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.

Centegra Health System became a "system" when two northern Illinois area hospitals -- Northern Illinois Medical Center and Memorial Medical Center -- joined forces. Today it serves residents of the greater McHenry County region through these two facilities, renamed Centegra Hospital - McHenry and Centegra Hospital - Woodstock. They offer emergency and trauma care, as well as obstetrics services. Centegra has dedicated cancer, diabetes, and heart centers and also offers rehabilitation, behavioral health, and fitness services. The community-based health system encompasses a network of primary care and specialty outpatient clinics.

KeyMed (Medical & Industrial Equipment) Ltd. is a key player when it comes to medical and industrial product distribution. A subsidiary of Japan's Olympus Corporation, KeyMed primarily makes endoscopic instruments to explore either the human body or the innards of industrial/electronic equipment. KeyMed is also the UK service-center location and exclusive distributor of Olympus' flexible and rigid endoscopes in Great Britain. The company's customers include hospitals, physician offices, and other health care settings, such as ambulatory surgical centers throughout the UK. The firm has branch offices in Scotland and Cheshire, and also distributes products in the US through subsidiary Olympus Industrial America.

The development-stage medical device company,EnteroMedics Inc. uses neuroblocking technology called VBLOC therapy to combat obesity. Its initial product in development, the Maestro System, is a device laparoscopically implanted near the diaphragm that uses electrical impulses to limit the expansion of the stomach, thereby producing a feeling of prolonged fullness. The Maestro System is in US and international clinical trials, with FDA approval and commercial sales anticipated by 2010. EnteroMedics plans to build a direct sales force to market the product to bariatric surgeons and weight management specialists.

California Physicians' Service, which operates as Blue Shield of California, provides health insurance products and related services to some 3.5 million members in the state of California. The not-for-profit mutual organization's health insurance products include HMO, PPO, dental, and Medicaid or Medicare supplemental plans for individuals, families, and employer groups. Accidental death and dismemberment, executive medical reimbursement, life insurance, vision, and short-term health plans are provided by the company's Blue Shield of California Life & Health Insurance subsidiary. Blue Shield of California has more than 20 locations across California. The company was established in 1939.

Health Diagnostics was formed in May of 2007 with the goal of becoming a national provider of outpatient diagnostic imaging services of the highest quality. A unique combination of management experience and financial strength is quickly transforming Health Diagnostics’ vision into reality. The company has a three-pronged strategy for growth: acquisitions, start-ups and management agreements. To date, the Heath Diagnostics network is comprised of 34 diagnostic imaging centers in four states - California, New York, New Jersey and Florida.

Delta Dental of Missouri provides dental benefits for employer groups in Missouri and South Carolina. The not-for-profit organization serves more than 1.5 million members in the region. It offers employer-sponsored plans (Delta Dental Premier and Delta Dental PPO) to about 1,500 client companies with 10 or more employees. Delta Dental of Missouri doesn't offer individual policies. The company's network provides access to more than 160,000 dentists throughout the US. Delta Dental of Missouri is a member of the Delta Dental Plans Association.

Rapid City Regional Hospital's medical facility is a general and psychiatric hospital with more than 400 acute care beds and 50 psychiatric beds located in western Black Hills of South Dakota. In addition to emergency and acute care, the not-for-profit hospital also offers a diabetes center, a 50 bed behavioral health center, a rehabilitation facility, and a cancer care institute. Rapid City Regional Hospital, which was established in 1973, is part of Regional Health, a network of five regional hospitals and more than two dozen medical clinics and senior care centers.

North Broward Hospital District, which operates as Broward Health, takes care of shark bites and more. The taxpayer-supported, not-for-profit health system serves the coastal city of Fort Lauderdale and the northern two-thirds of Broward County, Florida, with four acute care hospitals and a host of community-based centers. Flagship hospital Broward General Medical Center has more than 700 beds and features the Chris Evert Children's Hospital; all of the hospitals together have more than 1,500 beds. Broward Health boasts about 30 additional facilities, including family health and surgery centers, home health and hospice programs, and a sleep disorder clinic.

OraSure is certain it can deliver results. The oral specimen kits and other diagnostic tests developed by OraSure Technologies are designed to detect drug use and certain infectious diseases, such as HIV. The company's OraSure products use oral specimens rather than traditional blood- or urine-based methods to test for HIV. Its Intercept line uses oral samples to test for marijuana, cocaine, opiates, PCP, and amphetamines. OraSure has also developed a rapid HIV blood diagnostic testing method. The company sells its products in the US and internationally through direct agents and independent distributors, primarily to public health clinics, hospitals, and doctors' offices.

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