Health Advocate helps individuals and employees work through the complexities of the health care system. Acting as a patient advocate,Health Advocate company helps customers navigate their health benefit plans to reduce confusion and lower medical costs. The company's administrative, insurance, and medical experts help clients with health care issues such as care coordination, claims resolution, and locating medical specialists. Health Advocate's 5,000 commercial clients include large to small corporations, insurers and third party administrators, schools, and unions.Health Advocate company was founded in 2001 by a group of health insurance executives including CEO Michael Cardillo and chief medical officer Arthur Leibowitz.

University of Virginia Medical Center, an acute care hospital with about 590 beds. The health system boasts over 35 facilities, including clinics and specialty care centers for heart disease, cancer, women's health, digestive disorders, and neurological conditions. UVa Health System also encompasses the University of Virginia School of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Nursing, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, and the University of Virginia Health Services Foundation.

Cogent Healthcare has pulled together the personnel to make a convincing argument for managed hospital care.Cogent Healthcare company manages inpatient care programs at hospitals in 20 states.Cogent Healthcare company deploys its own hospitalists (doctors who specialize in hospital medicine) and other personnel to run programs that manage the care of patients from the time they're admitted to the moment they're discharged. The programs also provide follow-up care to patients. Additionally, Cogent's program management services include the implementation of standardized clinical processes and information technology solutions for improving communication and efficiency. Cogent Healthcare company was founded in 1997.

Ophthalmic Imaging Systems makes digital imaging products for use in ophthalmology. Its WinStation product line is used by retinal specialists and ophthalmologists to diagnose and treat diseases of the retina, including age-related macular degeneration. While the WinStation systems focus on imaging the back of the eye, the company's Digital Slit Lamp Imager emphasizes front-of-the-eye imaging. Ophthalmic Imaging Systems also sells image archiving, medical records management, and practice management software. Israel-based MediVision Medical Imaging holds more than 50% of the company and markets its products abroad. In 2008 MediVision agreed to acquire all of the company in an all-stock transaction.

VITAS Healthcare is a vital provider of hospice services in the US. The firm, a subsidiary of Chemed, is a top national provider, serving patients through some 45 programs in 15 states and Washington, DC. VITAS Healthcare Corporation cares for terminally ill patients primarily in their homes, but also at its own inpatient hospice facilities and in nursing homes and hospitals. Its services -- provided by teams of nurses, doctors, aides, and social workers -- focus on managing pain and symptoms, providing personal care, helping with financial arrangements, handling equipment and medications, and offering emotional and spiritual support. VITAS Healthcare Corporation also provides bereavement services and grief counseling to patients' families.

Medtronic CardioVascular strives to mend broken hearts (and clogged arteries, too). A division of medical device maker Medtronic, the unit makes devices that treat conditions affecting the heart and circulatory system. Its products include stents and catheters for treating coronary and peripheral vascular conditions (such as atherosclerosis); stent grafts for fixing aortic aneurysms; products for open heart and coronary bypass surgery; mechanical and tissue heart valves; and surgical ablation technologies for treating cardiac arrythmias. Medtronic CardioVascular markets its products to specialty physicians around the globe.

Trius Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative antibiotics for serious, life-threatening infections. They are currently conducting Phase 3 trials for torezolid phosphate (TR-701), an IV and orally administered second generation oxazolidinone, for the treatment of serious gram-positive bacterial infections, including those caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). With the continuous increase in bacterial resistance to currently marketed drugs, serious infections are becoming more difficult, if not impossible to treat, and this has led to a clear need for novel therapeutics to treat multi-drug resistant bacterial infections.

Neoprobe makes products for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, such as lymphatic mapping instruments (including the neo2000) that help surgeons identify trends about the spread of cancer in a patient. Subsidiary Cardiosonix markets non-invasive blood flow measurement devices under the Quantix brand. Neoprobe has additional products under development including procedural tracing agent Lymphoseek to be used in lymphatic mapping and handheld radiation probe RIGScan to locate tumors. The company is also working on an activated cellular therapy technology to treat cancers and viral and autoimmune diseases. The procedure activates certain lymph nodes to boost a patient's immune system.

Gottlieb Memorial Hospital was founded in 1961. The not-for-profit community general hospital boasts 250 beds, a staff of more than 300 physicians and dentists, a Level II trauma center with a heliport, heart health care center, and health and fitness center on site. The multi-acre hospital campus also includes a medical office building with about 100 physician offices, rehabilitation services, a pharmacy, and a kidney dialysis center. Other services include cancer and home health care. Gottlieb is part of Loyola University Health System; an affiliation that gives the hospital research capabilities.

Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital serves the residents of Chicago's North Side. The facility has about 340 beds and a medical staff of some 400 physicians covering more than 25 specialties. It conducts medical research and education programs through its affiliation with the University of Chicago Medical Center. Weiss offers a complete range of services for adults, including orthopedics, cardiology, vascular health, rehabilitation, cancer care, geriatrics, and women's health care. Specialty divisions provide laboratory, radiology, wound healing, and hospice care. Vanguard Health Systems owns 80% of the hospital and the University of Chicago Medical Center owns the rest.

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