National Home Health Care Corp. through its five wholly owned subsidiaries is a provider of home health care and staffing services in the northeast region. Through its subsidiary in New York, the Company provides trained and caring home health aides, personal care workers and housekeepers throughout the New York City boroughs of Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan, as well as Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties. Through its subsidiaries in Connecticut, the Company provides Medical, Behavioral Health and Pediatric skilled nursing services, rehabilitation therapy, social work, paraprofessional and staffing services throughout the state.Through its subsidiary in New Jersey, the Company provides trained and caring home health aides and companions in Northern New Jersey. Through its subsidiary in Massachusetts, the Company provides Medical, Behavioral Health and Pediatric skilled nursing services, rehabilitation therapy, social work and paraprofessional services throughout the state. The Company, which is headquartered in Scarsdale, New York, currently has approximately 4,600 full and part-time employees.

Pennine Healthcare products may be disposable, but they're anything but dispensable. The company makes sterile, single use medical devices, manufacturing more than 50 million per year at its facilities in Derby. The disposable products are designed for applications in airway management (suction catheters, mucus extractors), gastroenterology (stomach tubes, bile bags), respiratory uses (filters, oxygen therapy), surgical suction (tubes and probes), and urology (various types of catheters). The firm also offers custom procedure packs for surgical procedures. Its products are sold by third-party distributors throughout the UK and in more than 70 countries.

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).

Commonwealth Health Corporation started out in 1926 as a 35-bed hospital. The holding company houses a full spectrum of health care facilities and services including The Medical Center, a 500-bed regional health care system comprised of three hospitals, long-term health care providers, and senior care, among other services. Commonwealth's outpatient offerings include nutrition therapy, a women's center, diabetes programs, and adult day care. The corporation's Center Care Health Benefits Program supplies employers with products and services to support the distribution and administration of employee benefits and healthcare services.

Lakeland makes protective clothing for on-the-job hazards;. It uses DuPont specialty fabrics, such as Kevlar, TyChem, and Tyvek, as well as its own fabrics, to make industrial disposable garments, toxic-waste cleanup suits, fire- and heat-resistant apparel (including Fyrepel turnout gear for firefighters), industrial work gloves, high-visibility garments, and industrial/medical garments. Lakeland manufactures its products in Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and the US. Customers -- about 35% are outside the US -- include high tech electronics manufacturers, construction companies, hospitals, and laboratories.

Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital which opened its doors in 1930, is the flagship facility of the Texas Health Resources hospitals system. Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital is the largest and busiest hospital in Fort Worth. It is a private, not-for-profit, 700-bed tertiary care hospital serving the residents of Tarrant County and nearby communities in Texas. More than 800 physicians provide both in-patient and out-patient care. Specialized services include cardiovascular care, emergency medicine, kidney transplants, occupational health, trauma care, and rehabilitation. Its Harris Methodist Heart Center has about 100 beds.

Highmark has staked its claim as the largest health insurer in the Keystone state. A licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, the not-for-profit firm covers some 3.9 million people in central and western Pennsylvania, as well as the Lehigh Valley. It serves another 800,000 customers in West Virginia and other areas of Pennsylvania through affiliations and partnerships with other insurers, and it provides administrative and network-access services nationally. In addition, Highmark sells Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans to seniors in both states. Other subsidiaries (not operating under the BCBS license) provide dental insurance, vision care, and other products and services nationwide.

BioMimetic (NASDAQ: BMTI) is a biotechnology company developing orthopedic surgical devices that deliver purified recombinant human platelet-derived growth factor (rhPDGF-BB) to promote tissue healing and regeneration. rhPDGF-BB is a synthetic form of PDGF, one of the body's principal agents to stimulate and direct healing and regeneration. The mechanism of action of PDGF suggests it may be effective in a broad array of musculoskeletal applications, including the repair of bone, ligament, tendon and cartilage. Through the commercialization of this technology, BioMimetic seeks to become the leading company in the field of orthopedic regenerative medicine. While on staff at Harvard beginning in the mid 1980s, Dr. Samuel Lynch, BioMimetic's president, CEO and founder, conducted research on the role of PDGF in tissue repair and regeneration. These efforts generated a foundation of scientific knowledge and intellectual property from which BioMimetic Therapeutics is now based.

John C. Lincoln takes care of the health of John Q. Public. The not-for-profit John C. Lincoln Health Network serves the northern Phoenix area and includes two hospitals: John C. Lincoln Deer Valley Hospital, with more than 200 beds, and John C. Lincoln North Mountain Hospital, with roughly 260 beds. The system also features a children's care facility, various physician and dental clinics, a food bank, and assisted living facilities for the elderly all operating under the Desert Mission moniker. The John C. Lincoln Health Foundation is the fundraising arm of the organization. John C. Lincoln Health Network has a staff of about 1,100 physicians.

RegionalCare Hospital Partners is looking for the nearest emergency room. The company formed in 2009 with the intention to acquire hospitals in smaller cities or rural areas, where it's the only game in town. It plans to improve a local hospital's service by providing access to capital, but allow local management to maintain day-to-day operations. RegionalCare Hospital Partners is the brainchild of CEO Martin Rash and president John Rutledge, who found success with Province Healthcare using the same business model. (They sold Province Healthcare in 2005 to LifePoint Hospitals for $1.7 billion.) Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has pledged up to $300 million to fund the first investments.

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