St. Peter's Health Care Services is a health care system for the residents of Albany, New York, area. The network's primary facility, St. Peter's Hospital, has more than 440 acute-care beds and a medical staff of more than 600 physicians. Specialty services include emergency medicine, cancer and cardiovascular care, and women's health. The hospital was founded by the Religious Sisters of Mercy in 1869. St. Peter's Health Care also operates community health clinics, long-term care facilities, mental health centers, and home health and hospice agencies. The health system is a subsidiary of not-for-profit hospital operator Catholic Health East.

Southwest Washington Medical Center represents an original frontier of medicine: it was the first permanent hospital in the Northwest Territories. Southwest Washington Medical Center (SWMC) is a 360-bed hospital providing medical services to the residents of Vancouver, Washington, and the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area. Specialty services include cancer care, orthopedics, neurology, women's health, and heart and vascular care. It also operates satellite urgent care and specialty clinics. The not-for-profit organization, founded in 1858, is one of the largest employers in the county. The hospital has some 600 physicians on its medical staff. It is part of the Southwest Washington Health System.

Guardian Home Care Holdings provides medical and non-medical home health care services to private patients -- as well as through contracts with health insurers, hospitals, and nursing homes -- in Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas. Primarily working under Medicare and Medicaid funding programs, Guardian's health care personnel provide skilled nursing services, physical and speech therapy, social work services, and assistance with daily activities such as cleaning and bathing. The company also provides hospice services in Nashville, Tennessee. It operates as Texas Home Health in Texas and under the Guardian name in its other markets.

Established in 1938 and named after the philanthropic leader of the Waterman Fountain Pen Company, Florida Hospital Waterman has been part of the Adventist Health System since 1992. Florida Hospital Waterman is a 200-bed community hospital serving the residents of Lake County, Florida, just north of Orlando. The hospital provides a full range of acute care services, including cardiac and cancer care, emergency services, obstetrics, pediatrics, and rehabilitation. It also offers outpatient surgery, diagnostic imaging, laboratory, and home health services, and it operates a primary care clinic.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBS Texas) would stock up on apples for its nearly 4 million customers. The reason? The not-for-profit insurer emphasizes preventive medicine to hold down the costs of operating its HMO, PPO, point-of-service, and indemnity insurance health care plans in Texas. The company's network has more than 40,000 doctors and 400 hospitals. A division of Chicago-based Health Care Service Corporation, BCBS Texas counts among its customers Continental Airlines, the University of Texas System, and Halliburton.

At LHC Group we appreciate the value of trained professionals who work within the local community and know their patients. That's why we work with the nurses, therapists and aides who have provided quality care through local hospitals and health care agencies for years. By combining a dynamic, clinically driven operational model, an efficient management team, a high quality hometown medical staff, we are able to offer a comprehensive health care package which puts the patient's needs first. We have spent years perfecting what we see as the only way to do business in the industry. As a result, patients, their physicians, and family members alike benefit from the simplicity that our expertise brings to the table. Aside from keeping the needs of the patient first, we also keep both the physician and family involved and informed every step of the way. We consider these channels of communication an essential part of who we are. Our nurses, aides and therapists can deliver non-emergency medical care to homebound patients of all ages who choose to receive quality health care in the comfort of their own homes.

Calvary Hospital works to keep adult patients in the advanced stages of cancer as comfortable as possible. The facility, founded in 1899, specializes in palliative care, the practice of relieving the pain and symptoms associated with the illness (not curing the illness itself.) Calvary Hospital offers both inpatient and outpatient services through two campuses; the main hospital has about 200 beds and a satellite location in Brooklyn, New York, has about 25 beds. Its home health care program provides on-call nurses who are available at all hours of the day as well as a range of therapy services including physical, speech, and occupational therapy.

Unison Health Plan is a group of managed care companies that run HMOs for Medicaid and other government-sponsored health plans in six states in the South and Northeast US. The firm's Unison Administrative Services subsidiary provides administrative support to its sister companies, each of which handles the local licensing requirements in its state of operation. Unison operates a mixed care model with hospital-based, multi-specialty, individual providers, and federally qualified health centers.Unison Health Plan company provides services for more than 400,000 members. The firm is owned by UnitedHealth subsidiary AmeriChoice.

Poudre Valley Health System (PVHS) provides health care to residents of northern Colorado, western Nebraska, and southern Wyoming through the Poudre Valley Hospital and the Medical Center of the Rockies. With a total of some 415 beds, the two hospitals offer general medical and surgical services and trauma care. Individually, the hospitals feature orthopedic surgery and treatment centers for cancer and brain and spine disorders. PVHS also includes the Mountain Crest Behavioral Healthcare Center, which has some 40 beds and provides mental health services and substance abuse treatment, and a 96-acre, four-building campus that includes physician offices and outpatient services.

Ocala Regional Medical Center (ORMC) to be there to keep them healthy. The 200-bed acute care hospital and its sister facility, the 70-bed West Marion Community Hospital provide a full spectrum of health care services to residents of the Sunshine State. ORMC specializes in bariatrics, cancer care, heart and vascular ailments, neuroscience, and women's care. West Marion operates a joint care center for orthopedic surgeries and physical therapy. Locals also have access to 24-hour health advice through HCA's Consult-A-Nurse telephone service. ORMC is led by CEO H. Rex Etheredge.

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