Kimberly-Clark Health Care knows it takes more than just pills to keep patients healthy. A division of consumer products giant Kimberly-Clark, Kimberly-Clark Health Care is a leading supplier of surgical drapes, gowns, gloves, and other staples of the operating room. It offers a wide array of infection control products, from equipment sanitizers to ventilator tubes that prevent contaminants from invading the lungs and causing pneumonia. The unit also makes feeding tubes, oral suction systems, endoscopic devices, and drug delivery equipment. It markets its products worldwide under the Kimberly-Clark, Ballard Medical, and ON-Q brands.

Union Health Service brings together doctors and patients in the Chicago area.Union Health Service company is a not-for-profit health care services provider which supplies health insurance to its members through HMO (health maintenance organization) and medical prepayment plans. Union Health Service also provides primary health care, as well as vision, laboratory, radiology, and pharmacy services, to its members through about 20 group practice clinics in Aurora, Chicago, Norridge, Oak Park, and other area communities. The company was established in 1955.

Rush System for Health is in a hurry to get Chicagoans hale and hearty. The health system's cornerstone is the Rush University Medical Center, a more than 670-bed academic medical facility that includes a medical school (Rush University), a children's hospital, and an inpatient rehabilitation and skilled nursing facility (the Johnston R. Bowman Health Center). The Rush System family also includes Rush-Copley Medical Center, Rush North Shore Medical Center, and affiliated community hospitals Rush Oak Park Hospital and Riverside HealthCare.

Keystrokes Transcription Service gets medical terminology into healthy order. Keystrokes Transcription Service Illinois-based medical transcription company employs more than 300 transcriptionists who transcribe verbal medical information into written form for various clients in the medical field. Keystrokes Transcription Service company also offers clients HIM (Health Information Management or medical record management) services. Serving more than 70 facilities around the US, Keystrokes works primarily on a contractual and outsourcing basis for the radiology, orthopaedics, pathology, and cardiology professions. The privately-owned company was established in 1997.

Specialty medical products maker Limbs & Things really does deal in body parts, albeit artificial ones. The company doesn't make prosthetic devices, rather it manufactures synthetic soft tissue anatomical models used for medical education and training. (Think birthing, pelvic exams, and catheter insertion!) Sister company Medical Skills Ltd provides multimedia training kits that incorporate products from Limbs & Things. Founded in 1990 by former medical illustrator and current company president Margot Cooper, the company sells its medical simulation models worldwide.

University Health Services, doing business as University Health Care System, serves the communities of some 25 counties in Georgia's Central Savannah River Area and neighboring South Carolina. The system includes University Hospital with more than 550 beds, a women's center, a cancer center, and a heart center. It operates two separate nursing care facilities with a total of 249 beds, and maintains a home health care service. University Health Link is a managed care contractor co-owned by University Health Services and a group of 440 physicians serving companies in the region.

MedStar Health is a $3.8 billion not-for-profit, regional healthcare system with a network of nine hospitals and 20 other health-related businesses across Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region. As the area's largest health system, it is one of the region's largest employers with more than 26,000 associates and 5,300 affiliated physicians, all of whom support MedStar Health's patient-first philosophy that combines care, compassion and clinical excellence with an emphasis on customer service. We prove this with more than 166,000 inpatient admissions and more than 1.6 million outpatient visits each year.MedStar Health associates proudly serve a half-million patients annually, and our employee satisfaction exceeds the national average for healthcare and Fortune 500 high-performing companies, which translates into a workforce dedicated to providing the highest quality care to the communities we serve. We contribute approximately $111 million in payroll tax to the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia each year, and believe in re-investing in our associates through professional development programs, such as the Executive Development Institute and the John L. Green Generation of Leadership Scholarship Program. Additionally, MedStar Health provides close to $270 million in charity care and community benefit on an annual basis.

Long Beach Medical Center was founded in 1922. Long Beach Medical Center (LBMC) serves half a dozen Long Island communities. The facility has about 160 acute care beds at the main center, as well as 200 subacute care beds at The Komanoff Center for Geriatric and Rehabilitative Medicine. LBMC provides behavioral health, family health care, emergency, and rehabilitation services. Its Family Care Center offers health care to those with inadequate financial resources. LBMC has teaching affiliations with the New York College of Podiatric Medicine and the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Medtronic Sofamor Danek USA, Inc. Company Profile It takes backbone to be the one of the world's biggest makers of spinal implants, and Medtronic Sofamor Danek USA has some serious spine. The Medtronic subsidiary's products treat degenerative diseases, deformities, and spine and cranium trauma. It also develops minimally invasive surgical techniques and computer-assisted surgical instruments, and provides physicians and patients with information through websites such as iscoliosis.com, back.com, and necksurgery.com. Medtronic Sofamor Danek USA markets and distributes its products worldwide. Along with hospitals and physicians, the company has federal contracts with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to supply medical equipment to some of its hospitals.

Employing the Latin word for breast, SenoRx's name says it all: the company develops, manufactures, and distributes biopsy systems and breast tissue markers used in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. Its primary diagnostic product, EnCor, is a vacuum-assisted breast biopsy probe system with which a doctor may collect tissue samples and biopsies through a proprietary transparent tissue collection chamber. The system allows the doctor to examine the quality of the specimen mid-probe, rather than performing numerous biopsies. Other core products include Contura MLB, a radiation therapy device. SenoRx was acquired by medical device maker C.R. Bard for about $200 million in 2010.

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