Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital's goal is to give residents of the Mile High City exemplary care. The acute care facility has nearly 570 beds and specializes in cardiovascular disease, cancer, and high-risk labor and delivery. The Catholic not-for-profit hospital sees about 50,000 emergency department visits annually. To ease the strain on its ER, the facility installed an observation unit where patients who need longer care but don't necessarily need to be admitted can be seen for up to 23 hours. The hospital also offers residency programs in family practice, internal medicine, OB-GYN, and general surgery. Founded as Colorado's first private hospital, Exempla Saint Joseph is part of Exempla Healthcare.

River Parishes Hospital provides acute medical care for residents of Louisiana living between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The facility has more than 100 beds. Among its specialty services are cancer treatment, emergency medicine, obstetrics, and surgery. Its emergency department treats more than 18,000 patients each year. LifePoint Hospitals bought the facilty from Universal Health Services in 2004.

Serving residents of Fort Myers and surrounding areas in Southwestern Florida's Lee County, the community-owned, not-for-profit health care system is home to four acute care hospitals (with a total of some 1,400 beds), a home health agency, a nursing home, and numerous outpatient treatment and diagnostic centers. The flagship Lee Memorial Hospital also houses an inpatient rehabilitation hospital and a dedicated children's hospital. Lee Health Systems' corporate services include pre-employment screenings, drug screens, and wellness programs.

MedStar Health is a $3.8 billion not-for-profit, regional healthcare system with a network of nine hospitals and 20 other health-related businesses across Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region. As the area's largest health system, it is one of the region's largest employers with more than 26,000 associates and 5,300 affiliated physicians, all of whom support MedStar Health's patient-first philosophy that combines care, compassion and clinical excellence with an emphasis on customer service. We prove this with more than 166,000 inpatient admissions and more than 1.6 million outpatient visits each year.MedStar Health associates proudly serve a half-million patients annually, and our employee satisfaction exceeds the national average for healthcare and Fortune 500 high-performing companies, which translates into a workforce dedicated to providing the highest quality care to the communities we serve. We contribute approximately $111 million in payroll tax to the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia each year, and believe in re-investing in our associates through professional development programs, such as the Executive Development Institute and the John L. Green Generation of Leadership Scholarship Program. Additionally, MedStar Health provides close to $270 million in charity care and community benefit on an annual basis.

Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, part of Health Management Associates, serves southeastern Missouri with general and acute care services. The hospital's offerings range from cardiology and pediatrics to home care and maternity services. It also has centers devoted to such areas as cancer care, pain management, and rehabilitation. The two-campus hospital has about 425 beds.

Sanford Health offers medical services at facilities located in eastern South Dakota and surrounding Midwestern states. The system, established in 1996, operates some two dozen hospitals and over 130 clinics in South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Its primary facility is the 500-bed Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, which was founded in 1894. Specialty services include cancer treatment, orthopedics, rehabilitation, women's health care, and air transportation. In 2009 Sanford Health and North Dakota's MeritCare Health System merged to create the new Sanford Health system. It has since announced that it will merge with North Country Health Services of Minnesota.

White Memorial Medical Center provides health care services to the colorful Los Angeles community. The hospital has 370 beds and provides acute health care to residents in and around the "City of Flowers and Sunshine." Services include inpatient psychiatric care, cancer and heart care centers, occupational medicine, orthopedics, pediatrics, women's health, and other acute and specialty programs. Part of Adventist Health, the hospital is affiliated with Loma Linda University and its medical center. The White Memorial Medical Center was formed in 1913 by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Munson Healthcare was founded in 1915. Munson Healthcare is a not-for-profit health care system serving some 25 counties in northern Michigan. Its flagship facility is Munson Medical Center, a regional referral hospital with about 390 beds and offers specialty services including cancer treatment, behavioral health, cardiac care, and orthopedics. Munson Healthcare also has management agreements and other types of affiliations with about a dozen other hospitals in the region. In addition, Munson Healthcare operates urgent care and community clinics, home health care and hospice agencies, an ambulance service, and the Northern Michigan Supply Alliance, a supply chain management group co-owned with Trinity Health.

Catholic Medical Center is a 330-bed hospital serving southern New Hampshire. Services include cancer treatment, surgery, rehabilitation, treatments for sleep disorders, and emergency medical services. Catholic Medical Center includes The Mom's Place, a birthing facility, and the New England Heart Institute. The medical center has partnered with its community to extend health care and dental care to the uninsured and the homeless, and has established a health clinic geared to help refugees being resettled in the area. CMC is planning to affiliate with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, which would provide the center with access to a physician network, as well as more specialists, and a teaching hospital.

Ascension Health is transforming healthcare by providing the highest quality care to all, with special attention to the poor and vulnerable. Ascension Health, which provided $1.08 billion in care of persons who are poor and community benefit last year, is the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health system, and the third-largest system (based on revenues) in the United States. Our mission-focused Health Ministries provide acute care services, long-term care, community health services, psychiatric, rehabilitation and residential care. Our sponsors began this ministry of faith hundreds of years ago. Today we continue their legacy through the work of more than 113,000 associates serving in more than 500 locations in 20 states and the District of Columbia.

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