Otix Global brings the world to the hearing impaired. The company designs, manufactures, and markets digital hearing aids. Its brands include Applause, Balance, Natura, Quartet, Sonic, Tribute, and Velocity. As its technology advances, the company has expanded with variations on both behind-the-ear and in-the-canal hearing aids including its small receiver-in-the-canal product under the Touch brand. The company sells its products to hearing care professionals and directly to individuals through a handful of retail audiology outlets in Australia, Europe, and the US. Otix Global is the subject of a bidding war between two Danish hearing aid makers, William Demant and GN ReSound.

Saint Barnabas Health Care System (SBHCS), is the state's largest private hospital network. The system has some 70 facilities including six acute-care hospitals, as well as specialty medical centers, nursing and assisted-living facilities, rehabilitation centers, and numerous outpatient and ambulatory care clinics. Saint Barnabas also offers behavioral health, home health, and hospice programs, and it specializes in the areas of pediatrics, women's health, oncology, cardiology, stroke care, diabetes, and transplants. It has some 4,800 physicians and some 3,200 acute-care beds in its health network.

Eastland Memorial Hospital provides a variety of health care services to the residents of Eastland County, Texas. Specialized services include cardiac rehabilitation, emergency medicine, obstetrics, physical therapy, and radiology. Established in 1953, the hospital also has specialty clinics in areas such as oncology, orthopedics, neurology, hearing, and podiatry. Without government aid of any kind, Eastland Memorial Hospital was built back in the 1950s with Eastland citizens' voluntary time, as well as donated supplies.

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) has the Ocean State's citizens covered. In fact, BCBSRI provides health insurance products and related services to more than half of the state's residents (or about 600,000 members), primarily through their employers. The company offers a variety of plan types, including PPO (HealthMate Coast-to-Coast), HMO (BlueCHiP), and traditional indemnity (Classic Blue). It also sells Medicare Advantage and Medicare supplemental coverage, as well as dental coverage plans. A not-for-profit licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, BCBSRI was founded in 1939.

PhytoMedical Technologies, Inc. (Symbol: PYTO), together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, is an early stage research based biopharmaceutical company focused on the identification, acquisition, development and commercialization of innovative pharmaceutical compounds targeting cancer and hematologic disorders.

Sanford Health-MeritCare combines two Dakota health care legends: South Dakota's Sanford Health and North Dakota's MeritCare Health System. Both date back to the 1890s, and today the combined not-for-profit health care provider is one of the largest integrated health care systems in the US. It serves many rural areas in the Midwest with about 30 regional and community hospitals (housing more than 1,600 beds) in the Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Its medical centers offer services in such areas as cancer, cardiology, emergency care, orthopedics, pediatrics, trauma, and women's health. Sanford Health-MeritCare also boasts expanded research and education capabilities as a result of its 2009 merger.

SurgiVision designs products with surgical focus. A medical devices company, SurgiVision develops imaging technologies and precision instruments (i.e. needles that deliver radiation) designed for surgeons performing minimally invasive procedures by way of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanners. The company received FDA approval for its first commercial product, the ClearPoint system for use in neurological procedures, in 2010. It also has candidates in earlier stages of development, including its ClearTrace and SafeLead products, which are designed for cardiac procedures. SurgiVision was established in 1998; it filed to go public through an IPO in 2009.

Lakeland makes protective clothing for on-the-job hazards;. It uses DuPont specialty fabrics, such as Kevlar, TyChem, and Tyvek, as well as its own fabrics, to make industrial disposable garments, toxic-waste cleanup suits, fire- and heat-resistant apparel (including Fyrepel turnout gear for firefighters), industrial work gloves, high-visibility garments, and industrial/medical garments. Lakeland manufactures its products in Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and the US. Customers -- about 35% are outside the US -- include high tech electronics manufacturers, construction companies, hospitals, and laboratories.

Walter Reed Health Care System serves those who serve. While its primary facility is the 250-bed Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the entire system includes nearly a dozen military health care hospitals and clinics in the Washington, DC, area. It also includes Army medical training and clinical research facilities. Walter Reed provides care to soldiers stationed in the US and wounded overseas, as well as to presidents, senators, and other officials in the nation's capital. Other facilities of Walter Reed Health Care include the Kimbrough Ambulatory Care Center at nearby Fort Meade (Maryland), DeWitt Hospital at Fort Belvoir (Virginia), and the DiLorenzo TRICARE Clinic at The Pentagon.

Integtra Radionics designs and produces medical devices for neurosurgery and radiation therapy. Its products include non-invasive radiosurgical systems, stereotactic surgery systems which facilitate the placement of instruments on the brain during neurosurgery, aspirators used in ultrasonic surgical procedures, and extracranial systems to hold patients in place during surgery. Formerly a division of Covidien, Integra Radionics was acquired by Integra LifeSciences Holdings in 2006. The wholly-owned subsidiary fortifies Integra's radiosurgery/radiotherapy and image-guided surgery devices business.

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