Child Health Corporation of America (CHCA) is a business alliance which provides development and group purchasing services to a network of more than 40 children's free-standing hospitals in North America. Network hospital are considered owners of CHCA and include the renown St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis and the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford in Palo Alto, California. CHCA's services such as group purchasing, training programs, and data management help the hospitals reduce costs and improve the quality of health care for their youthful patients. CHCA also offers insurance and strategic business services.

Optos has opted to provide improved imaging tools to eye doctors. The company is a manufacturer of digital diagnostic imaging equipment used by ophthalmologists and other eye care professionals in the detection and management of eye disease. The company's Optomap laser ophthalmoscopes are used by ophthalmologists to perform precision retinal examinations. Its tools are used to detect ailments such as retinal detachments, age-related macular degeneration, and glaucoma and are marketed to physicians in Europe and North America. Optos was founded in 1992 by executive vice chairman and engineer Douglas Anderson after his son's retinal disorder was overlooked by eye doctors.

Cardiogenesis will leave a hole in your heart and not feel a pang of guilt. The company's laser and fiber-optic systems are used for transmyocardial revascularization (TMR) and percutaneous myocardial channeling (PMC), procedures that use a laser to cut channels through the heart muscle into the heart chamber to help circulation in cardiac patients. Its SolarGen 2100 system, composed of fiber-optic and laser surgical tools on a powered base unit, is FDA-approved and is marketed through Cardiogenesis' sales force in the US and through international distributors. The company's PMC system is available outside the US. The company also sells catheters and other related equipment to operate its laser systems.

Christian or heathen, if you're in the St. Louis area and need medical care, Christian Hospital wants to help. The not-for-profit hospital, which has nearly 500 beds, is part of BJC HealthCare. Established in 1903, it specializes in a range of treatment areas including diabetes and cancer care and cardiothoracic surgery. Its more than 600 physicians also offer services in 40 other specialties, from primary care to pulmonology. Christian Hospital offers a comprehensive mental health and substance abuse program that includes an inpatient option, as well as specialization in geriatric mental wellness. The hospital is helmed by president Ron McMullen, a long-time health care administrator.

Haemonetics Corporation provides blood management solutions primarily in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The company’s donor products and services include plasma systems that automate the collection of plasma from donors; blood bank systems comprising MCS brand system, which automates the collection of platelets and other blood components from volunteer donors, and ACP brand systems that automate the process used to freeze, thaw, and wash red blood cells, as well as manufacture sterile intravenous solutions; red cell systems, which automates the collection of red cells from volunteer donors; and services and programs related to blood supply chain, such as LEAN and Six Sigma consulting, as well as InSight, a program application supporting blood center resource allocation and utilization. Its patient products and services comprise blood salvage systems that allow for the recovery, segregation, and washing of red cells from blood lost by a patient during or after surgery; SmartSuction product, which clears blood and debris from the surgical field; TEG Thrombelastograph Hemostasis Analyzer system, a diagnostic tool for surgeons; and blood management consulting. Haemonetics Corporation also provides information technology platforms and technical support for blood drive management, operations of blood and plasma collection centers, and management of back office functions and distribution at plasma fractionation facilities; business solutions to support process excellence, donor recruitment, business design, and blood management efforts; and hospital blood management assessment tools to hospitals. The company also offers equipment repair services, training programs, and spare part sales. It markets its products through direct sales force, independent distributors, and agents. Haemonetics Corporation was founded in 1971 and is based in Braintree, Massachusetts.

New Hanover Health Network (NHHN) system serves the Wilmington and Cape Fear area of North Carolina through the 635-bed New Hanover Regional Medical Center, the 130-bed Cape Fear Hospital, and the 85-bed Pender Memorial Hospital. NHHN is also home to a rehabilitation center, a behavioral health facility, hospice services, home health care, EMS transport services, physicians practices, and outpatient clinics. The not-for-profit New Hanover Health Network is affiliated with the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine.

Delphi Medical Systems is applying the engineering expertise of its parent company, auto parts colossus Delphi Automotive, to the medical device market. The company brings its parent's manufacturing and logistics prowess in such things as display technologies and safety sensors and puts them to work in the development of medical equipment and devices. Delphi Medical Systems product lines include infusion therapy systems (including intravenous pumps), respiratory devices (portable oxygen concentrators), and vital signs monitoring equipment. Its products are marketed directly and indirectly to health care professionals and consumers.

Catholic Health Initiatives is a national nonprofit health organization with headquarters in Denver. The faith-based system operates in 19 states and includes 73 hospitals; 40 long-term care, assisted- and residential-living facilities; two community health-services organizations; and home health agencies. In fiscal year 2010, CHI provided almost $590 million in charity care and community benefit, including services for the poor, free clinics, education and research. With annual revenues of approximately $9 billion, CHI is the nation's third-largest Catholic health care system. Catholic Health Initiatives thrives on our vision of Catholic health care as a vibrant ministry, ready to provide compassionate care of the body, mind and spirit through the 21st century and beyond.

American Medical Response (AMR). With thousands of vehicles in some 40 states, AMR is the largest contract provider of emergency and non-emergency ambulance services in the US. Non-emergency services include transportation for medically unstable patients and such non-medical transport services as transfers to and from health care facilities.American Medical Response company provides around 3 million transports annually for customers that also include hospitals and local government agencies. AMR is a subsidiary of Emergency Medical Services, which is owned by Onex, an investment firm with holdings in health care and other industries.

SheerVision has a clear vision of a future in the medical instruments industry.SheerVision company, formerly Clean Water Technologies, makes surgical loupes and light systems used by dentists, doctors, and vets. Through a reverse merger, Clean Water Technologies acquired SheerVision in 2006; the SheerVision operations became the company's only business after the deal. Prior to the SheerVision combination, the company had no products or services, although it held the license to a technology related to removing arsenic from water. (The license was sold to the former company officers in the reverse merger.) SheerVision distributes its products in the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East.

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