DeKalb Regional Health System now serves the Atlanta metropolitan area. The health system, operating as DeKalb Medical, includes two acute-care hospitals, DeKalb Medical at North Decatur (450 beds) and DeKalb Medical at Hillandale (100 beds), as well as one long-term rehabilitation hospital, the 75-bed DeKalb Medical at Downtown Decatur. Together those facilities serve the communities in and around Georgia's DeKalb County. Specialty hospital services include oncology, cardiology, orthopedics, and diabetes care. The health system, which began operations in 1961, also operates primary, specialty, and mobile health care clinics.

Signature Eyewear views prescription eyeglasses and sunglasses as the ultimate fashion statement and an integral part of its business. Laura Ashley, Nicole Miller, and bebe licensed eyewear accounts for about three-fourths of the firm's sales. Signature Eyewear also licenses frames by Michael Stars, Dakota Smith, Hart Schaffner Marx, and Carmen Marc Valvo Eyewear.Signature Eyewear company makes its own line of frames ("Signature") through contract manufacturers in Hong Kong, China, Japan, and Italy, and markets them to optical retailers in more than 20 countries. Chairman Richard Torre bought about 30% of Signature Eyewear from former CEO Bernard Weiss and his wife.

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).

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics partners with the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and the University of Iowa Physicians group practice organization to make up the University of Iowa Health Care network. The organization provides residents of the Hawkeye State with an acute care hospital serving a variety of inpatient and outpatient needs, including more than 200 health care specialties. The facility also houses the Children's Hospital of Iowa and the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center. As an teaching facility, it also houses 20 academic departments. The health care system, founded in 1898, has some 680 beds.

Southeast Alabama Medical Center (SAMC) is a 370-bed acute care hospital that serves as a primary referral center for patients in southeastern Alabama and adjacent parts of Georgia and Florida. In addition to providing comprehensive medical, surgical, and emergency care, the hospital provides specialty services including heart, cancer, and women's health care. SAMC also operates primary care physician offices and clinics specializing in diagnostics, pediatrics, and cancer care, as well as a home health agency. Affiliates include Enterprise Medical Clinic, Houston Medical Group, and Chipley Medical Group. The hospital was founded in 1957.

Greatbatch likes to keep its business close to the heart. The company is a leading maker of batteries used in implantable medical devices such as pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). Other medical components include electrodes, capacitors, and feedthroughs (used to deliver electrical signals from an implantable medical device to an electrode). Greatbatch also makes batteries for demanding industrial applications, such as oil and gas exploration, and supplies power sources for the Space Shuttle. Boston Scientific, Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, and St. Jude Medical are among the company's top customers. Greatbatch gets nearly half of its sales from US clients.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) covers some 3 million members. The company, an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, offers a variety of individual and employer-sponsored health care plans, including HMO (HMO Blue), PPO (Preferred Blue), and point-of-service (Blue Choice) plans, as well as various hybrid options and personal spending accounts to cover out-of-pocket costs. BCBSMA also provides Medicare options and dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage. The health care firm was founded in 1937.

Guthrie Healthcare System is a community health-care organization serving residents of the Twin Tiers region of northern Pennsylvania and southern New York through a network of hospitals, community clinics, physicians' practices, and specialty care facilities. The flagship facility is Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, a 238-bed tertiary care teaching hospital that provides a comprehensive range of health services including emergency/trauma care, pediatric care, orthopedics, and rehabilitative care. The system also includes Troy Community Hospital and Corning Hospital. Other system facilities include nursing homes, a senior care community, a hospice care program, and a home health agency.

From its humble beginning in 1918 as a small community center, Harrison Medical Center has grown into the region's busiest heath system with five campuses serving four counties in Washington State. Harrison's main campus in Bremerton provides general inpatient medical and surgical care and emergency services -- including a Level III trauma center. Its Silverdale campus provides mom and baby care, pediatrics, and specialty services including robotic surgery and weight loss surgical procedures. Harrison's locations in Port Orchard and Belfair provide urgent care services and the Poulsbo campus specializes in cancer care. Combined the five campuses employ about 400 doctors and see more than 17,000 patients annually.

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is a bastion of health in the thick of tobacco country. The not-for-profit system, known as WFUBMC, comprises Wake Forest University Health Sciences (founded in 1902, includes the School of Medicine), the North Carolina Baptist Hospitals (founded in 1923, with facilities devoted to geriatrics, cancer, pediatrics, and more), and Wake Forest University Physicians. The regional system includes about 20 community hospitals and primary care offices and another 100 satellite clinics, consulting operations, and health fairs. WFUBMC offers rehabilitation, skilled nursing, home health, and a unit devoted to coordinating special services for international patients.

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