Plantation General Hospital has been caring for patients from the time that they were seedlings, until the time that they begin to wither. Plantation General Hospital, a part of the enormous HCA healthcare provider system, is a 264-bed acute care hospital serving Broward County (think Fort Lauderdale area), and the city of Plantation, Florida. The facility offers a full spectrum of health care services, but specializes in maternity, neonatal, and pediatric services. It also offers surgical obesity services and a stroke center. Plantation General Hospital first opened in 1966.

American HomePatient is making sure no one is home alone when it comes to health care. American HomePatient provides home health services from about 240 locations in more than 30 states. The company provides respiratory therapy and equipment, including oxygen therapy, sleep apnea systems, and nebulizers. It also offers home infusion therapy services, including feeding and intravenous drug administration. Additionally, American HomePatient rents and sells durable hospital equipment, including beds and wheelchairs. Mostly it operates independently, but also provides home care in a few areas through joint ventures with hospitals. American HomePatient is owned by investment firm Highland Capital Management.

West Virginia University Hospitals (WVUH) has West Virginians covered. The health care system's facilities include the behavioral health center Chestnut Ridge Hospital, City Hospital, Jefferson Memorial Hospital, Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center, Ruby Memorial Hospital, and the West Virginia University Children's Hospital; combined, the system has more than 500 beds. Other services include centers for eye and dental care, cancer treatment (Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center), and family medicine. Cheat Lake Physicians is the physicians group associated with the health system. WVUH is a member of the West Virginia United Health System.

The leading provider of hospital medicine in the U.S., IPC The Hospitalist Company delivers management services to hospitalist practices operating in more than 500 facilities. IPC providers deliver high quality care efficiently and cost-effectively, supported by IPC-Link®, the most sophisticated, comprehensive hospitalist-centric software. IPC facilitates dramatic improvements for three constituencies:

Established in 1989, we and our worldwide affiliates have processed and banked over 215,000 cord blood samples. Our unwavering commitment to quality demands that we continue to seek innovative approaches and applications of newly developed stem cell technologies. We are working to ensure that these new cellular therapies can reach their full potential-curing diseases and improving the health of our clients and their families. Cryo-Cell International Inc believes in maintaining the highest level of ethics and corporate responsibility, reflective in our Corporate Code of Business Conduct and Ethics Statement.

PHP Companies, which does business as Cariten Healthcare, is caring for thousands of residents in eastern Tennessee. A managed care organization, Cariten provides group health plans, including HMO, PPO, and POS plans and Medicare Advantage plans for retirees. The firm provides its services on a fully-insured basis or as a third-party administration services for self-insured employers. Its Business Health Solutions unit provides managed workers' compensation care and vocational rehabilitation services. Covenant Health and Mountain State Health Alliance owned Cariten until it was acquired by Humana for $245 million in late 2008.

Independent Care (better known as Independent Care Health Plan or simply iCare) offers health insurance to individuals ages 19 years and older with special needs (physical, developmental, and emotional) who already receive Medicaid and SSI benefits. iCare provides medical, dental, behavioral health, and vision benefits, as well as prescription drugs and social services for clients. The organization was founded as a joint venture between Humana Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Center for Independence in 1994.

Shawnee Mission Medical Center (SMMC) is determined to help care for the Kansas-side of Kansas City. The health care facility, located in the city's southwest suburbs, has some 450 inpatient beds. It also offers outpatient surgery and other health services in areas such as pediatrics, rehabilitation, oncology, and radiology. Its staff includes about 700 physicians with about 50 specialties. The medical center's emergency department receives some 50,000 visits each year. SMMC also operates satellite facilities, including the Shawnee Mission Outpatient Pavilion in nearby Lenexa, which offers emergency and outpatient diagnostic, general practice, and surgical care. SMMC is part of Adventist Health System.

Trius Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative antibiotics for serious, life-threatening infections. They are currently conducting Phase 3 trials for torezolid phosphate (TR-701), an IV and orally administered second generation oxazolidinone, for the treatment of serious gram-positive bacterial infections, including those caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). With the continuous increase in bacterial resistance to currently marketed drugs, serious infections are becoming more difficult, if not impossible to treat, and this has led to a clear need for novel therapeutics to treat multi-drug resistant bacterial infections.

Children's Medical Center is private, not-for-profit, and is one of the largest pediatric healthcare providers in the nation. As the only academic healthcare facility in North Texas dedicated exclusively to the comprehensive care of children from birth to age 18, Children's provides patient care ranging from simple eye exams to specialized treatment in areas such as heart disease, hematology-oncology and cystic fibrosis. In addition, Children's is a major pediatric kidney, liver, intestine, heart and bone marrow transplant center. As the primary pediatric teaching facility for The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, the medical staff at Children's conducts research that is instrumental in developing treatments, therapies, and greater understanding of pediatric diseases.

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