its center is the 950-bed Grady Memorial Hospital, a full-service teaching hospital. Services include primary, diagnostic, surgical, and rehabilitative care. Grady Memorial is home to centers for the treatments of cancer, severe burns, diabetes, sickle-cell anemia, and infectious diseases; it is also home to the state's only poison center. In addition, Grady Health System operates the Hughes Spalding Children's Hospital, 10 area health centers, and a regional emergency transportation service. The system is owned by The Fulton-DeKalb Medical Authority.

Western Medical Center makes sure that The OC keeps health issues out of its drama. Western Medical Center - Santa Ana serves the residents of California's Orange County through an acute care facility that houses some 280 beds. It also boasts doctors who are able to perform heart, lung, liver, and kidney transplants. The hospital is one of three major trauma centers in the county. Tenet sold the facility (as part of a restructuring) to Integrated Healthcare Holdings (based in Costa Mesa, California). After taking over Western Medical Center, IHHI met with some rough financial times and, bleeding capital, faced the possibility of having to sell the center.

Philips Healthcare makes it easier to get a look on the inside of things. Its parent company, Royal Philips Electronics, developed the first X-ray tube for medical use in 1918. Today, Philips Healthcare is a top global maker of medical imaging equipment, including X-ray, ultrasound, MR (magnetic resonance), and CT (computed tomography) scanners. The firm also makes patient monitors, resuscitation products, and data management systems, and it offers consulting, financing, training, and maintenance services. Philips Healthcare accounts for about 30% of its parent's sales and has operations in more than 60 countries.

Refractive is a $2.8 billion U.S. industry and includes LASIK, the world's most widely performed 'elective' procedure. Cataract is a $5.6 billion U.S. industry and is the world's most widely performed 'non-elective' procedure. And, by year-end 2005, 70 percent of adult Americans - 155.7 million people - were wearing some form of vision correction. At TLCVision, we see growth opportunities across the eye care industry. With over 13,700 doctor relationships, the Company positioned to take advantage of this industry growth.

International SOS heeds the call of foreign travelers in distress.International SOS company responds to traveler emergencies and calls for assistance through more than 30 International SOS medical care clinics and 25 alarm response centers staffed with doctors, security experts, translators, and air and ground transportation providers. These facilities are located across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East. International SOS sells memberships to its global assistance network to individual travelers and small groups, as well as large multinational corporations, governments, not-for-profit agencies, and schools that have employees visiting or working abroad.

Ohio Valley Medical Center is not located in Ohio, but it is in a valley. The Wheeling, West Virginia-based medical provider administers a variety of acute care, primary care, and other health services to patients through a 225-bed hospital. The facility, established in 1890, specializes in intermediate care, physical rehabilitation, and skilled nursing. Other services include cardiology, emergency care, gynecology, neurology, oncology, and psychiatry, as well as home health care. OVMC also operates the Peterson Rehabilitation Center, and it has a partnership with nearby East Ohio Regional Hospital (just across the river in Martins Ferry, Ohio.)

Emerson Hospital, founded in 1911, is named for Charles Emerson, a nephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson Hospital tends to the well-being of its patients in Concord, Massachusetts with more than just grape juice. The 170-beds community hospital is staffed by some 270 doctors and specialists and provides medical services to the region. Emerson partners with Massachusetts General on several specialty programs, including pain management, neonatology, and radiation oncology which is housed within its Bethke Cancer Center. It also operates outpatient clinics serving residents in nearby communities such as Groton, Sudbury, and Westford.

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