Good Samaritan Hospital of Maryland provides emergency care and promotes good health in the Baltimore area. The 320-bed hospital provides acute medical care and specialty services including rehabilitation (50-bed ward), orthopedics, cancer care, cardiology, dialysis, and women's health, as well as serving as a community teaching facility. Good Samaritan Hospital of Maryland, Inc. founded in 1968, also operates nursing and assisted-living facilities for the elderly, and it provides educational seminars, diagnostic screening, and preventative medical care through its Good Health Center. Good Samaritan Hospital of Maryland is part of the MedStar Health system.

Bio-logic Systems gets inside your head. The company's computer-based electrodiagnostic systems are used by medical professionals to diagnose neurological, sensory, and sleep disorders. Its products include Algo and AuDX hearing screeners for newborns and the Navigator Pro hearing diagnostic system, as well as Ceegraph neurodiagnostic systems that map the brain's electrical activity. Additionally, Bio-logic Systems makes the Sleepscan line of diagnostic products used in sleep laboratories. Bio-logic Systems was founded in 1979 and is a subsidiary of Natus Medical. It sells its products through Natus' sales force in the US and through distributors abroad.

Clinical Specialties (aka CSI) provides home-based health care services to patients in Ohio and surrounding regions. The company's nurses and other health care professionals administer intravenous medications -- including chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, and hemophilia treatments -- to patients in their homes. The company also coordinates service with other contracted home health care providers, such as physical therapists, hospice nurses, and home health aids. CSI operates mainly in Ohio, but its service area extends into adjoining parts of Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

LaserSight has an eye for vision care. The company's LaserSight Technologies subsidiary makes excimer lasers, which surgically correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. LaserSight's LaserScan LSX system is approved by the FDA for photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and laser-in-situ keratomileusis (LASIK) vision correction procedures. The company also sells ophthalmic equipment including forceps, scissors, and needle holders. Subsidiary TechnicaLaser sells laser products for industrial, laboratory, and other applications. LaserSight has facilities in China and the US and markets its products in more than 30 countries worldwide.

Lifespan Corporation helps to increase the longevity of the residents of Rhode Island. Founded in 1994, the multi-hospital health system includes the state's largest acute care facility, Rhode Island Hospital. Rhode Island Hospital has about 720 beds and provides general and advanced medical-surgical care in a wide range of specialties, including organ transplantation, neurosurgery, and orthopedics. It also performs biomedical research in areas such as cancer and vascular disease. Rhode Island Hospital and its sister facility, the 250-bed Miriam Hospital, serve as teaching facilities for Brown University's medical school.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) -- known as "the Blues" -- serve more than 100 million members nationwide. The association is a federation of about 40 independent health insurance companies who license the Blue Cross and Blue Shield brand names. Member companies own the rights to sell Blue-branded health plans within defined regions. BCBSA coordinates some national programs such as BlueCard, which allows members of one franchisee to have coverage in other service areas, and the Federal Employee Program (FEP), which covers more than half of federal government employees, retirees, and their families.

Spacelabs Healthcare got its start monitoring the health of NASA astronauts; nowadays it makes medical diagnostic and therapeutic equipment for more Earth-bound patients. The company's Ultraview bedside patient monitor and telemetry systems keep up with patient's data and transmit it to caregivers through clinical wired and wireless networks. Its Blease anesthesia delivery systems and ventilators are used in operative and perioperative settings. Its Del Mar Reynolds unit develops heart monitors including electrocardiogram and ambulatory blood pressure monitors. Spacelabs Healthcare operates worldwide and holds all of the healthcare operations of its parent, OSI Systems.

LifeCell puts new life into the tissue graft market. The firm makes skin graft materials processed from cadaver skin, a category of products known as allografts. Its products include AlloDerm, used in reconstructive plastic, dental, and burn surgeries and Strattice Reconstructive Tissue Matrix, for plastic and reconstructive surgery and wound healing. LifeCell markets a series of other products for additional applications, including one called Cymetra for grafting and head and neck plastic reconstruction. The company markets its products in the US and abroad through a direct sales force and distributors. LifeCell is owned by wound care company Kinetic Concepts.

Hill-Rom has set the standard for high performing, intelligent bed systems and has more than a million hospital beds of all types in use around the world. But did you know that Hill-Rom is also a major innovator in the medical technology field, providing medical equipment and medical devices to enhance outcomes for caregivers and their patients? We’re more than a hospital bed company: We are the partner that helps deliver results in health care settings across the continuum from critical medical care through recovery and on to home care. We enable our customers to meet their health care goals and we touch lives to improve outcomes with our leading edge medical equipment and medical technology. We are the new Hill-Rom. Learn more about the new Hill-Rom.

Minntech helps patients stay bloody well clean. The company produces a variety of medical devices and sterilants. Its kidney dialysis products include hemodialysis concentrates, dialyzer reprocessing systems, and hemodialysis blood pumps. Minntech also makes water filtration and disinfecting products used by drug companies, hemodialysis providers, and semiconductor makers, among others. Its Medivators division makes reprocessing systems and chemicals that disinfect endoscopy equipment. The company sells its products primarily to hospitals, clinics, and kidney treatment centers through distributors around the world. Minntech is a subsidiary of Cantel Medical.

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