Hartford Health Care provides a variety of health services to the descendants of our founding fathers. Founded in 1854, the health care system operates a network of hospitals, behavioral health centers, long-term nursing and rehabilitation facilities, medical labs, and numerous community programs for residents in northern Connecticut. Medical specialties range from orthopedics and women's health to cancer and heart care. Hartford Health Care's flagship facility is the Hartford Hospital, an 870-bed teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Connecticut Medical School. It also operates MidState Medical Center (some 140 beds), Windham Hospital (130 beds), and a home health agency.

ACA Financial Guaranty provides financial guaranty insurance for municipal and other public finance bonds. Previously, the company also provided asset management services for collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) built by pooling fixed-income assets, including bonds, loans, and credit swaps; investors in the company's CDOs included banks, money managers, hedge funds, and insurance companies. While the company's guaranty business was sound, its other services led to its distress. When the US subprime mortgage market tanked, the company was forced to reorganize and place its municipal bond guaranty business into run-off. Now tending to its existing obligations, ACA is no longer writing new policies.

Lombard Medical Technologies keeps the blood flowing through your veins with its cardiovascular medical devices. The company's flagship product is Aorfix, an endovascular stent graft approved in the European Union for treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms (balloon-like enlargements of the aorta in the abdomen). It is also pursuing approval in the US for the device. Additionally, the company is developing a stent graft to treat thoracic aortic aneurysms, which occur in the chest. Other products include EndoRefix, a patented endovascular stapling device used to attach stent grafts during surgery. Lombard Medical was founded in 2000.

The original Hamot Hospital opened in 1881 on the old Hamot family homestead, with five rooms and the capacity for 25 patients. Adventurous Frenchmen know the value of good medical care; Pierre S.V. Hamot felt absolutely "Erie" without it. Hamot Health Foundation (named for the wealthy immigrant merchant) is a not-for-profit health organization serving residents of northwestern Pennsylvania, western New York, and eastern Ohio. The flagship facility in this health system is the Hamot Medical Center, a tertiary-care hospital with about 350 beds. Hamot has an extensive residency program in a number of specialties, including a school of anesthesia run in cooperation with Gannon University.

Trinity Health runs about 45 hospitals and has nearly 400 outpatient facilities, as well as nursing homes, senior living facilities, home health agencies, and hospice programs. Of the hospitals, it owns more than 30 and manages about a dozen for third parties. Its Trinity Senior Living Communities subsidiary operates about 30 long-term care facilities for seniors, and its Trinity Health International unit provides consulting, training, and other assistance to hospitals worldwide (THI). Trinity Health has facilities in seven mostly Midwestern states. Catholic Health Ministries sponsors the organization.

Appleton Medical Center. Along with general and specialized health services, the medical center's specialties include cardiac, cancer, and orthopedic care. Appleton Medical Center is operated by ThedaCare. Established in 1958, the non-sectarian not-for-profit hospital started the first fertility program in the region.

Women & Children's Hospital of Lake Charles is there to help. The specialty hospital has been serving the ladies and their babies in southwestern Louisiana for more than two decades. The acute care facility provides patients with a range of services including emergency and maternity care, a neonatal intensive care unit, a pediatrics unit, and radiology. The hospital has expedited its admitting process in recent years by allowing patients to pre-register online with their eAdmitting program. It also offers new mommies a "Baby University" to help them unlock the mysteries of parenting. The facility is part of Community Health Systems.

Tift Regional Medical Center (TRMC) helps keep people healthy in the Peach State. The medical center, which operates with some 100 physicians on staff representing more than 30 specialties, serves residents in southern Georgia. TRMC offers its patients a wide range of services such as cardiology, cancer treatment, neurology, occupational and physical therapy, obstetrics, and surgical care. The not-for-profit medical center has a capacity of about 190 beds. It also operates an outpatient services clinic. Tift County Hospital Authority, which includes a nine-member board of trustees, governs TRMC. The hospital is also affiliated with the Emory Healthcare network.

Washington Regional Medical System (formerly Washington Regional Medical Center) provides acute care services to the people of northwestern Arkansas. The system's main hospital has about 370 beds, and also includes assisted living facilities, home health and hospice services, and general practice and specialty clinics. Specialty services at the medical center include cardiac and vascular care (Walker Family Heart and Vascular Institute), emergency medicine, kidney dialysis, women's health services (Johnelle Hunt Women's Center), cancer treatment, and rehabilitation.

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center is a 670-bed, acute-care regional referral hospital. The facility serves residents of Newark and surrounding areas in northern New Jersey. Newark Beth Israel Medical hospital offers services including primary, diagnostic, emergency, surgical, and rehabilitative care. It is home to specialized programs such as kidney transplantation, cancer care, dentistry, sleep disorders, and women's health services. The facility also houses the Children's Hospital of New Jersey and the Saint Barnabas Heart Center. Newark Beth Israel Medical hospital has a medical staff of more than 800 physicians.

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