East Texas Medical Center (ETMC) Regional Healthcare System helps meet the health care needs of residents of the Piney Woods. The not-for-profit health system operates about a dozen hospitals across eastern Texas, along with behavioral, rehabilitation, and home health care businesses. Its flagship 450-bed Tyler location serves as the hub and referral center for satellite medical centers located in more rural locations. The system also features numerous primary care and outpatient clinics throughout the region. In addition, ETMC operates an emergency ambulance service subsidiary and a clinical laboratory, which provide services to the facilities of ETMC Regional Healthcare System.

Hays Medical Center brings big city health care to rural Kansas. The not-for-profit hospital, which has about 200 beds, provides both acute and tertiary medical care to the Midwestern plains. In addition to medical, surgical, and pediatric care, Hays Medical Center offers home care, hospice, skilled nursing, rehabilitation, and behavioral health services, along with centers for cardiac care (the DeBakey Heart Institute) and cancer treatment (the Dreiling/Schmidt Cancer Center). The organization also operates specialty and rural health clinics. Hays Medical Center grows through selective acquisitions, such as its buys of Hays Orthopaedic Clinic and, in 2010, a physician practice focused on breast health.

HealthCare Partners owns and operates a group of medical practices in California, Florida, and Nevada.HealthCare Partners company provides administrative services to subsidiary HealthCare Partners Medical Group, which operates more than 40 medical practices in Los Angeles and surrounding areas. In addition, it owns and operates business units JSA Healthcare -- a provider of primary care and pharmacy services (AmeriDrug) at some 35 facilities in central Florida -- and HealthCare Partners of Nevada, an outpatient clinics operator and health plan administration provider in and around Las Vegas. HealthCare Partners traces its roots back to 1992.

Boone Hospital Center is a 394-bed full service hospital located in Columbia, MO. It is a regional referral center located in the center of the state. The hospital provides progressive healthcare programs, services, and technology to people in 25 mid-Missouri counties. Although the hospital is full service, areas in which Boone Hospital Center excels are cardiology, neurology, oncology, surgical, obstetrical services, and numerous other specialties. The hospital maintains a 24-hour emergency center with hospital-based ambulance service and a helipad for incoming emergency air transportation. The hospital employs over 2000 on its staff and 350 physicians on the medical staff.Boone Hospital Center is a leader in providing the latest technology, including an innovative surgery center offering progressive endoscopic and laser surgery procedures. The hospital provides numerous community educational lectures and events, centering on disease prevention and wellness. To help community members make healthy lifestyle choices, Boone Hospital Center created WELLAWARE - a collection of resources and programs that encourage wellness and prevention. Working with mid-Missouri employers to promote good health on the job (such as becoming a tobacco-free workplace), WELLAWARE offers resources in occupational medicine, behavioral health, and BHC's various prevention and fitness programs to the community at large in Columbia, MO.

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.

MTS Medication Technologies gives pills a safe home until they get to the patient who needs them. Through its MTS Packaging Systems and MTS Medication Technologies International subsidiaries, the company makes medication punch cards and other medication dispensing systems that institutional pharmacies use to conveniently and accurately package the drugs they give to patients. MTS' custom packaging technology allows caregivers at some 4,500 pharmacies (at assisted-living, nursing care, and correctional facilities) to administer medicine or vitamins to large numbers of people while keeping close tabs on dosages. The company was taken private in a transaction led by equity firm Excellere Partners in 2009.

St. Joseph's has been caring mercifully for residents in the Hot Springs environs for well over a century. St. Joseph's Mercy Health Center, the second-oldest hospital in Arkansas, has more than 300 beds and provides acute and tertiary care, as well as home health care. The hospital is a not-for-profit health facility and is part of the Sisters of Mercy Health System. It has specialty units focused on cancer, cardiovascular, women, and senior care. Established in 1888, in 2010 St. Joseph's Mercy announced it would acquire local rival HealthPark Hospital as well as HealthFirst Physicians Group and Hot Springs Village Clinic. All of the acquired medical providers will operate under the St. Joseph Mercy moniker.

Holy Spirit was established in 1963 and is operated by the Sisters of Christian Charity. The flagship Holy Spirit Hospital has more than 330 beds as well as a level III neonatal intensive care unit. The hospital also operates an adjoining cardiac treatment facility, and it has a network of affiliated family practice and specialty health clinics. Holy Spirit Health tends to the health of the incarnate. The Holy Spirit Health System provides cardiology, women's health care, pediatric care, and other acute and emergency medical services to the residents of greater Harrisburg and Cumberland County in south-central Pennsylvania.

Siemens Healthcare (formerly Siemens Medical Solutions) is the medical products arm of German electronics giant Siemens AG. The group makes and sells a wide range of medical equipment to diagnose and treat disease, including imaging systems (x-ray, MRI, and ultrasound), radiation and electrophysiological therapy equipment, hearing aids, respiratory machines, and patient monitoring systems. Its Diagnostics division also makes consumable laboratory diagnostic tests. Siemens Healthcare also offers information technology systems to manage patient images and other data at doctors' offices, hospitals, and clinics, and it provides technical maintenance and consulting services.

Xograph Healthcare is a specialist company that sells medical-imaging equipment to health care providers involved in general diagnostic radiology, mammography, and mobile imaging. In addition to X-ray equipment manufactured by other companies, Xograph designs and manufactures quality control instruments for X-ray equipment. The company provides technical support for its equipment. Sales efforts focus on hospitals (NHS, private, and military) and veterinary clinics in the UK and Ireland. Other clients include chiropractors, research labs, and industrial users. Xograph sells its products in more than 35 countries.

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