Greater Baltimore Medical Center, also known as GBMC, operates an integrated health system for residents of Baltimore and surrounding counties. The 300-bed medical center provides psychiatry, surgery, women's health, oncology, and other specialty and general medical services. The hospital provides inpatient and outpatient services, and its emergency room treats about 60,000 patients every year. In addition, it provides teaching services through an affiliation with Johns Hopkins University. GBMC also includes the Greater Baltimore Medical Associates physician practices and the Gilchrist Hospice Care agency.

SurgiVision designs products with surgical focus. A medical devices company, SurgiVision develops imaging technologies and precision instruments (i.e. needles that deliver radiation) designed for surgeons performing minimally invasive procedures by way of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanners. The company received FDA approval for its first commercial product, the ClearPoint system for use in neurological procedures, in 2010. It also has candidates in earlier stages of development, including its ClearTrace and SafeLead products, which are designed for cardiac procedures. SurgiVision was established in 1998; it filed to go public through an IPO in 2009.

NMT Medical company develops implantable devices that treat defects in the walls of the heart's chambers. Its CardioSEAL and STARFlex implants close up holes in the heart, a condition suffered primarily by children.NMT Medical company markets CardioSEAL and STARFlex in the US, Canada, and Europe. A third device, BioSTAR, is a bioabsorbable implant that also corrects heart defects; it has been approved in Canada and Europe. NMT Medical acquired the exclusive rights to CardioSEAL from InnerVentions, a licensee of Children's Hospital Boston.

Community Hospital Anderson is an acute care facility with some 200 beds. Departments and services include a sleep analysis lab, ECG (electrocardiogram) tests for cardiopulmonary conditions, and specialized treatment for cancer and diabetes, among other conditions. Community Hospital Anderson operates four intermediate and supervised care facilities in the area. The hospital is part of Community Hospitals of Indiana (also known as Community Health Network), a not-for-profit health care system that serves the health care needs of patients in Indiana.

Kips Bay Medical makes medical devices that help veins do their jobs in patients with coronary artery disease. The development-stage company is focused on developing and commercializing a vein support device called eSVS MESH, a mesh sleeve implanted by surgeons in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) that, when placed over a patient's vein graft, improves the graft's structure and long-term performance. It is designed to mimic the artery's job of constricting the vein and preventing harmful vessel expansion. The company is conducting clinical trials of its eSVS MESH in Europe and is awaiting approval to begin clinical trials in the US. Kips Bay Medical filed a $57.5 million IPO in April 2010.

Atrion Corporation develops and manufactures ophthalmology, cardiovascular, and fluid delivery devices primarily for medical applications in the United States and internationally. Atrion Corporation manufactures soft contact lens storage and disinfection cases; and the LacriCATH line of balloon catheters used in the treatment of nasolacrimal duct obstruction in children and adults. It develops the MPS2 Myocardial Protection System, a proprietary technology delivering fluids and medications to the heart during open-heart surgery; cardiac surgery vacuum relief valves; Retract-O-Tape silicone vessel loops; inflation devices for balloon catheter dilation, stent deployment, and fluid dispensing; and Clean-Cut rotating aortic punch and PerfectCut Aortotomy System, both of which are used in heart bypass surgery. Atrion manufactures various intravenous fluid delivery products comprising medical tubing clamps; swabbable luer valves; and luer syringe check valves and one-way valves. It produces inflation systems and valves used in marine and aviation safety products; one-way and two-way ‘Breather’ valves for use on electronics cases, munitions cases, pressure vessels, transportation container cases, escape slides, and other medical and non-medical applications; and a line of products designed for safe needle and scalpel blade containment, as well as the ACTester product line consisting of instrumentation and associated disposables used to measure the activated clotting time of blood. Atrion Corporation also provides contract manufacturing services for other original equipment manufacturers of medical devices; and owns and maintains a 22-mile high-pressure steel pipeline in north Alabama that is leased to an industrial gas producer that transports gaseous oxygen to its customers. It sells its products through a sales force. Atrion Corporation was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Allen, Texas.

Columbia St. Mary's serves Southeastern Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Ozaukee, and Washington counties) through a health care network that includes four hospitals -- Columbia St. Mary's Milwaukee Campus, Columbia St. Mary's Ozaukee Campus, Columbia St. Mary's Columbia Campus, and the Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Institute. Other members of the health system include about 50 community clinics, the Columbia College of Nursing, the River Woods Outpatient Center and the Cathedral Square Urgent Care Center. The Catholic Sisters of Charity founded St. Mary's Hospital in Milwaukee in 1848 at the request of Bishop John Martin Henni. The company is sponsored by Ascension Health and Columbia Health System.

Scripps Health has its medical script down pat. The not-for-profit hospital group serves the San Diego area through about a half dozen acute-care hospitals with some 1,400 beds and 20 outpatient clinic locations. The system also offers home health care and operates community outreach programs. Its hospitals, along with outpatient Scripps Clinic and Scripps Coastal Medical Center locations, include more than 2,600 affiliated general practice and specialty physicians. Scripps Health is affiliated with The Scripps Research Institute, which performs biomedical research. The Scripps Foundation for Medicine and Science serves as a fundraiser for both the hospital group and the research institute.

Berkshire Health Systems is the region's leading provider of comprehensive healthcare services. With award-winning programs, nationally-recognized physicians, world-class technology and a sincere commitment to the community, BHS is delivering the kind of advanced healthcare most commonly found in large metropolitan centers.A private, not-for-profit organization, BHS serves the region through a network of affiliates which include Berkshire Medical Center, the BMC Hillcrest Campus, Fairview Hospital, Berkshire Visiting Nurse Association, BHS physician practices, and long-term care associate Berkshire Healthcare Systems. Each of these facilities is distinguished by the high quality of their programs and services, and by the credentials, skill and compassion of their physicians, nurses and caregivers.

HealthSpring provides Medicare Advantage plans in seven US states. The company has more than 190,000 members in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. Its Medicare Advantage plans offer the support of Medicare with additional benefits such as Medicare Part D prescription benefits, vision and hearing benefits, and transportation programs. In addition, HealthSpring runs a nationwide prescription drug plan with more than 310,000 members, and offers management services to independent physician associations in Alabama, Tennessee, and Texas.

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