Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon has the operating room all sewn up. The company's Ethicon Products division is a leading maker of sutures and wound-closure products, including sutures, Dermabond skin glue, surgical mesh products, and wound drains. Another division, Ethicon Biosurgery, provides a line of absorbable hemostats and other products that help control bleeding during surgery, while its Biopatch product offers infection-resistant wound dressings. Ethicon Women's Health and Urology makes surgical grafts, devices, and equipment under the Gynecare brand. Through its Mentor unit, Ethicon also makes a line of sutures, breast implants, and other plastic surgery products.

The Alexandria Clinic provides primary care and family health services to residents in the Douglas County, Minnesota, area. It also offers specialized medical services including audiology, cardiology, orthopedics, and neurology. In addition, the clinic provides programs in pediatrics, podiatry, and internal medicine. The Alexandria Clinic was founded in 1941.

Renal Advantage Inc. (RAI) is a Brentwood TN based provider of outpatient dialysis services. Founded by veteran health care executives, we operate more than 154 freestanding renal dialysis centers. Our Center-Centric operating philosophy allows us to provide the best experiences for both our patients and healthcare professionals.

Christian or heathen, if you're in the St. Louis area and need medical care, Christian Hospital wants to help. The not-for-profit hospital, which has nearly 500 beds, is part of BJC HealthCare. Established in 1903, it specializes in a range of treatment areas including diabetes and cancer care and cardiothoracic surgery. Its more than 600 physicians also offer services in 40 other specialties, from primary care to pulmonology. Christian Hospital offers a comprehensive mental health and substance abuse program that includes an inpatient option, as well as specialization in geriatric mental wellness. The hospital is helmed by president Ron McMullen, a long-time health care administrator.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma (BCBSO) helps Sooner Staters do just that by offering a variety of health insurance products and related services to about 600,000 members. BCBSO offers managed care plans for individual consumers, families, and employer groups. Its products include its Health Check Basic and Health Saving Account plans, PPO plans. The company's HSA plan pairs a high-deductible PPO with a health savings account. BCBSO also provides dental insurance, as well as Medicare supplemental insurance and Medicare Advantage plans. The company is one of the only customer-owned health insurers in the state.

Korian operates more than 150 nursing homes and dependent-care facilities throughout France, as well as in Germany and Italy. Korian specializes in providing care for the elderly and severely disabled at its dependent care centers. It also operates more than 50 facilities that provide follow-up care, rehabilitation, and psychiatric evaluations and services. Korian's full-service nursing and dependent care facilities have about 18,000 beds. Korian employs about 12,000 health care professionals.

The 450-bed Glendale Adventist Medical Center, founded in 1905 by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, has more than 500 physicians on its medical staff. Treating the little old lady from Pasadena and other patients throughout the suburbs of sunny Southern California, Glendale Adventist Medical Center is a stalwart community member. Glendale Adventist Medical Center provides a range of specialty services including cancer treatment, cardiology, emergency medicine, neuroscience, home care, psychiatry, rehabilitation, and women's healthcare. The hospital also has its own hour-long television show called "Healthline" that focuses on local health care issues.

University of Michigan Health System (UMHS). Nationally recognized as one of the top health care organizations in the country and part of The University of Michigan, the health system includes the university's medical school and three hospitals -- University Hospital, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, and Women's Hospital -- with more than 930 licensed beds. Other members of UMHS include 30 primary community and specialty health centers, the U-M School of Nursing, the A. Alfred Taubman Health Care Center, and its outpatient clinics. The health care system has affiliations with other hospitals and health care networks in southeastern Michigan.

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.

Genesis HealthCare is owned by a group of private equity investors from Formation Capital and the private equity arm of real estate investment firm J. E. Roberts. Genesis HealthCare Corporation cares for people when care is what counts. The company operates about 200 assisted living and skilled nursing facilities in more than a dozen states throughout the eastern US. Its facilities have some 25,000 beds total. Genesis HealthCare's rehabilitation division provides speech, physical, and occupational therapy services through contracts with health care providers. The company also offers respiratory therapy, adult day care, Alzheimer's care, dialysis, and home and hospice care.

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