EmCare works well under pressure. EmCare company is the largest provider of contracted emergency department staffing and management to more than 400 hospitals in 40 states. EmCare manages emergency services for hospitals, including recruiting and hiring medical directors, doctors, and nurses and monitoring their performance. The company is expanding its hospitalist services -- staffing hospitals with acute-care specialists. Emcare also provides anesthesiology services to surgery centers and teleradiology services to smaller regional hospitals. Other services include such administrative functions as billing, record keeping, and staff scheduling. EmCare is a subsidiary of Emergency Medical Services.

Osteotech uses donated human tissue (also known as allograft) to make bone repair, replacement, and regeneration products for the orthopedic, neurological, oral/maxillofacial, and dental surgery markets around the globe. Its Grafton brand of bone matrix comes in gel, sheet, putty, and even chip form to fill bone defects and induce bone growth. Other marketed products include Magnifuse graft material and FacetLinx for spinal fusion. Additionally, Osteotech processes bovine tissue (xenografts) for use as bone grafts. The company is owned by medical device maker Medtronic.

Those wanting to see more clearly might benefit from products made by Abbott Medical Optics (formerly Advanced Medical Optics). The subsidiary of Abbott Labs makes eye care products in three key segments: corneal, refractive, and cataract. The company's corneal products include contact lens solutions and eyedrops for consumers. Its refractive and cataract product lines focus on professional devices, equipment, and accessories used in laser vision correction procedures and cataract surgery; it is the global leader in LASIK surgical devices. Surgery products are marketed to eye surgeons and surgery centers worldwide through a direct sales force.

MultiCare Health System is a not-for-profit health system serving residents of four counties in the southern Puget Sound region and southwestern Washington. The system's four hospitals combined have more than 800 beds. The largest facility, Tacoma General, boasts 390 beds and provides specialized cancer, cardiac, orthopedic, and trauma care, in addition to general medical and surgical care. Other medical centers include Good Samaritan Hospital with 225 beds, Allenmore Hospital with 130 beds, and the 70-bed Mary Bridge Children's Hospital. MultiCare Health System also operates dozens of primary care, specialty care, and urgent care clinics throughout the region, as well as home health and hospice care agencies.

J. C. Blair Memorial Hospital was established in 1911 by Kate Fisher Blair in memory of her husband, John Chalmers Blair. J. C. Blair Memorial Hospital serves Huntingdon County in central Pennsylvania. With more than 100 beds, the community hospital has about 40 physicians on staff representing a variety of specialties including cancer care, pediatrics, cardiology, and orthopedics. J. C. Blair also offers patients a range of hospital services including emergency, behavioral health, diagnostic, birthing, and surgical care, as well as ambulatory outpatient services.

Sheridan Community Hospital certainly lives up to its "community" moniker. Local volunteers are considered a mainstay of the hospital, logging more than 4,000 hours of service every year. The facility offers residents of Montcalm, Michigan and surrounding counties emergency services, occupational health, cardiology, orthopedics, and general surgery. The hospital has begun testing the waters of 21st century technology by investing in digital imaging and high-tech scanning systems. Sheridan Community Hospital has also opened Edmore Care-West, its second family practice location in Edmore.

Spherix Incorporated was launched in 1967 as a scientific research company. The company now leverages its scientific and technical expertise and experience through its two subsidiaries—Biospherics Incorporated and Spherix Consulting, Inc. Biospherics is currently conducting a Phase 3 clinical trial investigating the use of D-Tagatose, a stereoisomer of fructose already approved as a sugar substitute, as a treatment for glycemic control in patients with Type 2 diabetes. Spherix Consulting provides scientific and strategic support for suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and retailers of conventional foods, biotechnology-derived foods, medical foods, infant formulas, food ingredients, dietary supplements, food contact substances, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, consumer products, and industrial chemicals and pesticides.

Wenatchee Valley Medical Center (WVMC) has Pacific Northwesterners covered. Formed in 1940, the physician-owned rural health care system administers medical aid to residents in north central Washington State through eight community clinics and a 20-bed acute care hospital. The central campus includes the Wenatchee Valley Clinic, the Wenatchee Valley Hospital and Surgery Center, and a regional radiation treatment oncology center. There are about 170 physicians at WVMC who provide care in most major medical specialties including behavioral health, cardiology, and OB-GYN.

Coastal Administrative Services (CAS) has a plan to keep your employees healthy. The third-party administrator (TPA) offers insurance benefits to businesses in the Pacific Northwest that self-fund their health care plans. (A self-funded or self-insured health plan is one in which the employer assumes some or all of the risk for providing health care benefits to its employees.) CAS offers such services as benefit plan design and consultancy, plan administration, and claims processing for businesses with 15 to 500 employees. It partners with Shorman Solutions to provide case management services and Northwest Pharmacy Services to provide pharmacy benefits.

Essilor International SA, is a leading maker of ophthalmic products and supplies, particularly corrective lenses. Its Varilux progressive lenses have become a top choice for people needing bifocals, and the firm is renowned for developing lighter, more durable lenses. The company's products treat the common sight problems myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness), astigmatism, and presbyopia (reduced ability to change focus from far to near). Essilor distributes its lenses through a global network of about 300 company-owned prescription laboratories, as well as through independent labs.

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