Saint John's offers residents of Madison County the full gamut of health care services through its acute-care hospital, numerous outpatient facilities, and affiliated physician offices. The health system was founded in 1894 by John Hickey, who donated his house to the Sisters of the Holy Cross for a hospital. Saint John's was acquired by St. Vincent Health -- a 17-hospital system -- in 2003.

Theragenics' seeds, sold under the names TheraSeed and I-Seed, are tiny rice-sized radioactive implants used to fight prostate cancer. The devices (known more generally as brachytherapy seeds) are a common treatment for early-stage prostate cancer; they release radiation within the tumor that kills cancerous cells with minimal damage to surrounding healthy tissue. Theragenics sells the devices directly to hospitals and through distribution agreements throughout the US and in Europe. In addition to its brachytherapy business, Theragenics' surgical products unit makes vascular and wound care products, including sutures and guidewires.

HydroCision,Inc. founded in 1994, makes surgical tools that use a high velocity stream of water to cut, hold, and remove tissue in surgical operations. HydroCision has been focused on developing products for spinal surgeries including the SpineJet Resector and SpineJet Currette. Other clinical specialties include plastic surgery, OB/GYN, urology, and general surgery. The company also makes a surgical wound debridement (removal of dead or damaged tissue) line which is licensed and distributed by Smith & Nephew. HydroCision's investors include BioVentures, Oxford Bioscience Partners, and Triathlon Medical Ventures.

UnitedHealthcare National Accounts is big on health care plan management.UnitedHealthcare National Accounts company, a division of health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group, provides health benefits administration and consulting services, with a focus on large employer groups (those with 3,000 or more employees). Its network-based services include enrollment, member eligibility, claim processing, billing, banking, and document issuance. In addition, customers can tap into UnitedHealth Group's wide array of health insurance plans and services. UnitedHealthcare National Accounts also provides prescription benefit management, disease management, behavioral health, and wellness program coordination.

Loyally protecting Shytown's health through a network of teaching hospitals and clinics is Loyola University Health System (LUHS), part of Loyola University. The flagship property of the private Jesuit Catholic network is an 800-licensed-bed institution that includes the Loyola University Medical Center campus (with its Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, the Ronald McDonald Children's Hospital of Loyola, Burn/Trauma Center, and Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine) and the 36-acre Gottlieb Hospital campus. LUHS also operates a network of specialty and primary care clinics in Chicago's western and southwestern suburbs. The system has been providing health care to the region for more than 35 years.

Some people would say that DCI began when the doors to the first clinic were opened. Some would also say that's starting in the middle. The true beginning lies in the heartbreaks and successes of early dialysis. In 1943, during the time of World War II, Willem Kolff invented the first practical dialysis machine, the rotating drum. Kolff's invention was revised and redeveloped and even inspired others to create new dialysis machines and tools. By 1948 the Kolff-Brigham Dialysis Machine and the Skeggs Leonards Plate Dialyzer were created.

Parma Community General Hospital provides medical care to residents of Ohio's Cuyahoga County and surrounding areas along the northern Lake Erie shoreline. The independent, not-for-profit, 320-bed acute care medical center has a staff of more than 500 physicians representing some 30 medical specialties. It offers a broad range of inpatient care services, including cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, and rehabilitation. Its outpatient and community outreach programs include home health care, hospice care, senior care, and various community health clinics. The hospital was founded in 1961.

NxStage Medical is giving some life back to those needing dialysis to treat acute kidney failure and end-stage renal disease. The medical device company's primary product, System One, is a portable hemodialysis machine, which can be used by patients at home or by professionals in a hospital setting. The FDA-approved device is also marketed to hospitals for critical care and to dialysis clinics that want to create or expand their services to home-based patients. Typically, customers rent the System One equipment, but its largest customer, DaVita, has chosen to purchase. NxStage Medical's subsidiary, Medisystems, supplies customers with disposable blood tubing and needles.

LifeBridge Health links ailing patients to care and healing. Serving the Baltimore region, the not-for-profit company operates two acute-care hospitals, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore and Northwest Hospital, with specialties including oncology, neurology, pediatrics, and sports medicine. The LifeBridge Health network also provides long-term care at the Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital (nursing, subacute, and adult day care services) and the Courtland Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center (formerly the Jewish Convalescent & Nursing Home). The health system has some 1,200 beds total. Other operations include general physician practices and fitness centers.

GENEX isn't a bunch of disaffected slackers.GENEX company provides health care cost-containment and disability management services, mostly in the worker's compensation market, to more than 1,200 employer groups, insurance and managed care providers, and benefit administrators. Services include workplace injury management, vocational rehabilitation, catastrophic case management, medical bill auditing, and Social Security disability claim representation. GENEX also offers information management services to help pre-identify high-risk claimants. GENEX is controlled by Stone Point Capital.

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