The original Hamot Hospital opened in 1881 on the old Hamot family homestead, with five rooms and the capacity for 25 patients. Adventurous Frenchmen know the value of good medical care; Pierre S.V. Hamot felt absolutely "Erie" without it. Hamot Health Foundation (named for the wealthy immigrant merchant) is a not-for-profit health organization serving residents of northwestern Pennsylvania, western New York, and eastern Ohio. The flagship facility in this health system is the Hamot Medical Center, a tertiary-care hospital with about 350 beds. Hamot has an extensive residency program in a number of specialties, including a school of anesthesia run in cooperation with Gannon University.

DeRoyal Industries,Inc. makes medical equipment and surgical supplies. Products include orthopedic and rehabilitation products, wound care dressings, and surgical safety and critical care products. Its surgical and acute care product lines include custom procedural trays, anesthesia and temperature monitoring supplies, birthing and neonatal care items, catheterization supplies, and endoscopy products, as well as systems devoted to the disposal of medical waste. DeRoyal also has the ability to handle contract manufacturing for those inside and outside the medical industry. The company is owned by chairman and founder Pete DeBusk.

Western Dental can help if you're in Arizona, California, or Nevada. The dental health maintenance organization (DHMO) serves customers from about 200 offices and dental clinics and some 1,700 dentists, orthodontists, and other dental health specialists. The company offers a variety of individual and group plans; services include general dentistry, orthodontics, oral surgery, periodontics, and endodontics. Western Dental also accepts most major private insurance including PPOs and DHMOs. Western Dental's roots go back to 1903, when Dr. Curtis Beauchamp founded Western Dental company to provide low-cost dental services.

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Network, which includes a nearly 200-bed main hospital and nine outpatient centers throughout Massachusetts, provides a variety of rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities or who are recovering from surgery, illness, or injury. Its inpatient programs include rehabilitation for vascular disease, brain injury, spinal cord injury, and stroke; the network also provides outpatient rehabilitation in such areas as sports injury, physical and occupational therapy, sleep diagnostics, and arthritis management. Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital is a teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School and is a member of the Partners HealthCare System.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital studies and treats catastrophic diseases in children, especially pediatric cancers. The hospital only has about 70 beds -- most of the more than 5,000 children it treats annually are seen on an outpatient basis as part of the hospital's research efforts into finding cures and more effective treatments. St. Jude not only helps kiddos with their health; it also helps out their parents: The organization pays all expenses not covered by insurance, and patients without insurance don't have to pay. Entertainer Danny Thomas founded St. Jude in 1962; Thomas also founded the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities (ALSAC), the fundraising organization for the hospital.

Long Beach Memorial Medical Center (LBMMC) is an old-timer in the Long Beach health care market. A subsidiary of Memorial Health Services, LBMMC provides a full range of health services to residents of the Long Beach, California, area. The medical center, a more than 460-bed acute-care hospital, was founded in 1907 and is one of the largest private hospitals on the West coast. Services include primary, emergency, diagnostic, surgical, therapeutic, and rehabilitative care. The hospital is home to centers for treatment of cancer, heart, stroke, and women's and children's health concerns. It also provides home and hospice care programs, as well as occupational health services.

Neighborhood Health Partnership company is a for-profit HMO that serves the Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. NHP offers a variety of health coverage plans, as well as pharmacy, mental health, and preventative health programs. Its services include employee benefit plans for small to large companies, including savings and reimbursement accounts. NHP was created out of a coalition between Dimension Physician Hospital Organization and John Alden Insurance, and then later acquired by its current owner UnitedHealth Group.

Corin Group does its best work right at the literal crux of arthritis problems. The company designs and manufactures reconstructive orthopedic devices often used in joint replacement procedures. In addition to replacement ankles, hips, knees, and spinal implants, Corin is also working on computerized surgical systems to assist doctors during joint replacement surgery and other procedures. The company has nine subsidiaries based outside the UK, including in Austria, Japan, and Spain. Corin Group sells its products directly and through distributors in about 70 countries. The company -- which operates one main manufacturing and supply center in the UK -- was established in 1985 and went public in 2002.

Staten Island University Hospital ferries health care services to residents of New York City's fastest growing borough and surrounding areas at its two medical campuses. Established in 1861, Staten Island University Hospital maintains about 775 beds and is a teaching affiliate of the State University of New York's Brooklyn Health Science Center. Its larger north campus includes units specializing in cardiology, pathology, cancer, blood-related diseases, burn treatment, trauma, and women's health. The south campus site offers specialty programs such as sleep medicine, geriatric psychiatry, and substance abuse services. The hospital is a member of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System.

TechniScan (formerly TechniScan Medical Systems) is developing a gentler means of mammography. Its Svara ultrasound imaging system uses a water bath and ultrasound reflective tomography technology to produce scans of the entire breast in about 10 minutes. TechniScan's images are intended to be used when further testing is needed following a conventional mammogram screening. The development stage company was founded in 1984. TechniScan shortened its name when it completed a reverse merger with shell company Castillo Inc. to become a public entity in 2009.

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