Here at MetroSouth Medical Center, our roots run deep in the Blue Island community. It began in 1905, when St. Francis Hospital opened its doors in a private residence on Gregory Street. Within weeks, that location was too small, and the hospital soon expanded to a capacity of 30 patients. Growing with the community for the next 103 years, St. Francis expanded its services and facilities, with major additions to the hospital in 1916 and 1948. Along the way, the hospital earned a national reputation as a leader in cardiovascular primary care.On July 30, 2008, a new chapter in the hospital’s history began with a rededication under new ownership and a new name. Today, MetroSouth Medical Center is located on a 12-acre campus in the heart of Blue Island’s uptown commercial business district. Moving forward, we believe the best way to embrace our history and our long legacy of service is to become the most trusted and sought after hospital on Chicago’s South Side by both patients and medical professionals. At MetroSouth Medical Center, we are redefining what it means to be a progressive community hospital by combining the best practices in medicine with the best in sustainable business practices.

Exeter Health Resources, through its operating subsidiaries, provides health care, education, and outreach services. Exeter Hospital is a 200-bed acute care hospital serving the residents of southeastern New Hampshire, and Exeter Healthcare is a nearby rehabilitation and therapy facility. The company has other operating health and wellness facilities including Rockingham Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice, which provides home health and terminal illness care, and Synergy Health & Fitness, a membership fitness center. It also has an affiliated network of doctors, Core Physicians, which operates 25 office locations in the area.

Bluegrass Family Health (BFH) does provide health care services in the Bluegrass State. Bluegrass Family Health company is a not-for-profit subsidiary of Baptist Healthcare System that offers HMO, POS, and PPO health insurance plans to its customers. Established in 1993, BFH serves hundreds of thousands of members in counties throughout Kentucky, as well as in areas of Indiana and Tennessee, through direct sales agents and independent brokers. BFH contracts with hospitals, physicians, pharmacies, and other health care providers to offer services to its enrollees. The firm is led by CEO James Fritz.

Covance, with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, is one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive drug development services companies, with annual revenues greater than $1.8 billion, employees in more than 60 countries, and more than 10,000 employees worldwide The drug development industry has come along way in the last two decades. In the 1980s and early 1990s, when the focus was on cost-savings and capacity management, contract research organizations (CROs) were used primarily as spillover capacity. The work was done and often done well, but our relationship with our pharmaceutical clients was tactical, and CRO growth rates and profitability were volatile. From roughly 2000 to 2005, biotechnology and specialty pharmaceutical companies began to use CROs more strategically, which stabilized demand and improved the performance and return on investment of CROs.

Glendive Medical Center is more than a hospital…it is a fully-integrated medical system which includes: Gabert Clinic, Extended Care, The Heritage and Eastern Montana Veterans Home. Glendive Medical Center (GMC) is a full-service, 25-bed acute care hospital with 24-hour emergency care, full medical and surgical services and an attached 71-bed skilled Extended Care facility. We are dedicated to being a leader in providing and promoting health and wellness to the residents of east central Montana and western North Dakota. GMC is a designated Critical Access Hospital.

HeartWare International, Inc., a medical device company, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of medical devices for the treatment of advanced heart failure. HeartWare International primarily offers the HeartWare Ventricular Assist System, which includes a left ventricular assist device, or blood pump, patient accessories, and surgical tools designed to provide circulatory support for patients with advanced heart failure. It is also developing the Miniaturized Ventricular Assist Device, a miniaturized device intended for chronic heart failure patients. HeartWare International sells its products in the United States through its clinical trials; and as commercial products to customers in Europe and Australia. HeartWare International is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Founded in 1992, the company went public in 2010. Electromed aims to clear the way for patients suffering from respiratory ailments. A medical device maker, the company manufactures respiratory products designed to treat patients with cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and other ailments that affect respiratory systems. Its FDA-approved SmartVest System is a vest worn by patients that helps loosen lung congestion. A self-administered therapy, the vest works by administering high frequency pulsations that compress and release the patient's chest area. Electromed sells its SmartVest and related products primarily in the US to patients, home health care professionals, and hospitals.

Wright Medical Group wants to make your knees and hips work all right. The company makes reconstructive implants for knees, hips, and other joints. Product lines include the ADVANCE knee system, CONSERVE and PERFECTA hip systems, the OLYMPIA shoulder and trauma system, and Swanson finger and wrist implants. Wright Medical also makes an injectable putty for bone defects as well as bone graft and tissue substitute materials such as OSTEOSET pellets used to regenerate bone. Wright Medical sells its products in more than 60 countries through distributors and a direct sales force that targets customers in the orthopedic surgery market.

Gwinnett Health System consists of the Gwinnett Medical Centers in Duluth and Lawrenceville, Georgia. Both offer acute care, day surgery, emergency care, and rehabilitation. The system also includes the Gwinnett Women's Pavilion (maternity and neonatal care) and the Gwinnett Extended Care Center. In total its facilities hold more than 350 beds. The Glancy Rehabilitation Center offers intensive inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation in what used to be the main facility at the Duluth campus. Gwinnett sold its SummitRidge psychiatric hospital to Universal Health Services in 2008.

Being a leader in cord blood banking and research means providing the highest quality service, care, and science.To provide the highest quality stem cell preservation service and care to our patients, families, and their physicians. We at ViaCord believe these words are much more than just a promise. They are the commitment we live by ViaCord was established in 1993 to give expectant parents an opportunity to bank their children's cord blood with comfort and security. Prior to launching our Cord Blood Banking Service, ViaCord conducted extensive research and validation studies to set high standards regarding the collection, processing, and storage of cord blood.

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