Winthrop-University Hospital is all about health care. Serving patients in New York's Nassau, Suffolk, and Queens counties, the medical center has almost 600 beds and offers a full range of acute and tertiary health care services. Services include pediatric, women's health, and cancer care, as well as home health services. Winthrop-University Hospital is also a leading provider of cardiovascular surgeries in the region. The hospital is a member of Winthrop-South Nassau University Health System with sister facility South Nassau Communities Hospital. Founded in 1896, Winthrop-University Hospital serves as a teaching hospital for the SUNY at Stony Brook School of Medicine.

HealthSpring provides Medicare Advantage plans in seven US states. The company has more than 190,000 members in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. Its Medicare Advantage plans offer the support of Medicare with additional benefits such as Medicare Part D prescription benefits, vision and hearing benefits, and transportation programs. In addition, HealthSpring runs a nationwide prescription drug plan with more than 310,000 members, and offers management services to independent physician associations in Alabama, Tennessee, and Texas.

John T. Mather envisioned a legacy that would keep his community of Port Jefferson in good health. John T. Mather Memorial Hospital came to fruition in 1929, one year after it's namesake's death. The not-for-profit hospital has some 250 beds and provides a variety of health care services to the residents of Port Jefferson and Suffolk county. Services include emergency care, occupational therapy, psychiatry, and radiology. The hospital is a member of Long Island Health Network, an association of about a dozen affiliated hospitals all serving Long Island.

Covenant Health System ties West Texas and Eastern New Mexico together with quality health care. The health services provider offers some 1,400 beds in four acute-care hospitals and about a dozen managed community hospitals. Covenant Health System, part of the St. Joseph Health System, also maintains a network of family health care and medical clinics. Covenant Health System's major facilities are Covenant Medical Center, Covenant Medical Center-Lakeside, Covenant Specialty Hospital, and Covenant Children's Hospital. The health system's extensive outreach programs target isolated rural populations with mobile services bringing dental care, mammograms, and primary health care.

Seniors hate living in nursing homes; states hate paying for them. Enter Senior Whole Health (SWH), a health services plan that aims to keep more low-income seniors living independently at home. SWH consolidates the benefits of Medicare and Medicaid into one easy-to-join plan that pays claims, handles customer service issues, and contracts with primary care providers. It also offers around-the-clock access to nurses, exercise programs, prescription drug coverage, transportation, and multilingual translators. SWH serves more than 6,000 members in the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. It is at the top of the heap as one of the country's 500 fastest-growing private companies, according to Inc.

Whether partnering with physicians to develop new surgical facilities, acquiring established facilities or joint venturing with leading healthcare delivery systems, our philosophy is simple. We invest in our facilities ― giving them the tools they need to create a highly efficient, quality-focused environment where patients and physicians come first.

Discus Dental delivers the stuff for dazzling teeth. The company develops, markets, and distributes dental aesthetics products, including teeth whitening products and restoratives. It also provides oral hygiene products, impression materials, and endodontic supplies. Its brands include Zoom!, BriteSmile, BreathRx, and DayWhite. While Discus develops many of its products, the company also distributes products from other companies. It also provides practice management software, training, and marketing services. Discus Dental handles its own distribution in the US and a dozen other countries, but relies upon local distributors for the rest of the world.

ATS Medical keeps its products close to the heart. The company's main product is its ATS Open Pivot mechanical heart valve, which has been implanted in more than 140,000 patients worldwide. The valve was designed to lower the risk of blood clotting, reduce noise levels, and make the implantation procedure easier. ATS Medical also develops and markets tissue heart valves, cryosurgery (cold therapy) devices for cardiac procedures, and other cardiac surgery supplies. The company markets its products through a direct sales force in the US and some key international markets and through distributors elsewhere. ATS Medical was acquired by Medtronic for $370 million in 2010.

CardianBCT Biotechnologies,LLC develops and sells blood collection and processing systems to hospitals and blood banks. Its systems are used to separate blood into its different components, such as platelets, plasma, and leukoreduced red blood cells (or blood with the white cells removed). The company also provides apheresis systems used to develop blood-based therapies for the treatment of cancer and other diseases. Privately-held CaridianBCT has operations in 30 countries and sells its products to more than 90 nations around the world.

Girling Healthcare is a subsidiary of another Austin-based health care company, privately held Harden Healthcare. Girling Health Care offers home health, personal care, and homemaker services for grown up girls and boys who need living assistance. The company serves customers in nine states in the midwestern, northeastern, and southern US. Girling provides services including skilled nursing, rehabilitation therapy, condition monitoring, social services, living assistance, and respite care. Texas is the health care firm's largest market.

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