Teleflex helps medical professionals manage fluids and oxygen and it helps airlines keep cargo contained. Through its Medical segment, Teleflex makes surgical instruments, medical devices, and disposable supplies for hospital procedures, especially catheters for all parts of the body. While medical products are its main focus. The company's Aerospace segment provides aircraft cargo handling systems under the Telair International and Nordisk brands. Teleflex distributes its products in more than 140 countries around the globe.

Joint Replacement Instrumentation Limited designs and manufactures joint replacement devices, including replacement hips and knees, that are distributed throughout the world under the Furlong trade name. Joint Replacement Instrumentation also sells instruments needed for the implantation of its products. JRI was founded in 1969 by orthopedic surgeon Ronald Furlong, first importing hip replacement prostheses from Switzerland and later moving on to manufacture products in-house.

East Texas Medical Center (ETMC) Regional Healthcare System helps meet the health care needs of residents of the Piney Woods. The not-for-profit health system operates about a dozen hospitals across eastern Texas, along with behavioral, rehabilitation, and home health care businesses. Its flagship 450-bed Tyler location serves as the hub and referral center for satellite medical centers located in more rural locations. The system also features numerous primary care and outpatient clinics throughout the region. In addition, ETMC operates an emergency ambulance service subsidiary and a clinical laboratory, which provide services to the facilities of ETMC Regional Healthcare System.

Sisters opened a private hospital, establishing the foundation for what would eventually be the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System (SCLHS). Today, the not-for-profit health care organization operates nine hospitals and four clinics throughout California, Colorado, Kansas, and Montana, with a total of more than 2,000 beds. Its facilities include acute care, extended care, and rehabilitation services. True to its name, the organization's facilities continue to provide health services to low-income and uninsured people.

Sisters of Mercy provides a range of health care and social services through its network of facilities and service organizations. The organization operates more than two dozen acute care hospitals (including three specialty heart hospitals) with some 4,000 licensed beds in seven states throughout the South and Midwest. Its hospital groups include facilities for nursing homes, medical practices, and outpatient centers. Sisters of Mercy Health System also runs health outreach organizations in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.

Heartland Health is an integrated health delivery system, which includes a Heartland Regional Medical Center, Heartland Clinic, Heartland Foundation and a Community Health Improvement Solutions. Founded in St. Joseph in 1984, Heartland seeks to improve the health of area individuals and communities and to provide the right care, at the right time, in the right place, at the right cost with outcomes second to none. Commitment to this mission has enabled Heartland Health to become the leader in health care in a 21-county area of northwest Missouri, northeast Kansas and southeast Nebraska. Providing exceptional care and service in an honest, respectful, trustworthy and caring manner is simply the way Heartland operates.

Sinai-Grace Hospital hopes to provide health care to grateful Detroit residents. The acute care medical center has about 400 beds and 800 physicians providing a variety of emergency, general, specialty, and outpatient services. Specialist programs include cancer care, cardiology, gastroenterology, orthopedics, rehabilitation, women's and children's services, and reconstructive surgeries. Sinai-Grace provides training to medical students through an affiliation with Wayne State University. The hospital is part of the Detroit Medical Center network.

Columbia St. Mary's serves Southeastern Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Ozaukee, and Washington counties) through a health care network that includes four hospitals -- Columbia St. Mary's Milwaukee Campus, Columbia St. Mary's Ozaukee Campus, Columbia St. Mary's Columbia Campus, and the Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Institute. Other members of the health system include about 50 community clinics, the Columbia College of Nursing, the River Woods Outpatient Center and the Cathedral Square Urgent Care Center. The Catholic Sisters of Charity founded St. Mary's Hospital in Milwaukee in 1848 at the request of Bishop John Martin Henni. The company is sponsored by Ascension Health and Columbia Health System.

The F. Dohmen Co. no longer has to decipher doctor's scribbles, but it still works to get prescriptions filled. Its RESTAT subsidiary is a prescription benefits management company, handling the drug benefit plans of some 6 million covered members through a network of more than 62,000 pharmacies. RESTAT helps insurers, third-party administrators, self-insured employers and others with claims services, and clinical management, among other things. The company's DDN subsidiary provides pharmaceutical logistics services to smaller drug companies. Its services include new product launching, regulatory compliance, and specialty pharmaceutical handling --including DEA certification to handle controlled substances.

"Sterile" is the watchword at Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB). The company makes and supplies equipment used in the medical and biopharmaceutical industries for filtration, fluid management, fermentation, purification, and laboratory applications. Products include sterilized, disposable bags, systems that freeze or thaw pharmaceutical components, as well as systems for the sterile transfer of liquids or solids. SSB sells its products to the pharmaceutical, chemical and food and beverage industries, as well as research and educational institutes around the globe. Formerly called Stedim, the firm changed its name in 2007 when it was acquired with German lab equipment maker Sartorius.

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