MetroHealth Medical Center, an acute-care hospital with more than 730 beds that serves as a teaching affiliate for Case Western Reserve University. The hospital's services include oncology, behavioral health, vascular care, orthopedics, burn care, and pediatrics. The system also includes outpatient clinics throughout Greater Cleveland, long-term care facilities, a regional rehabilitative clinic, and a medical helicopter program. MetroHealth employs more than 500 physicians in a variety of fields. The health system is owned by Ohio's Cuyahoga County.

The Florida Hospital Heartland Medical Center opened in 1997. Florida Hospital Heartland Medical Center provides care to residents of central Florida. The not-for-profit, 160-bed medical center is the flagship facility of the Florida Hospital Heartland division of Adventist Health System. Other facilities in the Heartland system include Florida Hospital Lake Placid (a 50-bed community hospital), Florida Hospital Wauchula (25 beds), various fitness centers, medical clinics, and counseling agencies. Together the facilities provide primary and acute care, as well as specialty medical services including diagnostics, obstetrics, cardiac care, and cancer treatment.

SUNY Downstate Medical Center brings a healthy dose of education, research, and patient care to Brooklyn. SUNY Downstate is the borough's only academic medical center. It comprises colleges of medicine, nursing, graduate studies, and health-related professions, as well as the University Hospital of Brooklyn, a 400-bed teaching hospital that serves more than 2 million residents in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. The state-run hospital has intensive care, operating room, and emergency room units; an ambulatory care center with some 75 clinics; three satellite health centers; and a dialysis facility. SUNY Downstate's research laboratories study everything from alcoholism and Alzheimer's Disease to HIV/AIDS.

Pennine Healthcare products may be disposable, but they're anything but dispensable. The company makes sterile, single use medical devices, manufacturing more than 50 million per year at its facilities in Derby. The disposable products are designed for applications in airway management (suction catheters, mucus extractors), gastroenterology (stomach tubes, bile bags), respiratory uses (filters, oxygen therapy), surgical suction (tubes and probes), and urology (various types of catheters). The firm also offers custom procedure packs for surgical procedures. Its products are sold by third-party distributors throughout the UK and in more than 70 countries.

Anthem Health Plans of Virginia sings a song of health insurance to residents of the Old Dominion State. A subsidiary of WellPoint and the state's largest health insurer, the company provides PPO, HMO, and traditional indemnity health plans to individuals, groups, and government employees. Its health plan offerings include Medicare supplemental and Medicare Advantage plans, as well as HMOs (under the name HealthKeepers Plus) for Medicaid recipients. Anthem Health Plans of Virginia also sells some non-Blue insurance products including life, accident, and disability coverage. The company is a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and does business as Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

Wayne Memorial Health System provides general medical and surgical health services, primary care and family medicine, long-term and intermediate care, and assisted living services to communities in northeastern Pennsylvania. It also offers home health care, nutritional counseling, and wellness programs. The Wayne Memorial Hospital has about 100 beds.

The Cooper Health System keeps folks along the Delaware River shoreline feeling fine. The not-for-profit organization includes clinics and hospitals located throughout southern New Jersey and the Delaware Valley, including the 560-bed Cooper University Hospital and The Children's Regional Hospital. Cooper University Hospital is a teaching campus for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Its physicians operate in about 80 specialties. Founded in 1887, the health care system provides trauma, cancer, cardiology, neuroscience, psychiatric, and orthopedic specialty centers. It also operates satellite clinics and provides home health services in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.

A breast biopsy is not the most pleasant prospect for any woman, but Intact Medical would like to make the experience a little less arduous and invasive. The company's Intact Breast Lesion Excision System needs just ten seconds to retrieve a tissue sample using vacuum technology and a single needle. It also keeps a the sample intact (thus the name) for easier diagnosis. Intact Medical was established in 1998, and the system received FDA approval in 2001. The Intact system has since been expanded for additional use including removing benign lesions, and the company has produced improved versions of the product.

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.

Health First Health Plans (HFHP), a subsidiary of Health First, provides health insurance and related services to about 64,000 members in Florida's Space Coast (Brevard County and north Indian River County). Its provider network includes about 750 physicians working at three area hospitals. Among the 70 different health plans are HMO, POS, high-deductible plans, Medicare Advantage (for individuals), and Group Medicare. The company also offers preventative health services such as health assessments for adults, as well as programs for women and children. HFHP also has its own pharmacy department to manage prescription drug benefits.

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