New Milford Hospital for emergency care established in 1921, the acute care hospital has some 85 beds and offers cardiology, cancer care, pediatric, and surgical services. The not-for-profit facility also has family birthing, sleep disorder treatment, and cancer research facilities. Affiliate New Milford Visiting Nurse Association provides home health services. New Milford Hospital exited its membership in the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System in 2010. It then formed a new affiliation with Danbury Hospital, and the two hospitals now operate under the administrative umbrella of Western Connecticut Healthcare (formerly Danbury Health Systems).

SunLink Health Systems is hoping to shine brightly in the healthcare business through the management of community hospitals. Through its subsidiaries, the firm operates seven community hospitals with a total of more than 400 beds in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Missouri. SunLink Health leases one of its hospitals, Missouri Southern Healthcare, and owns the other six. Each hospital is the only acute care facility in its service area. The company also runs several nursing facilities, which service the geographical areas surrounding the hospitals and have 260 beds combined, and it operates a home health agency and a specialty pharmacy business.

American Community Mutual Insurance would like to maintain the health and well-being of America's communities. American Community provides group and individual health care plans and life insurance plans in over a dozen states throughout the Midwest and Southwest. The company's offerings include PPO, short-term health, dental, vision, and prescription plans. American Community also offers health savings accounts. Focusing largely on the small to midsized employer group market, the company insures more than 165,000 individuals. American Community Mutual Insurance company distributes its products through a force of 14,000 independent agents. American Community was founded in 1938; it was the first health care insurance provider in Michigan.

Delphi Medical Systems is applying the engineering expertise of its parent company, auto parts colossus Delphi Automotive, to the medical device market. The company brings its parent's manufacturing and logistics prowess in such things as display technologies and safety sensors and puts them to work in the development of medical equipment and devices. Delphi Medical Systems product lines include infusion therapy systems (including intravenous pumps), respiratory devices (portable oxygen concentrators), and vital signs monitoring equipment. Its products are marketed directly and indirectly to health care professionals and consumers.

ROHO aims to make your ride more comfortable. The ROHO group manufactures cushions that can be used in both medical equipment and commercial seating applications. The company's core technology is its dry flotation system, originally used in cushions as a way to prevent bedsores and since adapted for use in seats for aircraft, commercial trucks, motorcycles, and office chairs. Robert Graebe founded ROHO, Inc., in 1973; in 2001 ROHO, Inc., ROHO International, and Crown Therapeutics joined to form the ROHO group.

HCA (AKA Hospital Corporation of America) operates roughly 170 acute care, psychiatric, and rehabilitation hospitals in the US and England. It also runs about 100 ambulatory surgery centers, as well as cancer treatment and outpatient rehab centers that form health care networks in many of the communities it serves. HCA has facilities in 20 states; about three-quarters of its hospitals are in the southern US (approximately 70 are in Florida and Texas). The hospital giant's HCA International operates its hospitals and clinics in the UK. HCA is planning to go public through a $4.6 billion initial public offering.

Straumann Holding AG is a global leader in manufacturing dental implants. The company also makes prosthetics, products for dental tissue regeneration, and the tools and instruments to help install its products. It has introduced a synthetic bone-replacement material to help build up jaw bone in preparation for placing implants, and the company regularly invests in additional research and development efforts. Board member Dr. Thomas Straumann holds about 30% of the company's stock.

Precision Optics makes specialized video cameras and stereo endoscopes for use in minimally invasive surgery. Its other products include laparoscopes (for abdominal surgery) and arthroscopes (for joint surgery), as well as sterilizable image couplers and beamsplitters that connect endoscopes to video cameras. The US is Precision Optics' biggest market, accounting for almost all sales, although the company has received regulatory approval to sell its products in Europe. In 2008 the company sold it custom optical thin film coatings business to privately held Optometrics, a subsidiary of Dynasil.

The medical equipment and technology company,Gambro AB is among the world's leading manufacturers of devices and therapies for kidney and liver dialysis. Dialysis helps to remove fluids and toxins from patients with chronic and acute conditions. It specializes in hemodialysis and acute care products, with a portfolio that includes dialyzers, monitors, ultrafilters (for fluid removal), and disinfectants, as well as integrated dialysis units and software that helps to manage data on a patient's dialysis treatment. Gambro makes products for both clinical and home use and distributes them throughout Asia, Europe, and North America.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming (BCBSWY) provides health insurance products and related services to more than 100,000 members in Wyoming. The company's insurance products include managed care programs for businesses and individuals, as well as supplemental dental, vision, prescription drug, and Medicare coverage. BCBSWY provides health insurance to Wyoming's Kid Care program, which offers coverage to children from low-income families. It also provides affordable coverage options through its Caring Foundation. In addition, the company provides benefits administration services.

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