Loyally protecting Shytown's health through a network of teaching hospitals and clinics is Loyola University Health System (LUHS), part of Loyola University. The flagship property of the private Jesuit Catholic network is an 800-licensed-bed institution that includes the Loyola University Medical Center campus (with its Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, the Ronald McDonald Children's Hospital of Loyola, Burn/Trauma Center, and Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine) and the 36-acre Gottlieb Hospital campus. LUHS also operates a network of specialty and primary care clinics in Chicago's western and southwestern suburbs. The system has been providing health care to the region for more than 35 years.

3M Health Care Ltd. is the European arm of 3M's health care operations. The company manufactures and distributes medical, dental, veterinary, and food safety products. Its products range from wound care dressings, tapes, casting materials, and stethoscopes to transdermal patches and microbiology testing equipment. Its dental care products include adhesives, coatings, crowns, infection control, and sealers. The company also provides information services and software to the health care industry. 3M Health Care Ltd. maintains research and development facilities as well as manufacturing and distribution operations.

Founded in 1975, Brownsville-Valley Regional Medical Center is part of the HCA healthcare system. The Brownsville-Valley Regional Medical Center provides health care to residents of Brownsville, Texas, and the surrounding region (generally called "the Valley"). The acute care facility has about 215 beds and offers primary and emergency care services. Its operations include a specialty center devoted to women's care, a minor and major trauma center, and community outreach programs. It also provides neonatal, neurology, cardiology, and orthopedic care.

Spacelabs Healthcare got its start monitoring the health of NASA astronauts; nowadays it makes medical diagnostic and therapeutic equipment for more Earth-bound patients. The company's Ultraview bedside patient monitor and telemetry systems keep up with patient's data and transmit it to caregivers through clinical wired and wireless networks. Its Blease anesthesia delivery systems and ventilators are used in operative and perioperative settings. Its Del Mar Reynolds unit develops heart monitors including electrocardiogram and ambulatory blood pressure monitors. Spacelabs Healthcare operates worldwide and holds all of the healthcare operations of its parent, OSI Systems.

Advocate South Suburban Hospital nearly 400 doctors also provide a range of outpatient services, including diagnostic imaging, physical therapy, infusion services, and wound care. The Advocate South Suburban Hospital emergency department provides treatment for more than 27,000 patients each year. As part of metropolitan Chicago's integrated Advocate Health Care system, the hospital also provides home health care services and access to its parent's network of affiliated physicians.suburbanites. Advocate South Suburban Hospital champions the health of Chicago's suburbanites. The 290-bed acute care facility provides general medical and surgical care, as well as a variety of specialty services such as oncology, women's health, and cardiology.

Garden City Hospital provides health care and osteopathic medical education services in western Wayne County, Michigan. With 323 licensed beds, the community hospital's specialties include cardiology, women's health, and sports rehabilitation. Some of its more unusual services include clinical hypnotherapy and a massage clinic. The hospital has more than 350 physicians on its medical staff. Its emergency department treats nearly 45,000 patients each year. Garden City Hospital partners with Michigan State University's College of Osteopathic Medicine as well as other osteopathic medical colleges around the country.

Sunrise Medical, Inc. manufactures and supplies wheelchairs and wheelchair accessories, and replacement parts. Its Quickie wheelchairs range from manual to motorized, adult to child-sized, and from everyday use to sports models for athletes. Its products are targeted for use in both institutional and home use. Sunrise Medical also makes Jay brand cushions and wheelchair backs. The company's A.R.T. division designs and manufactures custom configured seating and positioning equipment. Sunrise Medical markets its products in about 100 countries around the globe through an inside sales force and through distributors.

CryoLife preserves lives by conserving the tissues that sustain it. The company takes human heart valves and blood vessels from deceased volunteer donors, processes them, and stores them in liquid nitrogen freezers (a process called cryopreservation). It then ships them to surgeons nationwide, who implant them during cardiac and vascular repair procedures. For some preserved tissue, the company uses its proprietary SynerGraft technology, which reduces the presence of donor cells and makes the tissue more compatible with the recipient. CryoLife also develops implantable biomaterials, including BioGlue, an adhesive used to seal internal surgical wounds.

New Hanover Health Network (NHHN) system serves the Wilmington and Cape Fear area of North Carolina through the 635-bed New Hanover Regional Medical Center, the 130-bed Cape Fear Hospital, and the 85-bed Pender Memorial Hospital. NHHN is also home to a rehabilitation center, a behavioral health facility, hospice services, home health care, EMS transport services, physicians practices, and outpatient clinics. The not-for-profit New Hanover Health Network is affiliated with the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine.

Radient Pharmaceuticals (formerly AMDL) is ready to hunt down cancer and some day might even be able to do something about it.Radient Pharmaceuticals company has developed and manufactures an in vitro blood test to detect over a dozen forms of cancer. Marketed as Onko-Sure, the test kits are approved for use in Europe and Asia; in the US the kits are approved for monitoring colorectal cancer, while in Canada it is used to detect lung cancer. Drug manufacturing facilities in China previously accounted for the bulk of the company's income, but it has chosen to focus its efforts on its Onko-Sure products. Other products in its pipeline include a technology with the potential to develop cancer vaccines.

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