"VHA" could stand for a "Very Healthy America." Founded in 1977, VHA provides health care industry-related services to members who join the company's cooperative network. VHA serves about 1,400 not-for-profit hospitals nationwide. Its members also include some 30,000 non-acute health care organizations such as imaging centers, home health care agencies, and pharmacies. Services include financial analysis, clinical improvement programs, public policy advocacy, and supply chain management. Additionally, VHA's members can purchase medical supplies at a reduced cost from Novation, a joint venture VHA has with University HealthSystem Consortium. The organization is led by CEO Curt Nonomaque, formerly VHA's CFO.

American Baptist Homes of the West (ABHOW) preaches the gospel of the active senior lifestyle, operating about 30 senior living facilities in four western states. Most of ABHOW's communities are government-subsidized apartments for low-income seniors. About a dozen of its residences, however, are continuing care retirement communities, which offer a range of care -- residential living, assisted living, or skilled nursing -- depending on residents' needs. The communities also schedule social activities and offer wellness programs and transportation services. Parent company Cornerstone Affiliates acquires and develops communities.

Founded in 1976, Audika banks on the notion that the market for senior citizens' hearing correction is not affected by economic downturns. "Paris, I can't hear you. Let me turn up my Audika." The company operates about 400 hearing correction centers in about 80 French regions, making Audika a leading network of hearing correction centers in France. It also operates some centers in Italy. The hearing-focused company uses the centers to distribute hearing aids and other related accessories such as batteries and ear protection products.

The organization serves western Wisconsin, including Eau Claire and surrounding communities, through its Luther Hospital, Midelfort Clinic, and other facilities. The health care system has been part of the Mayo Foundation since 1992. Luther Hospital, founded in 1905, maintains more than 300 beds and specializes in comprehensive cardiac, trauma, and intensive care. The adjacent Midelfort Clinic houses more than 200 primary and specialty doctors' offices. The Luther Midelfort system also includes nearly a dozen community family care clinics, and provides pharmacy and home health services.

SleepMed was formed in December 1999 through the merger of Sleep Disorder Centers of America (SDCA), based in Columbia SC, and DigiTrace Care Services, Inc. (DCSI), based in Boston MA. SDCA was founded in 1994 by Dr. Richard K. Bogan, who has board certifications in sleep medicine, pulmonary medicine, critical care medicine and internal medicine. After becoming one of the first physicians in the nation to become board certified in sleep medicine and to accredit his sleep center through the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Dr. Bogan recognized that his practice was attracting patients from across the state of South Carolina. With a professional mission to improve a patient's access to sleep medicine, Bogan began training pulmonary specialists in other markets within the state and assisting them in setting up a sleep lab in their community hospitals. Word of mouth began to spread and, by 1999, SDCA grew to over 20 sleep labs performing over 10,000 sleep studies a year.

Radient Pharmaceuticals (formerly AMDL) is ready to hunt down cancer and some day might even be able to do something about it.Radient Pharmaceuticals company has developed and manufactures an in vitro blood test to detect over a dozen forms of cancer. Marketed as Onko-Sure, the test kits are approved for use in Europe and Asia; in the US the kits are approved for monitoring colorectal cancer, while in Canada it is used to detect lung cancer. Drug manufacturing facilities in China previously accounted for the bulk of the company's income, but it has chosen to focus its efforts on its Onko-Sure products. Other products in its pipeline include a technology with the potential to develop cancer vaccines.

Mendocino Coast District Hospital was founded in 1971. Mendocino Coast District Hospital provides medical care for residents of the rural communities in the coastal region near Fort Bragg, California. Its services include emergency medicine, occupational and physical therapy, obstetrics, respiratory care, hospice, and cardiology. The nearly 50-bed hospital also offers health education classes and support groups.

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Wellmont Health System provides general and advanced medical-surgical care to residents of northeastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. The health system consists of about a dozen owned and affiliated hospitals that collectively have more than 1,300 licensed beds. One of its facilities is a rehabilitation hospital operated in partnership with HealthSouth. Wellmont also operates numerous ancillary facilities, including an assisted living center, a mental health clinic, home health care and hospice agencies, and outpatient centers. The health system was founded in 1996.

Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA, a kidney dialysis company, offers dialysis treatment services through its clinics. As of December 31, 2009, the company provided dialysis treatment to 195,651 patients in 2,553 clinics worldwide located in approximately 35 countries. It also performs clinical laboratory testing services, including blood, urine, and other bodily fluid testing services, as well as provides inpatient dialysis and other services under contract to hospitals. In addition, the company develops and manufactures a range of equipment, systems, and disposable products, including hemodialysis (HD) machines, modular components for dialysis machines, polysulfone dialyzers, bloodlines, HD solutions and concentrates, needles, connectors, machines for water treatment, data administration systems, and dialysis chairs.

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