The HSC Pediatric Center (formerly The Hospital for Sick Children) provides medical and rehabilitative care for infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. The organization provides specialized care for young people in the transition from acute care to home care. Clinical experts at the center include doctors and nurses, as well as physical therapists, speech therapists, dieticians, and case managers. The organization's origins date back to 1883, when young women of St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, opened the "Children's Country Home," at what was then the outskirts of the district, as a place for kids to escape from the city during the summertime.

Located in central England, near Birmingham, SP Services is an international supplier of emergency medical equipment. The company sells oxygen kits, burn kits, immobilization braces, surgical instruments, bandages, blankets, defibrillators, and even sirens. Its products are for the medical, first aid, ambulance, paramedic, and emergency rescue fields. SP Services sells products manufactured by such companies as Ambu, Burnshield, and Sager. It has about 1,000 clients, including ambulance services, fire and rescue services, sports clubs, the British Red Cross, SmithKline Beecham, and the BBC.

Zila is developing and commercializing oral cancer detection technology, as well as equipment used to prevent and treat periodontal disease. Its lead cancer diagnostic product is the ViziLite Plus test kit, which uses a chemiluminescent light source to detect cancerous oral lesions. Despite its FDA approval as an adjunctive diagnostic (to be used along with other methods), the ViziLite has yet to fully take off in the US. Other products include the periodontal scalers, probes, fluoride rinses, and cleaning equipment for office and home use. After experiencing financial difficulties, Zila was acquired by private drugmaker TOLMAR Holding in 2009.

OSF Healthcare helps patients who are feeling oh-so-frail in Illinois and Michigan. OSF Healthcare system includes seven acute care hospitals and one long-term care facility that combined are home to about 1,300 beds and offer a full spectrum of inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services. The system's primary care physician network consists of about 500 physicians at more than 50 locations throughout its service area. Subsidiary OSF Home Care provides hospice, home visit, and equipment services, and OSF Saint Francis provides ambulance, pharmacy, and health care management services. The not-for-profit system is a subsidiary of the Sisters of The Third Order of St. Francis.

The sprawling, not-for-profit system operates more than a dozen hospitals -- including Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Boone Hospital Center, and Christian Hospital -- and some 100 primary care and specialty care facilities in and around St. Louis. BJC HealthCare's facilities combined have more than 3,200 beds. Specialized services include home health care, behavioral health, and long-term care at a handful of nursing facilities. The company's BarnesCare subsidiary offers occupational health care to corporations. The system is led by long-time health care administrator CEO Steven Lipstein.

The F. Dohmen Co. no longer has to decipher doctor's scribbles, but it still works to get prescriptions filled. Its RESTAT subsidiary is a prescription benefits management company, handling the drug benefit plans of some 6 million covered members through a network of more than 62,000 pharmacies. RESTAT helps insurers, third-party administrators, self-insured employers and others with claims services, and clinical management, among other things. The company's DDN subsidiary provides pharmaceutical logistics services to smaller drug companies. Its services include new product launching, regulatory compliance, and specialty pharmaceutical handling --including DEA certification to handle controlled substances.

National Home Health Care Corp. through its five wholly owned subsidiaries is a provider of home health care and staffing services in the northeast region. Through its subsidiary in New York, the Company provides trained and caring home health aides, personal care workers and housekeepers throughout the New York City boroughs of Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan, as well as Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties. Through its subsidiaries in Connecticut, the Company provides Medical, Behavioral Health and Pediatric skilled nursing services, rehabilitation therapy, social work, paraprofessional and staffing services throughout the state.Through its subsidiary in New Jersey, the Company provides trained and caring home health aides and companions in Northern New Jersey. Through its subsidiary in Massachusetts, the Company provides Medical, Behavioral Health and Pediatric skilled nursing services, rehabilitation therapy, social work and paraprofessional services throughout the state. The Company, which is headquartered in Scarsdale, New York, currently has approximately 4,600 full and part-time employees.

St. Mary's Medical Center of Evansville is a 400-bed hospital serving Evansville, Indiana, and surrounding communities. It is the primary facility in Indiana's regional St. Mary's Health System, which is in turn part of Ascension Health. The health system includes St. Mary's Hospital for Women & Children (100 beds), St. Mary's Warrick (a 25-bed hospital in Boonville, Indiana), and specialty outpatient, surgical, cancer, and home health units. The Evansville-based hospital was originally a Marine Hospital built by the US government. When the government shuttered its doors, city business leaders bought the building in 1872 and partnered with the Daughters of Charity to operate a community hospital.

Metro Medical Supply, Inc traces its roots to a small Nashville pharmacy formed in 1984. Metro Medical Supply distributes pharmaceuticals and medical and surgical equipment and supplies to physician practices, pharmacies, home care providers, long-term care facilities, and dialysis centers. The company supplies hundreds of products including ostomy supplies, dialysis equipment, diabetic care supplies, prescription and over-the-counter medications, and home health care products. Metro Medical Supply also offers specialty pharmacy services. Affiliates include MMS Solutions, Metro Medical Homecare, Metro Medical Skyline Pharmacy, and St. Francis Pharmacy.

TherOx is a medical device company that developed the SuperSaturated Oxygen (SSO2) Therapy System to prevent muscle tissue death following a heart attack. The SSO2 Therapy System mixes oxygen and saline with the patient's blood and pumps it back through the coronary artery to restore blood flow and reduce the amount of heart muscle tissue that dies after a person goes into cardiac arrest. The SSO2 System has not been FDA-approved; TherOx has conducted two studies involving 570 patients and hopes to be able to market the product in mid-2009.

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