The Ensign Group, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Mission Viejo, California. The Ensign Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides nursing and rehabilitative care services in California, Arizona, Texas, Washington, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho. The company offers nursing and assisted living services; physical, occupational, and speech therapies; and other rehabilitative and healthcare services for long-term residents and short-stay rehabilitation patients. As of December 31, 2009, it owned or leased 77 facilities.

Medical care in Northern California has come a long way since Dr. N.T. Enloe first began providing medical services in the region in 1913. Now Enloe Medical Center serves California's North Valley through an acute care general hospital in Chico with more than 380 beds, as well as urgent care facilities, a rehabilitation center, and a behavioral health center. It also operates community outpatient clinics for cancer care, children's health, and general health services. In addition, Enloe Medical Center provides wellness, home health care, and hospice care programs.

St. Mary's Health Care System cares for the residents of northeast Georgia. Its primary facility, St. Mary's Hospital, has some 200 acute-care beds. From health and wellness programs to women's and children's services, the hospital also has centers dedicated to outpatient rehabilitation, home health, and long-term care. Specialty services include neurology, cardiovascular care, orthopedics, and gastroenterology. The organization is sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas and traces its roots to the founding of St. Mary's Hospital in 1906. St. Mary's Health Care System is a member of the Catholic Health East family of hospitals.

Meridian Holdings provides administrative, financial, management, information technology, and telecommunications support services to health care providers through its portfolio of companies. The company's Capnet IPA (Independent Physician Association) unit provides management services to a contracted network of more than 300 physicians, 15 community hospitals, and four teaching hospitals. Meridian Holdings' InterCare DX subsidiary offers software products and services. CGI Communications Services provides telecommunications, medical products, and services.

Accellent provides the nuts and bolts for the medical device industry. The company offers outsourced design, engineering, and manufacturing of custom components, subassemblies, and completed devices, primarily for medical device firms. Its customers include such industry leaders as Medtronic, Abbott Labs, Stryker, and Johnson & Johnson. Accellent specializes in equipment used for cardiac rhythm management, interventional cardiology, neurology, and orthopedics, as well as urology and minimally invasive procedures (especially in the field of endoscopy). It also offers its customers complete supply chain management. The company owns or leases about 25 locations in North America and Europe.

New York Blood Center holds a very literal interpretation of the meaning of life. New York Blood Center is a not-for-profit blood distribution and research organization serving New York City and it environs in New York State and New Jersey. As one of the largest blood centers in the US, it provides blood and blood products to some 200 hospitals in five regions. The center's facilities collect blood from more than 2,000 donors each day. It also operates the nation's oldest and largest public cord blood bank. In addition, its Kimball Research Institute includes more than a dozen research laboratories which study the prevention and treatment of blood-related illnesses. The blood center was founded in 1964.

Hill Physicians Medical Group is the doctors' answer to HMOs.Hill Physicians Medical Group is an independent practice association (IPA) serving some 300,000 health plan members in northern California. Hill contracts with managed care organizations throughout the region -- including HMOs belonging to Aetna, CIGNA, and Health Net -- to provide care to health plan members. Its network includes about 3,000 primary care and specialty physicians and some 30 hospitals. PriMed, a management services organization, organized Hill Physicians Medical Group in 1984 and still runs the company.

Kindred Healthcare, Inc. operates as a FORTUNE 500 healthcare services company in the United States. It operates in three divisions: Hospital, Health Services, and Rehabilitation. The Hospital division operates long-term acute care hospitals that provide services to medically complex patients, including the critically ill, suffering from multiple organ system failures, primarily the cardiovascular, pulmonary, kidney, gastro-intestinal, and skin systems. The Health Services division operates nursing and rehabilitation centers, which provide short stay patients and long stay residents with a range of medical, nursing, rehabilitative, pharmacy, and routine services, including daily dietary, social, and recreational services. It also provides specialized programs for residents suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias through its reflections units. The Rehabilitation division offers physical and occupational therapies and speech pathology services under the Peoplefirst Rehabilitation name to residents and patients of nursing centers, acute and long-term acute care hospitals, outpatient clinics, home health agencies, assisted living facilities, school districts, and hospice providers. It also offers specialized care programs that address neurologic, orthopedic, cardiac, and pulmonary recovery, as well as medical needs, such as wound care, pain management, and cognitive retraining. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 83 long-term acute care hospitals with 6,580 licensed beds in 24 states; and 222 nursing and rehabilitation centers with 27,523 licensed beds in 27 states. Kindred Healthcare was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.

Community General Hospital founded in 1963, has specialty centers in the areas of wound care, breast care, and sleep disorders, and it operates area primary and specialty clinics. The not-for-profit hospital, which has about 300 acute-care beds, is a general medical and surgical facility. It offers emergency and intensive care services, as well as inpatient orthopedic, psychiatric, and women's health services. Additionally, Community General Hospital houses a skilled nursing center and performs outpatient diagnostic testing, physical therapy, and cardiac rehabilitation.

Ansell Limited is a leading manufacturer of industrial and medical gloves, condoms (brands include Kama Sutra, LifeStyles, Mates, and Unimil), and other latex products. Besides the healthcare industry, leading markets for Ansell's gloves include semiconductor and electronics manufacturers and the food manufacturing and food service industries. Its medical gloves are marketed under such brands as Encore, Gammex, and Medi-Grip. Formerly a sprawling conglomerate, Ansell divested its non-core units in order to focus on its health care products and occupational glove businesses.

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