Diagnostic Laboratory Services (DLS) provides clinical laboratory and employee drug screening services in Hawaii and other Pacific islands. The company's toxicology department provides drug testing services for private companies, federal and state agencies, and health care providers. DLS' microbiology department provides infectious disease testing services. The company also provides provides diagnostic pathology lab services, including biopsy and pap smear analysis, through affiliate Hawaii Pathology Laboratory. DLS operates satellite locations throughout the Hawaiian Islands, Guam, and Saipan and has hospital-based laboratories including one at the affiliated Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu.

Astra Tech makes products for two very different, yet equally important, parts of the body. The company manufactures medical devices for the fields of dentistry and urology. Its Astra Tech Dental Implant Systems include titanium screws and bone stimulation materials used to secure abutments, bridges, and dentures. Astra Tech also makes a line of catheters and catheter systems; its LoFric product is a hydrophilic urinary catheter for the intermittent emptying of the bladder. The company also offers some wound draining, blood transfusion, surgical suction products. Astra Tech's Swedish parent Astra Tech AB is a direct subsidiary of drug maker AstraZeneca.

AmeriHealth has been providing managed care, primarily HMO, products to more than 265,000 members in Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. As a subsidiary of Independence Blue Cross, the managed care provider operates as two entities, AmeriHealth HMO and AmeriHealth Insurance, though it prefers one unified name, AmeriHealth. AmeriHealth company offers traditional HMO, PPO, Medicare, Medicaid, and third-party administration (TPA) services. In addition, AmeriHealth provides health assessment, wellness, reimbursement, anti-fraud, and disease management programs. AmeriHealth company was formed in 1995.

Surgical Innovations Group makes medical devices used in minimally invasive surgeries. Its products include the YelloPort laparoscopic access system and FastClamp, an instrument used in endoscopic procedures. The company sells its products through distributors and licensing deals with other equipment makers; its customers are mainly in Europe but it also has distribution arrangements in the US and elsewhere. Though its minimally invasive surgical products represent its core business, Surgical Innovations also makes autologous blood transfusion equipment, which collects and re-infuses a patient's own blood during surgery, through its Haemocell subsidiary.

Escalon Medical keeps blood and eyes healthy. The company develops and markets blood testing products and ophthalmic medical devices. Its Drew Scientific division makes instruments and consumables for blood cell counting and analysis, including diabetes testing and hematology equipment. In the area of ophthalmology, the company makes ultrasound systems (through subsidiary Sonomed), intraocular gases, and other products used in eye exams and surgeries. Additionally, Escalon sells vascular access products (such as catheters, monitors, and needles) that help locate hard-to-reach blood vessels for injections. The company distributes its products in France, the UK, and the US

Bruker AXS helps companies X-ray their way to the next hot drug. The firm makes X-ray systems that can analyze the structure of small molecules and aid in drug discovery and materials research. Bruker's products assist pharmaceutical and biotech firms in studying protein structure abnormalities, the cause of many diseases. Chemical and raw material manufacturers use Bruker's systems in their research of materials for making such products as steel, semiconductors, and plastics. Bruker AXS sells its products in the Asia/Pacific, Europe, and the Americas through direct sales and distributors. The company is a subsidiary of Bruker Corporation. Sister subsidiary Bruker Daltonics manufactures mass spectrometers.

B. Braun Medical Ltd. is the UK arm of German medical supplier B. Braun Melsungen. The company manufactures and distributes a wide range of medical and surgical supplies. While it supplies such operating room basics as sutures and fluid administration equipment, it also makes larger computer-assisted surgery guidance systems and implant materials. Orthopedic implants and devices for trauma care are manufactured at the company's Sheffield headquarters. Its Sterilog facilities provide equipment sterilization services for hospitals. Its disposable products are destined for use in hospitals, medical offices, and home care settings. B. Braun Avitum provides dialysis treatment through 15 centers in the UK.

Kettering Health Network keeps Ohio in a healthy state. The network, named for famed inventor Charles F. Kettering, is an Ohio-based health care system comprised of more than 60 facilities, including seven hospitals: Kettering Medical Center, Grandview Medical Center, Sycamore Medical Center, Southview Medical Center, Fort Hamilton Hospital, Greene Memorial Hospital, and Kettering Behavioral Medicine Center. It also operates the Kettering College of Medical Arts, senior retirement communities, and multiple outpatient clinics. Among its specialized services are heart care, rehabilitation, orthopedics, women's health, and emergency medicine.

The Priory Group is Europe's leading independent provider of care for mental health conditions, psychological and psychiatric services including condition management programmes, secure, forensic and step-down services, specialist education, complex care, neuro-rehabilitation services, fostering and care homes with more than 75% of funding coming from the public sector. The purpose is to work with individuals, their families and their care teams to create a personalised programme of treatment, care and education. Each programme is designed to maximise potential, increase self-esteem, promote independence and improve quality of life whether we're helping with a mental health condition, addiction, brain injury, old age or disability.

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.

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