Consulate Health Care is a consummate elder care provider. The company offers long-term care, including assisted living, skilled nursing, and independent living services, to residents of its facilities in half a dozen states. Consulate owns, manages, and leases dozens of nursing homes and other long-term health care centers staffed with physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. It also provides rehabilitation, diagnostic imaging, hospice, and pharmacy services. In addition, Consulate offers Alzheimer's care and short-term transitional care programs for patients needing complex medical treatment. Consulate Health Care, Inc. operates facilities in Florida, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia.

Pennine Healthcare products may be disposable, but they're anything but dispensable. The company makes sterile, single use medical devices, manufacturing more than 50 million per year at its facilities in Derby. The disposable products are designed for applications in airway management (suction catheters, mucus extractors), gastroenterology (stomach tubes, bile bags), respiratory uses (filters, oxygen therapy), surgical suction (tubes and probes), and urology (various types of catheters). The firm also offers custom procedure packs for surgical procedures. Its products are sold by third-party distributors throughout the UK and in more than 70 countries.

Unity Health System brings together a host of health care services for the good people of Rochester, New York, and western Monroe County. The 680-bed system's main facility is Unity Hospital (what was Park Ridge Hospital until 2006). Its Unity St. Mary's Campus (formerly St. Mary's Hospital) offers a variety of community-based health care services, such as primary care clinics, dental offices, and urgent care services, as well as specialized psychiatric, rehabilitative, and cancer care, among other things. Unity St. Mary's also operates a nursing home and a senior living facility (known as Moore Park Apartments).

Mother M. Angela and Sister M. Rufina Dunn of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross of Notre Dame founded Mount Carmel in 1886. Mount Carmel Health System cares for the sick in the greater Columbus area and central Ohio. The health care system boasts about 1,500 physicians at three general hospitals and a specialty surgical hospital, offering a comprehensive range of medical and surgical services Mount Carmel Health also operates a variety of outpatient centers and primary care and specialty physicians' practices, and offers home health care services. The hospital group is part of Trinity Health, one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the US.

RehabCare Group, Inc. provides rehabilitation program management services in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, outpatient facilities, and other long-term care facilities in the United States. It operates in two segments, Program Management Services and Hospitals. The Program Management Services segment provides hospital rehabilitation services, including inpatient acute and subacute rehabilitation for conditions, such as stroke, orthopedic conditions, head injuries, cancer, heart failure, burns, and wounds; and outpatient therapy programs for hospital-based and satellite programs. This segment also offers skilled nursing rehabilitation services, such as contract therapy in skilled nursing, long-term care, and assisted living facilities for neurological, orthopedic, and other medical conditions; resident-centered management consulting services; and staffing services for therapists and nurses. The Hospital segment provides therapeutic and clinical care to patients with medically complex diagnoses; and interdisciplinary rehabilitation services to patients on an inpatient and outpatient basis. As of March 2, 2010, RehabCare Group, Inc. operated 34 long-term acute care and rehabilitation hospitals. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

Vasomedical's noninvasive treatments for angina and congestive heart failure get patients' blood pumping. The company's main product is the EECP (enhanced external counterpulsation) system, which is also approved to treat coronary artery disease and cardiogenic shock. During the company's Medicare-covered treatments, cuffs attached to the patient's calves and thighs inflate and deflate in sync with the patient's heartbeat, increasing and decreasing aortic blood pressure. After about 35 treatments, patients may experience years of symptomatic relief. Vasomedical sells the system to hospitals, clinics, and other health care providers worldwide through a direct sales force and independent distributors.

Chemed Corporation brings a professional dignity to times of transition and sewer line clogs. Operating through two major subsidiaries, Chemed Corporation offers hospice care to terminally ill patients through its VITAS Healthcare subsidiary which operates in some 15 US states. VITAS employs doctors, nurses, and other professionals to provide at-home and inpatient services in care facilities. Chemed's better-known Roto-Rooter subsidiary offers plumbing and drain-cleaning services for residential and commercial customers through company-owned, contractor-operated, and franchised locations, some 600 total. A stalwart of the industry, Roto-Rooter offers services throughout the US and in parts of Canada.

PeaceHealth provides patients with a tranquil place to recover. Make that several tranquil places to recover. PeaceHealth serves residents in southeastern Alaska, coastal regions of Washington, and central portions of Oregon. The health system includes six acute care hospitals: Ketchikan General Hospital (some 90 beds), St. Joseph Hospital (about 250 beds), St. John Medical Center (180 beds), Sacred Heart Medical Center (more than 430 beds), Cottage Grove Community Hospital (about a dozen beds), and Peace Harbor Hospital (about 15 beds). Other operations include physician practices, community health clinics, hospices, chemical dependency rehabilitation clinics, and other outpatient care facilities and services.

St. John's Mercy Health Care, an affiliate of the Sisters of Mercy Health System, is a not-for-profit health care system serving the greater St. Louis metro area and surrounding counties. The system offers some 1,200 beds and almost 1,300 physicians and is one of the largest Catholic-sponsored health care complexes in the nation. St. John's Mercy Health Care's network includes St. John's Mercy Medical Center, St. John's Hospital, Mercy Medical Group (a network of primary care physicians), a home health care division, a skilled nursing facility, and several specialty clinics. Specialty services include cardiac and cancer care and pediatrics.

Ascent Healthcare Solutions is banking on the idea that one doctor's trash could be another doctor's treasure. The company is out to help hospitals with the three "R"s -- reduce, reuse, and recycle. Ascent focuses on reprocessing disposable medical devices for health care facilities (from small rural providers to surgery centers and group purchasing organizations). Its OR-based systems permit the collection of thousands of tons of devices marketed as "single-use," as well as a range of recyclable materials. After collecting the used devices, it cleans, sterilizes, tests, and then returns them from its centers in Florida and Arizona. The company is part of the MedSurg division of medical products maker Stryker.

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