St. Francis Hospital can handle your gall bladder and sinus difficulties, but it's really on top of your heart problems. This specialty cardiac center -- New York's only certified cardiac center -- performs about 9,000 cardiac catheterizations, 3,500 coronary angioplasties, and nearly 2,000 open-heart operations every year. It also offers educational and clinical services. As part of Catholic Health Services of Long Island, St. Francis opened its doors in 1954 to children and adults. It was originally established as St. Francis Hospital and Sanatorium for Cardiac Children in 1936.

It's all about heart for Arrhythmia Research Technology (ART). The company offers signal-averaging electrocardiographic (SAECG) software that collects data and analyzes electrical impulses of the heart in an effort to detect potentially lethal heart arrhythmias. The company plans to sell the products through licensing agreements with equipment makers. Until it finds a marketing partner, however, ART is relying on sales from its Micron Products subsidiary, which makes snaps and sensors used in the manufacture and operation of disposable electrodes for electrocardiographic (ECG) equipment. Micron Products has acquired assets of several companies that enhance its metal and plastics molding capabilities.

ResMed makes and distributes medical equipment used to diagnose and treat respiratory disorders that occur during sleep, such as sleep apnea. Most of its products treat obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a condition in which a patient's air flow is periodically obstructed, causing multiple disruptions during sleep that lead to daytime sleepiness and possibly other conditions such as high blood pressure. Its products include air-flow generators, face masks, diagnostic products, and accessories. ResMed sells directly and through distributors worldwide to home health equipment dealers, sleep clinics, and hospitals.

Vyteris believes its method of drug delivery is jolting. Vyteris company is developing transdermal drug delivery systems that get medicine into the patient's system without needles. Its delivery system uses low-level electrical stimulation to inject topical medications into patients. Vyteris already has one FDA-approved product: LidoSite is a topical analgesic distributed by B. Braun Medical and LabCorp. Vyteris company is developing a peptide delivery system through a partnership with Ferring Pharmaceuticals. Entrepreneur Kevin Kimberlin owns a controlling interest in the company.

CRH Medical Corporation specializes in the treatment of hemorrhoids utilizing its proprietary CRH O’Regan System which includes CRH’s patented proprietary technology and treatment protocols. CRH’s single use, disposable, hemorrhoid treatment technology is safe and highly effective in treating hemorrhoids. CRH employs two commercialization strategies: firstly, it operates Centers for Colorectal Health facilities (the “Centers”) in the United States specializing in the treatment of hemorrhoids and related anal rectal disorders. The Company currently operates ten Centers geographically dispersed through the U.S. Secondly, CRH distributes its hemorrhoid banding technology, treatment protocols, operational and marketing expertise as a complete, turn key package, directly to its partner physicians, referred to as the “Partnership Program.”

Frederick Memorial Healthcare SystemHealthcare was founded in 1902. Frederick Memorial Healthcare System operates Frederick Memorial Hospital, an acute care facility with some 240 beds, and 20 satellite facilities in and around Frederick, Maryland. Other facilities in the system include Hospice of Frederick County, Mt. Airy Health Services and the FMH Regional Cancer Therapy Center. Specialty services include cardiology, oncology, pediatrics, and psychiatry. It also operates Glade Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center through a joint venture with Adventist HealthCare.

BIOLASE Technology, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. BIOLASE Technology, Inc., a medical technology company, develops, manufactures, and markets lasers and related products and services focused on technologies for applications and procedures in dentistry and medicine. Its principal products are dental laser systems that allow general dentists, periodontists, endodontists, oral surgeons, and other specialists to perform a range of dental procedures, including cosmetic and complex surgical applications. BioLase Technology offers two categories of laser system products comprising Waterlase family of products and Diode family of products. The Waterlase systems use a combination of water and laser to perform dental procedures for cutting soft and hard tissue plus bone. Its Waterlase systems include Waterlase MD and Waterlase C100 All-Tissue Dental Laser systems. The Diode systems use a semiconductor diode laser to perform soft tissue, hygiene, and cosmetic procedures, including teeth whitening, as well as pain management therapy. Its Diode systems consist of the ezlase, iLase, and Diolase 10 systems. BioLase Technology also provides related accessories and disposable products for its laser systems, which include disposable laser tips, flexible fibers, hand pieces, and tooth whitening gel kits. BIOLASE Technology, Inc. sells its products through direct sales force and a network of independent distributors in the United States and internationally. BioLase Technology was formerly known as Societe Endo Technic, SA and changed its name to BIOLASE Technology, Inc. in 1994.

Delta Dental Plan of New Hampshire provides dental benefits and related services to its members in New Hampshire. Delta Dental Plan of New Hampshire operates under the trade name Northeast Delta Dental, which also includes Delta Dental of Maine and Delta Dental of Vermont. Altogether, Northeast Delta Dental has a network of some 1,600 dentists in the tri-state area and provides benefits administration services for more than 700,000 people through individual and group accounts. Delta Dental Plan of New Hampshire and its affiliates are members of the Delta Dental Plans Association, an affiliated network of dental benefit providers throughout the US.

Washington County Health System (WCHS) provides a wide range of medical services to patients living in western Maryland, southern Pennsylvania, and adjacent portions of West Virginia. Its flagship facility, the not-for-profit Washington County Hospital, has some 350 beds and offers acute, tertiary, and long-term care, including inpatient behavioral health services, cardiac care, obstetrics, cancer treatment, rehabilitation, and trauma care. WCHS also operates the for-profit Antietam Health Services, a provider of outpatient health care, including diagnostic imaging, laboratory services, and ambulatory surgery. In addition, it provides general practice care at the Robinwood Medical Center.

Orpea owns and operates facilities scattered all over the country. Chairman and CEO Jean-Claude Marian owns a little over a third of Orpea. No, you're not having a senior moment. Orpea -- not Opera -- is one of France's leading providers of long-term care to the elderly or infirm. Orpea started out running facilities that included retirement homes and assisted-living residences, which are still operated under the Orpea name, but it has branched out to also provide care in physical therapy and psychiatric clinics, which operate through the company's Clinea subsidiary.

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