Sanford Health-MeritCare combines two Dakota health care legends: South Dakota's Sanford Health and North Dakota's MeritCare Health System. Both date back to the 1890s, and today the combined not-for-profit health care provider is one of the largest integrated health care systems in the US. It serves many rural areas in the Midwest with about 30 regional and community hospitals (housing more than 1,600 beds) in the Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Its medical centers offer services in such areas as cancer, cardiology, emergency care, orthopedics, pediatrics, trauma, and women's health. Sanford Health-MeritCare also boasts expanded research and education capabilities as a result of its 2009 merger.

Medtronic CardioVascular strives to mend broken hearts (and clogged arteries, too). A division of medical device maker Medtronic, the unit makes devices that treat conditions affecting the heart and circulatory system. Its products include stents and catheters for treating coronary and peripheral vascular conditions (such as atherosclerosis); stent grafts for fixing aortic aneurysms; products for open heart and coronary bypass surgery; mechanical and tissue heart valves; and surgical ablation technologies for treating cardiac arrythmias. Medtronic CardioVascular markets its products to specialty physicians around the globe.

Kisco Development builds new communities for the company and for affiliate Kisco Apartment Communities. The company also expands its network through facility acquisitions. President Andrew Kohlberg founded Kisco Senior Living in 1990. You can't cook with it, but it will cook for you. Kisco Senior Living owns, develops, and manages a variety of senior and retirement communities, including independent, assisted living, and skilled nursing homes. Community amenities vary and can include meal preparation, housekeeping, transportation, and recreational activities. Kisco operates about 20 residential communities in the West and Southeast (primarily California and North Carolina).

Bayfront Health System, operator of the coastal city's Bayfront Medical Center, a not-for-profit hospital housing some 500 acute care beds. Founded in 1906, the medical center provides general medical and surgical care, as well as emergency services, trauma care, and specialist care in areas such as rehabilitation, cancer treatment, and cardiology. The hospital also provides air-medical transport through its Bayflite helicopter program to a 15-county region. In addition to the medical center, Bayfront Health System includes several ancillary facilities, including urgent and primary care clinics and outpatient rehabilitation centers.

Sarnova's wide supply of health care products lets customers breathe a little easier.Sarnova company is a leading specialty distributor of respiratory and emergency medical services (EMS) products to the health care industry. With two major brands and businesses, Tri-anim Health Services and Bound Tree Medical, it offers more than 100,000 products -- everything from resuscitators and ventilators to bandages and burn kits -- to EMS providers, hospitals, and surgery centers across the US. Sarnova was created in 2008 through the merger of those two market-leading brands, now both subsidiaries. Sarnova is a portfolio company of private equity firm Water Street Healthcare Partners.

Moses Taylor Hospital provides emergency, acute, and outpatient health services to the Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, area. Established in 1892, the more than 240-bed hospital has almost 400 physicians on staff from a variety of specialties. Moses Taylor offers cardiac, imaging, immunization, oncology, neurology, pediatric, laboratory, home health and hospice services, long-term care facilities, and outpatient clinics, among others. The facility, part of the Moses Taylor Health Care System, is also affiliated with Mid Valley Hospital and numerous regional general care and specialty clinics.

MVP Health Plan is for about 700,000 most valuable people. Operating as MVP Health Care, MVP Health Plan company provides health insurance and employee benefits to its members in upstate New York, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Outside its home base, the company works with CIGNA HeatlthCare to offer benefits jointly. MVP, a not-for-profit organization, offers a variety of plans including HMOs, preferred provider organizations (PPOs), indemnity, and dental. Subsidiaries MVP Select Care and Upstate Administrative Services provide third party administration (TPA) services for self-insured employers. MVP Health Plan was founded in 1983 as Mohawk Valley Physicians' Health Plan.

With over 100 years of industry experience, American Shared Hospital Services (ASHS) management has the talent, knowledge and infrastructure as the leading provider of radiosurgical and radiation therapy services. Our goal is to provide maximum benefit to our medical center partners with our innovative financing solutions coupled with value added services. When Tufts Medical Center in Boston was asked, “Why American Shared Hospital Services?” Denise Shepici, Senior Vice President of Clinical Services at Tufts responded, "At the time of our Gamma Knife installation, we were facing capital constraints and wanted a partner who could share the risk and help us upgrade the equipment when needed. In light of the current financial crisis, we're glad we were able to spend less upfront and still offer the technology we needed to stay competitive."

NHS Human Services, through its subsidiaries is one of the nations’ leading non-profit providers of community-based human services. With nationally recognized programs in multiple states, NHS offers a full range of integrated services to children and adults in the areas of mental health, addictive diseases, autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, juvenile justice, treatment foster care, education and other specialized services. Positions are available for all levels of human services professionals. NHS offers an excellent benefit package, including health care, dental, vision and prescription coverage; life insurance, disability, vacation and personal days as well as an employer-matched retirement plan, tuition reimbursement and employee referral bonuses.

Bioject Medical Technologies Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and distributes needle-free injection therapy systems (NFITS) in the United States and internationally. The company’s NFITS work by forcing liquid medication at high speed through a tiny orifice held against the skin. It offers Biojector 2000, a refinement of jet injection technology that enables healthcare professionals to deliver measured variable doses of medication through the skin, either intramuscularly or subcutaneously without a needle; and drug reconstitution system that allows the transfer of diluents to reconstitute powdered medications into liquid form and withdrawal of liquid medication into a syringe without the use of a needle. Bioject Medical Technologies also offers Vitajet, which is composed of two components, a portable injector unit and a disposable syringe; and ZetaJet, a compact and spring-powered injection device intended to deliver vaccines and injectable medications either subcutaneously or intramuscularly. In addition, the company is developing Iject needle-free injection system, a single prefilled disposable injector for self-injection; Jupiter Jet, a pistol-shaped, or streamlined ergonomic gas-powered injection device for patient and professional use; and pre-filled Biojector syringes. It has a strategic alliance with MPI Research. Bioject Medical Technologies Inc. was founded in 1985 and is based in Tualatin, Oregon.

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