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.

North Sonoma County Hospital District helps more than just those who have tripped while stomping grapes. The district operates Healdsburg District Hospital, an acute care community hospital in northern California. North Sonoma County hospital offers a full array of health services, including emergency and trauma, surgery and rehabilitation, occupational medicine, and clinical laboratory. It also provides hospice care, a clinical laboratory, and an imaging center. Since taking the hospital over from Columbia Healthcare (now HCA) in 2002, the district has doubled the size of the ER and upgraded equipment.

Seattle Children's Hospital has some 250 beds, serves children and infants of all ages. Its specialty units include psychiatric care, neonatal intensive care, and rehabilitation for children disabled by injuries, illness, or congenital complications. In addition to its primary campus, Seattle Children's Hospital operates numerous outpatient clinics in the Puget Sound area. It also provides outreach services throughout the Pacific Northwest as well as in Alaska and Montana. Seattle Children's Hospital provides telemedicine services in Idaho.

Rotech Healthcare Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides home medical equipment and related products and services in the United States. It rents and sells oxygen and other respiratory therapy equipment and services, including oxygen concentrators, liquid oxygen systems, high pressure oxygen cylinders, homefill systems, portable oxygen concentrators, continuous positive airway pressure devices and supplies, bi-level positive airway pressure devices and supplies, non-invasive positive pressure ventilator devices and supplies, and nebulizer devices and medications. The company also sells and rents a line of durable medical equipment, such as hospital beds, wheelchairs, walkers, patient aids, and other ancillary supplies. Its patient service technicians or clinicians provide instruction and training to the patient and the patient’s family regarding equipment use and maintenance for the prescribed therapy. In addition, the company’s activities include reimbursement by third-party payors comprising Medicare, Medicaid, the Veterans Administration, and private insurers. Rotech Healthcare Inc. serves older patients with breathing disorders, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, which include chronic bronchitis, emphysema, obstructive sleep apnea, and other cardiopulmonary disorders. As of December 31, 2009, it had approximately 450 operating locations located primarily in non-urban markets in 48 states. Rotech Healthcare Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Orlando, Florida.

KeyMed (Medical & Industrial Equipment) Ltd. is a key player when it comes to medical and industrial product distribution. A subsidiary of Japan's Olympus Corporation, KeyMed primarily makes endoscopic instruments to explore either the human body or the innards of industrial/electronic equipment. KeyMed is also the UK service-center location and exclusive distributor of Olympus' flexible and rigid endoscopes in Great Britain. The company's customers include hospitals, physician offices, and other health care settings, such as ambulatory surgical centers throughout the UK. The firm has branch offices in Scotland and Cheshire, and also distributes products in the US through subsidiary Olympus Industrial America.

Gottlieb Memorial Hospital was founded in 1961. The not-for-profit community general hospital boasts 250 beds, a staff of more than 300 physicians and dentists, a Level II trauma center with a heliport, heart health care center, and health and fitness center on site. The multi-acre hospital campus also includes a medical office building with about 100 physician offices, rehabilitation services, a pharmacy, and a kidney dialysis center. Other services include cancer and home health care. Gottlieb is part of Loyola University Health System; an affiliation that gives the hospital research capabilities.

HealthPlan Holdings is the wind beneath the wings of health insurers across the US. HealthPlan Holdings company, through its subsidiaries, is a third-party administrator of health plans; it processes claims, supports sales and distribution operations, and provides enrollment, customer service, and billing services for some 2 million consumers belonging to health plans offered by the likes of CIGNA and Humana. The firm's HealthPlan Services subsidiary primarily serves insurers in the small business, individual, and voluntary markets, and its American Benefit Plan Administrators unit caters to union trust benefit plans. The company is controlled by private equity firm Water Street Healthcare Partners.

Somanetics sells the INVOS System, a noninvasive device that monitors blood oxygen levels in the brain, primarily during surgery. Based on Somanetics' in vivo optical spectroscopy (INVOS) technology, the device's disposable SomaSensors and Oxyalert sensors attach to each side of the patient's forehead, and the firm's proprietary software displays oxygen levels on a computer screen. The company sells the INVOS System through a direct sales force in the US and through distributors abroad such as Covidien and Edwards Lifesciences. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Covidien.

Otix Global brings the world to the hearing impaired. The company designs, manufactures, and markets digital hearing aids. Its brands include Applause, Balance, Natura, Quartet, Sonic, Tribute, and Velocity. As its technology advances, the company has expanded with variations on both behind-the-ear and in-the-canal hearing aids including its small receiver-in-the-canal product under the Touch brand. The company sells its products to hearing care professionals and directly to individuals through a handful of retail audiology outlets in Australia, Europe, and the US. Otix Global is the subject of a bidding war between two Danish hearing aid makers, William Demant and GN ReSound.

Operating more than 15 senior communities in seven western US states, BPM Senior Living provides housing and support services for elderly residents. Its facilities offer varying levels of care, including independent living, assisted living, and special care for patients with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. Some also offer adult day care services and the option of short-term residential stays. Services provided by BPM facilities include housekeeping, laundry, medication management, personal care (bathing, feeding, grooming), and transportation.

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