Children's Hospital & Medical Center has a rich history based on community involvement and service to children. The original Children's Memorial Hospital was founded in 1948 by Dr. C.W.M. Poynter, dean of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Henry Doorly, publisher of the Omaha World-Herald, with a vision that no child in need of medical care would be turned away due to an inability to pay.Today, families from across a five-state region and beyond seek the experience and expertise of Children's Hospital & Medical Center. We provide care to more than 250,000 children each year. On January 8, 2009, Children's Hospital became Children's Hospital & Medical Center. The growing name signifies regional growth and outreach, while also staying true to Children's roots as a resource for the community and the children we so proudly serve.

Advanced Medical Solutions (AMS) closes the gap on gaping wounds. The company makes a wide range of professional woundcare and wound closure products sold under the ActiveHeal, LiquiBand, and LiquiShield brands. AMS sells its professional wound care products (gauzes, dressing) through distribution partners and directly to the UK National Health Service. The company's MedLogic unit provides suture-alternative wound closure products for use in emergency and operating rooms. AMS' products are sold throughout Europe, the UK, and the US. The company also manufactures private label products for other wound care companies and medical products distributors.

The Cambridge Public Health Commission (doing business as Cambridge Health Alliance or CHA) was established as a result of the 1996 merger of The Cambridge Hospital and Somerville Hospital. The health care organization operates the Cambridge Public Health Department, as well as three hospitals and about two dozen primary care practices specializing in such areas as pediatrics, senior health, family medicine, eye care, plastic surgery, psychiatry, and dentistry. CHA is a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and the Tufts University School of Medicine.

University Medical Center of Southern Nevada is an affiliate of the University of Nevada School of Medicine. The medical center includes a teaching hospital and a network of community and urgent care health centers. Among its specialized services are cancer treatment, heart care, pediatrics, and rehabilitation. It also offers birthing, wound and burn care, neurological disorder, and Level 1 trauma centers. University Medical Center serves southern Nevada along with parts of Arizona, California, and Utah. The medical center opened its doors in 1931 with 20 beds.

St. Vincent's Health System is a not-for-profit healthcare system founded in 1916 by the Daughters of Charity. As a part of Ascension Health, St. Vincent's serves the regions around Jacksonville, Florida. The system, also known as St. Vincent's HealthCare, includes its flagship St. Vincent's Medical Center in Jacksonville. Other operations include nursing care facility, as well as other outpatient, laboratory, pharmacy, transportation, and home health care services. St. Vincent's has acquired the St. Luke's Hospital in Jacksonville and has integrated it into the St. Vincent's system.

Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers has been improving the health of area residents since 1906. Located 55 miles southwest of Chicago in Morris, Illinois, the 86-bed Morris Hospital serves residents of Grundy County and parts of Will, LaSalle, Livingston, and Kendall counties and is the largest employer in Grundy County. The hospital owns and operates primary care physician practices within a 30-mile radius of the hospital. The practices are located in Braidwood, Channahon, Dwight, Gardner, Marseilles and Newark.Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers is known for its compassionate and personalized approach to healthcare. This is attributed to the outstanding work of 900 employees, 350 Auxilians, and a medical staff of more than 180 physicians representing most medical specialties. The hospital commits significant resources annually to continually enhance its diagnostic and treatment capabilities.

John Muir Health provides health care to residents in the San Francisco Bay area. The not-for-profit system operates three hospitals, outpatient and urgent care centers, a physician practice organization, and several community health foundations. The John Muir Medical Center Walnut Creek Campus has about 325 beds and specializes in providing services such as neurological, orthopedic, and obstetrics care. The system's Concord Campus, which has some 260 beds, specializes in providing cardiac and cancer care. The John Muir Behavioral Health Center is a 70-bed psychiatric hospital. It also provides labortory testing through its MuirLab division, and it offers home health, rehabilitation, and wellness programs.

Bioject Medical Technologies Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and distributes needle-free injection therapy systems (NFITS) in the United States and internationally. The company’s NFITS work by forcing liquid medication at high speed through a tiny orifice held against the skin. It offers Biojector 2000, a refinement of jet injection technology that enables healthcare professionals to deliver measured variable doses of medication through the skin, either intramuscularly or subcutaneously without a needle; and drug reconstitution system that allows the transfer of diluents to reconstitute powdered medications into liquid form and withdrawal of liquid medication into a syringe without the use of a needle. Bioject Medical Technologies also offers Vitajet, which is composed of two components, a portable injector unit and a disposable syringe; and ZetaJet, a compact and spring-powered injection device intended to deliver vaccines and injectable medications either subcutaneously or intramuscularly. In addition, the company is developing Iject needle-free injection system, a single prefilled disposable injector for self-injection; Jupiter Jet, a pistol-shaped, or streamlined ergonomic gas-powered injection device for patient and professional use; and pre-filled Biojector syringes. It has a strategic alliance with MPI Research. Bioject Medical Technologies Inc. was founded in 1985 and is based in Tualatin, Oregon.

McKesson Medical-Surgical wants to be the one handing them over. Long a dominant distributor of medical and surgical supplies to health care sites, the company is a subsidiary of the nation's #1 drug wholesaler, McKesson. From a network of more than 25 distribution centers located throughout the US, McKesson Medical-Surgical delivers more than 150,000 products, including its own private-label line of patient exam, wound care, and laboratory supplies. It serves some 300,000 customers, including doctors' offices, surgery centers, long-term care facilities, home care agencies, and other non-hospital health care facilities.

It's not quite the Fantastic Voyage, but Given Imaging's PillCam is in the same genre. The company makes the Given System, one component of which is the PillCam, an ingestible capsule with an enclosed miniature video camera that takes photos of a patient's intestines or esophagus. As the PillCam moves through a patient's system, it transmits images to a wireless data recorder. The FDA-approved system, which also includes a computer workstation and imaging software, is a noninvasive alternative to traditional endoscopy. Given Imaging markets the system to gastroenterologists and hospitals worldwide. Discount Investment Corporation and its minority-owned subsidiary Elron Electronic own about 40% of the firm.

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