Thoratec Corporation company makes ventricular assist devices (VAD) for patients suffering late-stage heart failure, including those awaiting a heart transplant. Thoratec offers external and implantable products that provide circulatory support for both acute and long-term needs. The company's International Technidyne Corporation (ITC) subsidiary sells blood coagulation diagnostic equipment and skin incision devices used for drawing blood. Thoratec also sells Vectra, a graft used in renal hemodialysis.Thoratec Corporation company works closely with hospitals and cardiac surgery centers primarily in the US and Europe. Its incision products are sold worldwide through distributors.

First Care Medical Services was founded in 1897 by Dr. C. J. Rosser and his family. First Care Medical Services (FCMS) helps keep the chill of northern Minnesota from getting the better of its residents. FCMS provides general medical and surgical health care services to the Polk County, Minnesota, area, including emergency, cardiovascular, rehabilitation, and cancer care. The not-for-profit hospital also operates regional health care clinics, assisted-living facilities, and nursing homes, and it provides home health and hospice services. Its TeleHomecare system helps monitor patients remotely using in-home technology.

Stryker's surgical products include such instruments as drills, saws, rasps, even cement mixers. The company's Orthopaedic Implants category includes artificial joints, spinal rods and screws, artificial vertebral discs, bone cement, and other orthopedic implants and supplies. The orthopaedic division also makes OP-1, a biological product to grow bone. The MedSurg Equipment segment includes facial and hand surgery instruments, endoscopy equipment, and communications and patient handling equipment. Stryker's products are marketed globally to hospitals, doctors, and other health care facilities via direct sales personnel and distributors.

Heartland Health is an integrated health delivery system, which includes a Heartland Regional Medical Center, Heartland Clinic, Heartland Foundation and a Community Health Improvement Solutions. Founded in St. Joseph in 1984, Heartland seeks to improve the health of area individuals and communities and to provide the right care, at the right time, in the right place, at the right cost with outcomes second to none. Commitment to this mission has enabled Heartland Health to become the leader in health care in a 21-county area of northwest Missouri, northeast Kansas and southeast Nebraska. Providing exceptional care and service in an honest, respectful, trustworthy and caring manner is simply the way Heartland operates.

PhytoMedical Technologies, Inc. (Symbol: PYTO), together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, is an early stage research based biopharmaceutical company focused on the identification, acquisition, development and commercialization of innovative pharmaceutical compounds targeting cancer and hematologic disorders.

Montefiore Medical Center attends to the health care needs of the residents of the Bronx and nearby Westchester County. The health system has three main hospital campuses with nearly 1,500 beds, as well as a children's hospital and centers for cancer, women's health, and cardiology. It also features specialty outpatient facilities, which provide ambulatory and diagnostic services, and it operates a home health care agency and a network of dozens of primary and specialty care offices. Montefiore Medical Center also offers medical education programs in partnership with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers are a network of dental treatment centers providing innovative and quality dental implant care to patients across the United States. Each ClearChoice Center is owned and operated by licensed and experienced dental specialists, providing comprehensive dental implant treatment services in advanced, all-in-one treatment facilities. Each center is equipped with modern technology, including advanced 3D CAT Scan technology and a full-service, on-site lab to support the highest standard of care for dental implant patients.

St. John River District runs deep in the communities it serves. Part of St. John Health, the hospital serves Michigan's St. Clair and Macomb counties (the southern portion of the state's "thumb") with about 70 beds. The acute-care hospital operates five outpatient centers and offers a range of services including cardiology, orthopedics, and vascular diagnostics. St. John River District Hospital also runs a sleep study center and urinary incontinence center. In addition it has a bloodless treatment program for patients whose religious convictions preclude certain treatments. Since its inception in 1965, the hospital undergone seven major renovation programs, including the reconstruction of emergency department.

Akron General Health System brings together a network of health care facilities and staff with a rich heritage of exceptional care. Akron General Health System has been a member of VHA since 1982. Our mission is to improve the health and lives of our patients and community. Akron General services its community with a philosophy of relentless commitment to the health and wellness of the people of Northeast Ohio. Through the efforts of nearly 9,000 employees, medical professionals and volunteers, we serve the healthcare needs of more than 1.2 million people throughout Summit, Medina, Portage, Stark and Wayne Counties.

RadNet was founded by six medical doctors including Dr. Howard Berger, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. At its inception, RadNet provided billing and administrative services to radiology groups in the Los Angeles area, and opened its first imaging center across from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 1981. In 1990, Dr. Berger and Dr. Michael Krane, our Director of Utilization Management, purchased the interests of their four other partners, and became the sole owners of RadNet. In June 1992, RadNet was acquired by Primedex Health Systems, Inc., a publicly traded company that, at the time, was engaged in providing management, administrative and financial services to medical clinics focused on workers compensation claimants in the greater Los Angeles area.

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