Apria Healthcare Group Inc. is owned by the Blackstone Group. With about 500 branches nationwide, Apria Healthcare Group is one of the country's largest home health firms. Serving some 1.2 million clients across the US, the company's staff provides supplemental oxygen, ventilators, nebulizers, and sleep monitoring equipment and medication to patients with emphysema, sleep apnea, and other respiratory conditions. Its infusion therapy nurses administer intravenous or injectable therapies -- including pain drugs, chemotherapy, and parenteral nutrition -- at home or in one of the company's outpatient infusion clinics. Apria also delivers home medical equipment such as walkers and hospital beds.

Young Innovations, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of supplies and equipment used by dentists, dental hygienists, dental assistants, and consumers. It offers preventive products, such as disposable and metal prophylaxis (prophy) angles, prophy paste, fluorides in gel formulation, dental handpieces and related components, and moisture control products. The company also provides infection control products, such as liquid surface disinfectants, evacuation system cleaners, gloves and masks, ultrasonic cleaning systems, and instrument disinfectants; micro-applicators, including disposable micro-applicators and bristle brush applicators; and home care kits comprising brushes, wax to protect the inside of the cheek from irritation due to brackets, a timer to monitor brushing time, and floss, as well as toothbrushes. In addition, it offers endodontic products consisting of Obtura family of endodontic units, which are gun-type, heat-softened gutta percha delivery systems, as well as ultrasonic scaling units and handpieces; and diagnostic products, including panoramic X-ray machine and cephalometric images, as well as dental X-ray supplies comprising film, film cassettes and intensifying screens, processing chemicals, and darkroom supplies. The company sells its products primarily through distributors, as well as sells directly to dental providers and dental hygiene schools, Veterans Administration healthcare facilities, and the U.S. military bases. It markets its products primarily in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, Central America, and the Pacific Rim. Young Innovations, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Earth City, Missouri.

Cardica, Inc. designs and manufactures medical devices for cardiac and other surgical procedures based on its proprietary stapling and cutting technology. It designs and manufactures its automated anastomosis product line, the C-Port Distal Anastomosis systems and PAS-Port Proximal Anastomosis system to automate the joining of blood vessels for the coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery market. The company develops the C-Port Flex A Anastomosis system to enable automated anastomoses, or the joining of blood vessels, to be performed as part of minimally invasive and surgical robot-facilitated CABG procedures. In addition, Cardica is developing the Microcutter, a true multi-fire endoscopic stapling device designed to be used in a various procedures, including bariatric, thoracic, and general surgery. Cardica, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Ohio Valley General Hospital is a full service 120-bed community hospital serving residents of Pennsylvania's Allegheny County and the western suburbs of Pittsburgh. The hospital's staff of about 300 doctors (representing more than 35 medical specialties) provides emergency, acute, diagnostic, and specialty care, and a variety of inpatient and outpatient care services. Ohio Valley General's programs include cardiology, occupational medicine, pain treatment, rehabilitation, sleep disorder diagnosis, ophthalmic surgery, and wound care. The facility, founded in 1901, also operates senior living communities and sponsors a school of nursing and a school of radiography.

GN ReSound, a subsidiary of GN Store Nord, offers a range of digital and non-digital hearing instruments under the ReSound, Beltone, and Interton brands. Its products are programmed to adjust to the acoustic environment and the client's range of hearing. Its GN Otometrics unit sells audiological diagnostic systems and measurement equipment under the Aurical, Hortmann, ICS, and Madsen brand names. GN ReSound operates in more than 80 countries in North and South America, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region.

First Dental Health provides fee-for-service dental plans and a variety of related services to customers in Arizona, California, and Nevada. The company offers its individual, group, and family dental plans through its Dental Club subsidiary which has an independent network of some 28,000 dentists. Its provider networks serve more than 400,000 members. The firm was established in 1995.

Comprehensive Behavioral Care, Inc. (CompCare), established in 1969 as Comprehensive Care Corporation, became a national leader in chemical dependency treatment services through its trademarked CareUnit programs. In 1992, CompCare began to diversify through acquisition of a small managed behavioral health organization. By 1997, the Company had refocused its core business and consolidated its corporate operations in Tampa, Florida. Today, CompCare manages lives nationwide, providing a wide range of services to health plans and employer groups for Commercial, Medicaid, and Medicare members.

Appalachian Regional Healthcare, a health system serving residents of eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia. The not-for-profit organization (one of the largest rural health systems in the US) comprises nine hospitals with more than 1,000 beds, as well as dozens of clinics, home health care agencies, and retail pharmacies. Its largest hospital in Hazard, Kentucky, has 310 beds and features an inpatient psychiatric unit that serves as the state mental health facility. Several of the system's hospitals are Critical Access Hospitals, a federal government designation for rural community hospitals that operate in medically underserved areas.

The Cambridge Public Health Commission (doing business as Cambridge Health Alliance or CHA) was established as a result of the 1996 merger of The Cambridge Hospital and Somerville Hospital. The health care organization operates the Cambridge Public Health Department, as well as three hospitals and about two dozen primary care practices specializing in such areas as pediatrics, senior health, family medicine, eye care, plastic surgery, psychiatry, and dentistry. CHA is a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and the Tufts University School of Medicine.

Hurley Medical Center is a teaching hospital serving Genesee, Lapeer, and Shiawassee counties in eastern Michigan. The 440-bed acute care facility is affiliated with the medical schools of Michigan State University and The University of Michigan. It provides care in areas such as cancer, mental health, rehabilitation, surgery, and women's health, and it is a regional center for pediatrics. Hurley Medical Center also offers advanced specialty care, such as trauma care, neonatal intensive care, kidney transplantation, burn medicine, and bariatric (weight loss) surgery.

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