Wyoming Valley Health Care System (WVHCS) cares for the rugged folk in the wilds of Pennsylvania. WVHCS operates the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, an acute care facility with some 300 beds that serves northeastern Pennsylvania residents. The hospital includes a women's and children's center, cardiac care unit, and a cancer care center. The WVHCS network also includes a behavioral health hospital, the First Hospital Wyoming Valley (also known as Nesbitt Memorial Medical Center). Other system facilities include primary care physician offices, behavioral health clinics, long-term and hospice care centers, and a home health agency. WVHCS was acquired by rural healthcare giant Community Health Systems in 2009.

MidState Medical Center isn't lost in the middle. The acute care hospital serves central Connecticut and has some 145 beds (including six psychiatric beds). It offers patients a range of services including cardiac, emergency medicine, and maternity care. MidState Medical Center also has centers dedicated to diabetes, cancer treatment, digestive health, nutrition, and women's health. The hospital has been working hard to keep up with increasing demand for its services. It has built an addition to its campus that added emergency medical care services as well as opened a MidState Medical Services Building, to increase its outpatient care capacity.

First Care Medical Services was founded in 1897 by Dr. C. J. Rosser and his family. First Care Medical Services (FCMS) helps keep the chill of northern Minnesota from getting the better of its residents. FCMS provides general medical and surgical health care services to the Polk County, Minnesota, area, including emergency, cardiovascular, rehabilitation, and cancer care. The not-for-profit hospital also operates regional health care clinics, assisted-living facilities, and nursing homes, and it provides home health and hospice services. Its TeleHomecare system helps monitor patients remotely using in-home technology.

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.

Z-Medica manufactures and sells QuickClot, a product that rapidly stops bleeding in emergency situations, even from arterial injuries. QuickClot works by absorbing blood plasma, the liquid component of blood, and thereby concentrating clotting factors. The hemostat is made of biologically inert minerals, reducing the risk of a patient having an allergic reaction to the compound. QuickClot has been used by the US armed forces in Iraq and is available to civilian medical, emergency, and veterinary customers, as well as over-the-counter to the general public. Z-Medica, founded in 2002, also makes the product available to international buyers through distributors.

St. John's Health System, part of the Sisters of Mercy-St. Louis organization, serves Southwestern Missouri and Northern Arkansas. The system includes St. John's Regional Health Center and five other acute-care facilities (all operating under the St. John's Hospital name) and a network of some 70 clinics operating as St. John's Clinics. The company also administers health plans, offering claims processing and payment, corporate health and wellness programs, medical management, and plan consulting and implementation services through its Health Plan division. Its five regional hospitals are located in Missouri in the cities of Aurora, Cassville, Lebanon, and Mountain View, as well as in Berryville, Arkansas.

Sparks Health System brings good health to western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. The not-for-profit health system operates Sparks Regional Medical Center, a nearly 500-bed community-based hospital, along with a broad range of health care programs and diagnostic facilities. With Arkansas' oldest hospital (founded in 1887) as part of its operations, Sparks boasts an impressive lists of "firsts," including the state's first heart institute (Stanley E. Evans Heart Institute) and the state's first ultrasound equipment. However, an expensive renovation and economic woes pinched the company and in 2009 it was acquired by health care giant Health Management Associates (HMA).

Cardica, Inc. designs and manufactures medical devices for cardiac and other surgical procedures based on its proprietary stapling and cutting technology. It designs and manufactures its automated anastomosis product line, the C-Port Distal Anastomosis systems and PAS-Port Proximal Anastomosis system to automate the joining of blood vessels for the coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery market. The company develops the C-Port Flex A Anastomosis system to enable automated anastomoses, or the joining of blood vessels, to be performed as part of minimally invasive and surgical robot-facilitated CABG procedures. In addition, Cardica is developing the Microcutter, a true multi-fire endoscopic stapling device designed to be used in a various procedures, including bariatric, thoracic, and general surgery. Cardica, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Omnicare Clinical Research Limited, a subsidiary of Omnicare Clinical Research, is a contract research organization (CRO) that provides project management, protocol development, medical monitoring, drug packaging and distribution, and other services. Omnicare Clinical Research Limited, like its parent, specializes in targeting non-Caucasian ethnic and racial populations in periapproval research trials as well as the development of drugs and package labeling specifically developed for the geriatric market for bio-technology and pharmaceutical companies in the UK.

The BNH hospital, formerly known as the Bangkok Nursing Home Hospital, was established originally to provide nursing care for expatriates. The hospital, opened by the British Ambassador to Thailand, Mr. George Grenville, CMG in 1898, was one of the first private hospitals in the Kingdom of Siam. In 1901, King Rama VI granted the BNH Association, a non-profit making organisation, a royal charter in honour of his father, King Rama V, and provided funds for the hospital to extend its care to Thais. In 1991, the BNH Medical Centre was formed to establish a new international standard hospital to meet the demands of the increasing domestic and international market for private health care. The new BNH Hospital complex became operational in 1996. Occupying the same two-acre site in Convent Road, it is surrounded by mature trees and tropical greenery, and is located between Silom Road and Sathorn Road, close to the business, financial and entertainment district of Bangkok, It can be reached easily from all parts of the city by road, or by BTS Sky Train, MRT Metro, from the Sala Daeng Station.BNH Hospital provides the highest quality medical service with specialists and general practitioner doctors completely involved with their patients, from consultation and diagnosis, through to planning and executing treatment, following-up of results, and in surgical cases, post operative card. The concept of ‘the Family Doctor’ is still highly valued at the BNH Hospital.

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