Lifespan Corporation helps to increase the longevity of the residents of Rhode Island. Founded in 1994, the multi-hospital health system includes the state's largest acute care facility, Rhode Island Hospital. Rhode Island Hospital has about 720 beds and provides general and advanced medical-surgical care in a wide range of specialties, including organ transplantation, neurosurgery, and orthopedics. It also performs biomedical research in areas such as cancer and vascular disease. Rhode Island Hospital and its sister facility, the 250-bed Miriam Hospital, serve as teaching facilities for Brown University's medical school.

Centra Health is a constellation of hospitals, medical practices, outpatient facilities, and other services targeting the health care needs of residents in central Virginia. At its core are two acute care facilities in Lynchburg: 270-bed Lynchburg General, which is the region's main emergency center and specializes in orthopedic and cardiac care; and Virginia Baptist, a roughly 315-bed facility focusing on cancer treatment, women's and pediatric care, mental health, and rehabilitation. Aside from its acute care operations, Centra owns primary care physicians' practices, a home health care service, nursing homes, and numerous other physical and behavioral health businesses.

Utah Medical Products focuses on expectant moms, new moms, and newborns.Utah Medical Products company designs and makes a variety of medical products used in labor and delivery and neonatal intensive care, as well as products for other gynecological and female urinary problems. Products include disposable pressure transducers to monitor blood pressure, intrauterine catheters used to monitor pressure in the womb during high-risk births, and a device that clamps and cuts the umbilical cord and collects a blood sample from the cord. Utah Medical, which has manufacturing facilities in the US and Ireland, sells its products around the world through a domestic sales force and more than 100 international distributors.

Ambu supports life with its respiratory products. The medical device maker develops and markets diagnostic, life support, and training equipment for hospitals and emergency rescue services. It specializes in ventilation products for artificial respiration, such as bags and masks, immobilization devices for the head and neck, and single-use electrodes used to diagnose brain, muscle, and nerve diseases. Ambu also makes mannequins for basic and advanced first aid training. The company sells and exports its products through international distributors and also directly markets them through sales offices in Europe and the US. It also maintains production facilities in Asia.

Delta Dental of Missouri provides dental benefits for employer groups in Missouri and South Carolina. The not-for-profit organization serves more than 1.5 million members in the region. It offers employer-sponsored plans (Delta Dental Premier and Delta Dental PPO) to about 1,500 client companies with 10 or more employees. Delta Dental of Missouri doesn't offer individual policies. The company's network provides access to more than 160,000 dentists throughout the US. Delta Dental of Missouri is a member of the Delta Dental Plans Association.

The Children's Mercy Hospital is a huge benefit to KC kiddos. The Children's Mercy Hospital offers pediatric health care in various specialties in and around Kansas City, Missouri. Services include home health care, endocrinology, genetics, heart surgery, neonatology, emergency medicine, and rehabilitation. Founded in 1897, the hospital has more than 300 beds. The Children's Mercy health care system also includes outpatient and outreach clinics and research facilities. It is a teaching hospital affiliated with University of Missouri-Kansas City Medical School, University of Kansas, the Stowers Institute, and Midwest Research Institute.

Texas Laser Center is an eye clinic that provides vision correction services such as laser vision correction and cataract surgery to the residents in Austin, Texas, and surrounding areas. Its LASIK procedure, which takes about 15 minutes, changes the shape of the cornea and eliminates the need for contacts or glasses. The center offers free screenings and seminars about laser vision correction.

Focusing on orthopedics, wound care, and endoscopy, the firm makes products to repair joints, skin, soft tissue, and bone. Smith & Nephew plc orthopedics division makes hip, knee, and shoulder replacements, in addition to fixation and bone-growth devices used to repair broken bones. Smith & Nephew also makes arthroscopes, blades, digital cameras, and other surgical products through its endoscopy division. Its advanced wound management division manufactures and sells bandages and dressings used to treat a variety of injuries. The company operates in more than 30 countries worldwide.

HealthCare Partners owns and operates a group of medical practices in California, Florida, and Nevada.HealthCare Partners company provides administrative services to subsidiary HealthCare Partners Medical Group, which operates more than 40 medical practices in Los Angeles and surrounding areas. In addition, it owns and operates business units JSA Healthcare -- a provider of primary care and pharmacy services (AmeriDrug) at some 35 facilities in central Florida -- and HealthCare Partners of Nevada, an outpatient clinics operator and health plan administration provider in and around Las Vegas. HealthCare Partners traces its roots back to 1992.

PRIM started its business on more than just a shoestring. Tracing its roots to an orthopedic shoe store founded by Pedro Prim Fernández in 1870, PRIM now makes and markets hospital supplies in Spain and orthopedic supplies throughout Europe, Latin America, and the US. PRIM has expanded globally through several alliances: It works in the US with Camp International and it operates a joint venture with Enraf Nonius Delft in Portugal and Latin America, as well as domestically. In France PRIM works with Eurosurgical to develop items to aid surgery of the spine. With another three European prosthetic companies, PRIM owns 92% of Boston Brace Europe, an Irish company that makes aids for the treatment of scoliosis.

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