he Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) was established in 1824 by the Medical Society of South Carolina as a private medical college. The medical school came under state ownership in 1913, and was designated a full university in 1969. The school has 1,300 faculty members and trains 2,600 medical professionals per year. It is well-known for programs in areas including cardiovascular medicine, cancer care, and neuroscience. Other programs include pharmacy, nursing, and dental training. The MUSC Medical Center in Charleston is made up of four hospital centers including a children's facility and a psychiatric institute, has some 700 beds, and operates the city's Level I trauma center.

St. Luke's Health System strives to live up to its namesake. The regional not-for-profit health system provides a range of health services to residents of Idaho, eastern Oregon, and northern Nevada. St. Luke's is home to four general acute care hospitals with a total of about 800 beds. Its flagship facility is the 400-bed St. Luke's Boise Regional Medical Center, which also includes a full-service children's hospital. St. Luke's also runs a network of cancer care sites under the name Mountain States Tumor Institute, as well as diagnostic imaging and breast cancer detection centers.

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.

Feeling uncomfortable in your own skin? Alma Lasers can help. The company specializes in developing treatments using laser, intense pulsed light, and radiofrequency for a variety of skin conditions. Its products, including Harmony and Soprano, provide skin resurfacing, hair removal, wrinkle treatment, and skin tightening, among other procedures. Founded in 1999, Alma Lasers markets its products, used by plastic surgeons, dermatologists, general physicians, and other medical practitioners, in more than 60 countries. Investment firm TA Associates controls a majority interest in the company.

Delta Dental Plan of New Hampshire provides dental benefits and related services to its members in New Hampshire. Delta Dental Plan of New Hampshire operates under the trade name Northeast Delta Dental, which also includes Delta Dental of Maine and Delta Dental of Vermont. Altogether, Northeast Delta Dental has a network of some 1,600 dentists in the tri-state area and provides benefits administration services for more than 700,000 people through individual and group accounts. Delta Dental Plan of New Hampshire and its affiliates are members of the Delta Dental Plans Association, an affiliated network of dental benefit providers throughout the US.

IASIS Healthcare LLC owns and operates about 15 acute care hospitals and one behavioral health facility (more than 2,800 beds total) in Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Nevada, Texas, and Utah. IASIS also operates several outpatient facilities and other centers providing ancillary services, such as radiation therapy, diagnostic imaging, and ambulatory surgery. Its Health Choice Arizona subsidiary is a Medicaid and Medicare managed health plan that serves about 200,000 individuals in Arizona. An investor group led by Texas Pacific Group owns the company.

Shriners Hospitals For Children. The system operates 22 hospitals in North America. Among those, 18 specialize in orthopedic conditions, some also specialize in treating serious burn injuries, spinal cord injuries, and cleft lips and palates. Founded by the fellowship Shrine of North America, the hospitals are supported by a multitude of fundraising events organized by 500,000 red fez-wearing members. As a result, these hospitals are able to treat children under 18 years old completely for free. Shriners Hospitals For Children was founded in 1922.

Established in 1773, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center has more than 700 beds. One of five member institutions in the Johns Hopkins Health System, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center is a community teaching hospital. Its Baltimore-based operations include a neonatal intensive care unit, as well as centers devoted to trauma, geriatrics, sleep disorders, and weight management. It also features the state's only regional burn center. The facility includes a meditation labyrinth for patients, families, and staff to walk.

Delta Dental of Missouri provides dental benefits for employer groups in Missouri and South Carolina. The not-for-profit organization serves more than 1.5 million members in the region. It offers employer-sponsored plans (Delta Dental Premier and Delta Dental PPO) to about 1,500 client companies with 10 or more employees. Delta Dental of Missouri doesn't offer individual policies. The company's network provides access to more than 160,000 dentists throughout the US. Delta Dental of Missouri is a member of the Delta Dental Plans Association.

The Priory Group is Europe's leading independent provider of care for mental health conditions, psychological and psychiatric services including condition management programmes, secure, forensic and step-down services, specialist education, complex care, neuro-rehabilitation services, fostering and care homes with more than 75% of funding coming from the public sector. The purpose is to work with individuals, their families and their care teams to create a personalised programme of treatment, care and education. Each programme is designed to maximise potential, increase self-esteem, promote independence and improve quality of life whether we're helping with a mental health condition, addiction, brain injury, old age or disability.

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