Sage Products knows that when it comes to warding off disease and infection, it pays to be wise. Sage Products company manufactures and distributes a variety of hygiene products for bathing, incontinence, and oral care. It also makes gloves, gowns, warmers for its cleansing cloths, and industrial microwaves. Sage sells its products worldwide to health care providers, consumers, and the military through supply contracts and through its consumer-products Web site. Many Sage products are water-free, including prepackaged bathing cloths and preoperative skin preparation cloths, making them particularly useful for troops in the field. Sage was founded in 1971 by CEO Vincent Foglia and director Paul Hills.

Hartford Health Care provides a variety of health services to the descendants of our founding fathers. Founded in 1854, the health care system operates a network of hospitals, behavioral health centers, long-term nursing and rehabilitation facilities, medical labs, and numerous community programs for residents in northern Connecticut. Medical specialties range from orthopedics and women's health to cancer and heart care. Hartford Health Care's flagship facility is the Hartford Hospital, an 870-bed teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Connecticut Medical School. It also operates MidState Medical Center (some 140 beds), Windham Hospital (130 beds), and a home health agency.

Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon has the operating room all sewn up. The company's Ethicon Products division is a leading maker of sutures and wound-closure products, including sutures, Dermabond skin glue, surgical mesh products, and wound drains. Another division, Ethicon Biosurgery, provides a line of absorbable hemostats and other products that help control bleeding during surgery, while its Biopatch product offers infection-resistant wound dressings. Ethicon Women's Health and Urology makes surgical grafts, devices, and equipment under the Gynecare brand. Through its Mentor unit, Ethicon also makes a line of sutures, breast implants, and other plastic surgery products.

Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, hospices, and a rehabilitation therapy business. Its skilled nursing facilities provide specialty care, such as chemotherapy, enteral/parenteral nutrition, tracheotomy care, and ventilator care, as well as offers various services, including room and board, special nutritional programs, social services, recreational activities, and related healthcare and other services. These skilled nursing facilities include Express Recovery, a unit that provides skilled nursing care and rehabilitation therapy for patients recovering from conditions, such as joint replacement surgery, and cardiac and respiratory ailments. Skilled Healthcare Group company’s assisted living facilities provide residential accommodations, activities, meals, security, housekeeping, and assistance in the activities of daily living to seniors who are independent or who require some support, but not the level of nursing care provided in a skilled nursing facility. Skilled Healthcare Group also offers ancillary services, such as physical, occupational, and speech therapy, as well as rehabilitation therapy service to third-party skilled nursing operators. In addition, Skilled Healthcare Group offers hospice services comprising palliative and clinical care, education, and counseling with a focus on the physical, spiritual, and psychosocial needs of terminally ill individuals and their families. As of December 31, 2009, it owned or leased 78 skilled nursing facilities and 22 assisted living facilities, together comprising 10,954 licensed beds in California, Texas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, and New Mexico. Skilled Healthcare Group has a joint venture with APS Acquisition, LLC. that operates a pharmacy in Austin, Texas. Skilled Healthcare Group is based in Foothill Ranch, California.

Konica Minolta Medical Imaging U.S.A. Inc, a North American affiliate of Konica Minolta's medical and graphic imaging business unit, makes digital and traditional imaging products for diagnostic use by hospitals, imaging centers, private physicians, and veterinary clinics. Its products include computed radiography, digital radiography, and mammography imaging systems, as well as laser image printers and film processors. Customers have includes CHRISTUS Health, Tenet Healthcare, and Universal Health Services. The company sells products throughout the US, Canada, and Latin America.

Beebe Medical Center provider offers acute, long-term, maternity, and other medical services to residents of Sussex County, Delaware. Founded in 1916, Beebe Medical Center has approximately 210 beds and offers specialized services including cardiology, orthopedics, women's health, cancer care, rehabilitation, radiology, and oncology treatments. Beebe Medical also operates the Beebe Health Campus with wound care and diabetes management services, Beebe Lab Express, a Sleep Disorders Center, the Gull House Adult Activities Center, a Home Health Agency, a Nursing School, and satellite imaging and lab services throughout the county. The system is led by CEO Jeffrey Fried.

Fauquier Hospital was founded in 1925. Fauquier Hospital takes care of the populace of rural northern Virginia. The multi-location system provides medical, surgical, outpatient, and home health care services to a four county area. With more than 85 beds, the facility is the only hospital in Fauquier, and also serves Culpeper, Prince William and Rappahannock Counties. Specialized services include emergency medicine, oncology, rehabilitation, and cardiac and pulmonary care. The hospital's emergency room has more than 30 private rooms and services about 30,000 patients each year. Fauquier Hospital partners with Prince William Hospitalto operate the Cancer Center at Lake Manassas.

HealthPlan Holdings is the wind beneath the wings of health insurers across the US. HealthPlan Holdings company, through its subsidiaries, is a third-party administrator of health plans; it processes claims, supports sales and distribution operations, and provides enrollment, customer service, and billing services for some 2 million consumers belonging to health plans offered by the likes of CIGNA and Humana. The firm's HealthPlan Services subsidiary primarily serves insurers in the small business, individual, and voluntary markets, and its American Benefit Plan Administrators unit caters to union trust benefit plans. The company is controlled by private equity firm Water Street Healthcare Partners.

Nipro Diagnostics,Inc. makes blood glucose monitoring systems and disposable supplies for diabetics, which it sells through retail pharmacies, mass merchandisers, managed care companies, mail service providers, and distributors around the globe. Nipro Diagnostics markets its testing systems and blood monitors through those distribution channels in two ways, under its own brand names -- including Sidekick, TrueTrack Smart System, TRUEread, and Prestige IQ -- and through co-branded partnerships. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Japanese medical device maker Nipro.

West Virginia United Health System (WVUHS) helps residents in the Mountain State stay on top of their health. The system operates United Hospital Center (in Clarksburg), as well as hospitals in the West Virginia University Hospitals (WVUH) system, including City Hospital (Martinsburg), Jefferson Memorial Hospital (Ranson), and WVUH's home hospital in Morgantown. In addition, WVUHS operates WVUH's Cheat Lake physicians ambulatory center, as well as a network of about a dozen primary care clinics located throughout central and northern West Virginia. Combined, the system's hospitals and clinics have more than 1000 beds and treat approximately 1.4 million patients annually.

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