Cleveland may be home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but you don't have to have the rocking pneumonia or the boogie woogie flu to visit another Cleveland institution: The Cleveland Clinic. The heart of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, the not-for-profit hospital has more than 1,300 beds and specializes in cardiac care, digestive disease treatment, and urological and kidney care, along with medical education and research opportunities. The clinic campus includes an international care center, a children's hospital, an outpatient center, and several research institutes. The Cleveland Clinic Foundation network also includes 10 community hospitals and additional health clinics in northeast Ohio and Florida.

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.

Kindred Healthcare, Inc. operates as a FORTUNE 500 healthcare services company in the United States. It operates in three divisions: Hospital, Health Services, and Rehabilitation. The Hospital division operates long-term acute care hospitals that provide services to medically complex patients, including the critically ill, suffering from multiple organ system failures, primarily the cardiovascular, pulmonary, kidney, gastro-intestinal, and skin systems. The Health Services division operates nursing and rehabilitation centers, which provide short stay patients and long stay residents with a range of medical, nursing, rehabilitative, pharmacy, and routine services, including daily dietary, social, and recreational services. It also provides specialized programs for residents suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias through its reflections units. The Rehabilitation division offers physical and occupational therapies and speech pathology services under the Peoplefirst Rehabilitation name to residents and patients of nursing centers, acute and long-term acute care hospitals, outpatient clinics, home health agencies, assisted living facilities, school districts, and hospice providers. It also offers specialized care programs that address neurologic, orthopedic, cardiac, and pulmonary recovery, as well as medical needs, such as wound care, pain management, and cognitive retraining. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 83 long-term acute care hospitals with 6,580 licensed beds in 24 states; and 222 nursing and rehabilitation centers with 27,523 licensed beds in 27 states. Kindred Healthcare was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.

Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) provides an electronic trading exchange designed for health care providers, suppliers, and manufacturers to buy and sell supplies online. GHX aims to lower supply chain costs for its users by allowing them to perform transactions with multiple parties through one electronic platform, as well as by automating the purchasing process and reducing purchase order errors. The firm was founded in 2000 by a group of five health care manufacturers: Abbott Labs, Baxter International, GE Medical Systems, Johnson & Johnson, and Medtronic. It is now owned by the original five plus a slew of other distributors, hospitals, group purchasing organizations, and manufacturers.

Uroplasty makes implants used primarily to treat urinary incontinence and overactive bladder. Its flagship product is Macroplastique, a soft-tissue bulking material for the treatment of urinary incontinence, that is injected during a minimally invasive outpatient procedure. Another minimally invasive device, the Urgent PC, uses electrical pulses to treat overactive bladder symptoms. Uroplasty's I-Stop Mid-Urethral Sling treats female incontinence. The company also sells soft-tissue bulking agents used in plastic surgery, vocal cord rehabilitation, and treatment of fecal incontinence. Uroplasty markets its products primarily in Europe and the US; it won FDA approval to market Macroplastique in 2006.

Ramsay Health Care rules Australia's private hospital industry. As that continent's largest private hospital group, the company operates about 115 hospitals and day-care facilities in Australia as well as in Europe and Asia. With roughly 10,000 beds and 25,000 employees, Ramsay hospitals provide care for just about any medical or surgical problem for which a patient may need treatment. Acquisitions (at home and abroad) have boosted the company's holdings, and while about half of Ramsay's hospitals are in Australia, the company is intent on expanding into new international markets. Ramsay was established in 1964 as a psychiatric hospital by Paul Ramsay.

Hunt Memorial Hospital District doesn't want Hunt County residents to have to search high and low for a health care provider. The district, also known as Hunt Regional Healthcare, operates two Northeast Texas hospitals, the Hunt Regional Medical Center at Greenville and the Hunt Regional Community Hospital at Commerce. The hospitals offer specialized services including cardiac care, rehabilitation, cancer treatment, diabetes management, diagnostic imaging, a surgery center, and a sleep disorder clinic. In addition, the district operates divisions that provide home health and EMS services, as well as family medicine, occupational health, and specialty outpatient medical clinics.

AnMed Health Located in Upstate South Carolina, AnMed Health is widely recognized as a regional healthcare leader. The health system attracts patients from an eight-county area, and offers advanced medical treatment from acute care procedures to outpatient surgery and diagnostics. AnMed Healthare currently celebrating "A century of healing. Lifetimes of care." Follow the link to learn more about AnMed Healthcentennial celebration.

Mercy Health Plans provides health insurance products and related services. The company's group health insurance products include HMO, PPO, POS, and health savings plans to members across Arkansas and Missouri, and parts of Illinois and Texas. Mercy Health Plans company offers individual medical insurance (PremierOne) and Mercy Medicare Advantage in Arkansas and Missouri. It also provides Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage in four Texas counties. Founded in 1994, Mercy Health Plans was a subsidiary of the Sisters of Mercy Health System, before it was acquired by Coventry Health Care in 2010.

Teleflex helps medical professionals manage fluids and oxygen and it helps airlines keep cargo contained. Through its Medical segment, Teleflex makes surgical instruments, medical devices, and disposable supplies for hospital procedures, especially catheters for all parts of the body. While medical products are its main focus. The company's Aerospace segment provides aircraft cargo handling systems under the Telair International and Nordisk brands. Teleflex distributes its products in more than 140 countries around the globe.

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