ValleyCare Health System is a not-for-profit health care organization serving Livermore and Pleasanton, California and the surrounding areas east of San Francisco. ValleyCare Health System consists of two medical campuses and a number of hospitals that offer acute and general health care services, with a total of more than 200 beds and a medical staff of 300-plus. The system also includes specialty outpatient clinics providing behavioral health, outpatient surgery, occupational health and rehabilitation, and wellness services. ValleyCare Health System also operates a senior housing facility.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the top health care organizations in the country, with its network of hospitals, outpatient centers, clinics, and specialty institutes. Its medical education programs train hundreds of doctors and nurses each year, and the center's Vanderbilt Clinics receive about 1.3 million annual patient visits. Its Vanderbilt University Hospital, together with the system's clinics and specialty facilities, has more than 830 beds. VUMC boasts a children's hospital, a psychiatric hospital, a transplant center, and a rehabilitation hospital, as well as a biomedical research center and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated facility.

Vanguard Health Systems wants to lead the way to better health care. The company operates more than a dozen for-profit acute care hospitals located in mostly affluent urban and suburban markets in Arizona, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Texas; all told, the hospitals have more than 4,000 licensed beds. Vanguard's medical campuses generally include outpatient facilities and medical office buildings that form local health care networks providing a continuum of care. Vanguard also runs three managed health care plans that serve more than 200,000 members in Arizona and Illinois (though its hospitals account for about 75% of its sales). The Blackstone Group owns a majority stake in the company.

Virginia Hospital Center-Arlington Health Systems is a general medical-surgical facility providing health care services to residents of northern Virginia. The hospital has about 350 beds and boasts all-private rooms. The acute medical center includes emergency, cardiology, neurology, orthopedics, respiratory, urology, cancer care, and women's health divisions, as well as radiology and diagnostic imaging facilities. In addition, Virginia Hospital Center provides outpatient rehabilitation services and runs an urgent care clinic that furnishes primary care for minor emergencies. The hospital, which first opened its doors in 1944, is a teaching facility for the Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Virtua Health is one of the largest providers of health care services in southern New Jersey. The nonprofit system consists of four acute-care hospitals (serving the communities of Berlin, Marlton, Mt. Holly, and Voorhees), as well as several outpatient surgery centers, rehabilitation and long-term care facilities, and specialty clinics. It also has a home care service and mobile intensive care units. Specialties include pediatrics, cardiology, orthopedics, cancer treatment, and women's health care. Virtua Health has about 1,800 physicians on staff and a total of about 1,050 beds.

Virtua Memorial Hospital of Burlington County contributes its healthy virtues to the Virtua Health system. The hospital provides acute care to patients in southern New Jersey and the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The hospital has more than 430 beds and is well-known for its women's and children's health services. Other specialty programs include a sleep center, cardiac rehabilitation, diabetes treatment, and wound care. The hospital is also home to the Fox Chase Virtua Health Cancer center, and it operates an in-hospital hospice center for terminally ill patients through a partnership with Samaritan Hospice.

Wabash County Hospital is a small community hospital with 25 beds and offers patients a range of services including cancer treatment; cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation; critical and acute care; and general, laparoscopic, and orthopedic surgery. The facility also provides hospice and home health care programs, occupational health services, and emergency medicine.

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is a bastion of health in the thick of tobacco country. The not-for-profit system, known as WFUBMC, comprises Wake Forest University Health Sciences (founded in 1902, includes the School of Medicine), the North Carolina Baptist Hospitals (founded in 1923, with facilities devoted to geriatrics, cancer, pediatrics, and more), and Wake Forest University Physicians. The regional system includes about 20 community hospitals and primary care offices and another 100 satellite clinics, consulting operations, and health fairs. WFUBMC offers rehabilitation, skilled nursing, home health, and a unit devoted to coordinating special services for international patients.

WakeMed is a network of medical centers including two hospitals, outpatient and emergency clinics, rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing centers, laboratories, physicians' offices, and home care service agencies. Its hospitals, the WakeMed Raleigh Campus and the WakeMed Cary Hospital, include specialty divisions such as heart care, stroke, trauma, critical care, diabetes, asthma, and children's and women's centers. Combined, its facilities offer about 870 beds. WakeMed also conducts research and medical training programs.

Walter Reed Health Care System serves those who serve. While its primary facility is the 250-bed Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the entire system includes nearly a dozen military health care hospitals and clinics in the Washington, DC, area. It also includes Army medical training and clinical research facilities. Walter Reed provides care to soldiers stationed in the US and wounded overseas, as well as to presidents, senators, and other officials in the nation's capital. Other facilities of Walter Reed Health Care include the Kimbrough Ambulatory Care Center at nearby Fort Meade (Maryland), DeWitt Hospital at Fort Belvoir (Virginia), and the DiLorenzo TRICARE Clinic at The Pentagon.

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