Span-America Medical Systems's medical division makes therapeutic mattresses and mattress overlays (under the Geo-Matt and PressureGuard brand names), as well as Span-Aid patient positioners (used to elevate and support body parts) and Isch-Dish pressure-relief seat cushions to aid wound healing. Span-America also markets skin care creams for wound management, and consumer bedding and industrial foam products. It sells its wares through sales staff and distributors to hospitals, home health care dealers, and extended-care facilities in the US and Canada.

Cedars-Sinai is known for providing the highest quality patient care that modern medicine has to offer. The 950-bed teaching and research hospital is located right where Los Angeles meets Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, and has tended to the medical needs of a number of celebrities since its inception in 1902. However, the center is also a major teaching hospital for UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and is engaged in some 800 research programs, in areas such as cancer, neuroscience, and genetics. Its Cedars-Sinai Medical Group is a multi-specialty physicians group consisting of about 100 doctors; the medical center is also affiliated with an Independent Physician Association with roughly 500 primary care and specialist doctors.

D Medical develops and manufactures insulin delivery devices for patients with diabetes. Its core product, a proprietary spring-driven pump that delivers insulin and monitors insulin levels, is similar in functionality to, but differs in design from, other motor-driven pumps on the market. The company first introduced its pumps to the marketplace in 2009 when it began selling and marketing to distributors in Europe. Tracing its roots back to the early 1990s, the company became a medical device maker in 2004 after acquiring Nilimedix.

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.

Genesis HealthCare System doesn't need Phil Collins on drums to give it the medical touch. The health care system consists of two acute care hospitals (Genesis-Bethesda and Genesis-Good Samaritan Hospital) in Zanesville, Ohio. The hospitals' specialty areas include oncology, cardiovascular health, orthopedics, and women's care. Genesis HealthCare also operates an extended care facility, rehabilitation centers, a pharmacy, a children's development center, specialty outpatient clinics, and a home health and hospice agency in Zanesville and surrounding communities in southeastern Ohio. Genesis Healthcare System is a not-for-profit system formed in 1997 when the Bethesda and Good Samaritan hospitals merged.

In 1816, James Leacock published a series of experiments carried out in Edinburgh, which showed that blood transfusion could save the life of animals. James Blundell, a contemporary of Leacock's during his training in Edinburgh Medical School, was the first to transfuse humans with human blood in 1818. Some of the earliest attempts to emulate Blundell and the largest series of transfusion in the 19th century were carried out in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE). However, it was not until Landsteiner discovered the major A, B and O blood groups in 1901 that blood transfusion could develop as a rational treatment.

Covenant Health has made a pact to provide good health to the good people of Tennessee. The not-for-profit health care system provides a variety of medical services through seven acute care hospitals, a psychiatric hospital and a number of specialty outpatient centers offering geriatrics, pediatric care, cancer services, weight management, and diagnostics. Covenant Health also operates home health and hospice agencies and a physician practice management company. Covenant Health provides staffing and medical management services to its affiliated facilities, and to make itself a really well-rounded health care provider, it operates the Covenant Health Federal Credit Union.

Akers Biosciences,Inc. manufactures a variety of point-of-care rapid diagnostic tests. In addition to tests for such diseases as malaria, it has produced screening tools to detect drug and enzyme levels in blood. ABI has also developed sniffing devices to detect breath alcohol as well as diseases such as lung disease and diabetes through breath analysis. Another product whiffs for biological warfare agents in the air. Its Tri-Cholesterol product is a home-use test kit. ABI customers include healthcare facilities (hospitals, physicians' offices) as well as the US military and aid organizations.

Brotman Medical Center provides medical services in California's Culver City and the western Los Angeles area. Founded in 1924, the 420-bed acute care hospital offers inpatient medical and surgical care, along with outpatient and emergency care services. Specialty medical areas include rehabilitation, behavioral health care, oncology, cardiology, and orthopedic and spinal care. It also operates laboratory and imaging centers. Brotman Medical Center emerged from for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2009 as a majority owned subsidiary of Prospect Medical Holdings.

Community Health Group is the oldest and one of the largest locally based HMOs in San Diego. Founded in 1982, the not-for-profit HMO provides health insurance products and related services to more than 100,000 members. Community Health Group's product offerings include its California's Healthy Families program, which provides low-cost health, dental, and vision coverage to children. Community Health Group company also provides other managed care services to California communities, such as Medi-Cal low-income coverage and Medicare Advantage Special Needs plans, as well as third-party administration services.

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