Conceptus, Inc. designs, develops, and markets minimally invasive devices for reproductive medical applications. It offers Essure, a permanent birth control system for women. The Essure system delivers a micro-insert into a woman's fallopian tubes, causing benign tissue in-growth that blocks the fallopian tubes. The company distributes its products through direct sales force and distributor networks primarily to physicians and hospitals. It primarily operates in the United States, France, and the rest of Europe. Conceptus, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

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.

Swedish Covenant Hospital takes the wellfare of Chicagoans to heart. The not-for-profit hospital is a 340-bed acute care facility that provides inpatient and outpatient services, emergency services, extended care, family medicine, home care, and occupational health care services in the Chicago area. Specialized offerings include cardiovascular, pediatric, cancer, women's health, and psychiatric programs. The hospital also has several satellite health care facilities offering outpatient services. Swedish Covenant Hospital, founded by the Evangelical Covenant Church in 1886.

Trustmark Mutual Holding Company established in 1913 as the Brotherhood of All Railway Employees to provide disability coverage to railroad workers, the company still provides workplace benefits in the US. Trustmark offers group health insurance to employer and affinity groups, benefits administration for companies that self-fund, and voluntary benefits (life, disability, and illness insurance) sold in the workplace. To help its customers control costs and boost employee health, it also offers consumer health advice providers HealthFit and Health Contact Partners. Trustmark Mutual Holding is owned by its policyholders.

Baxter International Inc., through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets products for people with hemophilia, immune disorders, infectious diseases, kidney disease, trauma, and other chronic and acute medical conditions. It operates in three segments: BioScience, Medication Delivery, and Renal. The BioScience segment processes recombinant and plasma-based proteins to treat hemophilia and other bleeding disorders; plasma-based therapies to treat immune deficiencies, alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, burns and shock, and other chronic and acute blood-related conditions; products for regenerative medicine, such as biosurgery products; and vaccines. The Medication Delivery segment manufactures intravenous solutions and administration sets; premixed drugs and drug-reconstitution systems; pre-filled vials and syringes for injectable drugs; intravenous nutrition products; infusion pumps; and inhalation anesthetics. It also offers products and services related to pharmacy compounding, drug formulation, and packaging technologies. The Renal segment provides products to treat end-stage renal disease or irreversible kidney failure. It manufactures solutions and other products for peritoneal dialysis, a home-based therapy; and distributes product for hemodialysis, which is conducted in a hospital or clinic. It markets its products to hospitals, kidney dialysis centers, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, doctors’ offices, clinical and medical research laboratories, and patients at home under physician supervision. Baxter International Inc. was founded in 1931 and is based in Deerfield, Illinois.

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.

Applied Scintillation Technologies (AST) is a maker of imaging and detection products that utilize phosphor and scintillation technologies. More simply put, AST offers X-ray and other imaging devices that are used in the medical, dental, security, and instrumentation industries. Products include laser alignment devices, infrared digital cameras, phosphor screens, photometers, and radiometers. Founded in 1920, the company was originally called Levy West Laboratory and was an early maker of phosphors for X-ray machines. It was at one time a subsidiary of Levy Hill Group Plc, but members of AST's management (through an entity called TQ Scientific) bought the firm in 2007.

Scott & White Health Plan works to keep its members Safe & Well. The not-for-profit HMO provides health insurance plans and related services to more than 202,000 members in 34 counties in and around central Texas, primarily in .Scott & White Health Plan company, which is owned by the Scott & White network of hospitals and clinics, has employer-sponsored plans as well as several choices for individuals along with COBRA and state administered continuation plans. It also offers the Young Texan Health Plan for children only. The Scott & White Health Plan includes more than 1,000 service providers in its network.Scott & White Health Plan company began offering its services in 1982.

Signature Eyewear views prescription eyeglasses and sunglasses as the ultimate fashion statement and an integral part of its business. Laura Ashley, Nicole Miller, and bebe licensed eyewear accounts for about three-fourths of the firm's sales. Signature Eyewear also licenses frames by Michael Stars, Dakota Smith, Hart Schaffner Marx, and Carmen Marc Valvo Eyewear.Signature Eyewear company makes its own line of frames ("Signature") through contract manufacturers in Hong Kong, China, Japan, and Italy, and markets them to optical retailers in more than 20 countries. Chairman Richard Torre bought about 30% of Signature Eyewear from former CEO Bernard Weiss and his wife.

Carilion Clinic is a healthcare organization with more than 600 physicians in a multi-specialty group practice and eight not-for-profit hospitals. Carilion Clinic specializes in patient-centered care, medical education and clinical research, with a goal of providing the best possible health outcome and healthcare experience for each patient.In 2007, Carilion Clinic partnered with Virginia Tech to create the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute (commonly known as VTC). VTC is housed in a 150,000-square-foot facility at the Riverside Center on Carilion Clinic's campus in Roanoke, Va. The first class of doctoral candidates began course work in August 2010.

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