Robert Bosch Healthcare (formerly Health Hero Network) wants to be your healthy buddy. The subsidiary of Robert Bosch makes the Health Buddy brand of patient monitoring systems and other means of keeping patients and doctors connected. Health care providers use the systems to communicate with patients, collect vital health information, and provide feedback to patients on health progress. Using the system, diabetics can monitor their blood glucose level or be reminded to take their medicine. The company sells the Health Buddy systems to hospitals and HMOs; drug developers use the product for assistance in clinical trials.

Southern Cross Healthcare Group is the largest nursing home provider in the UK. The company operates some 700 nursing and residential care homes with beds totaling approximately 37,000. Southern Cross Healthcare offers a range of services, including senior living, specialty nursing, rehabilitation, and long-term and intermediate care for people with physical and learning disabilities. The health care provider operates homes in England, Scotland, and Wales under the Active Care Partnerships, Ashbourne Senior Living, and Southern Cross brands.

Shawnee Mission Medical Center (SMMC) is determined to help care for the Kansas-side of Kansas City. The health care facility, located in the city's southwest suburbs, has some 450 inpatient beds. It also offers outpatient surgery and other health services in areas such as pediatrics, rehabilitation, oncology, and radiology. Its staff includes about 700 physicians with about 50 specialties. The medical center's emergency department receives some 50,000 visits each year. SMMC also operates satellite facilities, including the Shawnee Mission Outpatient Pavilion in nearby Lenexa, which offers emergency and outpatient diagnostic, general practice, and surgical care. SMMC is part of Adventist Health System.

McLeod Health was founded in 1906. McLeod Health system provides health care to 12 counties in the northeast portions of South Carolina through a network of hospitals and medical centers. The flagship McLeod Regional Medical Center has more than 450 beds and provides a full range of inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services. McLeod Health is also home to two other acute care hospitals with a combined total of about 120 beds; an inpatient psychiatric care unit; hospice care; and a center for advanced surgery.

Community Medical Centers keeps California's San Joaquin Valley healthy. The health system operates three acute care hospitals -- along with nursing homes, freestanding outpatient facilities, and an inpatient mental health center -- in the greater Fresno area. Its Community Regional Medical Center is a roughly 600-bed academic hospital affiliated with UCSF-Fresno; it provides advanced care in areas such as trauma, cardiac care, neuroscience, and orthopedics. Clovis Community Medical Center provides general medical-surgical care, with specialized expertise in women's health and bariatric/weight-loss surgery. Specialty hospital Fresno Heart & Surgical Hospital has about 60 beds.

Southwestern Vermont Health Care is a 35-bed medical care center, Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) has grown into a full-blown health system serving more than 55,000 people in a three state (Vermont, New York, Massachusetts) area. The not-for-profit health system's flagship facility is Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, which has about 100 beds. The system also includes The SVHC Centers for Living and Rehabilitation, Northshire Medical Center, and Deerfield Valley Health Center, as well as home health and hospice operations. SVHC, which was established in 1918, provides health care services for residents of Bennington County and surrounding regions.

MVP Health Plan is for about 700,000 most valuable people. Operating as MVP Health Care, MVP Health Plan company provides health insurance and employee benefits to its members in upstate New York, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Outside its home base, the company works with CIGNA HeatlthCare to offer benefits jointly. MVP, a not-for-profit organization, offers a variety of plans including HMOs, preferred provider organizations (PPOs), indemnity, and dental. Subsidiaries MVP Select Care and Upstate Administrative Services provide third party administration (TPA) services for self-insured employers. MVP Health Plan was founded in 1983 as Mohawk Valley Physicians' Health Plan.

Public Health Trust of Miami-Dade County looks out for the sun-baked citizens of South Florida. The trust operates the Jackson Health System (JHS), which is comprised of three acute-care hospitals, two specialty hospitals, and a psychiatric hospital. JHS also operates numerous primary care clinics, two long-term care facilities, and a network of behavioral health centers throughout Miami-Dade County. The system's flagship facility, Jackson Memorial Hospital, has roughly 1,500 beds and offers a wide variety of services, including burn treatment, trauma, pediatrics, rehabilitation, obstetrics, and transplants. It is also a teaching facility for the University of Miami School of Medicine.

SUNY Downstate Medical Center brings a healthy dose of education, research, and patient care to Brooklyn. SUNY Downstate is the borough's only academic medical center. It comprises colleges of medicine, nursing, graduate studies, and health-related professions, as well as the University Hospital of Brooklyn, a 400-bed teaching hospital that serves more than 2 million residents in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. The state-run hospital has intensive care, operating room, and emergency room units; an ambulatory care center with some 75 clinics; three satellite health centers; and a dialysis facility. SUNY Downstate's research laboratories study everything from alcoholism and Alzheimer's Disease to HIV/AIDS.

St. Francis Hospital can handle your gall bladder and sinus difficulties, but it's really on top of your heart problems. This specialty cardiac center -- New York's only certified cardiac center -- performs about 9,000 cardiac catheterizations, 3,500 coronary angioplasties, and nearly 2,000 open-heart operations every year. It also offers educational and clinical services. As part of Catholic Health Services of Long Island, St. Francis opened its doors in 1954 to children and adults. It was originally established as St. Francis Hospital and Sanatorium for Cardiac Children in 1936.

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