Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS), a ministry of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, operates more than a dozen hospitals located throughout Wisconsin and Illinois. Its facilities range from large-scale acute care facilities such as St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Bellevue, Illinois (with about 430 beds) and St. Vincent Hospital in Green Bay, Wisconsin (about 550 beds) to small community hospitals. While the organization was incorporated in 1978, the health care ministry of the Hospital Sisters in the US goes back to 1875.

Knoxville-based East Tennessee Children's Hospital (ETCH), with more than 150 beds, provides a full range of health care services to children from eastern Tennessee and nearby portions of Kentucky, North Carolina, and Virginia. Among its 90 specialized services are cardiology, neonatal care, orthopedics, and psychiatry. The hospital also offers several outside support services, including those for families of children stricken by cancer. Its emergency department treats some 70,000 patients each year. The hospital's roots are in the foundation of Knox County Crippled Children's Hospital in 1937, with less than 50 beds.

Established in 1982, the company serves customers in the long-term care, home health, and hospice care sectors. Its medical product suppliers include Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Roche, and 3M Health Care. Despite its regional sounding name, Gulf South Medical Supply is a nationwide distributor of a wide variety of medical supplies for the elder care industry. The PSS World Medical subsidiary operates over a dozen distribution service centers, providing procurement, cost containment, and billing services to clients in all 50 states. Gulf South Medical Supply has some 47,000 different products, including supplies for general nursing, feeding, diagnostics, incontinence, and infection and wound care.

Cardiac Science Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets diagnostic and therapeutic cardiology devices and systems in North America, Europe, and Asia. Its cardiac monitoring products primarily include resting ECG systems that allow physicians to record and analyze patient ECG waveforms; cardiac stress testing systems to monitor and analyze the performance of the heart under stress; Holter monitoring systems to record and assess the performance of a patient’s heart; cardiac rehabilitation telemetry systems to monitor the patient’s heart rate, heart rhythm, and ECG waveform data during rehabilitation exercises; vital signs monitors to monitor noninvasive blood pressure, pulse rate, temperature, and oxygen saturation; and cardiology data management systems that automate the processing, storage, retrieval, and editing of electrocardiograms and other patient data. Cardiac Science Corporation also offers cardiac monitoring related products and supplies comprising lead wires and electrodes, and thermal chart paper, as well as an array of complementary products, such as temperature and blood pressure monitors, spirometers, and pulse oximeters. In addition, it provides defibrillation products consisting of public access automated external defibrillators (AEDs) that are deployed in various settings; professional AEDs for use by hospital personnel, medical professionals, and emergency medical technicians; traditional defibrillators that are positioned in hospitals at various locations; and defibrillation supplies and accessories, including replacement electrodes and batteries, training devices, wall cabinets, and carrying cases. Further, the company offers training, maintenance, and support services. Cardiac Science Corporation sells its products through its sales force, independent distributors, direct sales representatives, and third party distributors under the Burdick, Quinton, and Powerheart brand names. Cardiac Science Corporation was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Bothell, Washington.

PerkinElmer company makes a wide range of instruments used for chemical and thermal analysis, including calorimeters, chromatographs, and spectrometers. PerkinElmer reorganized its business into two segments: Human Health and Environmental Health. Human Health includes the company's Bio-discovery, Genetic Screening, and Medical Imaging operating units. Environmental Health comprises the Analytical Sciences, Laboratory Services, and Detection and Illumination (formerly Sensors and Specialty Lighting) units. The majority of PerkinElmer's sales are to customers outside the US.

At US Oncology, we believe every patient should have access to high quality, advanced cancer care, close to home. Through more than 500 affiliated sites of care, including 100 radiation facilities, and 1,400 physicians we unite into the nation’s largest network of community oncologists and cancer researchers, we deploy innovative technology and foster collaboration to advance cancer care in America. Physicians affiliated with US Oncology care for more than 850,000 patients in communities throughout the nation.

Ascension Health is transforming healthcare by providing the highest quality care to all, with special attention to the poor and vulnerable. Ascension Health, which provided $1.08 billion in care of persons who are poor and community benefit last year, is the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health system, and the third-largest system (based on revenues) in the United States. Our mission-focused Health Ministries provide acute care services, long-term care, community health services, psychiatric, rehabilitation and residential care. Our sponsors began this ministry of faith hundreds of years ago. Today we continue their legacy through the work of more than 113,000 associates serving in more than 500 locations in 20 states and the District of Columbia.

Cook Children's Health Care System takes care of children of all ages in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. It encompasses the Cook Children's Medical Center (with rougly 300 beds), Cook Children's Home Health, and Cook Children's Health Plan. In addition, its physician network has offices at dozens of locations in Denton, Hood, and Tarrant counties. Specialties include behavioral health services, bone marrow transplants, craniofacial reconstruction, oncology, and nuclear medicine. Cook's Life After Cancer Program is funded by the Lance Armstrong Foundation and helps people manage and survive cancer.

HealthCare Partners owns and operates a group of medical practices in California, Florida, and Nevada.HealthCare Partners company provides administrative services to subsidiary HealthCare Partners Medical Group, which operates more than 40 medical practices in Los Angeles and surrounding areas. In addition, it owns and operates business units JSA Healthcare -- a provider of primary care and pharmacy services (AmeriDrug) at some 35 facilities in central Florida -- and HealthCare Partners of Nevada, an outpatient clinics operator and health plan administration provider in and around Las Vegas. HealthCare Partners traces its roots back to 1992.

Mindray Medical International is a Cayman Islands holding company, publicly traded in the US, and doing business in China primarily through operating subsidiary Shenzhen Mindray. As for the medical part of the business, Mindray Medical International develops, manufactures, and markets a range of medical devices, including patient monitoring and life support devices, medical imaging systems, and in-vitro diagnostic instruments. With a direct sales force and a distributor network in China, the US, and Europe, its products are sold in more than 160 countries worldwide. Customers include hospitals, clinics, government health bureaus, and original equipment manufacturers.

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