Yoakum Community Hospital facility serves rural communities in South Central Texas by offering specialized services such as surgery, emergency medicine, labor and deliver, physical therapy, and radiology. The 25-bed facility, which has a staff of about 10 physicians, was founded in 1922. The hospital was originally owned by the city but has passed through numerous hands over the years including, the Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament and Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate word. Houston-based Memorial Hermann Healthcare System now provides the hospital with management services.

The Memorial Hospital has 25 beds, provides acute health care services to the residents of Colorado's Moffat and Routt counties. Specialty services at The Memorial Hospital include emergency care, cardiac rehabilitation, physical therapy, nuclear medicine, diagnostic imaging, and women's health. Founded in 1949, the hospital was rebuilt in 2009.

Medela is just working to make mothers and babies happy and healthy. The company is a leading maker of breast pumps and breastfeeding accessories for hospital, rental, and home use. Medela's neonatology division develops specialized lamps used to treat jaundiced newborns. Its suction technology division offers aspirators, pumps, medical gas regulators, fluid management systems, for use in hospital and homecare settings. Medela has branched out from mothers and babies into wound care with its Invia system of negative pressure products. Medela Holding AG operates more than a dozen subsidiaries in China, Europe, the UK, and the US. Medela is owned by the family of founder Olle Larsson.

Wyoming Valley Health Care System (WVHCS) cares for the rugged folk in the wilds of Pennsylvania. WVHCS operates the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, an acute care facility with some 300 beds that serves northeastern Pennsylvania residents. The hospital includes a women's and children's center, cardiac care unit, and a cancer care center. The WVHCS network also includes a behavioral health hospital, the First Hospital Wyoming Valley (also known as Nesbitt Memorial Medical Center). Other system facilities include primary care physician offices, behavioral health clinics, long-term and hospice care centers, and a home health agency. WVHCS was acquired by rural healthcare giant Community Health Systems in 2009.

Larkin Community Hospital may be small, but it doesn't skimp on its array of health care services. The 110-bed hospital provides general medical and surgical services to the sun-drenched residents of the Miami-Dade County area of Florida. Larkin Community Hospital offers more than 40 specialties, including diagnostic radiology, intensive care, arthritis services, an inpatient psychiatric ward, surgery, cardiovascular care, and rehabilitation (including physical, occupational, and speech therapy). President and CEO Jack Michel owns the health care facility.

"Sterile" is the watchword at Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB). The company makes and supplies equipment used in the medical and biopharmaceutical industries for filtration, fluid management, fermentation, purification, and laboratory applications. Products include sterilized, disposable bags, systems that freeze or thaw pharmaceutical components, as well as systems for the sterile transfer of liquids or solids. SSB sells its products to the pharmaceutical, chemical and food and beverage industries, as well as research and educational institutes around the globe. Formerly called Stedim, the firm changed its name in 2007 when it was acquired with German lab equipment maker Sartorius.

All Children's Hospital has more than 250 beds, all dedicated to the health of west central Florida's children. With more than 140 pediatric physician specialists on board, the hospital offers its young patients a variety of services including a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for premature and "at-risk" infants. Its heart, bone marrow, and kidney transplant programs are nationally renowned. Other specialties include cancer, cystic fibrosis, cardiology, neurology, and cleft palate care. The teaching hospital is also affiliated with the University of South Florida College of Medicine.

In 1816, James Leacock published a series of experiments carried out in Edinburgh, which showed that blood transfusion could save the life of animals. James Blundell, a contemporary of Leacock's during his training in Edinburgh Medical School, was the first to transfuse humans with human blood in 1818. Some of the earliest attempts to emulate Blundell and the largest series of transfusion in the 19th century were carried out in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE). However, it was not until Landsteiner discovered the major A, B and O blood groups in 1901 that blood transfusion could develop as a rational treatment.

Caring for life is what LifeCare Solutions is all about. The company provides a variety of home health care services, such as respiratory and infusion therapy and home care medical equipment. LifeCare's nutritional services include residential visits from a registered dietician, educational materials, and a line of enteral nutrition products for tube feeding. Other wares include sleep apnea monitors, nebulizers, and oxygen equipment. LifeCare operates more than a dozen locations in Arizona, California, and Washington State. The business is part of private investment firm Westar's portfolio of companies. LifeCare is led by CEO Tom Robbins, a long-time veteran of the home health care industry.

Jackson County Memorial Hospital Trust Authority (JCMHTA) provides medical care to residents of Southwest Oklahoma and North Texas through its 150-bed Jackson County Memorial Hospital and 55-bed Tamarack Assisted Living Center, an assisted-living facility. More than 20 specialized services include home health and hospice care, emergency medicine, pediatrics, and orthopedics. The hospital also offers an outpatient same-day surgery unit, a women's center, a cancer center, and an intensive care unit.

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