Biohit wants to be a hit in laboratories worldwide. The company manufactures fluid-handling products and diagnostic test systems for health care, research, and industrial laboratories worldwide. Its main liquid-handling products are electronic and mechanical pipette systems (or sample dispensers), as well as related accessories including controllers, stands, and disposable tips. Biohit also provides maintenance and user training services for its fluid-handling products. The company also develops and sells biological diagnostic products, including testing assays and instruments, used in the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal ailments and other diseases. Biohit was founded in 1988.

MacKay Life Sciences (formerly Biofield) is trying to blaze a trail in the diagnostic equipment market with its Biofield Diagnostic System, which employs single-use sensors to detect and examine changes associated with breast cancer. The system is based on the theory that epithelial cancers are characterized by changes in the electrical charge of the affected tissue; the sensors analyze these changes and identify if a lesion is malignant or benign. The process requires less than 20 minutes, and has possible applications to cancers of the ovaries, skin, prostate, and colon. Director James MacKay, through the MacKay Group, owns a majority interest in MacKay Life Sciences.

Home Instead has a network of some 900 franchises operating throughout the US and in more than a dozen countries internationally. Employees known as CAREGivers provide the elderly with one-on-one assistance in the home and at assisted living or nursing care facilities. Home Instead helps keep the elderly at home instead of in assisted living or nursing homes. The company -- operating under the name Home Instead Senior Care -- provides non-medical home care assistance for seniors. Its services are designed for people who are capable of managing their physical needs but require assistance, supervision, light housework, meals, errands, or simply companionship in order to remain in their homes.

Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates wants to be in the forefront of health care in Boston and surrounding regions. The 625-physician medical group operates from more than 20 offices located throughout eastern Massachusetts, providing primary and specialty medical care to some 480,000 adult and pediatric patients. For acute health care services, Harvard Vanguard patients have access to more than a dozen area hospitals, including Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Harvard Vanguard is a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. It is also a member of Atrius Health, a not-for-profit association of Massachusetts medical groups.

University of Connecticut Health Center includes a full-service acute care medical center, the 225-bed John Dempsey Hospital, which conducts medical treatment, educational training, and clinical research. The hospital facility provides specialty care including cardiovascular, cancer, neurological, behavioral health, emergency, and ambulatory services, among others. The University of Connecticut Health Center was founded in 1961.

St. Lucie Medical Center, part of the HCA network of health care providers, is an acute-care hospital serving the Port St. Lucie community in Florida's Treasure Coast region. The hospital has about 200 beds and 250 physicians on staff. Specialty programs and services include cancer care, women's care, orthopedics, physical rehabilitation, and outpatient surgery services. St. Lucie Medical Center, founded in 1983, is part of the HCA East Florida division. Affiliate Integrated Regional Laboratories provides medical testing services for St. Lucie and other area hospitals.

Salem Hospital has a capital idea: serving the health care needs of its state's capital and outlying areas. Serving Oregon's Marion and Polk counties, Salem Hospital is an acute care hospital with more than 450 beds. With nearly 500 physicians in more than 45 specialty areas, the hospital provides patients a range of services including diagnostic imaging, surgery, cancer therapy, cardiology, critical care, and stress management programs. Salem Hospital also has units dedicated to diabetes, mental health, nutrition, psychiatric medicine, radiation oncology, rehabilitation, sleep disorders, and community wellness. The hospital opened a new patient tower in 2009.

REVA Medical Inc., founded in 1998, makes thin-walled heart and coronary artery stents from "bioresorbable" polymer materials using a "slide and lock" stent design. Its lead product candidate is the ReZolve coronary stent designed to restore blood flow and then resorb into the vessel. The company's products could also have applications in the orthopedic, neurological, and peripheral stent markets. Leading cardiac device maker Boston Scientific has partnered with REVA Medical and is helping the company develop its stents. The collaboration agreement also gives Boston Scientific the option to exclusively distribute REVA Medical's products if commercialized.

Head to Haywood! Haywood Regional Medical Center (HRMC) provides a wide range of health care services to the residents of western North Carolina. Specialty services include emergency medicine, home and hospice care, occupational health, immediate and prolonged physical rehabilitation, and surgery. Founded in 1927, the medical center offers imaging services, diabetes education, and health and fitness centers. HRMC also houses a state-funded adult psychiatric inpatient program managed by Smoky Mountain Center, a local provider of behavioral health care services. The HRMC Foundation provides charitable giving and administration services.

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).

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