Aurora Diagnostics, LLC, of Palm Beach Gardens, FL, is a specialized laboratory company. The company was founded in 2006 as a platform for the acquisition and integration of anatomic pathology and other diagnostic laboratory businesses. Aurora Diagnostics provides liquidity, financial upside, administrative resources, and accelerated growth opportunities to laboratory owners while allowing them to maintain their entrepreneurial approach and operational independence.

Employing the Latin word for breast, SenoRx's name says it all: the company develops, manufactures, and distributes biopsy systems and breast tissue markers used in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. Its primary diagnostic product, EnCor, is a vacuum-assisted breast biopsy probe system with which a doctor may collect tissue samples and biopsies through a proprietary transparent tissue collection chamber. The system allows the doctor to examine the quality of the specimen mid-probe, rather than performing numerous biopsies. Other core products include Contura MLB, a radiation therapy device. SenoRx was acquired by medical device maker C.R. Bard for about $200 million in 2010.

Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center tends to the sick of southern New Jersey. The hospital is a general acute care facility with about 410 inpatient beds. In addition to general medical and surgical care, the hospital specializes in organ transplantation, rehabilitation, dialysis treatment, cardiac care, and perinatal (birthing) care. The hospital also offers nursing and other medical training programs, and it provides community health and outreach services. Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, part of Catholic Health East's Lourdes Health System, is sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, New York.

Universal American provides unified coverage for the silver-haired set. The holding company owns several insurance firms aimed at serving US senior citizens. It covers about 240,000 members with such products as Medicare HMO, PPO, fee-for-service (Medicare Advantage), and supplemental insurance. Some 1.7 million customers are covered by its Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit plan products marketed under such names as Community CCRx and Prescriba Rx. Universal American company also offers senior life insurance, annuity, and final expenses insurance sold under the Senior Solutions banner. Other subsidiaries market disability and hospitalization insurance and related products to self-employed individuals in the US.

In 1816, James Leacock published a series of experiments carried out in Edinburgh, which showed that blood transfusion could save the life of animals. James Blundell, a contemporary of Leacock's during his training in Edinburgh Medical School, was the first to transfuse humans with human blood in 1818. Some of the earliest attempts to emulate Blundell and the largest series of transfusion in the 19th century were carried out in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE). However, it was not until Landsteiner discovered the major A, B and O blood groups in 1901 that blood transfusion could develop as a rational treatment.

he Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) was established in 1824 by the Medical Society of South Carolina as a private medical college. The medical school came under state ownership in 1913, and was designated a full university in 1969. The school has 1,300 faculty members and trains 2,600 medical professionals per year. It is well-known for programs in areas including cardiovascular medicine, cancer care, and neuroscience. Other programs include pharmacy, nursing, and dental training. The MUSC Medical Center in Charleston is made up of four hospital centers including a children's facility and a psychiatric institute, has some 700 beds, and operates the city's Level I trauma center.

A hospital was established in Conway in 1921 when Colonel John E. Little donated a tract of land to the city for a building site. In 1938, the hospital was organized as Conway Memorial Hospital, a non-profit corporation with seven board members. The hospital moved to its present location across the street from the original building in July, 1957, with sixty beds. Today, Conway Regional Health System provides complete health care services to the growing communities of north Central Arkansas including Faulkner, Conway, Perry, Van Buren and Cleburne counties.

AMERIGROUP looks after the health of America's needy. The managed health care provider targets people eligible for Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), FamilyCare, and other government special needs plans. Its top Medicaid plans include a product for families receiving temporary assistance to needy families (TANF) benefits and one for aged, blind, or disabled (ABD) persons receiving supplemental income. AMERIGROUP's SCHIP programs cover uninsured kids ineligible for Medicaid. The company contracts with more than 100,000 primary care doctors and specialists, as well as 700 hospitals, to serve about 1.8 million members in about a dozen states.

Cook Children's Health Care System takes care of children of all ages in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. It encompasses the Cook Children's Medical Center (with rougly 300 beds), Cook Children's Home Health, and Cook Children's Health Plan. In addition, its physician network has offices at dozens of locations in Denton, Hood, and Tarrant counties. Specialties include behavioral health services, bone marrow transplants, craniofacial reconstruction, oncology, and nuclear medicine. Cook's Life After Cancer Program is funded by the Lance Armstrong Foundation and helps people manage and survive cancer.

Elliot Hospital was founded in 1890. The health care organization operates Elliot Hospital, an acute care hospital with nearly 300 beds. It is also home to the Elliot Regional Cancer Center, The Max K. Willscher Urology Center, and has one of only three Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the state. In addition to general and surgical care, the hospital offers rehabilitation, behavioral health, cardiology, and lab services. The system also operates a physician network offering primary care services to nine towns in the southern part of the state.

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