St. Mary's Healthcare Center, consisting of a 60-bed acute-care hospital, a 105-bed long-term-care hospital, and 58-unit senior-living apartments, provides health care services in central South Dakota. The health care center offers both inpatient and outpatient care, including surgery, children's health, home and hospice care, and rehabilitation services. St. Mary's got its start in the nineteenth century; in the 1920s, it became one of the first hospitals in South Dakota to become accredited.

Bard Access Systems is all about giving doctors an all-access pass. The C. R. Bard division makes vascular access products such as dialysis catheters and central lines, as well as feeding tubes and equipment to inject contrast media for use with its ultrasound systems. It also provides ports, introducers, guidewires, and related accessories. The catheters are used to deliver chemotherapy, antibiotics, nutrition, and other products directly to the circulatory or other bodily systems. Bard Access Systems' products are sold under brands including Equistream, PowerPICC, PowerPort, and Site-Rite. The company also offers online clinical training to teach clinicians how to use their products.

Focusing on orthopedics, wound care, and endoscopy, the firm makes products to repair joints, skin, soft tissue, and bone. Smith & Nephew plc orthopedics division makes hip, knee, and shoulder replacements, in addition to fixation and bone-growth devices used to repair broken bones. Smith & Nephew also makes arthroscopes, blades, digital cameras, and other surgical products through its endoscopy division. Its advanced wound management division manufactures and sells bandages and dressings used to treat a variety of injuries. The company operates in more than 30 countries worldwide.

St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital, a part of St. John Health, boasts more than 535 beds and two campuses: one in Warren and another in Madison Heights, Michigan. It offers cancer care services through its Webber Cancer Center and provides gynecologic, medical, pediatric, radiation oncology, and hematology. The hospital also offers specialty care in the areas of behavioral medicine, cardiovascular services, obstetrics, physical rehabilitation, emergency care, and women's health. Its Webber Healing Arts Center promotes well-being through alternative medicine and techniques that complement traditional health care. The center was formed through the 2007 merger of St. John Macomb and St. John Oakland hospitals.

MediSys Health Network system encompasses three not-for-profit general hospitals located in New York City's two most populous boroughs: Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Flushing Hospital Medical Center, and The Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center. The hospitals collectively house some 1,200 acute care beds and 650 long-term care beds. The system features two Level 1 trauma centers, as well as specialized centers for brain injury, psychotherapy, and rehabilitation. MediSys also operates a network of more than 15 family health care clinics, and two home health agencies.

Convaid makes lightweight, compact-folding wheelchairs that are made for clients with orthopedic conditions and limited upper body control. The company also offers accessories such as travel bags, canopies, footplates, incontinence liners, and torso support vests. Convaid sells the wheelchairs to the pediatric, adult, and geriatric markets. The company was founded in 1976.

Masonicare was established in 1995, but its roots date back to 1895 when the Masonic Charity Foundation of Connecticut established a home for orphans and the elderly with Masonic ties. The not-for-profit corporation is led by CEO Stephen McPherson. It may have started out as a place for elderly Masons to retire to, but today Masonicare provides senior health care services to all Connecticut seniors, Mason or not. The firm operates retirement and nursing homes, skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities, assisted living communities, and home and hospice care. In addition to physical therapy and rehabilitation, the group also provides inpatient and outpatient mental health care for seniors.

Kips Bay Medical makes medical devices that help veins do their jobs in patients with coronary artery disease. The development-stage company is focused on developing and commercializing a vein support device called eSVS MESH, a mesh sleeve implanted by surgeons in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) that, when placed over a patient's vein graft, improves the graft's structure and long-term performance. It is designed to mimic the artery's job of constricting the vein and preventing harmful vessel expansion. The company is conducting clinical trials of its eSVS MESH in Europe and is awaiting approval to begin clinical trials in the US. Kips Bay Medical filed a $57.5 million IPO in April 2010.

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is happy to take care of sick people. Founded in 1918 by John Sherard, the not-for-profit health care system serves the Memphis area with seven hospitals; multiple minor medical, surgical, diagnostic health centers, and home health agencies. The system has more than 1,600 beds. In addition to traditional health services, Methodist Healthcare offers extended care services, sleep disorder centers, and physical therapy. It also operates physician practices and a physician referral service. The system's flagship hospital, Methodist University Hospital has about 700 beds and is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

The Lytles founded Leisure Care in 1976 and still own most of its real estate. Leisure Care provides upscale independent and assisted-living rental housing to people age 62 or older. Leisure Care takes the leisure part of its name seriously, offering residents access to vacation tour packages through its Twist Travel unit and full-services concierge and valet services at its more than 40 communities throughout the western US and Canada. President and CEO Dan Madsen bought Leisure Care, LLC from Chuck and Karen Lytle, its original owners, in 2003.

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