St. John's Mercy Health Care, an affiliate of the Sisters of Mercy Health System, is a not-for-profit health care system serving the greater St. Louis metro area and surrounding counties. The system offers some 1,200 beds and almost 1,300 physicians and is one of the largest Catholic-sponsored health care complexes in the nation. St. John's Mercy Health Care's network includes St. John's Mercy Medical Center, St. John's Hospital, Mercy Medical Group (a network of primary care physicians), a home health care division, a skilled nursing facility, and several specialty clinics. Specialty services include cardiac and cancer care and pediatrics.

Established in 1941, Miles Memorial Hospital is a subsidiary of Lincoln County Healthcare. Its board of trustees is comprised of individuals who live throughout Lincoln County. The administration and management teams serve both Miles Memorial Hospital and St. Andrews Hospital in Boothbay Harbor. Miles' most unique characteristic is its broad range of health care services. Miles has developed a full Circle of Care to meet the medical, rehabilitation, wellness and retirement needs of Lincoln County and the surrounding area. Most of these services are located together on the Miles Memorial Hospital campus in Damariscotta.

University of Connecticut Health Center includes a full-service acute care medical center, the 225-bed John Dempsey Hospital, which conducts medical treatment, educational training, and clinical research. The hospital facility provides specialty care including cardiovascular, cancer, neurological, behavioral health, emergency, and ambulatory services, among others. The University of Connecticut Health Center was founded in 1961.

Capital BlueCross could be your direct link to health care coverage. A licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, the company provides health insurance products to individuals and employer groups, with a total of more than 1 million members in central and eastern Pennsylvania. It offers traditional, PPO, HMO, and POS health care plans, as well as dental and vision coverage and Medicare Advantage plans. Capital BlueCross' network includes more than 11,000 health care providers and nearly 40 hospitals. The company also provides benefits administration services to self-funded customers through for-profit subsidiary Capital Administrative Services (dba NCAS Pennsylvania).

St. Luke's Episcopal Health System cares for Lone Star Staters through flagship St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, which performed the first heart transplant in the US. St. Luke's Episcopal Health System also operates smaller area hospitals, the Texas Heart Institute, a network of community clinics, and other specialized services in and around Houston. Founded in 1954, the system has some 950 beds and a medical staff of more than 600 doctors. The company's physicians provide more than 20 clinical services in more than 40 specialties.

Rapid City Regional Hospital's medical facility is a general and psychiatric hospital with more than 400 acute care beds and 50 psychiatric beds located in western Black Hills of South Dakota. In addition to emergency and acute care, the not-for-profit hospital also offers a diabetes center, a 50 bed behavioral health center, a rehabilitation facility, and a cancer care institute. Rapid City Regional Hospital, which was established in 1973, is part of Regional Health, a network of five regional hospitals and more than two dozen medical clinics and senior care centers.

KInetic Concepts,Inc "therapeutic surfaces" (commonly known as hospital beds and specialized mattresses) treat and prevent complications associated with patient immobility, such as pressure sores and buildup of fluid in the lungs. The company also makes vacuum-assisted wound care systems and critical care therapy systems, which rotate immobilized patients to reduce the incidence of pulmonary complications and pressure sores. Its LifeCell business develops tissue regeneration products used in surgical procedures. Customers include acute and long-term care facilities, home health agencies, wound care clinics, and individuals in the US and abroad.

Ion Beam Applications (IBA) on the frontlines in the battle against cancer. IBA designs cyclotrons and produces and distributes radiopharmaceutical markers used by hospitals the world over to detect cancers, and heart and neurological diseases. It's a world leader in proton therapy, used to selectively destroy cancer cells. IBA also provides hospitals with dosimetry products to monitor patient doses and assure the quality of X-ray diagnosis. It produces sterilization and ionization products used to sterilize pre-packaged disposable medical products, cosmetics, and even US mail. IBA was formed in 1986 as a spin-off of the Cyclotron Research Center at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve.

Palomar Medical Technologies' laser light show is more functional than flashy. Palomar makes laser and pulsed-light systems, along with related disposable products, for use in aesthetic procedures. The company's products include the EsteLux, StarLux, and MediLux systems. The systems, which are paired with a variety of handpieces, are used for skin resurfacing and acne treatments, hair removal, and treatment of leg veins, among other procedures. Additionally, Palomar's Q-YAG 5 laser removes tattoos and pigmented lesions. The firm markets its products through a direct sales force and distributors around the world.

SHPS wants to turn employees into savvy consumers of health care.SHPS company provides administrative services that integrate traditional benefits administration with disease management programs and decision-support tools that encourage users to stay healthier and use benefits more wisely; the hoped-for end result is lower overall health care costs. SHPS provides its services -- including online benefits administration, program design, call center support, and absence management programs -- to midsized and large employer groups and government agencies; it also provides services to insurers, third-party administrators, and other health care companies. Investment firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe owns SHPS.

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