Whether partnering with physicians to develop new surgical facilities, acquiring established facilities or joint venturing with leading healthcare delivery systems, our philosophy is simple. We invest in our facilities ― giving them the tools they need to create a highly efficient, quality-focused environment where patients and physicians come first.

Glendale Memorial -- formed in 1938 as the Physicians and Surgeons Hospital -- has repeatedly been named one of America's 50 Best Hospitals by HealthGrades. If you find yourself sick or injured in the Media Capital of the World (i.e. Burbank, California), Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center is there to help. With more than 330 beds, the hospital provides acute care and general surgery, as well as a full spectrum of specialty care, including skilled nursing and spinal surgery. Glendale Memorial operates the Glendale Memorial Heart Center and the Comprehensive Cancer Center. The hospital is part of the Catholic Healthcare West family.

Broncus Technologies is developing and commercializing innovative solutions for diagnosing and treating lung diseases. Physicians use LungPoint® Virtual Bronchoscopic Navigation Systems to plan bronchoscopic procedures and maneuver to selected targets in the lungs accurately and quickly. The unique 18 gauge FleXNeedle™ coring needle enables peripheral sampling and access to hard-to-reach areas of the lungs. Airway Bypass is an investigational bronchoscopic procedure for emphysema patients who have shortness of breath due to lung hyperinflation.

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center close to home. The center has been leading the fight against cancer for more than 65 years. Located on the Texas Medical Center campus, it is devoted exclusively to cancer patient care, research, education, and prevention. Part of the University of Texas System, the tertiary-care hospital helps some 95,000 patients annually with both inpatient and outpatient care. M.D. Anderson is a premier cancer research facility and discoveries in its labs are quickly put into practice with its patients. Additionally, the hospital is a teaching facility for medical professionals and researchers.

Robinson Memorial Hospital is a 150-bed medical facility serving the northeast Ohio communities of Kent, Ravenna, Aurora, and Streetsboro. In addition to a Level II trauma center, the hospital offers programs in pediatrics, women's health, home health care, and oncology. It also engages in community outreach programs and operates outpatient facilities including urgent care clinics, a freestanding surgery center, an occupational health center, and several physician practices. The hospital began as an 18-bed facility founded in 1894. It is overseen by the Portage County Board of Hospital Trustees and has an administrative affiliation with the Summa Health System.

Bethesda Hospital provides specialty and long-term acute care services to the Twin Cities, Minnesota, area. The hospital provides programs including inpatient rehabilitation care for patients recovering from severe injuries such as brain trauma. It also offers respiratory and neurological programs, geriatric behavioral health services for patients with diseases such as Alzheimer's, and complex medical care for patients with multiple health conditions. Bethesda Hospital is part of the HealthEast Care System, which operates a network of facilities in the area.

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.

Covance, with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, is one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive drug development services companies, with annual revenues greater than $1.8 billion, employees in more than 60 countries, and more than 10,000 employees worldwide The drug development industry has come along way in the last two decades. In the 1980s and early 1990s, when the focus was on cost-savings and capacity management, contract research organizations (CROs) were used primarily as spillover capacity. The work was done and often done well, but our relationship with our pharmaceutical clients was tactical, and CRO growth rates and profitability were volatile. From roughly 2000 to 2005, biotechnology and specialty pharmaceutical companies began to use CROs more strategically, which stabilized demand and improved the performance and return on investment of CROs.

D Medical develops and manufactures insulin delivery devices for patients with diabetes. Its core product, a proprietary spring-driven pump that delivers insulin and monitors insulin levels, is similar in functionality to, but differs in design from, other motor-driven pumps on the market. The company first introduced its pumps to the marketplace in 2009 when it began selling and marketing to distributors in Europe. Tracing its roots back to the early 1990s, the company became a medical device maker in 2004 after acquiring Nilimedix.

SurgiVision designs products with surgical focus. A medical devices company, SurgiVision develops imaging technologies and precision instruments (i.e. needles that deliver radiation) designed for surgeons performing minimally invasive procedures by way of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanners. The company received FDA approval for its first commercial product, the ClearPoint system for use in neurological procedures, in 2010. It also has candidates in earlier stages of development, including its ClearTrace and SafeLead products, which are designed for cardiac procedures. SurgiVision was established in 1998; it filed to go public through an IPO in 2009.

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