OraSure is certain it can deliver results. The oral specimen kits and other diagnostic tests developed by OraSure Technologies are designed to detect drug use and certain infectious diseases, such as HIV. The company's OraSure products use oral specimens rather than traditional blood- or urine-based methods to test for HIV. Its Intercept line uses oral samples to test for marijuana, cocaine, opiates, PCP, and amphetamines. OraSure has also developed a rapid HIV blood diagnostic testing method. The company sells its products in the US and internationally through direct agents and independent distributors, primarily to public health clinics, hospitals, and doctors' offices.

Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center, a Catholic Health Initiatives affiliate, is a 300-bed acute care hospital that serves the Lincoln, Nebraska, area. The hospital's services include a burn and wound care center, cardiac and pulmonary care, and cancer treatment; some 500 physicians are affiliated with the facility. The hospital also operates community health clinics, urgent care centers, and physical therapy clinics, as well as home health and hospice organizations. Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center was originally founded as a simple frontier hospital in 1889 by the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration.

WellStar Health System serves four counties in northwest Georgia through five acute care hospitals, a physician group, and an array of outpatient services. The network's hospitals specialize in cardiac and cancer care, diabetes treatments, and women's health; together the five hospitals house about 1,300 beds. WellStar's physician group operates through some 80 locations with more than 400 providers. The network is also home to hospice and home care programs; Atherton Place, an independent living center for senior citizens; and several urgent care facilities. WellStar is led by CEO Dr. Greg Simone.

BioLife Solutions,Inc has designed liquid media technologies for frozen (cryogenic) storage and cold (hypothermic) storage of biological products including cells, tissues, and organs. Its HypoThermosol and CryoStor products minimize the damage done to these biological products during refrigeration and freezing, making them viable for transplant or experimentation for longer periods. The company sells its products directly to academic institutions, companies, and laboratories conducting clinical research.

WellSpan Health's territory spans from south-central Pennsylvania into northern Maryland. The health care system has two hospitals, York Hospital and Gettysburg Hospital, with some 650 beds. Other components of the company include managed care plans South Central Preferred and Quest Behavioral Health with some 40,000 participants; home health care provider VNA Home Health; a retail pharmacy with half a dozen locations in Pennsylvania's Adams and York counties; and Apple Hill Surgical Center for outpatient procedures. WellSpan Health's network also includes additional diagnostic, outpatient care, and physician practice facilities.

Founded in 1976 by the parents of managing director Peter Myers, Altomed has customers both within the UK and internationally. Focusing its business on the eyes of the world, Altomed resells stainless steel and titanium instruments and single-use devices for opthalmic surgery, acting as a distributor for such companies as Labtician, Rhein Medical, and Volk Optical. Altomed also offers some repair services on instruments, diamond knives, and other products. The company sells products to optometrists and veterinary surgeons, as well. It has expanded its product line to include Microwash trays, used by hospitals to decontaminate instruments used in micro-surgery.

WellPoint, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a health benefits company in the United States. It offers various network-based managed care plans to large and small employer, individual, Medicaid, and senior markets. The company’s managed care plans include preferred provider organizations; health maintenance organizations; point-of-service plans; traditional indemnity plans; and other hybrid plans, including consumer-driven health plans, hospital only, and limited benefit products. WellPoint also provides various managed care services comprising claims processing, underwriting, stop loss insurance, actuarial services, provider network access, medical cost management, disease management, wellness programs, and other administrative services. In addition, it offers specialty and other products and services, including pharmacy benefit management; specialty pharmacy; life and disability insurance benefits; dental, vision, and behavioral health benefits; radiology benefit management; analytics-driven personal health care guidance; and long-term care insurance and flexible spending accounts. Further, WellPoint serves as an intermediary providing administrative service for the Medicare program that offers coverage for persons, who are 65 or older and for persons who are disabled or with end-stage renal disease. As of December 31, 2009, the company served approximately 33.7 million medical members. It markets its products through a network of independent agents and brokers, as well as through in-house sales force. The company, formerly known as Anthem, Inc., was founded in 1944 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

TransMedics works to transport transplants. The company has developed a system to circulate warm blood through hearts and other transplant organs while they are being transported, as opposed to the cold transport system currently in use. The portable device makes it possible to actually deliver a beating heart to the surgeon. TransMedics' Organ Care System (OCS) is already in use in the European Union for heart transplants; it must still complete clinical trials in the US to receive FDA approval. A system for lungs, livers, and kidneys is also in the works. TransMedics was formed in 1998.

Five Star Quality Care, Inc. operates senior living communities, including independent living or congregate care communities, assisted living communities, and nursing facilities in the United States. Five Star Quality Care, Inc. provides independent living, assisted living, nursing and healthcare, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech language pathology, onsite pharmacy, radiology, laboratory, telemetry, hemodialysis, and orthotics/prosthetics services. As of December 31, 2009, the company leased, owned, and operated 217 senior living communities with 22,905 living units, including 170 primarily independent and assisted living communities with 18,627 living units and 47 skilled nursing facilities with 4,278 units. Five Star Quality Care, Inc. also operated 5 institutional pharmacies, 2 rehabilitation hospitals, and 13 outpatient clinics. Five Star Quality Care, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Newton, Massachusetts.

Flex Partners will bend over backwards to help bring a new medical device to market. The engineering firm provides established and start-up medical device firms with a host of design and development services, from prototyping to business development. The company has more than 20 patents on disposable and reusable devices used for urological, cardiovascular, orthopedic, oral and plastic surgical procedures. Other services include market research, competitor intelligence, brand creation, and executive recruitment. Flex Partners was founded in 1980.

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