LivHOME helps elders to spend their sunset years at home. LivHOME provides a wide range of long-term and short-term home health care services, focusing on the physical, emotional, and social aspects of an elder's life. Services include medical monitoring, household management, rehabilitation, counseling, and crisis intervention. LivHOME also offers support for family caregivers, errand services, and social activities for elders. LivHOME, Inc. conducts a needs assessment for clients and provides customized care plans. LivHOME operates from locations in Arizona, California, Illinois, and Minnesota.

A leading maker of implantable biomedical devices, the company makes defibrillators and pacemakers that shock the heart to help it beat normally. Subsidiary Medtronic Sofamor Danek makes spinal implant devices, while Medtronic CardioVascular produces catheters, stents, valves, balloons, and surgical ablation technologies used to treat vascular and heart disease. The company's neuromodulation division makes nerve and brain stimulation and drug delivery systems. Medtronic also makes devices for diabetes; ear, nose, and throat (ENT) conditions; and emergency medicine.

CardiacAssist's products get your blood pumping, for real. The company makes the TandemHeart pVAD (percutaneous ventricular assist device), which pumps blood through the bodies of patients suffering from heart failure. Unlike most cardiac-assist devices, TandemHeart is available as both an external pump and an implantable device; meaning it can be used by interventional cardiologists in a cath lab and by cardiac surgeons in an operating room to provide short-term circulatory support. The company supplies its the device (and related accessories) to US hospitals through an in-house sales team and internationally through a network of European distributors. CardiacAssist was founded in 1996 by a group of investors.

HealthAmerica Pennsylvania is doing its part. HealthAmerica Pennsylvania, a subsidiary of Coventry Health , provides health insurance products and related services to more than 700,000 members in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The company offers HMO and PPO benefit plans to small, medium, and large businesses under the HealthAmerica and HealthAssurance brands. Its provider network includes more than 21,000 providers and about 170 hospitals. HealthAmerica Pennsylvania was founded in 1975 and acquired by Coventry Health in 1988.

St. Joseph's Healthcare System takes care of northern New Jersey. The health care system's facilities include St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, a tertiary teaching hospital with about 650 beds that includes the 120-bed St. Joseph's Children's Hospital. The regional hospital has a state-designated trauma center and provides specialty services including cardiology, oncology, obstetrics, and neurology. St. Joseph's Healthcare also operates St. Joseph's Wayne Hospital, a community medical center with some 230 beds. Other operations include St. Vincent's Nursing Home, a home health agency, and a network of community clinics. St. Joseph's Healthcare System is sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth.

Nevada City Hospital (dba Nevada Regional Medical Center) provides health care services for the residents in western Missouri. The facility offers services such as behavioral health, cardiology, emergency medicine, obstetrics, and occupational therapy. In addition to the more than 50-bed hospital, the medical center also operates a nearly 40-bed Alzheimer's unit, a more than 110-bed nursing home, a home health and hospice facility, and various rural health clinics.

Caritas Holy Family Hospital, Inc. founded in 1985, also operates an outpatient surgery center and provides community outreach services. It is a member of Caritas Christi, one of the largest health care systems in New England. Caritas Holy Family Hospital is part of a large family of hospitals. The acute care medical facility is a more than 250-bed hospital that serves the residents of some 20 communities in northern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. Caritas Holy Family Hospital offers specialized services in areas including surgery, diagnostics, pediatrics, obstetrics, oncology, cardiology, and psychiatric care.

Guardian Home Care Holdings provides medical and non-medical home health care services to private patients -- as well as through contracts with health insurers, hospitals, and nursing homes -- in Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas. Primarily working under Medicare and Medicaid funding programs, Guardian's health care personnel provide skilled nursing services, physical and speech therapy, social work services, and assistance with daily activities such as cleaning and bathing. The company also provides hospice services in Nashville, Tennessee. It operates as Texas Home Health in Texas and under the Guardian name in its other markets.

Established in 1773, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center has more than 700 beds. One of five member institutions in the Johns Hopkins Health System, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center is a community teaching hospital. Its Baltimore-based operations include a neonatal intensive care unit, as well as centers devoted to trauma, geriatrics, sleep disorders, and weight management. It also features the state's only regional burn center. The facility includes a meditation labyrinth for patients, families, and staff to walk.

B. Braun Medical Ltd. is the UK arm of German medical supplier B. Braun Melsungen. The company manufactures and distributes a wide range of medical and surgical supplies. While it supplies such operating room basics as sutures and fluid administration equipment, it also makes larger computer-assisted surgery guidance systems and implant materials. Orthopedic implants and devices for trauma care are manufactured at the company's Sheffield headquarters. Its Sterilog facilities provide equipment sterilization services for hospitals. Its disposable products are destined for use in hospitals, medical offices, and home care settings. B. Braun Avitum provides dialysis treatment through 15 centers in the UK.

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