Nipro Diagnostics,Inc. makes blood glucose monitoring systems and disposable supplies for diabetics, which it sells through retail pharmacies, mass merchandisers, managed care companies, mail service providers, and distributors around the globe. Nipro Diagnostics markets its testing systems and blood monitors through those distribution channels in two ways, under its own brand names -- including Sidekick, TrueTrack Smart System, TRUEread, and Prestige IQ -- and through co-branded partnerships. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Japanese medical device maker Nipro.

Licking Memorial Health Systems was founded in 1898 by the Newark Hospital Association. The health care provider operates the 230-bed Licking Memorial Hospital and a multi-specialty physician group called Licking Memorial Health Professionals. Specialty services at the hospital include cancer care, home health, occupational health, rehabilitation, and cardiology. Licking Memorial Hospital administers behavioral health care (including substance abuse treatments) through its Shepard Hill department. The physicians' group operates through about 40 practices with 90 doctors spanning over about a seven-town area.

Staten Island University Hospital ferries health care services to residents of New York City's fastest growing borough and surrounding areas at its two medical campuses. Established in 1861, Staten Island University Hospital maintains about 775 beds and is a teaching affiliate of the State University of New York's Brooklyn Health Science Center. Its larger north campus includes units specializing in cardiology, pathology, cancer, blood-related diseases, burn treatment, trauma, and women's health. The south campus site offers specialty programs such as sleep medicine, geriatric psychiatry, and substance abuse services. The hospital is a member of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System.

West Jefferson Medical Center keeps the suburbs of New Orleans in tune. A full-service community hospital serving Jefferson County, Lousiana, the not-for-profit hospital has about 450 beds and provides general medical-surgical care, as well as specialty care in a number of areas, including cardiovascular disease, neurosciences, orthopedics, women's health, and oncology. The medical center also operates several primary care clinics throughout it service area and provides behavioral health and occupational health services. West Jefferson Medical Center was founded in 1956.

Cardinal Health Medical distributes health care supplies to hospitals, laboratories, doctors' offices, and other health care-related entities in the US and Canada. Working from more than 40 warehouses, it offers a broad range of surgical instruments, medical equipment, furniture, gloves, gowns, lab containers, syringes, and skin-care and respiratory care products. The medical supply division also provides logistics and cost-control solutions, makes a line of medical textile supplies, and assembles and distributes sterile and non-sterile Presource kits for medical and surgical procedures. Part of Cardinal Health, the division works side-by-side with the Cardinal Health Pharmaceutical distribution unit.

Lakeland makes protective clothing for on-the-job hazards;. It uses DuPont specialty fabrics, such as Kevlar, TyChem, and Tyvek, as well as its own fabrics, to make industrial disposable garments, toxic-waste cleanup suits, fire- and heat-resistant apparel (including Fyrepel turnout gear for firefighters), industrial work gloves, high-visibility garments, and industrial/medical garments. Lakeland manufactures its products in Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and the US. Customers -- about 35% are outside the US -- include high tech electronics manufacturers, construction companies, hospitals, and laboratories.

Boston Scientific Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices used in various interventional medical specialties worldwide. It offers cardiac rhythm management products, which monitor the heart and deliver electricity to treat cardiac abnormalities; and RF generators, intracardiac ultrasound and steerable ablation catheters, and diagnostic catheters for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. The company also provides interventional cardiology products, such as coronary stent systems, coronary revascularization products to treat patients with atherosclerosis and intraluminal catheter-directed ultrasound imaging catheters and systems; vascular access products, balloon catheters, stents and peripheral vascular catheters, wires, and accessories, as well as products for peripheral embolization procedures; and biliary stents, drainage catheters, and micro-puncture sets to treat, diagnose, and ease various forms of benign and malignant tumors. In addition, it offers coated and uncoated detachable coils, micro-delivery stents, micro-guidewires, micro-catheters, guiding catheters, and embolics to neuro-interventional radiologists and neurosurgeons to treat diseases of the neurovascular system; and endoscopy and interventional bronchoscopy products to diagnose and treat various digestive diseases, as well as pulmonary disease systems within the airway and lungs. Further, the company provides urology/women’s health products to treat patients with urinary stone disease, benign prostatic hyperplasia, stress urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and excessive uterine bleeding; and spinal cord stimulation system for the management of chronic intractable pain of the trunk and/or limbs. Boston Scientific Corporation markets its products through direct sales force, and a network of distributors and dealers. Boston Scientific Corporation was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan and Paris, France.

Breastfeeding moms turn to Medela, Inc. for support. The company is the US arm of Swiss breast pump maker Medela Holding AG. The company's Breastfeeding division distributes hospital-grade and home-use breast pumps, bottles and accessories, and maternity and nursing intimate apparel. The same division also distributes phototherapy lamps and neonatal beds for newborns that don't require an incubator. The company's Healthcare division distributes Medela's medical vacuum systems, negative pressure wound care devices, and other suction equipment for hospital use. Its home-use products are sold through medical supply retailers and specialty shops.

D Medical develops and manufactures insulin delivery devices for patients with diabetes. Its core product, a proprietary spring-driven pump that delivers insulin and monitors insulin levels, is similar in functionality to, but differs in design from, other motor-driven pumps on the market. The company first introduced its pumps to the marketplace in 2009 when it began selling and marketing to distributors in Europe. Tracing its roots back to the early 1990s, the company became a medical device maker in 2004 after acquiring Nilimedix.

MEDRAD,Inc. part of Bayer HealthCare, makes medical devices used in diagnostic imaging procedures that provide doctors with an inner view of the human body. MEDRAD products include vascular injection systems used for radiology contrast agents, magnetic resonance scanner coils, and related accessories such as syringes and disposable tubing. In addition, the firm offers equipment repair, training, and other support services. MEDRAD also makes interventional cardiology devices such as clot removal systems. MEDRAD makes its products in the US and markets them directly and through distributors to hospitals and medical imaging centers in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

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