Smiths Medical provides the tools doctors need in intensive care, surgery, and post-operative care. The company develops medical devices for treatment in areas such as cardiology, oncology, pain management, and home health care. Products include general anesthesia devices, epidural components, safety lancets, and pulse monitors, as well as a line of assisted reproduction products. Smiths Medical provides its products to hospitals (which make up the majority of its customer base), specialists, and home care providers. Most of its worldwide territories are serviced through wholly-owned local sales and distribution companies. A division of the Smiths Group, the company is led by president Srini Seshadri.

Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers still knows a thing or two about resuscitation. The beleaguered hospital system emerged from bankruptcy in 2007 after two years under Chapter 11 protection, and laid out plans to build a new, smaller facility. But apparently the system was still too weak to survive and it filed for Chapter 11 protection again in 2010. It is reviewing strategic alternatives for its facilities; it closed its acute care hospital, the 440-bed St. Vincent's Hospital-Manhattan, and is selling off additional assets. Other centers still operating include St. Vincent's Hospital-Westchester as well as three skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers.

Priority Health Managed Benefits' chief concern is its members' wellbeing. The health insurance provider serves some 500,000 members in 65 counties throughout the state of Michigan. The company offers managed care plans to about nearly 8,000 employer groups; it also provides individual coverage. It contracts with a network of nearly 100 acute care hospitals and more than 12,000 health care providers, including primary care doctors and specialists. Health plan offerings include HMO, POS, PPO, Medicaid, and Medicare plans. Priority Health also offers health savings accounts (HSAs) and provides administrative services for companies with self-funded plans.

Hypertension Diagnostics, Inc. engages in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of devices that non-invasively measure large and small artery elasticity. The company’s products capture blood pressure waveform data produced by the beating heart and analyze it to provide an assessment of systemic arterial elasticity for large and very small arteries. It offers CVProfilor DO-2020 cardiovascular profiling system to primary care physicians and other health care professionals within the United States; HDI/PulseWave CR-2000 research cardiovascular profiling system to clinical research investigators for collecting data in cardiovascular studies; and CVProfilor MD-3000 cardiovascular profiling system. Hypertension Diagnostics, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in Eagan, Minnesota.

HCA (AKA Hospital Corporation of America) operates roughly 170 acute care, psychiatric, and rehabilitation hospitals in the US and England. It also runs about 100 ambulatory surgery centers, as well as cancer treatment and outpatient rehab centers that form health care networks in many of the communities it serves. HCA has facilities in 20 states; about three-quarters of its hospitals are in the southern US (approximately 70 are in Florida and Texas). The hospital giant's HCA International operates its hospitals and clinics in the UK. HCA is planning to go public through a $4.6 billion initial public offering.

Jackson County Memorial Hospital Trust Authority (JCMHTA) provides medical care to residents of Southwest Oklahoma and North Texas through its 150-bed Jackson County Memorial Hospital and 55-bed Tamarack Assisted Living Center, an assisted-living facility. More than 20 specialized services include home health and hospice care, emergency medicine, pediatrics, and orthopedics. The hospital also offers an outpatient same-day surgery unit, a women's center, a cancer center, and an intensive care unit.

Paradigm Management doesn't want complex worker's compensation cases to get out of hand. Paradigm Management company maintains a network of medical specialists, nurse case managers, and physicians that oversees cases of catastrophic injuries and complex medical conditions, such as amputations, burns, brain injuries, multiple trauma, chronic pain, and spinal cord injuries. Paradigm's database of more than 8,000 cases highlights best practices in hopes of reducing costs and improving results for its clients. It claims to return workers to the job in 41% of cases, compared to the 8% national average. Customers include state worker's comp funds, private insurers, and self-funded companies.Paradigm Management company was founded in 1991.

National Dentex Corporation designs and makes dental prosthetic devices. Its products fall into three categories: restorative (crowns and bridges), reconstructive (partial and full dentures), and cosmetic (porcelain veneers and ceramic crowns). The devices are made from impressions, models, and X-rays submitted by dentists. The firm serves roughly 24,000 dentists from about 40 dental laboratories in the US and Canada. Each NDX lab operates under its own name and has a local sales staff. NDX was taken private in 2010 after being acquired by dental and orthodontic firm GeoDigm Corporation in a deal valued at about $100 million.

Greatbatch likes to keep its business close to the heart. The company is a leading maker of batteries used in implantable medical devices such as pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). Other medical components include electrodes, capacitors, and feedthroughs (used to deliver electrical signals from an implantable medical device to an electrode). Greatbatch also makes batteries for demanding industrial applications, such as oil and gas exploration, and supplies power sources for the Space Shuttle. Boston Scientific, Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, and St. Jude Medical are among the company's top customers. Greatbatch gets nearly half of its sales from US clients.

Meridian Holdings provides administrative, financial, management, information technology, and telecommunications support services to health care providers through its portfolio of companies. The company's Capnet IPA (Independent Physician Association) unit provides management services to a contracted network of more than 300 physicians, 15 community hospitals, and four teaching hospitals. Meridian Holdings' InterCare DX subsidiary offers software products and services. CGI Communications Services provides telecommunications, medical products, and services.

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