"VHA" could stand for a "Very Healthy America." Founded in 1977, VHA provides health care industry-related services to members who join the company's cooperative network. VHA serves about 1,400 not-for-profit hospitals nationwide. Its members also include some 30,000 non-acute health care organizations such as imaging centers, home health care agencies, and pharmacies. Services include financial analysis, clinical improvement programs, public policy advocacy, and supply chain management. Additionally, VHA's members can purchase medical supplies at a reduced cost from Novation, a joint venture VHA has with University HealthSystem Consortium. The organization is led by CEO Curt Nonomaque, formerly VHA's CFO.

International SOS heeds the call of foreign travelers in distress.International SOS company responds to traveler emergencies and calls for assistance through more than 30 International SOS medical care clinics and 25 alarm response centers staffed with doctors, security experts, translators, and air and ground transportation providers. These facilities are located across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East. International SOS sells memberships to its global assistance network to individual travelers and small groups, as well as large multinational corporations, governments, not-for-profit agencies, and schools that have employees visiting or working abroad.

CAS Medical Systems, Inc. develops and manufactures medical devices for non-invasive patient monitoring. The company’s FORE-SIGHT Absolute Cerebral Oximeter is a cerebral oximeter available with FDA clearance for non-invasive, continuous measurement of absolute cerebral tissue oxygen saturation for all patients, regardless of age or weight. This information helps avert brain damage or death during surgery and in critical care situations by allowing clinicians to identify patients with dangerously low levels of cerebral oxygen and intervene to reverse the condition. CAS Medical Systems’ product lines include the high-acuity monitoring capabilities of the FORE-SIGHT Cerebral Oximeter; and MAXNIBP, a proprietary non-invasive blood pressure measurement technology. The company also offers a line of bedside vital signs monitoring products, and supplies and service, including blood pressure cuffs and products for neonatal intensive care. CAS Medical Systems markets its products through its own sales force, distributors, and manufacturers representatives, as well as through hospital, alternate site, homecare, veterinary, and emergency medical distribution channels. CAS Medical Systems, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Branford, Connecticut.

PMC serves patients in eastern Kentucky with about 260 beds and 200 doctors providing a full range of inpatient, outpatient, and surgical services. PMC also operates a family practice clinic (through which it offers a family practice residency program) and a rehabilitation hospital. Its Pikeville Medical Development Corporation (PMDC) works to attract businesses to the area and foster collaborations between the hospital and the Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine. PMC first opened on Christmas Day in 1924.

Parkridge Medical Center provides health care services in southern Tennessee. The hospital also operates two satellite facilities: Parkridge East Hospital, another acute care facility, and Parkridge Valley Hospital, an adult and pediatric behavior health care facility. The hospitals, combined, have some 540 beds. Specialty services include cardiac surgery, orthopedics, and diagnostic imaging. The Sarah Cannon Cancer Center provides oncology therapeutics. Parkridge Medical Center is a subsidiary of HCA and is part of HCA's TriStar Health System.

Security Health Plan of Wisconsin provides health insurance products and related services to some 150,000 members in more than 30 Wisconsin counties. Its network includes about 4,000 physicians, hospitals, and health care facilities, as well as pharmacies across the US. Security Health Plan provides policies for groups, individuals, and families. Its products include HMO plans, Medicare plans, prescription drug and equipment coverage, and disease management programs, as well as administration services for self-funded plans. Established in 1986,Security Health Plan of Wisconsin company is the managed healthcare arm of Marshfield Clinic.

Hurley Medical Center is a teaching hospital serving Genesee, Lapeer, and Shiawassee counties in eastern Michigan. The 440-bed acute care facility is affiliated with the medical schools of Michigan State University and The University of Michigan. It provides care in areas such as cancer, mental health, rehabilitation, surgery, and women's health, and it is a regional center for pediatrics. Hurley Medical Center also offers advanced specialty care, such as trauma care, neonatal intensive care, kidney transplantation, burn medicine, and bariatric (weight loss) surgery.

OsteoTec do have a particular fondness for those body parts. OsteoTec distributes medical devices and implants in the UK, specializing in products used in hand, foot, and craniomaxillofacial surgical procedures. Products include finger and toe joints, wrist implants, tissue anchors, bone ties, and a cranial flap fixation system. The company's suppliers include Ascension Orthopedics, KMI Medical, and OsteoMed, and OsteoTec is also developing its own line of products.

Ion Beam Applications (IBA) on the frontlines in the battle against cancer. IBA designs cyclotrons and produces and distributes radiopharmaceutical markers used by hospitals the world over to detect cancers, and heart and neurological diseases. It's a world leader in proton therapy, used to selectively destroy cancer cells. IBA also provides hospitals with dosimetry products to monitor patient doses and assure the quality of X-ray diagnosis. It produces sterilization and ionization products used to sterilize pre-packaged disposable medical products, cosmetics, and even US mail. IBA was formed in 1986 as a spin-off of the Cyclotron Research Center at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve.

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.

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