MultiCare Health System is a not-for-profit health system serving residents of four counties in the southern Puget Sound region and southwestern Washington. The system's four hospitals combined have more than 800 beds. The largest facility, Tacoma General, boasts 390 beds and provides specialized cancer, cardiac, orthopedic, and trauma care, in addition to general medical and surgical care. Other medical centers include Good Samaritan Hospital with 225 beds, Allenmore Hospital with 130 beds, and the 70-bed Mary Bridge Children's Hospital. MultiCare Health System also operates dozens of primary care, specialty care, and urgent care clinics throughout the region, as well as home health and hospice care agencies.

Bovie Medical Corporation engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of medical products and devices, primarily electrosurgical generators and disposables in the United States and Canada. The company offers electrosurgery line of products, including desiccators, generators, electrodes, electrosurgical pencils, and various ancillary disposable products used during surgical procedures in gynecology, urology, plastic surgery, dermatology, veterinary, and other surgical markets for the cutting and coagulation of tissue. Its product line comprises Aaron 900 and Aaron 940, desiccators designed primarily for dermatology and family practice physicians; Aaron 950, a desiccator with cut capacity for outpatient surgical procedures; Aaron 1250U, a 120-watt multipurpose electrosurgery generator, as well as various digital electrosurgery generators; and the SEER line of products for liver, pancreatic, and kidney tumor therapies. The company also offers battery operated cauteries for sculpting woven grafts in bypass surgery and vasectomies; evacuation of subungual hematoma; and for arresting bleeding in various surgeries. In addition, it manufactures specialty lighting instruments for use in ophthalmology; and specialty lighting instruments for general surgery, hip replacement surgery, and for the placement of endotracheal tubes in emergency and surgical procedures, as well as offers physicians’ office use penlights. Further, the company provides a nerve locator stimulator primarily used for identifying motor nerves in hand and facial reconstructive surgery. Bovie Medical Corporation was founded in 1982 and is based in Melville, New York.

United Behavioral Health (UBH) takes on the challenging world of mental health, offering employee assistance, substance abuse, and mental health programs. Its nationwide network of more than 80,000 clinicians (including psychiatrists, psychologists, and therapists) serve more than 43 million people. UBH addresses such issues as alcohol/drug addiction, anxiety, geriatric care, psychotic disorders, and child and adolescent concerns. The company operates inpatient, outpatient, and residential and day treatment programs in more than 3,500 facilities. UBH's clients include corporations, government entities, unions, and HMOs. UBH is a subsidiary of UnitedHealth.

SSM Health Care System began with five nuns who fled religious persecution in Germany in 1872 only to arrive in St. Louis in the midst of a smallpox epidemic. They formed their first hospital there in 1877. Today the not-for-profit system, sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, owns or manages 15 acute care hospitals with about 4,000 licensed beds. The company also operates physicians' practices and two nursing homes, and it offers rehabilitation, home health care, hospice, and skilled nursing services. Its facilities are located in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin.

Alden Management Services, Inc. was founded in 1971 by president Floyd Schlossberg as an offshoot of the Alden Bennett Construction Company. Alden Management Services, also known as The Alden Network, operates about 40 independent living, assisted living, and skilled rehabilitation and nursing facilities primarily throughout Illinois, but also in Wisconsin. Its elder care facilities provide a wide range of services such as rehabilitation, Alzheimer's care, long-term care, hospice, and infectious disease management. Alden Management Services also offers programs for children and young adults with special needs. Alden's pediatric services include behavioral management, nursing care, and physical therapy.

China Kanghui Holdings designs its products for more organic uses. Through its subsidiaries, medical device company China Kanghui manufactures implantable screws, nails, plates, meshes, and other devices used to treat bone fractures and spinal disorders. It distributes its devices -- which are sold under the Kanghui and Libeier brands -- to hospitals in China through a network of some 240 distributors. To a lesser extent, the company also sells its products internationally across Europe, South America, Africa, as well as to other countries in Asia. China Kanghui, which traces its roots back to 1997, went public in 2010.

Sanford Health offers medical services at facilities located in eastern South Dakota and surrounding Midwestern states. The system, established in 1996, operates some two dozen hospitals and over 130 clinics in South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Its primary facility is the 500-bed Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, which was founded in 1894. Specialty services include cancer treatment, orthopedics, rehabilitation, women's health care, and air transportation. In 2009 Sanford Health and North Dakota's MeritCare Health System merged to create the new Sanford Health system. It has since announced that it will merge with North Country Health Services of Minnesota.

Horizon Bay Management operates a spread of senior housing communities in the US. Operating as Horizon Bay Retirement Living, the company manages independent- and assisted-living residential facilities, primarily targeting the higher-end market. It operates about 80 senior housing communities, which are located in 15 primarily southern and midwestern states and have a total of about 14,000 living units. The company's LiveWell! program, which promotes health and well-being among residents, offers educational classes and activities. Chartwell Seniors Housing REIT, a real estate investment trust that owns most of Horizon's managed properties, owns a controlling stake in Horizon Bay, which was founded in 2001.

ApaTech has an appetite for orthopedics. The company's ApaPore product is a synthetic bone graft material used in the treatment of fractures and bone defects, as well as in spinal and joint surgeries. The company's Actifuse product is also a synthetic bone graft material, which is designed to promote bone growth. (In the US, both products are sold as bone void fillers only.) The company's headquarters and manufacturing facilities are in England, but ApaTech has operations in the US and Germany as well. US medical giant Baxter International acquired ApaTech in 2010 to gain access to the bone fusion market.

The Muhlenberg Campus (formerly Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center) of Solaris Health System provides a variety of health care services to the residents in northern New Jersey. The campus consists of a satellite emergency room clinic, as well as a regional dialysis unit, sleep lab, wound care unit, diabetes center, a home care program, and imaging and medical laboratory facilities. The Muhlenberg Campus offers educational programs in the areas of nursing, medical imaging, and therapeutic sciences through its Harold B. and Dorothy A. Snyder Schools. Solaris shut down the Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center, an acute-care hospital with some 400 beds, in 2008.

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