Kapitex Healthcare produces medical devices that are designed to help with airway protection and management for laryngectomy and tracheostomy patients. The company also sells tracheostomy tubes and equipment, specialized products for those suffering from dysphagia (difficulty in swallowing), as well as communication aid devices. Founded in 1991, the company's products are marketed under about ten brand names, including Amplicord, Trachi-Naze, and Voiceline.

Healthplex, Inc. company provides dental benefits and administrative services for insurance companies, HMOs, school districts, individuals and families, municipalities, and businesses of all sizes in New York and New Jersey. In New Jersey it underwrites and operates its own managed care plan through subsidiary International Healthcare Services. Additionally, Healthplex maintains a regional PPO of dental practitioners and offers provider credentialing services to other health plans. Healthplex also administers government funded plans such as Medicaid and Medicare. It is helmed by CEO Martin Kane.

HemCon Medical Technologies has been a boon to US soldiers wounded on the battlefield. The company's proprietary HemCon bandages and ChitoFlex dressings stop bleeding in trauma patients; in fact, the dressing becomes adhesive upon contact with blood and can prevent hemorrhage. HemCon bandages are made from chitosan, a polysaccharide derived from dried shrimp shells and known for its clotting abilities. Besides the military, its products are used by first responders, oral surgeons, and hospitals. The company was founded in 2001 with partial funding from the US Army; HemCon bandages are now part of every Army medic's standard kit.

Covidien plc develops, manufactures, and sells healthcare products for use in clinical and home settings in the United States and internationally. The company’s Medical Devices segment provides endomechanical instruments, which include laparoscopic instruments and surgical staplers; soft tissue repair products, such as sutures, mesh, biosurgery products, and hernia mechanical devices; and energy devices, including vessel sealing, electrosurgical, and ablation products and related capital equipment. This segment also offers oximetry and monitoring products comprising sensors, monitors, and temperature management products; airway and ventilation products that include airway, ventilator, breathing systems, and inhalation therapy products; and vascular therapy and compression products. The company’s Pharmaceuticals segment provides branded and generic pharmaceuticals, such as pain and addiction treatment products; medicinal narcotics and acetaminophen; active pharmaceutical ingredients, including peptides, generic APIs, stearates and phosphates to the pharmaceutical industry; and specialty chemicals. It also offers contrast delivery systems and contrast agents; and radiopharmaceuticals, which include radioactive isotopes and associated pharmaceuticals. The company’s Medical Supplies segment provides nursing care products, such as incontinence, woundcare, enteral feeding, urology, and suction products; and medical surgical products that comprise operating room supply products and related accessories, electrodes, thermometry, and chart paper product lines. It also offers SharpSafety Products, which include needles, syringes, and sharps disposal products; and original equipment manufacturer products. Covidien serves hospitals, surgi-centers, and drug manufacturers, as well as alternate site facilities, including long-term care facilities and imaging centers. Covidien plc is based in Dublin, Ireland.

Novant Health has what it takes to keep denizens along the Eastern Seaboard in tip-top condition. The not-for-profit health system provides medical care to residents in more than 30 counties throughout North and South Carolina and Virginia. Its largest facilities include the 960-bed Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and the 530-bed Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina. It also operates about 360 physician clinics, outpatient surgery, and diagnostic imaging centers (through subsidiary MedQuest). Additionally, Novant is home to nursing homes, rehabilitation and community outreach programs, and philanthropic foundations.

Munson Healthcare was founded in 1915. Munson Healthcare is a not-for-profit health care system serving some 25 counties in northern Michigan. Its flagship facility is Munson Medical Center, a regional referral hospital with about 390 beds and offers specialty services including cancer treatment, behavioral health, cardiac care, and orthopedics. Munson Healthcare also has management agreements and other types of affiliations with about a dozen other hospitals in the region. In addition, Munson Healthcare operates urgent care and community clinics, home health care and hospice agencies, an ambulance service, and the Northern Michigan Supply Alliance, a supply chain management group co-owned with Trinity Health.

Bard Access Systems is all about giving doctors an all-access pass. The C. R. Bard division makes vascular access products such as dialysis catheters and central lines, as well as feeding tubes and equipment to inject contrast media for use with its ultrasound systems. It also provides ports, introducers, guidewires, and related accessories. The catheters are used to deliver chemotherapy, antibiotics, nutrition, and other products directly to the circulatory or other bodily systems. Bard Access Systems' products are sold under brands including Equistream, PowerPICC, PowerPort, and Site-Rite. The company also offers online clinical training to teach clinicians how to use their products.

Span-America Medical Systems's medical division makes therapeutic mattresses and mattress overlays (under the Geo-Matt and PressureGuard brand names), as well as Span-Aid patient positioners (used to elevate and support body parts) and Isch-Dish pressure-relief seat cushions to aid wound healing. Span-America also markets skin care creams for wound management, and consumer bedding and industrial foam products. It sells its wares through sales staff and distributors to hospitals, home health care dealers, and extended-care facilities in the US and Canada.

Premier group purchasing organization (GPO) is an alliance of more than 2,400 US hospitals and some 70,000 other health care sites. Premier -- which is owned by a group of about 200 not-for-profit hospitals -- works to negotiate lower-cost contracts for medical supplies by contracting with hundreds of suppliers nationally for everything from pacemakers and catheters to furniture and food service equipment. Premier serves facilities of all sizes, from the smallest rural hospital to huge academic medical centers and its group purchasing power represents more than $30 billion each year.

HealthTrust Purchasing Group was established in 1999. Hospitals and health systems small and large trust HealthTrust Purchasing Group to get them a good deal. The company is a health care group purchasing organization (GPO) that negotiates competitive pricing contracts with manufacturers of medical equipment and supplies on behalf of its members. Those members include some 1,400 acute care hospitals, as well as thousands of doctor's offices, outpatient clinics, and other health care facilities. HealthTrust provides contract, acquisition, and logistics services to its customers, which include facilities owned by HCA, Community Health Systems, Catholic Health Initiatives, and Lifepoint Hospitals.

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