Saint Margaret Mercy Healthcare Centers has been caring for Hoosier Staters for more than 100 years through its two locations in Hammond and Dyer, Indiana. The two medical campuses combined have more than 800 beds and offer such services include heart care, cancer treatment, rehabilitation, pediatric services, home care, and behavioral health. Along with the main campuses, Saint Margaret Mercy Healthcare Centers provides primary and specialty care through about 20 ambulatory care clinics scattered throughout northwest Indiana. The organization also provides a one-year training program for medical technology students. Saint Margaret Mercy Healthcare Centers is a member of Sisters of St. Francis Health Services.

MaineHealth provides health care to residents of central, southern, and western Maine. The health system's facilities include Maine Medical Center, St. Andrews Hospital & Healthcare Center, Spring Harbor Hospital, Miles Memorial Hospital (part of Miles Health Care), and Stephens Memorial Hospital (part of Western Maine Health). MaineHealth also operates long-term care facilities, a home health care service, physician practices, medical laboratories, and other health care service units. The company's Synernet subsidiary provides administrative and group purchasing services for MaineHealth's members and other health care organizations.

Washington Dental Service keeps the pearly whites of the Pacific Northwest gleaming with its dental coverage plans.Washington Dental Service company provides a number of different coverage options, including fee-for-service plans, managed care plans, PPOs, and discount programs. It covers some 2.5 million sets of teeth, all of them through employer groups based in Washington. Washington Dental, founded in 1954, maintains a dental provider network of about 4,000 general dentists and specialists within the state, but also covers employees located outside Washington through its affiliation with Delta Dental Plans Association. The Washington Dental Service Foundation helps provide charitable dental care to communities.

Thoratec Corporation company makes ventricular assist devices (VAD) for patients suffering late-stage heart failure, including those awaiting a heart transplant. Thoratec offers external and implantable products that provide circulatory support for both acute and long-term needs. The company's International Technidyne Corporation (ITC) subsidiary sells blood coagulation diagnostic equipment and skin incision devices used for drawing blood. Thoratec also sells Vectra, a graft used in renal hemodialysis.Thoratec Corporation company works closely with hospitals and cardiac surgery centers primarily in the US and Europe. Its incision products are sold worldwide through distributors.

ResMed makes and distributes medical equipment used to diagnose and treat respiratory disorders that occur during sleep, such as sleep apnea. Most of its products treat obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a condition in which a patient's air flow is periodically obstructed, causing multiple disruptions during sleep that lead to daytime sleepiness and possibly other conditions such as high blood pressure. Its products include air-flow generators, face masks, diagnostic products, and accessories. ResMed sells directly and through distributors worldwide to home health equipment dealers, sleep clinics, and hospitals.

Putting hospital corners on the sheets for about 3,000 beds is all in a day's work for the HCA Virginia Health System (formerly HCA Richmond Health System). Part of the HCA family, the system operates about a dozen hospitals in central, northern, and southwestern Virginia. Its hospitals include Alleghany Regional Hospital, CJW Medical Center (which includes the Levinson Heart Hospital), Henrico Doctors' Hospital (and its Retreat Hospital campus), John Randolph Medical Center, and Montgomery Regional Hospital. The medical system also operates general health clinics, imaging centers, and surgery centers for outpatient procedures.

ROHO aims to make your ride more comfortable. The ROHO group manufactures cushions that can be used in both medical equipment and commercial seating applications. The company's core technology is its dry flotation system, originally used in cushions as a way to prevent bedsores and since adapted for use in seats for aircraft, commercial trucks, motorcycles, and office chairs. Robert Graebe founded ROHO, Inc., in 1973; in 2001 ROHO, Inc., ROHO International, and Crown Therapeutics joined to form the ROHO group.

Poudre Valley Health System (PVHS) provides health care to residents of northern Colorado, western Nebraska, and southern Wyoming through the Poudre Valley Hospital and the Medical Center of the Rockies. With a total of some 415 beds, the two hospitals offer general medical and surgical services and trauma care. Individually, the hospitals feature orthopedic surgery and treatment centers for cancer and brain and spine disorders. PVHS also includes the Mountain Crest Behavioral Healthcare Center, which has some 40 beds and provides mental health services and substance abuse treatment, and a 96-acre, four-building campus that includes physician offices and outpatient services.

St. Joseph's/Candler Health System is a largest health system in the region, SJ/C is anchored by two main hospitals, St. Joseph's Hospital (305 beds) and Candler Hospital (320 beds). The facilities provide a spectrum of care with specialties that include cardiac and cancer care, orthopedics, and robotic surgery. The two hospitals, which merged to become SJ/C in 1997, also administer home healthcare, as well as a variety of community outreach and education efforts through their mobile units. SJ/C operates a network of primary care clinics and outpatient rehabilitation centers scattered throughout the area.

Hospice of Michigan provides specialized health care services for people with a terminal illness and support for their loved ones. These services focus on comfort measures and pain control, or palliative care. Palliative care is directed by the patient and family along with the patient's physician or hospice medical director. Nurses, social workers, home health aides, spiritual advisors and trained volunteers work as an expert team to provide palliative care. The team focuses on providing comfort and pain relief when a cure is not possible. The goal is to help each person live as fully as possible and to help the family and loved ones participate in the person's care.

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