Bayer HealthCare Diabetes Care Division is sweet on its customers. Part of Bayer HealthCare's massive worldwide operations, the division makes and markets blood glucose monitoring systems, self-care software, hemoglobin meters, and lancing devices to consumers through pharmacies, retail stores, hospitals, and wholesalers. Bayer Diabetes Care manufactures a line of blood testing systems (including the Breeze 2 and Contour monitors), which it sells in over 100 countries. Bayer has produced diagnostic products for diabetes since 1941 and developed the first portable blood glucose meter and test strips in 1969.

Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron you'd be right on the money. The 250-bed hospital offers more than 30 specialties to a 25 county region. Among its specialized services are cardiology, orthopedics, rehabilitation, and home care. It also has a regional burn unit serving adults and children. The hospital's emergency department treats nearly 70,000 patients each year. Children's also operates one of the largest pediatric primary care networks in the state with 15 offices in seven counties.

Doctors Hospital of Augusta serves eastern Georgia and western South Carolina. The general and acute health care facility has some 350 beds and is part of hospital giant HCA. Its specialty units include the Joseph M. Still Burn Center and the Healthy Living Center. In addition, the hospital offers centers for cardiopulmonary health, digestive diseases, occupational medicine, cancer care, sleep disorders, stroke care, and women's health. Doctors Hospital of Augusta also operates freestanding surgical centers and Human Motion Institute rehabilitation clinics.

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.

Stormont-Vail HealthCare has been serving the residents in northeastern Kansas since 1884. Its facilities include the 590-bed Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center, an emergency and trauma center, an outpatient surgery center, and a network of community clinics located throughout the 12-county region. The Cotton-O'Neil name appears on centers treating heart disease, cancer, skin problems, and digestive system ailments, as well as various clinics and ExpressCare locations. Specialized services include behavioral health, obstetrics, orthopedics, and physical and occupational rehabilitation.

American Baptist Homes of the West (ABHOW) preaches the gospel of the active senior lifestyle, operating about 30 senior living facilities in four western states. Most of ABHOW's communities are government-subsidized apartments for low-income seniors. About a dozen of its residences, however, are continuing care retirement communities, which offer a range of care -- residential living, assisted living, or skilled nursing -- depending on residents' needs. The communities also schedule social activities and offer wellness programs and transportation services. Parent company Cornerstone Affiliates acquires and develops communities.

Sybron Dental Specialties makes and distributes dental and other orthodontic appliances and tools through subsidiaries including Axis Dental, Kerr, SybronEndo, and Ormco. Its product lines include braces, dental implant systems, cleaning tools, and impression and restorative materials. The company also makes endodontic (dental surgery) supplies including hand pieces, disinfectants, curatives, and other tools. Outside of dentistry, the company has a smaller line of products for physicians. Sybron markets its products both directly through its subsidiaries and through dealers around the world. The company is a subsidiary of tools and technology giant Danaher.

Virtual Radiologic Corporation (vRad) is a national radiology practice working in partnership with local radiologists and hospitals to optimize radiology’s pivotal role in patient care. vRad’s more than 140 radiologists serve 1,200+ facilities (21% of U.S. hospitals), reading 3 million studies annually. Delivering access to extensive subspecialty coverage, vRad contributes to improved quality of patient care. And with its next-generation technology, vRad enhances productivity, helping to lower the overall cost of care while expediting time to diagnosis and treatment.

Atrion Corporation develops and manufactures ophthalmology, cardiovascular, and fluid delivery devices primarily for medical applications in the United States and internationally. Atrion Corporation manufactures soft contact lens storage and disinfection cases; and the LacriCATH line of balloon catheters used in the treatment of nasolacrimal duct obstruction in children and adults. It develops the MPS2 Myocardial Protection System, a proprietary technology delivering fluids and medications to the heart during open-heart surgery; cardiac surgery vacuum relief valves; Retract-O-Tape silicone vessel loops; inflation devices for balloon catheter dilation, stent deployment, and fluid dispensing; and Clean-Cut rotating aortic punch and PerfectCut Aortotomy System, both of which are used in heart bypass surgery. Atrion manufactures various intravenous fluid delivery products comprising medical tubing clamps; swabbable luer valves; and luer syringe check valves and one-way valves. It produces inflation systems and valves used in marine and aviation safety products; one-way and two-way ‘Breather’ valves for use on electronics cases, munitions cases, pressure vessels, transportation container cases, escape slides, and other medical and non-medical applications; and a line of products designed for safe needle and scalpel blade containment, as well as the ACTester product line consisting of instrumentation and associated disposables used to measure the activated clotting time of blood. Atrion Corporation also provides contract manufacturing services for other original equipment manufacturers of medical devices; and owns and maintains a 22-mile high-pressure steel pipeline in north Alabama that is leased to an industrial gas producer that transports gaseous oxygen to its customers. It sells its products through a sales force. Atrion Corporation was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Allen, Texas.

The Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis campus includes the flagship hospital of the Baptist Memorial Health Care system. Opened in 1979, the hospital is located adjacent to the I-240 loop. Also located on the Baptist Memphis campus is a separately licensed 30-bed skilled nursing facility and the 30-bed Restorative Care Hospital. With more than 26,000 admissions, 57,000 emergency department visits and 15,000 surgeries in 2009, Baptist Memphis is one of Tennessee’s highest volume hospitals. The emergency department has 31 treatment suites staffed by 24-hour-a-day emergency physicians for the treatment of adults. It also has a separate, dedicated five-room pediatric treatment area staffed around the clock with in-house pediatric emergency physicians. In addition, the hospital houses the 19-bed inpatient Hardin Pediatric Center.

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