SunLink Health Systems is hoping to shine brightly in the healthcare business through the management of community hospitals. Through its subsidiaries, the firm operates seven community hospitals with a total of more than 400 beds in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Missouri. SunLink Health leases one of its hospitals, Missouri Southern Healthcare, and owns the other six. Each hospital is the only acute care facility in its service area. The company also runs several nursing facilities, which service the geographical areas surrounding the hospitals and have 260 beds combined, and it operates a home health agency and a specialty pharmacy business.

Tampa General Hospital keeps the medical tempo humming in west-central Florida. The medical center provides general medical and surgical care, as well as tertiary offerings including a Level 1 trauma center, a burn unit, a pediatric ward, women's and cardiovascular centers, and an organ transplant unit. The not-for-profit hospital has about 930 acute-care beds, as well as 60 beds in its rehabilitation unit, which specializes in helping patients recover from stroke, head or spine trauma, and other neuromuscular conditions. In addition, Tampa General is the primary teaching hospital for The University of South Florida College of Medicine. It also conducts research and operates community care centers in the Tampa area.

United Regional Health Care System provider serves the residents of northern Texas through two hospitals that combined have some 500 beds. Specialized services include emergency medicine, cardiac care, diagnostic imaging, surgery, obstetrics, and pediatrics. The health care system also offers cancer treatment, childbirth, wound care, and sleep diagnostic centers. It is the only comprehensive cardiac care facility and only Level III trauma center in the region. URHCS operates a Care Flight Helicopter to get those traumas to care quicker.

As the company likes to say: Rise, roll, rest, and ride! Golden Technologies is in the business of helping those who need a little assistance getting around do all of the above with its line of lift chairs, scooters, power wheelchairs, and adjustable beds. The company's brands include the Alante and the Alero power chairs, several types of scooters, including the Avenger, the Buzz Around, and the Companion Series, and the Compass wheelchair line. Adjustable beds come in standard or deluxe models. Golden Technologies' base of operations is in Old Forge, Pennsylvania; its products are sold through dealers in the US, Canada, and Mexico. The family-owned company was founded in 1985 by Robert Golden Sr. and Fred Kiwak.

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is a leading provider of health benefits in Massachusetts, the not-for-profit organization also offers plans to residents of New Hampshire and Maine. It has more than 1 million members enrolled in its HMO, PPO, point-of-service, and government plans. Those members have access to regional and nationwide networks of hospitals and doctors. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care also targets multi-state employers with its Choice Plus and Options PPO plans, offered through a partnership with UnitedHealth. The Harvard Pilgrim Foundation provides community health and wellness programs.

NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System serves about 20 percent of patients located in the New York metro area. The system includes about 25 acute and specialty hospitals with a total of 7,900 beds. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is the system's flagship facility and the largest hospital in the US with 2,300 beds; specialist facilities include psychiatric and rehabilitation hospitals. All of its hospitals are affiliated with the medical colleges of Columbia University or Cornell University. NYPHS also operates nursing homes (with some 1,600 beds) and community health clinics.

CentraState Healthcare System is a central part of the lives of people in central New Jersey -- or at least a central part of saving the lives of central New Jerseyites. The health system operates CentraState Medical Center, a teaching hospital with more than 280 beds. The hospital, which is affiliated with the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, offers acute and tertiary care, including ambulatory surgical services and diagnostic imaging. CentraState Healthcare System also operates several nursing homes (including Applewood Estates and Monmouth Crossing) and outpatient clinics. CentraState Healthcare is an affiliate of the Robert Wood Johnson Health System and Network.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) -- known as "the Blues" -- serve more than 100 million members nationwide. The association is a federation of about 40 independent health insurance companies who license the Blue Cross and Blue Shield brand names. Member companies own the rights to sell Blue-branded health plans within defined regions. BCBSA coordinates some national programs such as BlueCard, which allows members of one franchisee to have coverage in other service areas, and the Federal Employee Program (FEP), which covers more than half of federal government employees, retirees, and their families.

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.

Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. provides clinical laboratory testing services primarily in the greater New York metropolitan area. It offers various chemical diagnostic tests, including blood and urine analysis, blood chemistry, hematology services, serology, radioimmuno analysis, toxicology, pap smears, tissue pathology, and other tissue analysis. The company also operates a clinical knowledge management service unit, which uses customer data from laboratory results, pharmaceutical data, claims data, and other data sources to provide administrative and clinical decision support systems.

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