For more than 117 years, Backus Hospital has provided quality healthcare to the residents of eastern Connecticut.The 213-bed, not-for-profit, acute care community Hospital is the primary source of health services for nearly a quarter-million people. Since its founding in 1893, Backus Hospital has continually expanded, providing new programs and services and forming strategic alliances with other healthcare organizations and providers. Backus is the only trauma center east of the Connecticut River, and it is the only regional facility that has a hangar for LIFE STAR, Hartford Hospital's air medical transport helicopter.

Covenant Ministries of Benevolence has made a pact to provide health care to the residents of the Windy City. The not-for-profit organization operates two hospitals, a medical fitness center, and more than a dozen retirement communities. It runs the Emanuel Medical Center in Turlock, California, and the Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago; its Galter LifeCenter medical fitness center is also in Chicago. With campuses nationwide, its retirement communities offer assisted living facilities, health care, and social activities, among other services. The organization's Children's Home of Cromwell offers a residential treatment center for children ages nine to 18.

Hardin Memorial Hospital opened its doors in 1954. Hardin Memorial Hospital is a 300-bed acute care medical center providing health care services for residents in nearly a dozen counties in north central Kentucky. Managed by Baptist Healthcare System, the community-owned not-for-profit hospital also operates four family practice clinics and an urgent care facility. Its medical staff includes more than 140 physicians representing more than 30 specialties. Hardin Memorial also operates a 15-bed inpatient psychiatric unit and the Les Langley Pediatric Department for youngsters in need of hospitalization.

CaroMont Health is an independent not-for-profit health care system serving residents of Gastonia, a community just west of Charlotte in North Carolina's Piedmont region. Anchoring CaroMont Health is Gaston Memorial Hospital, a 435-bed medical and surgical facility that features a birthing center, an inpatient psychiatric ward, and specialized facilities for heart disease, cancer, sleep disorders, diabetes, and wound care. Other operations include a nearly 100-bed nursing home, an outpatient surgery center, and about 30 primary and specialty medical practices. CaroMont Health also provides home health and hospice care services. CaroMont Health is governed by the North Carolina Medical Care Commission.

Bard Limited is the UK-based subsidiary of medical equipment giant C. R. Bard. The company distributes its parent's medical devices in the UK market. Its primary offerings in the urological field include infection-control catheters (Bardex IC Foley) that help prevent patients from developing urinary tract infections, devices for incontinence treatment, and OptiFlo urethral catheter cleansing supplies (made by IS Pharma). Other Bard product lines include vascular stents and catheters, chemotherapy equipment, and surgical supplies. Customers include the UK National Health Service.

Independence Blue Cross (IBC) provides health insurance and related services to some 3.3 million members in Philadelphia and surrounding areas. The company's plans include Personal Choice (PPO), Keystone Health Plan East (HMO and POS), and traditional indemnity options for groups, families, and individuals. It also offers supplemental Medicare, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance. Through subsidiary AmeriHealth Administrators, IBC provides third-party administration (TPA) services. IBC, which was founded as the Associated Hospital Service of Philadelphia in 1938, is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.

The DCH Healthcare Authority is concerned with the Druid City's health. The company, which does business as DCH Health System, provides health services to residents of Tuscaloosa and several other communities in Western Alabama. Its flagship facility is the 580-bed DCH Regional Medical Center, a full-service teaching hospital located near the University of Alabama campus. DCH Health System also includes the Northport, Pickens County, and Fayette medical centers, which together house 320 acute-care beds. The hospitals offer a full range of inpatient and outpatient services, including primary, diagnostic, emergency, surgical, rehabilitative, and home health care.

Saint Joseph's Health System cares for them all. Serving Atlanta and the surrounding area, the system operates Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta, an acute-care facility that's recognized as the oldest hospital in Atlanta. The 410-bed hospital specializes in cardiac and vascular surgery, diabetes care, and oncology treatment. Saint Joseph's Mercy Care provides charity health care services through two Atlanta facilities -- Mercy Clinic Downtown and Mercy Clinic North -- as well as several mobile clinics. Sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy, the health system is part of Catholic Health East.

Biomerica, Inc. was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. Biomerica, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets medical diagnostic products for the early detection and monitoring of chronic diseases and medical conditions. Its diagnostic test kits are used to analyze blood or urine from patients in the diagnosis of various diseases and other medical complications, or to measure the level of specific hormones, antibodies, antigens, or other substances, which might exist in the human body in small concentrations. The company’s clinical laboratory diagnostic products include tests for bone and anemia conditions, gastrointestinal diseases, food intolerance, diabetes, and others. It offers its medical diagnostic products primarily to hospital and clinical laboratories, medical research institutions, medical schools, pharmaceutical companies, chain drugstores, wholesalers, and physicians’ offices worldwide. The company was formerly known as NMS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and changed its name to Biomerica, Inc. in November 1987.

Cardo Medical is a publicly traded company committed to innovation of the finest quality orthopedic reconstructive and spine surgical products in the world. Cardo has a laser like, focused approach to creative product development with a gifted team of professionals who share a common passion to push the envelope of engineering and design. Cardo Medical is building upon proven concepts with incremental innovation in implant design concepts. The company is tuned into a radical rethinking of current surgical instrumentation, and procedure technique. The company is committed to using innovation to make complex and difficult surgical procedures, easier, more reproducible, and safer, with predictable long-lasting outcomes.Cardo Medical is setting a new standard of uncompromising quality and constant product innovation and enhancement. Cardo products are designed to give patients the opportunity to return to the highest level of function and maintain as active a lifestyle as possible. Cardo Medical believe that life is too short to live with pain and functional limitations.

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