Independent Care (better known as Independent Care Health Plan or simply iCare) offers health insurance to individuals ages 19 years and older with special needs (physical, developmental, and emotional) who already receive Medicaid and SSI benefits. iCare provides medical, dental, behavioral health, and vision benefits, as well as prescription drugs and social services for clients. The organization was founded as a joint venture between Humana Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Center for Independence in 1994.

PartsSource is a virtual warehouse of diagnostic imaging and biomedical parts for hospital equipment. Through its online database, the supplier can find new, used, and refurbished replacement parts for more than 2,500 different makes and models of hospital equipment from its in-house inventory or from various original equipment manufacturers. It offers at discount such replacement parts as cables, finger probes, sensors, and transducers. PartsSource serves hospital groups nationwide through a sales office in Ohio, a stocking center in Michigan, and a glass tube manufacturing facility in California. PartsSource has supplied parts to such customers as Adventist Health.

St. Joseph's/Candler Health System is a largest health system in the region, SJ/C is anchored by two main hospitals, St. Joseph's Hospital (305 beds) and Candler Hospital (320 beds). The facilities provide a spectrum of care with specialties that include cardiac and cancer care, orthopedics, and robotic surgery. The two hospitals, which merged to become SJ/C in 1997, also administer home healthcare, as well as a variety of community outreach and education efforts through their mobile units. SJ/C operates a network of primary care clinics and outpatient rehabilitation centers scattered throughout the area.

Greene Health Partners manages Greene Memorial Hospital (GMH), a full service acute care facility serving residents of southwestern Ohio. The group also operates the Beavercreek HealthPark, which offers urgent care, lab, surgery, therapy, and imaging services. Its Greene Oaks residential living community provides care for the elderly, and the Women's Recovery Center is a residential treatment facility for indigent women recovering from substance dependency. The network also provides outpatient rehabilitation therapy and home health and occupational health care. Greene Health Partners has an affiliation agreement with Kettering Health Network.

Tornier B.V. makes the kind of implants that you head to the orthopedic surgeon for, not the plastic surgeon. The company manufactures joint prostheses for the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, hip, knee, ankle, and foot. Its Aequalis shoulder joint is a top prosthetic for arthroplasty -- more than 100,000 people have it. Tornier's orthobiologics division makes a reconstructive material for soft tissue (tendons, ligaments, and cartilage) repair, branded as Conexa. Altogether, Tornier offers more than 70 products for joint replacement, trauma, and sports medicine, which are sold in about 35 countries. The company was bought by Warburg Pincus in 2006 and filed to go public with a $205 million IPO in mid-2010.

Parkview Adventist Medical Center is an acute-care hospital providing health care services such as pediatrics, cardiac care, emergency medicine, orthopedics, and surgery. Founded in 1959, the not-for-profit hospital has nearly 60 beds and offers cardiovascular, intensive care, surgery, diagnostic imaging, and rehabilitation services. It operates primary and specialty care physician offices in the area as well. Affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the center provides a variety of health education classes in areas such as stress management and diabetes care. The medical center has embraced information technology advances, including an electronic medical records system.

HMSA was founded in 1989 to increase the profile of Hitachi's medical imaging products in the US. Hitachi Medical Systems America (HMSA) supplies medical imaging equipment to the US hospital market, just as parent Hitachi Medical Corporation (HMC) supplies a full line in Japan. HMSA markets, distributes, and supports HMC's advanced diagnostic imaging products, including computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and HI VISION brand ultrasound systems. Hitachi Medical Systems America, Inc. is one of the leading distributors of open MRIs in the US. Its parent company's Altaire brand was developed specifically for the US market. Other MRI systems are sold under the Oasis, Echelon, and AIRIS brands.

CardioMEMS wants patients to roam free with no strings (or wires) attached. The company has developed an implantable wireless sensing and communication technology for the human body. Its technology consists of include tiny battery-free sensors which can be implanted in the body and transmit information to external signal processing and monitor systems. The systems provide real-time data such as blood pressure, heart rate, and cardiac output to be read by physicians. CardioMEMS' only commercial device, the EndoSure Wireless AAA Pressure Measurement System, measures aneurysm sac pressure during abdominal aortic aneurysm repair and is used alongside traditional angiography.

St. Luke's Quakertown Hospital provides health care services to the upper portion of Pennsylvania's Bucks County (north of Philadelphia). St. Luke's Quakertown Hospital is an acute-care facility with some 60 beds and offers services including general medical, emergency, surgical, and intensive care. The hospital has about 275 affiliated physicians with 40 specialties such as cardiovascular services and cancer care. St. Luke's Quakertown also operates the adjacent St. Luke's Professional Center, which includes general and specialty physician offices. Founded in 1926, the hospital is part of regional hospital operator St. Luke's Hospital & Health Network.

Signature Eyewear views prescription eyeglasses and sunglasses as the ultimate fashion statement and an integral part of its business. Laura Ashley, Nicole Miller, and bebe licensed eyewear accounts for about three-fourths of the firm's sales. Signature Eyewear also licenses frames by Michael Stars, Dakota Smith, Hart Schaffner Marx, and Carmen Marc Valvo Eyewear.Signature Eyewear company makes its own line of frames ("Signature") through contract manufacturers in Hong Kong, China, Japan, and Italy, and markets them to optical retailers in more than 20 countries. Chairman Richard Torre bought about 30% of Signature Eyewear from former CEO Bernard Weiss and his wife.

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