Valley View Hospital provides acute, critical, and surgical care to the Colorado River Valley. Valley View's services include cardiac, cancer, and pediatric care, as well as radiology and hospice care. The 80-bed hospital has various programs and educational classes focused on childbirth, heart attack prevention, and weight loss. The hospital has undertaken a number of expansion and upgrade projects in recent years, including new emergency, radiology, and birthing departments. Valley View, founded in 1955, also operates or is affiliated with community health clinics and family practices that offer primary and specialized care in an outpatient setting.

Seton Healthcare Network provides medical care within Austin's city limits, as well as surrounding areas of Central Texas. The not-for-profit organization, part of Ascension Health, includes nine urban and rural acute-care hospitals, as well as psychiatric and children's hospitals and a network of community clinics. With a total of 1,600 beds, Seton's facilities (known as the Seton Family of Hospitals) offer patients a wide range of services, including regional trauma, heart transplant, neurological, and neonatal intensive care units, as well as primary and specialty care medical services for the uninsured. Seton was first established in Austin in 1902 by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.

Trinitas Regional Medical Center (formerly Trinitas Hospital) serves eastern and central Union County in New Jersey. The Catholic hospital has more than 530 beds and offers acute, tertiary, and long-term health care services on its two campuses. It has special centers for cancer care, sleep disorders, cardiovascular conditions, diabetes care, pediatrics, and women's health. The hospital also offers inpatient behavioral health care, operates a local clinic, and provides educational services to students of Seton Hall University's School of Health and Medical Sciences. Trinitas Regional Medical Center is co-sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth and the Elizabethtown Healthcare Foundation.

The company, which conducts business under the name SRI Surgical, provides hospital and surgical centers with such reusable surgical products as gowns and towels. It also provides reprocessed surgical instruments, basins, and surgical accessories that it sorts, sterilizes, and packages at just under a dozen regional facilities scattered throughout the US. Its daily pick-up and delivery service offers a cost-effective alternative to in-house recovery programs. SRI Surgical's marketing strategy hinges upon forming multi-year or short-term agreements with its 425 customers that include Kaiser Permanente, Novation, and HealthTrust Purchasing.

Texas has universities, horse farms, and Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton. Formerly Denton Community Hospital, the organization is a full-service, acute care facility serving northern Texas and southern Oklahoma. Following a 2005 completion of the hospital's expansion project, it houses some 250 private rooms, nine surgical suites, two cardiac catheterization labs, and a 28-bed ER department. It opened a neonatal ICU in 2006. Texas Health Presbyterian Denton is owned by local healthcare giant Texas Health Resources (THR).

Orange Park Medical Center (OPMC) is a 250-bed acute care hospital serving the southwestern suburbs of Jacksonville, Florida. Founded in 1972, the medical center has a staff of some 500 physicians representing a wide range of medical specialties including cardiology, oncology, women's health and maternal care, pediatrics, orthopedics, neurosurgery, respiratory care, and behavioral medicine. OPMC offers a range of inpatient and outpatient care services which include physical and occupational therapy, wound care, and occupational medicine. OPMC is part of the HCA network.

After that final push, a laboring new mother can rest, but CorCell is ready to get busy. The company collects and stores umbilical cord blood, at the parents' request and expense, for potential use of the stem cells. Such stem cells are considered viable for current and future treatments for a variety of diseases and illnesses. The company, established in 1996, collects umbilical cord blood stem cells from hospitals in all 50 states and abroad. CorCell has grown through acquisitions of smaller regional cord blood banks, and stores materials for some 20,000 customers. Its parent company is Cord Blood America, Inc.

McKesson Medical-Surgical wants to be the one handing them over. Long a dominant distributor of medical and surgical supplies to health care sites, the company is a subsidiary of the nation's #1 drug wholesaler, McKesson. From a network of more than 25 distribution centers located throughout the US, McKesson Medical-Surgical delivers more than 150,000 products, including its own private-label line of patient exam, wound care, and laboratory supplies. It serves some 300,000 customers, including doctors' offices, surgery centers, long-term care facilities, home care agencies, and other non-hospital health care facilities.

Theragenics' seeds, sold under the names TheraSeed and I-Seed, are tiny rice-sized radioactive implants used to fight prostate cancer. The devices (known more generally as brachytherapy seeds) are a common treatment for early-stage prostate cancer; they release radiation within the tumor that kills cancerous cells with minimal damage to surrounding healthy tissue. Theragenics sells the devices directly to hospitals and through distribution agreements throughout the US and in Europe. In addition to its brachytherapy business, Theragenics' surgical products unit makes vascular and wound care products, including sutures and guidewires.

Precision Optics makes specialized video cameras and stereo endoscopes for use in minimally invasive surgery. Its other products include laparoscopes (for abdominal surgery) and arthroscopes (for joint surgery), as well as sterilizable image couplers and beamsplitters that connect endoscopes to video cameras. The US is Precision Optics' biggest market, accounting for almost all sales, although the company has received regulatory approval to sell its products in Europe. In 2008 the company sold it custom optical thin film coatings business to privately held Optometrics, a subsidiary of Dynasil.

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