Clinch Valley Medical Center oversees southwestern Virginia's acute medical needs. The regional hospital provides medical and emergency care services in about a dozen counties around Richlands, Virginia. Formed in 1938, Clinch Valley Medical Center offers cancer care, cardiac catheterization, diagnostic imaging, laboratory services, women's services, pediatrics, physical rehabilitation services, sleep studies, and surgical services. The medical center has a 175-bed capacity and is part of the LifePoint Hospitals network.

Amigo Mobility International proves itself a friend to the elderly and disabled with its electric wheelchairs and scooters. The company makes more than a dozen different models of motorized mobility devices, including travel scooters (which are light-weight and can be disassembled) and plus-sized scooters for large or tall customers. It also makes vehicle lifts that transfer a scooter into a car or van, as well as shopping cart-scooter combos that grocery stores and other large retail outlets purchase for the use of their disabled patrons. Amigo Mobility sells its products through dealerships across the US and abroad. Company president Al Thieme invented the first Amigo scooter in 1968.

IASIS Healthcare LLC owns and operates about 15 acute care hospitals and one behavioral health facility (more than 2,800 beds total) in Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Nevada, Texas, and Utah. IASIS also operates several outpatient facilities and other centers providing ancillary services, such as radiation therapy, diagnostic imaging, and ambulatory surgery. Its Health Choice Arizona subsidiary is a Medicaid and Medicare managed health plan that serves about 200,000 individuals in Arizona. An investor group led by Texas Pacific Group owns the company.

Identigene lab testing services include DNA testing for paternity and other relationships as well as STD testing for chlamydia and gonorrhea. The high-throughput capactiy of the Identigene labs, combined with the most commercially reliable results and excellent customer support, allows each Identigene customer to Test Assured.™

The comprehensive health care organization features acute care hospitals, outpatient clinics and physicians' practices, long-term care centers, and home health and hospice agencies. Its flagship facilities are the three main campuses (in state capital Augusta and Waterville farther north) of MaineGeneral Medical Center, together featuring about 290 inpatient beds. MaineGeneral Health also runs nursing homes with some 270 beds in all, as well as senior living apartments, lab and imaging centers, and inpatient rehabilitation and mental health facilities.

TechniScan (formerly TechniScan Medical Systems) is developing a gentler means of mammography. Its Svara ultrasound imaging system uses a water bath and ultrasound reflective tomography technology to produce scans of the entire breast in about 10 minutes. TechniScan's images are intended to be used when further testing is needed following a conventional mammogram screening. The development stage company was founded in 1984. TechniScan shortened its name when it completed a reverse merger with shell company Castillo Inc. to become a public entity in 2009.

Valley Baptist Health System provides medical, educational, and charitable services based on Christian values. The 800-bed system operates two Valley Baptist Medical Centers (VBMC) in South Texas (one in Brownsville and one in Harlingen), both of which are Level III Trauma Centers. The health system also includes an outpatient surgery center, a fitness center, an imaging center, and a managed care health plan provider, as well as network of health care facilities offering specialty services such as home health, hospice, dialysis, and rehabilitation. Its educational offerings include a school of vocational nursing, as well as clinical pastoral education and family practice residency programs.

Established in 1982, the company serves customers in the long-term care, home health, and hospice care sectors. Its medical product suppliers include Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Roche, and 3M Health Care. Despite its regional sounding name, Gulf South Medical Supply is a nationwide distributor of a wide variety of medical supplies for the elder care industry. The PSS World Medical subsidiary operates over a dozen distribution service centers, providing procurement, cost containment, and billing services to clients in all 50 states. Gulf South Medical Supply has some 47,000 different products, including supplies for general nursing, feeding, diagnostics, incontinence, and infection and wound care.

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has a special place in its heart for kids -- and possibly vice versa. The pediatric health care facility offers specialty treatments for children and adolescents suffering from just about any malady, including those of the heart and liver, as well as blood diseases and cancer. Cincinnati Children's Hospital has more than 500 beds and operates nearly a dozen outpatient care centers. The not-for-profit hospital runs the only Level 1 pediatric trauma center in the region and serves as a teaching facility for the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Its Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation is one of the largest pediatric research institutions in the US.

University Health Services, doing business as University Health Care System, serves the communities of some 25 counties in Georgia's Central Savannah River Area and neighboring South Carolina. The system includes University Hospital with more than 550 beds, a women's center, a cancer center, and a heart center. It operates two separate nursing care facilities with a total of 249 beds, and maintains a home health care service. University Health Link is a managed care contractor co-owned by University Health Services and a group of 440 physicians serving companies in the region.

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