Valley Home Care is part of Valley Health System. Valley Home Care is there when you need care at home in the valley. The company offers specialty health care as well as end-of-life palliative care in patients' homes. Specialist tend to those who need follow up care after a stay at sibling The Valley Hospital or other area hospitals. Valley Home Care's services include maternal and child care, rehabilitation therapy, nutritional counseling, diabetes support, IV therapy, and eldercare. Its hospice program has doctors, nurses, social workers, clergy, and companion volunteers available. Its Butterflies and Journeys programs provide medical care, education, and family support for dying children and their families.

Uroplasty makes implants used primarily to treat urinary incontinence and overactive bladder. Its flagship product is Macroplastique, a soft-tissue bulking material for the treatment of urinary incontinence, that is injected during a minimally invasive outpatient procedure. Another minimally invasive device, the Urgent PC, uses electrical pulses to treat overactive bladder symptoms. Uroplasty's I-Stop Mid-Urethral Sling treats female incontinence. The company also sells soft-tissue bulking agents used in plastic surgery, vocal cord rehabilitation, and treatment of fecal incontinence. Uroplasty markets its products primarily in Europe and the US; it won FDA approval to market Macroplastique in 2006.

Bristol Hospital bristles with health care services for central Connecticut residents. The health care facility has more than 130 beds and offers a range of services including counseling, diagnostic imaging, inpatient and outpatient care, surgery, home health, and physical therapy. Specialty services include oncology, obstetrics, neurology, pediatrics, and orthopedic care. Its wellness center is dedicated to cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation, diabetes care, health education, health screenings, nutrition, fitness, and pain management. Bristol Hospital also operates Ingraham Manor, a skilled nursing residence for seniors.

Accordant™ – a CVS Caremark company, is a recognized leader in delivering disease management and case management services for rare chronic conditions. We have been providing value-added services on behalf of our contracted clients such as health plans, employers, and Third Party Administrators (TPAs) for more than a decade.

St. Clair Health operates St. Clair Hospital, an acute care hospital with about than 330 beds serving residents in Pittsburgh and southwestern Pennsylvania. The health care provider offers inpatient and outpatient services including specialized units for cancer treatment, behavioral and mental health, cardiovascular therapy, physical rehabilitation, pulmonary therapy, women and children's health, and other niche services. St. Clair Hospital was established in 1954 by members of the Pittsburgh community. St. Clair Health also operates two outpatient centers, a surgical center, an imaging unit, and an occupational medicine division.

In this case, those M's might stand for medical devices, management, and microbiology. 3M Health Care is a division of the highly diversified 3M Company. It is one of the largest producers of medical and surgical products (tape, dressings, and surgical drapes). It also manufactures Littmann stethoscopes, dental and orthodontic products (the latter through 3M Unitek), drug delivery systems (transdermal patches, inhalers), health information management systems, and microbiological testing and monitoring equipment used by food processors. These businesses account for more than 15% of 3M's annual revenues. 3M created its first health care-focused division in 1961, as the aptly named Medical Products Division.

Rockford specializes in solving medical mysteries. Rockford Health System provides health services to residents of northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin through a network of hospitals and physicians' practices, and a range of community health programs and services. The hub of the system is Rockford Memorial Hospital, a nearly 400-bed tertiary care medical center that provides services ranging from general medicine to surgery. The hospital is home to a children's medical center, a heart and vascular health center, and specialty care facilities for neurosurgery and orthopedics.

TherOx is a medical device company that developed the SuperSaturated Oxygen (SSO2) Therapy System to prevent muscle tissue death following a heart attack. The SSO2 Therapy System mixes oxygen and saline with the patient's blood and pumps it back through the coronary artery to restore blood flow and reduce the amount of heart muscle tissue that dies after a person goes into cardiac arrest. The SSO2 System has not been FDA-approved; TherOx has conducted two studies involving 570 patients and hopes to be able to market the product in mid-2009.

DEKA Research and Development is perhaps best known for its founder and president Dean Kamen -- and for the Segway Personal Transporter he invented. DEKA is a design and engineering firm that develops innovative technologies, many of them in the field of medical devices. The Segway itself was an offshoot of the iBOT, an all-terrain, stair-climbing wheelchair the company developed with Independence Technology, a unit of Johnson & Johnson. (Kamen founded a separate company in 1999 to market the Segway.) DEKA's other products include a portable dialysis machine developed in partnership with Baxter International and an improved intravascular stent made with J&J's Cordis. DEKA was founded in 1982.

Ventana Medical Systems wants to be a window into the cause of cancer. The company's slide staining systems (sold under the names BenchMark, NexES, and Symphony) are used to automate the processing and microscopic analysis of human tissue for the detection and treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. Ventana also sells consumables such as reagents and slides needed to operate the systems. It uses a direct sales force to market its products to hospital, anatomical pathology, and drug discovery labs around the globe. Its products are used by many cancer research centers, including the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins Hospital. The firm is led by CEO Hany Massarany and owned by Roche.

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