Alfa Scientific Designs makes the tests that ensure the workers of the world are clean and sober (as well as healthy). The company manufacturers point-of-care drug tests and other in vitro diagnostic devices for physicians, hospitals, occupational health centers, and the criminal justice system. Alfa Scientific Designs' products help to detect the presence of cancer markers, fertility hormones, drugs of abuse, and infectious diseases. Established in 1996, Alfa Scientific Designs provides products to clients around the globe through a wide network of distributors and through direct ordering from the company.

Vanguard Health Systems wants to lead the way to better health care. The company operates more than a dozen for-profit acute care hospitals located in mostly affluent urban and suburban markets in Arizona, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Texas; all told, the hospitals have more than 4,000 licensed beds. Vanguard's medical campuses generally include outpatient facilities and medical office buildings that form local health care networks providing a continuum of care. Vanguard also runs three managed health care plans that serve more than 200,000 members in Arizona and Illinois (though its hospitals account for about 75% of its sales). The Blackstone Group owns a majority stake in the company.

Sparrow Hospital, has two campuses and more than 700 beds. Its Clinton Memorial Hospital has about 30 beds, and affiliate Carson City Hospital has roughly 80 beds. Sparrow Health System's other operations include a long-term-care center (located on the St. Lawrence campus of Sparrow Hospital), a hospice care provider, and medical equipment rental unit. The health system got its start in 1896 when a group of women set out with $400, a house on Ottawa Street (in Lansing, Michigan), and a mission to care for the sick.

Biohit wants to be a hit in laboratories worldwide. The company manufactures fluid-handling products and diagnostic test systems for health care, research, and industrial laboratories worldwide. Its main liquid-handling products are electronic and mechanical pipette systems (or sample dispensers), as well as related accessories including controllers, stands, and disposable tips. Biohit also provides maintenance and user training services for its fluid-handling products. The company also develops and sells biological diagnostic products, including testing assays and instruments, used in the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal ailments and other diseases. Biohit was founded in 1988.

HCA (AKA Hospital Corporation of America) operates roughly 170 acute care, psychiatric, and rehabilitation hospitals in the US and England. It also runs about 100 ambulatory surgery centers, as well as cancer treatment and outpatient rehab centers that form health care networks in many of the communities it serves. HCA has facilities in 20 states; about three-quarters of its hospitals are in the southern US (approximately 70 are in Florida and Texas). The hospital giant's HCA International operates its hospitals and clinics in the UK. HCA is planning to go public through a $4.6 billion initial public offering.

Paramount Care helps Midwesterners take care of their most important asset: their health. The managed care organization provides health coverage to more than 187,000 members in 26 counties of northwestern Ohio and southeastern Michigan. With a network that includes 34 hospitals and 1,900 physicians, it offers a variety of commercial health plans, including HMO, PPO, and point-of-service options. For seniors, it provides Medicare supplemental coverage and Medicare Advantage plans. Its Paramount Insurance unit offers life policies, and Paramount Preferred Network unit provides workers' compensation services to area employers. Formed in 1988, Paramount Care is a subsidiary of ProMedica Health System.

Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates wants to be in the forefront of health care in Boston and surrounding regions. The 625-physician medical group operates from more than 20 offices located throughout eastern Massachusetts, providing primary and specialty medical care to some 480,000 adult and pediatric patients. For acute health care services, Harvard Vanguard patients have access to more than a dozen area hospitals, including Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Harvard Vanguard is a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. It is also a member of Atrius Health, a not-for-profit association of Massachusetts medical groups.

St. John Providence Health System is comprised of seven hospitals plus more than 125 medical facilities in southeast Michigan. Every year at St. John Providence Health System, we touch thousands of lives in southeast Michigan through services such as heart, cancer, obstetrics, neurosciences, orthopedics, physical rehabilitation, behavioral medicine, surgery, emergency and urgent care.

Porter Adventist is a general, acute-care facility that provides a full range of primary care and specialized services in areas such as cardiology, orthopedics, emergency medicine, and cancer treatment. The hospital expanded to meet growing demand a few years ago when it completed a $110 million project that added an larger intensive care unit, surgical suites, new operating rooms, and a community education center. Porter Adventist was founded in 1930 by a Henry Porter, a businessman from California.

Hunt Memorial Hospital District doesn't want Hunt County residents to have to search high and low for a health care provider. The district, also known as Hunt Regional Healthcare, operates two Northeast Texas hospitals, the Hunt Regional Medical Center at Greenville and the Hunt Regional Community Hospital at Commerce. The hospitals offer specialized services including cardiac care, rehabilitation, cancer treatment, diabetes management, diagnostic imaging, a surgery center, and a sleep disorder clinic. In addition, the district operates divisions that provide home health and EMS services, as well as family medicine, occupational health, and specialty outpatient medical clinics.

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