Founded in 1992, the company went public in 2010. Electromed aims to clear the way for patients suffering from respiratory ailments. A medical device maker, the company manufactures respiratory products designed to treat patients with cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and other ailments that affect respiratory systems. Its FDA-approved SmartVest System is a vest worn by patients that helps loosen lung congestion. A self-administered therapy, the vest works by administering high frequency pulsations that compress and release the patient's chest area. Electromed sells its SmartVest and related products primarily in the US to patients, home health care professionals, and hospitals.

Criticare Systems helps hospitals keep better tabs on their patients. Instruments and sensors made by the company monitor the vital signs and anesthetic levels of patients undergoing surgery or confined to intensive care. Its products also provide readings for electrocardiograms and monitor oxygen saturation, carbon dioxide levels, blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, and respiration rate. Criticare's VitalView telemetry system allows one nurse to keep tabs on more than a dozen patients from a single location. The company also makes reusable pulse oximetry sensors for use with its equipment. The company is a subisidiary of India-based manufacturer Opto Circuits.

ScripNet doesn't want workers' comp providers up on the high wire of health care expense without support. The pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) provides a variety of services to workers' compensation companies. ScripNet provides pharmacy cards to help injured workers get their medications. It also provides a point-of-sale system that allows pharmacies to submit bills electronically, cutting down on administrative costs and supplies payors with reports that help manage workers' compensation costs. Its formulary service determines the most effective drugs available at the lowest prices. ScripNet private company was founded in 1997 by CEO Dennis Sponer.

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.

BryanLGH Medical Center is the centerpiece of a not-for-profit health care system serving residents of Lincoln, Nebraska, and surrounding communities. The medical center, part of BryanLGH Health System, features two acute-care hospitals (BryanLGH East and BryanLGH West) housing a combined 530 beds. In addition to providing general medical and surgical care, it serves as a regional trauma center and provides specialty care in areas such as cancer, orthopedics, and cardiology. The medical center also operates several outpatient clinics and provides home health care services and wellness programs.

Genesis HealthCare is owned by a group of private equity investors from Formation Capital and the private equity arm of real estate investment firm J. E. Roberts. Genesis HealthCare Corporation cares for people when care is what counts. The company operates about 200 assisted living and skilled nursing facilities in more than a dozen states throughout the eastern US. Its facilities have some 25,000 beds total. Genesis HealthCare's rehabilitation division provides speech, physical, and occupational therapy services through contracts with health care providers. The company also offers respiratory therapy, adult day care, Alzheimer's care, dialysis, and home and hospice care.

Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida is a not-for-profit acute care teaching hospital providing a comprehensive range of health services to residents of South Florida. The medical center, which boasts some 950 beds, provides general medical and surgical care, as well as specialty care in cardiology (Miami Heart Institute), radiology, oncology, orthopedics, neuroscience, and other fields. It also performs clinical research to find better treatments for ailments including cancer, heart and lung conditions, and Alzheimer's disease, and it offers medical education programs through an affiliation with Columbia University.

Aesculapius, the god of medicine, won't be unleashing his wrath on this company anytime soon. Aesculap, Inc. is the US-based unit of Aesculap AG, a leading global supplier of surgical instruments, which itself is a subsidiary of German medical device manufacturer B. Braun Melsungen. The company's products include handheld surgical instruments, implants, and sutures used in neurosurgery, as well as in cardiac, orthopedic, laparoscopic, reconstructive, thoracic, and gynecological surgical procedures. Aesculap, Inc. also makes electrosurgical devices and power systems, and it offers consulting, training, maintenance, and supply chain management services.

St. Joseph's has been caring mercifully for residents in the Hot Springs environs for well over a century. St. Joseph's Mercy Health Center, the second-oldest hospital in Arkansas, has more than 300 beds and provides acute and tertiary care, as well as home health care. The hospital is a not-for-profit health facility and is part of the Sisters of Mercy Health System. It has specialty units focused on cancer, cardiovascular, women, and senior care. Established in 1888, in 2010 St. Joseph's Mercy announced it would acquire local rival HealthPark Hospital as well as HealthFirst Physicians Group and Hot Springs Village Clinic. All of the acquired medical providers will operate under the St. Joseph Mercy moniker.

Medical International Technology is on a mission to rid the world of syringes. Medical International Technology (MIT) specializes in the development, marketing, and sale of needle-free jet injectors, designed for human and animal inoculations. (Reasons to use a needle-free injector include reducing pain, cross contamination, needlestick injuries, and biological waste.) Products destined for veterinary use are sold under the Agro-Jet brand, while those meant for use on humans are sold under the Med-Jet name. Subsidiary ScanView makes portable, wireless ultrasound diagnostic medical devices.

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