Calvary Hospital works to keep adult patients in the advanced stages of cancer as comfortable as possible. The facility, founded in 1899, specializes in palliative care, the practice of relieving the pain and symptoms associated with the illness (not curing the illness itself.) Calvary Hospital offers both inpatient and outpatient services through two campuses; the main hospital has about 200 beds and a satellite location in Brooklyn, New York, has about 25 beds. Its home health care program provides on-call nurses who are available at all hours of the day as well as a range of therapy services including physical, speech, and occupational therapy.

Calvert Memorial Hospital provides health care to the residents of the Chesapeake Bay area in southern Maryland. Calvert Memorial Hospital, along with Dunkirk Medical Center, Solomons Medical Center, and a handful of specialty centers and clinics, make up Calvert Health System. In addition to acute care, Calvert Memorial and its affiliates offer same-day surgery, outpatient behavioral health care, and diagnostic imaging, as well as such alternative therapies as acupuncture, massage, and hypnotherapy. For long-term and critical care, Calvert Memorial has partnerships with area facilities, including Washington Hospital Center, Children's National Medical Center, and Johns Hopkins, and University of Maryland.

The Cambridge Public Health Commission (doing business as Cambridge Health Alliance or CHA) was established as a result of the 1996 merger of The Cambridge Hospital and Somerville Hospital. The health care organization operates the Cambridge Public Health Department, as well as three hospitals and about two dozen primary care practices specializing in such areas as pediatrics, senior health, family medicine, eye care, plastic surgery, psychiatry, and dentistry. CHA is a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and the Tufts University School of Medicine.

Falmouth Hospital took care of the man, and helped him devise a get-well plan, and in the end he was hooked on Cape Cod Healthcare. Cape Cod Healthcare is a not-for-profit healthcare organization that includes two acute-care hospitals (Cape Cod Hospital and Falmouth Hospital) with a total of some 350 beds. It also operates a home health services agency (Visiting Nurse Association), primary and specialized care clinics, medical labs, a 130-bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility, and a 56-unit assisted living facility. The health care system has a staff of more than 400 physicians.

Capital Health System (CHS) serves the residents of New Jersey's capital city through two hospitals -- Helene Fuld Medical Center and Mercer Medical Center -- that joined forces in 1997. Together they have nearly 600 beds and employ a staff of 3,000. The not-for-profit CHS offers emergency, surgical, and acute care, and it serves as a hands-on teaching facility to nursing and medical students. The system primarily serves residents of Mercer County and nearby Bucks County in central New Jersey. Capital Health System offers centers for maternal and pediatric health, cardiology, dialysis, trauma services, oncology, orthopedics, mental health, and infectious diseases.

Care New England Health System keeps the residents of southeastern New England going strong. The health system offers inpatient care at its three hospitals: Kent Hospital, a general acute care facility with about 350 beds; psychiatric facility Butler Hospital; and Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, which specializes in obstetrics, gynecology, and newborn pediatrics. All told, the system has more than 600 licensed beds. Butler Hospital and Women & Infants Hospital serve as teaching facilities for Brown University. Care New England also operates a home health agency and provides wellness and rehabilitation programs.

Carilion Clinic is a healthcare organization with more than 600 physicians in a multi-specialty group practice and eight not-for-profit hospitals. Carilion Clinic specializes in patient-centered care, medical education and clinical research, with a goal of providing the best possible health outcome and healthcare experience for each patient.In 2007, Carilion Clinic partnered with Virginia Tech to create the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute (commonly known as VTC). VTC is housed in a 150,000-square-foot facility at the Riverside Center on Carilion Clinic's campus in Roanoke, Va. The first class of doctoral candidates began course work in August 2010.

Caritas Christi puts the care in Caritas. Acute and tertiary care hospitals under the Caritas Christi umbrella include Caritas Carney Hospital, Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Center, Caritas Holy Family Hospital and Medical Center, Caritas Norwood Hospital, Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, and Saint Anne's Hospital. Several of the hospitals are affiliated with Boston-area medical schools. Operated by the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, the company (also known as Caritas Christi Health Care) is a top health care provider in New England; its territory ranges from Rhode Island to eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. Caritas Christi was acquired by Cerberus Capital Management in 2010.

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.

Caritas Norwood Hospital gets to the hearts (and other body parts) of the people of Norwood. Part of the Caritas Christi Health Care family of health facilities, the facility is a more than 260-bed community hospital that serves patients in and around Norwood, Massachusetts. Founded in 1902, the hospital is an acute care facility and provides area residents with emergency and general health care and medical transport services. Caritas Norwood Hospital is also home to specialized programs including behavioral health services, cancer treatment, cardiology, obstetrics/gynecology, orthopedic medicine, pediatrics, rehabilitation, sleep disorder treatment, and surgery.

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