Health First Health Plans (HFHP), a subsidiary of Health First, provides health insurance and related services to about 64,000 members in Florida's Space Coast (Brevard County and north Indian River County). Its provider network includes about 750 physicians working at three area hospitals. Among the 70 different health plans are HMO, POS, high-deductible plans, Medicare Advantage (for individuals), and Group Medicare. The company also offers preventative health services such as health assessments for adults, as well as programs for women and children. HFHP also has its own pharmacy department to manage prescription drug benefits.

HealthSpring provides Medicare Advantage plans in seven US states. The company has more than 190,000 members in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. Its Medicare Advantage plans offer the support of Medicare with additional benefits such as Medicare Part D prescription benefits, vision and hearing benefits, and transportation programs. In addition, HealthSpring runs a nationwide prescription drug plan with more than 310,000 members, and offers management services to independent physician associations in Alabama, Tennessee, and Texas.

The Cooper Companies has its customers covered. The Cooper Companies company makes specialty medical devices in two niche markets: vision care and gynecology. Its CooperVision subsidiary makes specialty contact lenses, including toric lenses for astigmatism, multifocal lenses for presbyopia (blurred vision), and cosmetic lenses. The Cooper Companies also offers lenses for more common vision problems such as nearsightedness and farsightedness. Subsidiary CooperSurgical specializes in women's health care; its wide range of products include bone densitometers (for diagnosing osteoporosis), surgery instruments, and fetal monitors.

United Surgical Partners International (USPI) brings together surgeons from across the US and the UK. The company owns or manages about 165 short-stay ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals in the US and another four in the UK. The company creates centers from scratch, converts outpatient departments into stand-alone jointly run locations, and purchases existing facilities; contract management services are also available. USPI markets its facilities to patients, physicians, and insurance companies by touting their quality of care, convenience, and efficiency. Health care investment firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe owns USPI.

UC Irvine Medical Center is the only Level I trauma center in Orange County. It also offers acute- and general-care services from about 400 specialty and primary care physicians. The medical center operates one of four cancer centers in California (its Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center) and outpatient clinics throughout the region. The UC Irvine Medical also boasts neuropsychiatric and regional burn centers. Together UC Irvine Medical and University Physicians & Surgeons -- a faculty practice organization -- comprise UC Irvine Healthcare.

Sisters opened a private hospital, establishing the foundation for what would eventually be the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System (SCLHS). Today, the not-for-profit health care organization operates nine hospitals and four clinics throughout California, Colorado, Kansas, and Montana, with a total of more than 2,000 beds. Its facilities include acute care, extended care, and rehabilitation services. True to its name, the organization's facilities continue to provide health services to low-income and uninsured people.

Children's Memorial Hospital has the Windy City covered. Founded in 1882, the hospital provides a full range of pediatric services, both acute and specialty care. Children's Memorial provides its services through its main hospital campus with about 300 beds and outpatient center in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, as well as through more than a dozen suburban outpatient centers and outreach partner locations in the greater Chicago metropolitan area. The hospital also operates Children's Memorial Research Center, a national leader in pediatric research, and it is the pediatric teaching facility of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

St. John's Health System, part of the Sisters of Mercy-St. Louis organization, serves Southwestern Missouri and Northern Arkansas. The system includes St. John's Regional Health Center and five other acute-care facilities (all operating under the St. John's Hospital name) and a network of some 70 clinics operating as St. John's Clinics. The company also administers health plans, offering claims processing and payment, corporate health and wellness programs, medical management, and plan consulting and implementation services through its Health Plan division. Its five regional hospitals are located in Missouri in the cities of Aurora, Cassville, Lebanon, and Mountain View, as well as in Berryville, Arkansas.

Navilyst Medical is charting a new course for itself in the world of vascular disease. Formerly part of Boston Scientific, Navilyst Medical was spun off, acquired by private equity firm Avista Capital Partners in February 2008, and given a new name. The medical device maker will continue to market its two main fluid management and vascular access products to cardiologists, oncologists, and radiologists around the world. Its NAMIC kits, which account for about 60% of revenue, are used to manage fluids during cardiac catheterization procedures. Its Pressure Activated Safety Valves (PASV) account for the remaining 40% and are used to administer drugs during such procedures as chemotherapy.

Children's Hospital of Michigan cares for children from birth to adolescence with some 230 beds and is linked to the Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University. The children's hospital provides a full spectrum of adolescent care including cardiology, critical care, emergency, oncology, rehabilitation, and respiratory services. It also performs research and is one of a handful of hospitals testing new drugs to treat spinal muscular atrophy in youngsters. The hospital, established in 1886, works to make itself kid-friendly by providing its patients with playrooms, activity centers, computer labs, and classrooms.

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