University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics partners with the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and the University of Iowa Physicians group practice organization to make up the University of Iowa Health Care network. The organization provides residents of the Hawkeye State with an acute care hospital serving a variety of inpatient and outpatient needs, including more than 200 health care specialties. The facility also houses the Children's Hospital of Iowa and the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center. As an teaching facility, it also houses 20 academic departments. The health care system, founded in 1898, has some 680 beds.

Health Management Systems (HMS) specializes in squeezing pennies for Uncle Sam's health insurers. Health Management Systems company supplies information management services and software used by government health agencies and government-sponsored managed care firms to recover money from health care providers that were either overpaid or paid in error. The company's services include retroactive insurance claims reprocessing and third-party liability recovery, as well as pharmacy recovery services for the overpayment of pharmaceuticals. HMS operates nationwide out of more than two-dozen regional offices. Health Management Systems is a subsidiary of HMS Holdings Corp.

Prince William Health System (PWHS) gives ailing northern Virginians the royal treatment. The hospital system provides medical, surgical, and therapeutic services through the not-for-profit Prince William Hospital. PWHS also offers assisted living, rehabilitation, wellness, and home care services. Founded in 1964, the Prince William Hospital has about 170 beds and provides specialty services including emergency room, cancer care, imaging, diagnostics, cardiac rehabilitation, pediatrics, and mental health care. The health system has a strategic partnership with area medical network Novant Health.

DeSoto Memorial Hospital provides health services to residents of DeSoto County, Florida. The 50-bed hospital offers services ranging from diagnostics and general medicine to emergency care, including pediatrics and maternity care, cardiac care, rehabilitative care, and surgery. DeSoto Memorial is involved in a number of health and wellness programs aimed at improving the health of the community through prevention and education. The hospital has undergone a number of expansions since nearly being wiped out by Hurricane Charley, including the addition of three surgical suites, a 10 bed post anesthesia care unit, 16-bed emergency department, and 32 private patient rooms.

Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon has the operating room all sewn up. The company's Ethicon Products division is a leading maker of sutures and wound-closure products, including sutures, Dermabond skin glue, surgical mesh products, and wound drains. Another division, Ethicon Biosurgery, provides a line of absorbable hemostats and other products that help control bleeding during surgery, while its Biopatch product offers infection-resistant wound dressings. Ethicon Women's Health and Urology makes surgical grafts, devices, and equipment under the Gynecare brand. Through its Mentor unit, Ethicon also makes a line of sutures, breast implants, and other plastic surgery products.

The Julia Rackley Perry Memorial Hospital offers a variety of specialized services such as emergency medicine, surgery, cardiac rehabilitation, physical therapy, and radiology. Founded in 1916, the nearly 100-bed hospital also provides outreach clinics, a women's health center, an intensive care unit, a skilled nursing center, and classes and support groups.

Spacelabs Healthcare got its start monitoring the health of NASA astronauts; nowadays it makes medical diagnostic and therapeutic equipment for more Earth-bound patients. The company's Ultraview bedside patient monitor and telemetry systems keep up with patient's data and transmit it to caregivers through clinical wired and wireless networks. Its Blease anesthesia delivery systems and ventilators are used in operative and perioperative settings. Its Del Mar Reynolds unit develops heart monitors including electrocardiogram and ambulatory blood pressure monitors. Spacelabs Healthcare operates worldwide and holds all of the healthcare operations of its parent, OSI Systems.

Stryker's surgical products include such instruments as drills, saws, rasps, even cement mixers. The company's Orthopaedic Implants category includes artificial joints, spinal rods and screws, artificial vertebral discs, bone cement, and other orthopedic implants and supplies. The orthopaedic division also makes OP-1, a biological product to grow bone. The MedSurg Equipment segment includes facial and hand surgery instruments, endoscopy equipment, and communications and patient handling equipment. Stryker's products are marketed globally to hospitals, doctors, and other health care facilities via direct sales personnel and distributors.

St. Luke's Health System strives to live up to its namesake. The regional not-for-profit health system provides a range of health services to residents of Idaho, eastern Oregon, and northern Nevada. St. Luke's is home to four general acute care hospitals with a total of about 800 beds. Its flagship facility is the 400-bed St. Luke's Boise Regional Medical Center, which also includes a full-service children's hospital. St. Luke's also runs a network of cancer care sites under the name Mountain States Tumor Institute, as well as diagnostic imaging and breast cancer detection centers.

Southern Cross Healthcare Group is the largest nursing home provider in the UK. The company operates some 700 nursing and residential care homes with beds totaling approximately 37,000. Southern Cross Healthcare offers a range of services, including senior living, specialty nursing, rehabilitation, and long-term and intermediate care for people with physical and learning disabilities. The health care provider operates homes in England, Scotland, and Wales under the Active Care Partnerships, Ashbourne Senior Living, and Southern Cross brands.

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