Formed in 1921 to build a better thermometer, Terumo is one of Japan's largest health care product suppliers. The company makes and sells a wide range of general hospital products and equipment, including disposable supplies (syringes and wound dressings), blood glucose monitors, dialyzers, infusion pumps, and intravenous liquid nutrients. It also makes blood transfusion bags, as well as cardiac and vascular products, such as heart-lung machines used in open heart surgery, vascular grafts, and catheters. And yes, it still makes thermometers, which are part of its consumer health care product portfolio. Terumo operates in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. It sells its products in some 150 countries worldwide.

Discus Dental delivers the stuff for dazzling teeth. The company develops, markets, and distributes dental aesthetics products, including teeth whitening products and restoratives. It also provides oral hygiene products, impression materials, and endodontic supplies. Its brands include Zoom!, BriteSmile, BreathRx, and DayWhite. While Discus develops many of its products, the company also distributes products from other companies. It also provides practice management software, training, and marketing services. Discus Dental handles its own distribution in the US and a dozen other countries, but relies upon local distributors for the rest of the world.

Lifewise Health Plan of Oregon offers group and individual PPO and indemnity coverage, as well as, other health insurance products through a network of some 9,000 physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers. Lifewise's products also include Medicare supplemental insurance; vision, prescription drug, and dental benefits; and life and insurance through its affiliate, Lifewise Assurance Company.Lifewise Health Plan of Oregon company and its affiliates provide coverage to more than 1.5 million members in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. Founded in 1986, Lifewise Health Plan of Oregon is a for-profit subsidiary of Premera Blue Cross.

Diagnostic Health Services is one of the largest, most established providers of outsourced imaging services in the country. Specializing in ultrasound, nuclear medicine, CT and diagnostic cardiac monitoring, DHS is committed to delivering better service to hospitals and clinics with our highly-skilled and experienced technologists, quality equipment, and our exclusive IMAGEplus™ services. Everything we do is designed to give you a better image.

Children's Health Care was founded in 1924. Children's Health Care (better known as Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota) is one of the largest pediatric health organizations in the US, with two full-service hospital campuses in Minneapolis and St. Paul, as well as a number of specialty clinics in the region. With more than 330 beds between its two hospitals, the not-for-profit Children's Health Care specializes in diagnosing, treating, and researching diseases that afflict babies and children, including epilepsy, diabetes, cancers, and cystic fibrosis. It also runs a Teen Age Medical Service, which provides reproductive health care, counseling, and other medical services to adolescents.

Capital Health System (CHS) serves the residents of New Jersey's capital city through two hospitals -- Helene Fuld Medical Center and Mercer Medical Center -- that joined forces in 1997. Together they have nearly 600 beds and employ a staff of 3,000. The not-for-profit CHS offers emergency, surgical, and acute care, and it serves as a hands-on teaching facility to nursing and medical students. The system primarily serves residents of Mercer County and nearby Bucks County in central New Jersey. Capital Health System offers centers for maternal and pediatric health, cardiology, dialysis, trauma services, oncology, orthopedics, mental health, and infectious diseases.

Luminex Corporation develops, manufactures, and sells proprietary biological testing technologies and products for applications in the life sciences and diagnostic industries in the United States. It offers xMAP technology, an open architecture and multiplexing technology, which allows simultaneous analysis of up to 500 bioassays from a single drop of fluid by reading biological tests on the surface of microscopic polystyrene beads called microspheres. The company’s xMAP technology is used in various segments of the life sciences industry, which includes the fields of drug discovery and development, clinical diagnostics, genetic analysis, bio-defense, protein analysis, and biomedical research. It operates in two segments, Technology and Assay. The Technology segment offers instruments, such as compact analyzers that integrate fluidics, optics, and digital signal processing, as well as peripheral components; FLEXMAP 3D system for use as a general laboratory instrument in life science research and diagnostics markets; and consumables comprising microspheres and sheath fluid. The Assay segment involves in the development and sale of assays on xMAP technology for use on Luminex’s installed base of systems. It offers various assay products, which consists of a combination of chemical and biological reagents, and the company’s proprietary bead technology used to perform diagnostic and research assays on samples. Luminex Corporation serves pharmaceutical companies, clinical laboratories, research institutions, and medical institutions. It has a collaboration agreement with Northrop Grumman Corporation. Luminex Corporation was founded in 1995 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Sacred Heart Hospital not only cares for hearts that are holey, but also for the rest of what ails residents of western Wisconsin. The more than 300-bed medical center provides specialized services that include cardiology, cancer care, pediatrics, and emergency medicine. The hospital provides community-wide care through affiliations with the Marshfield Clinic (a provider network with more than 700 physicians), Oakleaf Medical Network (an organization of providers and clinics), and Infinity Healthcare and Pathology Services (supplies the hospital with medical x-ray professionals). Founded in 1889 by the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, the center is part of the Hospital Sisters Health System.

American HealthChoice operates medical clinics, makes medical devices, and provides other health related services in the southeastern US. Its AHC Medical Clinics unit owns and operates eight medical clinics in Texas and Tennessee and provides support services to about 35 affiliated clinics. Through its TelmedCo unit, American HealthChoice offers telemedicine services, allowing doctors at its own and third-party clinics to get second opinions from remote specialists. A third unit, RehabCo, has developed the OmniBody Scan medical imaging system, which uses infrared technology to detect breast cancer and other conditions.

Sarnova's wide supply of health care products lets customers breathe a little easier.Sarnova company is a leading specialty distributor of respiratory and emergency medical services (EMS) products to the health care industry. With two major brands and businesses, Tri-anim Health Services and Bound Tree Medical, it offers more than 100,000 products -- everything from resuscitators and ventilators to bandages and burn kits -- to EMS providers, hospitals, and surgery centers across the US. Sarnova was created in 2008 through the merger of those two market-leading brands, now both subsidiaries. Sarnova is a portfolio company of private equity firm Water Street Healthcare Partners.

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