Swedish Covenant Hospital takes the wellfare of Chicagoans to heart. The not-for-profit hospital is a 340-bed acute care facility that provides inpatient and outpatient services, emergency services, extended care, family medicine, home care, and occupational health care services in the Chicago area. Specialized offerings include cardiovascular, pediatric, cancer, women's health, and psychiatric programs. The hospital also has several satellite health care facilities offering outpatient services. Swedish Covenant Hospital, founded by the Evangelical Covenant Church in 1886.

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.

HMSA was founded in 1989 to increase the profile of Hitachi's medical imaging products in the US. Hitachi Medical Systems America (HMSA) supplies medical imaging equipment to the US hospital market, just as parent Hitachi Medical Corporation (HMC) supplies a full line in Japan. HMSA markets, distributes, and supports HMC's advanced diagnostic imaging products, including computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and HI VISION brand ultrasound systems. Hitachi Medical Systems America, Inc. is one of the leading distributors of open MRIs in the US. Its parent company's Altaire brand was developed specifically for the US market. Other MRI systems are sold under the Oasis, Echelon, and AIRIS brands.

East Orange General Hospital believes in the power of volunteerism. Established in 1903, the hospital is the home of the first Candy Striper program, which local high school students began in 1944. Today, the more than 200-bed hospital provides inpatient acute care in a wide range of specialties, including cardiology, behavioral health, intensive care, and physical rehabilitation. It also offers dialysis, respiratory care, diagnostic testing, and wound care, among other services. The hospital's Family Health Center provides primary and specialty care, as well as outpatient surgery.

Zeeland Community Hospital was founded in 1928 as a 10-bed hospital. Zeeland Community Hospital provides acute medical services for the residents of western Michigan. The hospital has nearly 60 beds and provides emergency, diagnostic, inpatient, and outpatient services. Its specialty services include diabetes care, orthopedics, cardiology, pain management, rehabilitation, and surgery. Zeeland Community Hospital has some 200 physicians on its medical staff, which includes its two affiliated physician groups, Zeeland Physicians and Georgetown Physicians.

Medela is just working to make mothers and babies happy and healthy. The company is a leading maker of breast pumps and breastfeeding accessories for hospital, rental, and home use. Medela's neonatology division develops specialized lamps used to treat jaundiced newborns. Its suction technology division offers aspirators, pumps, medical gas regulators, fluid management systems, for use in hospital and homecare settings. Medela has branched out from mothers and babies into wound care with its Invia system of negative pressure products. Medela Holding AG operates more than a dozen subsidiaries in China, Europe, the UK, and the US. Medela is owned by the family of founder Olle Larsson.

Winthrop-University Hospital is all about health care. Serving patients in New York's Nassau, Suffolk, and Queens counties, the medical center has almost 600 beds and offers a full range of acute and tertiary health care services. Services include pediatric, women's health, and cancer care, as well as home health services. Winthrop-University Hospital is also a leading provider of cardiovascular surgeries in the region. The hospital is a member of Winthrop-South Nassau University Health System with sister facility South Nassau Communities Hospital. Founded in 1896, Winthrop-University Hospital serves as a teaching hospital for the SUNY at Stony Brook School of Medicine.

LifeCell puts new life into the tissue graft market. The firm makes skin graft materials processed from cadaver skin, a category of products known as allografts. Its products include AlloDerm, used in reconstructive plastic, dental, and burn surgeries and Strattice Reconstructive Tissue Matrix, for plastic and reconstructive surgery and wound healing. LifeCell markets a series of other products for additional applications, including one called Cymetra for grafting and head and neck plastic reconstruction. The company markets its products in the US and abroad through a direct sales force and distributors. LifeCell is owned by wound care company Kinetic Concepts.

Titusville Area Hospital, an acute care health facility, provides diagnostic, primary treatment, and emergency health services to more than 30,000 residents in the Crawford County, Pennsylvania region. Specific services at Titusville include birthing, home health care, lithotripsy, and pain management. Titusville Area Hospital opened its doors in 1901.

Lafayette General Medical Center provides general inpatient medical and surgical care, as well as highly specialized services such as trauma care and neonatal intensive care. The not-for-profit hospital, which has about 300 beds, also offers home health services, outpatient care, occupational medicine, and mental health care. Lafayette General is a member of group purchasing organization Premier and has affiliations with two small community hospitals -- St. Martin Hospital in St. Martin Parish and Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital in Vermilion Parish -- to which it provides management services.

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