NxStage Medical is giving some life back to those needing dialysis to treat acute kidney failure and end-stage renal disease. The medical device company's primary product, System One, is a portable hemodialysis machine, which can be used by patients at home or by professionals in a hospital setting. The FDA-approved device is also marketed to hospitals for critical care and to dialysis clinics that want to create or expand their services to home-based patients. Typically, customers rent the System One equipment, but its largest customer, DaVita, has chosen to purchase. NxStage Medical's subsidiary, Medisystems, supplies customers with disposable blood tubing and needles.

Astra Tech makes products for two very different, yet equally important, parts of the body. The company manufactures medical devices for the fields of dentistry and urology. Its Astra Tech Dental Implant Systems include titanium screws and bone stimulation materials used to secure abutments, bridges, and dentures. Astra Tech also makes a line of catheters and catheter systems; its LoFric product is a hydrophilic urinary catheter for the intermittent emptying of the bladder. The company also offers some wound draining, blood transfusion, surgical suction products. Astra Tech's Swedish parent Astra Tech AB is a direct subsidiary of drug maker AstraZeneca.

Larkin Community Hospital may be small, but it doesn't skimp on its array of health care services. The 110-bed hospital provides general medical and surgical services to the sun-drenched residents of the Miami-Dade County area of Florida. Larkin Community Hospital offers more than 40 specialties, including diagnostic radiology, intensive care, arthritis services, an inpatient psychiatric ward, surgery, cardiovascular care, and rehabilitation (including physical, occupational, and speech therapy). President and CEO Jack Michel owns the health care facility.

AorTech develops and manufactures medical-grade polyurethanes for use in medical devices and implants. Its products are based on the company's Elast-Eon materials which have various applications including in drug-eluting stents, in orthopedic devices (spinal discs), and for reconstructive/cosmetic uses (breast implants). The company's wholly-owned subsidiary, AorTech Biomaterials, based in Melbourne, Australia, was formed more than a decade ago to commercialize the company's range of medical-grade polyurethanes. Bluehone Investors (chaired by AorTech director Stuart Rollason) holds about 20% of the company's shares.

HearUSA is a recognized leader in hearing care and is partnered with managed care organizations across the country. Through its Hearing Care Network of nearly 2,000 independently practicing audiologists and hearing care professionals and its more than 180 company owned hearing centers, HearUSA administers hearing benefits and provides related products and services to both third party and self referred clients.

Queens-Long Island Medical Group (QLIMG) cures medical ailments in the Queens-Long Island area. A physician-owned practice group boasting some 350 primary and specialty care doctors, QLIMG was established in 1991. The group operates more than 20 medical clinics, as well as urgent care centers, serving residents in New York's Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties. It is also affiliated with the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System network of acute care and specialty hospitals. QLIMG's physician's specialties include pediatrics, women's health, immunology, cardiology, radiology, rehabilitation, and neurology; the group also has disease management programs for chronically ill patients.

Vytra Health Plans is vital to the health of Long Islanders. The managed care organization provides health insurance and related services to the employees of some 7,500 businesses on Long Island. Vytra Health Plans offers a variety of plans, including HMO, PPO, and consumer-driven options to more than 250,000 members. In addition to providing fully insured plans to its commercial customers, it operates as a third-party administrator for self-insured employers.Vytra Health Plans company was founded in 1985 as ChoiceCare. Vytra Health Plans is a subsidiary of Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP), which is part of EmblemHealth.

Through our national footprint of community-based branch pharmacies, Critical Care Systems offers a cost-effective alternative to hospitalization. We provide pharmaceutical products and comprehensive infusion services to both pediatric and adult patients in alternate site settings, such as the comfort of their own home or in an ambulatory infusion suite.

Valley View Hospital provides acute, critical, and surgical care to the Colorado River Valley. Valley View's services include cardiac, cancer, and pediatric care, as well as radiology and hospice care. The 80-bed hospital has various programs and educational classes focused on childbirth, heart attack prevention, and weight loss. The hospital has undertaken a number of expansion and upgrade projects in recent years, including new emergency, radiology, and birthing departments. Valley View, founded in 1955, also operates or is affiliated with community health clinics and family practices that offer primary and specialized care in an outpatient setting.

St. Joseph Health System can meet their needs. The health care network operates 14 acute care hospitals, five home health agencies, a half-a-dozen urgent care centers, and other health care delivery organizations throughout California and in eastern New Mexico and western Texas. In its primary market of California, the health system has some 2,400 beds at nine hospitals. Its Covenant Health System unit operates in Texas and New Mexico with more than 1,300 beds in its network of some 50 primary care facilities.

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