As the company likes to say: Rise, roll, rest, and ride! Golden Technologies is in the business of helping those who need a little assistance getting around do all of the above with its line of lift chairs, scooters, power wheelchairs, and adjustable beds. The company's brands include the Alante and the Alero power chairs, several types of scooters, including the Avenger, the Buzz Around, and the Companion Series, and the Compass wheelchair line. Adjustable beds come in standard or deluxe models. Golden Technologies' base of operations is in Old Forge, Pennsylvania; its products are sold through dealers in the US, Canada, and Mexico. The family-owned company was founded in 1985 by Robert Golden Sr. and Fred Kiwak.

Greatbatch likes to keep its business close to the heart. The company is a leading maker of batteries used in implantable medical devices such as pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). Other medical components include electrodes, capacitors, and feedthroughs (used to deliver electrical signals from an implantable medical device to an electrode). Greatbatch also makes batteries for demanding industrial applications, such as oil and gas exploration, and supplies power sources for the Space Shuttle. Boston Scientific, Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, and St. Jude Medical are among the company's top customers. Greatbatch gets nearly half of its sales from US clients.

Synthes knows that, when it comes to surgery, sometimes synthetic is superior. Synthes makes devices, instruments, and implants used for the surgical treatment of bone disease or trauma. The company also markets implant coatings, synthetic bone replacement materials, and bioresorbable implants. It specializes in spinal devices, including disc replacement and cranio-maxillofacial implants. The company also designs and manufactures the kind of surgical power tools that the squeamish would prefer not to contemplate. Synthes works closely with the AO Foundation, a not-for-profit research organization specializing in osteosynthesis. Chairman Hansjörg Wyss holds 40% of the company's shares.

Billings works hard to make those medical bills worth paying. Billings Clinic is an integrated health care system caring for residents of Big Sky Country. The heart of the system is a multi-specialty physician group consisting of nearly 300 doctors and other health care providers who provide care in Billings, Montana, and surrounding communities. Billings Clinic also includes a 270-bed hospital with a birthing center and the organization's main clinic. Additionally, Billings Clinic runs the 90-bed Aspen Meadows Retirement Community and provides support services to several community hospitals in the region. The health care system is a not-for-profit organization and is owned by the community.

Mother M. Angela and Sister M. Rufina Dunn of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross of Notre Dame founded Mount Carmel in 1886. Mount Carmel Health System cares for the sick in the greater Columbus area and central Ohio. The health care system boasts about 1,500 physicians at three general hospitals and a specialty surgical hospital, offering a comprehensive range of medical and surgical services Mount Carmel Health also operates a variety of outpatient centers and primary care and specialty physicians' practices, and offers home health care services. The hospital group is part of Trinity Health, one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the US.

Hackensack University Medical Center hospital has nearly 800 beds and serves the residents of northern New Jersey and parts of New York. Hackensack University Medical Center administers general medical and surgical care, as well as an array of specialty care. The medical center provides treatment for sick kids through its Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital and the Tomorrow's Children's Institute (specializing in cancer and blood disorders). Founded in 1888, the system has more than 1,500 physicians and dentists on staff (it adds about 100 doctors each year).

Dynamic Associated Companies was established in 1987. Dynamic Associated Companies provides home health care services to those who want to avoid institutional care. The firm offers visiting nurse services to clients across Los Angeles County through its certified home health skilled nursing agency, Dynamic Home Care. Another subsidiary, Dynamic Nursing, provides personal grooming, custodial care, and homemaker services in the same region. The firm also offers skilled nursing, rehabilitation therapy, and custodial care in and around Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Puerto Rican Family Institute (PRFI) wants to keep families intact and healthy. It offers more than 20 social and health care programs to families who live in primarily Latino neighborhoods in New York and New Jersey, as well as Puerto Rico. Services include mental health treatment through clinics in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Manhattan, and Queens; crisis intervention; foster care placement prevention programs; and Head Start programs. PRFI also reaches out to the mentally and developmentally disabled by operating intermediate care and residential alternative facilities. The not-for-profit serves those infected with AIDS through counseling, psychiatric services, and case management.

PMC serves patients in eastern Kentucky with about 260 beds and 200 doctors providing a full range of inpatient, outpatient, and surgical services. PMC also operates a family practice clinic (through which it offers a family practice residency program) and a rehabilitation hospital. Its Pikeville Medical Development Corporation (PMDC) works to attract businesses to the area and foster collaborations between the hospital and the Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine. PMC first opened on Christmas Day in 1924.

Alameda Alliance for Health is a not-for-profit provider of health insurance and related products to more than 90,000 members in California's Alameda County. The company's programs include Medi-Cal (low-income insurance), Healthy Families (low-cost insurance for children), and Alliance Group Care (employer-sponsored coverage). Its network includes approximately 1,700 physicians, 15 hospitals, 30 community health centers, and 140 pharmacies. The company also offers health education, cultural, and lingual programs. Alameda Alliance was founded by the residents of Alameda County in 1996.

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