Washington Dental Service keeps the pearly whites of the Pacific Northwest gleaming with its dental coverage plans.Washington Dental Service company provides a number of different coverage options, including fee-for-service plans, managed care plans, PPOs, and discount programs. It covers some 2.5 million sets of teeth, all of them through employer groups based in Washington. Washington Dental, founded in 1954, maintains a dental provider network of about 4,000 general dentists and specialists within the state, but also covers employees located outside Washington through its affiliation with Delta Dental Plans Association. The Washington Dental Service Foundation helps provide charitable dental care to communities.

As important as the blood running through your veins is the oxygen it carries. Masimo knows that and makes tools that monitor arterial blood-oxygen saturation levels and pulse rates in patients. The company's product range, which is based on Signal Extraction Technology (SET), offers pulse oximeters in both handheld and stand-alone (bedside) form. Product benefits include the provision of real-time information and elimination of signal interference, such as patient movements. The company primarily markets its products globally through direct-sales representatives and distributors. It also licenses SET-based products to dozens of medical equipment manufacturers, including CareFusion, Medtronic, and Welch Allyn.

Union Health Service brings together doctors and patients in the Chicago area.Union Health Service company is a not-for-profit health care services provider which supplies health insurance to its members through HMO (health maintenance organization) and medical prepayment plans. Union Health Service also provides primary health care, as well as vision, laboratory, radiology, and pharmacy services, to its members through about 20 group practice clinics in Aurora, Chicago, Norridge, Oak Park, and other area communities. The company was established in 1955.

TIDI manufactures disposable medical and dental products made from paper, gauze, cotton, and polyethylene, including gloves, capes, gowns, and exam table paper. TIDI Products also manufactures plastic films with medical and other commercial applications, as well as products for the foodservice market, such as aprons, gloves, and bags. The company markets its products through distributors worldwide. Formerly a subsidiary of Banta Corporation, TIDI Products was taken private by Fidelity Capital Investors in 2005, and then bought by private equity firm Beecken Petty O'Keefe in 2006.

Veridien takes a swipe at germs, bugs, and even the sun.Veridien company develops, manufactures, and markets antiseptic and disinfectant products. Flagship brand Viraguard is a patented formulation that is offered as a hospital disinfectant to clean hard surfaces and as antiseptic hand wipes and sprays for doctors, surgeons, and other health care workers. Other products include SunSwipe (sunscreen towelettes), BugSwipe (insect repellent towelettes), and the SitSecure dispenser, which holds Viraguard toilet seat wipes. Veridien primarily serves health care customers, including the American Red Cross.Veridien company has a distribution agreement with DuPont for its Viraguard products marketed in the US.

Sunrise Medical, Inc. manufactures and supplies wheelchairs and wheelchair accessories, and replacement parts. Its Quickie wheelchairs range from manual to motorized, adult to child-sized, and from everyday use to sports models for athletes. Its products are targeted for use in both institutional and home use. Sunrise Medical also makes Jay brand cushions and wheelchair backs. The company's A.R.T. division designs and manufactures custom configured seating and positioning equipment. Sunrise Medical markets its products in about 100 countries around the globe through an inside sales force and through distributors.

TearLab (formerly OccuLogix) can read your tears. TearLab diagnostics company has developed and commercialized the TearLab Osmolarity System, a tear collection and analysis system for use at the point of care. The system detects biomarkers that indicate ophthalmic conditions; its first testing product aids in the diagnosis of dry eye disease (DED). After several failed attempts to develop medical therapies for ophthalmic ailments including glaucoma and macular degeneration,TearLab company became focused on diagnostic testing; it changed its name to TearLab in 2010.

Tenet Healthcare is here to spread the doctrine of good health. The for-profit company owns or leases about 50 acute care hospitals with roughly 14,000 beds in a dozen US states. The majority of Tenet's hospitals (60%) are in California, Florida, and Texas. The hospitals range from small community facilities offering basic care to major teaching and research hospitals, such as the nearly 500-bed Atlanta Medical Center. In addition to its acute care holdings, Tenet also operates specialty hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, physician practices, outpatient centers, and other health care facilities that form regional networks around its main hospitals.

Columbia St. Mary's serves Southeastern Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Ozaukee, and Washington counties) through a health care network that includes four hospitals -- Columbia St. Mary's Milwaukee Campus, Columbia St. Mary's Ozaukee Campus, Columbia St. Mary's Columbia Campus, and the Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Institute. Other members of the health system include about 50 community clinics, the Columbia College of Nursing, the River Woods Outpatient Center and the Cathedral Square Urgent Care Center. The Catholic Sisters of Charity founded St. Mary's Hospital in Milwaukee in 1848 at the request of Bishop John Martin Henni. The company is sponsored by Ascension Health and Columbia Health System.

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an independent clinical laboratory company in the United States. The company offers a range of testing services used by the medical profession in routine testing, patient diagnosis, and in the monitoring and treatment of disease, as well as specialty testing services. Its routine tests include blood chemistry analyses, urinalyses, blood cell counts, thyroid tests, Pap tests, HIV tests, microbiology cultures and procedures, and alcohol and other substance-abuse tests.

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