St. Bernard Hospital is a powerhouse of betterment for the people it serves. St. Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center serves the residents of Chicago's south side neighborhood of Englewood. The facility has about 200 beds, and its specialties include pediatrics, psychiatry, neurology, orthopedics, and cardiology services. St. Bernard hospital also offers inpatient detoxification services for patients dependent on opiates or alcohol. St. Bernard has a separate nonprofit unit that takes care of south side residents' residences: Bernard Place Housing Development is a 90-unit affordable homes initiative in the Englewood neighborhood.

Sparrow Hospital, has two campuses and more than 700 beds. Its Clinton Memorial Hospital has about 30 beds, and affiliate Carson City Hospital has roughly 80 beds. Sparrow Health System's other operations include a long-term-care center (located on the St. Lawrence campus of Sparrow Hospital), a hospice care provider, and medical equipment rental unit. The health system got its start in 1896 when a group of women set out with $400, a house on Ottawa Street (in Lansing, Michigan), and a mission to care for the sick.

Medela is just working to make mothers and babies happy and healthy. The company is a leading maker of breast pumps and breastfeeding accessories for hospital, rental, and home use. Medela's neonatology division develops specialized lamps used to treat jaundiced newborns. Its suction technology division offers aspirators, pumps, medical gas regulators, fluid management systems, for use in hospital and homecare settings. Medela has branched out from mothers and babies into wound care with its Invia system of negative pressure products. Medela Holding AG operates more than a dozen subsidiaries in China, Europe, the UK, and the US. Medela is owned by the family of founder Olle Larsson.

Alfa Scientific Designs makes the tests that ensure the workers of the world are clean and sober (as well as healthy). The company manufacturers point-of-care drug tests and other in vitro diagnostic devices for physicians, hospitals, occupational health centers, and the criminal justice system. Alfa Scientific Designs' products help to detect the presence of cancer markers, fertility hormones, drugs of abuse, and infectious diseases. Established in 1996, Alfa Scientific Designs provides products to clients around the globe through a wide network of distributors and through direct ordering from the company.

Exactech has joint replacement technologies down to an exact science. Hospitals, surgeons, and clinics worldwide use the company's knee and hip devices to replace joints weakened by injury or disease. Its Optetrak knee implants and AcuMatch hip implant system either partially or totally replace patients' damaged joints. It also markets Opteform and Optefil, bone allograft materials used to correct bone defects and damage. Exactech markets its products through direct sales representatives and independent dealers in the US, as well as through affiliated and independent distributors in about 30 other countries. Customers include hospitals, clinics, surgeons, and physicians.

Becton, Dickinson and Company was founded in 1897 and is based in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. Becton, Dickinson and Company, a medical technology company, develops, manufactures, and sells medical devices, instrument systems, and reagents worldwide. The company’s BD Medical segment produces medical devices, which are used in healthcare settings. This segment’s product line includes needles, syringes, and intravenous catheters for medication delivery; prefilled IV flush syringes; syringes, pen needles, and other drugs used in the treatment of diabetes; prefillable drug delivery devices; surgical blades/scalpels and regional anesthesia needles and trays; critical care monitoring devices; ophthalmic surgical instruments; and sharps disposal containers. Its BD Diagnostics segment provides products for the safe collection and transport of diagnostics specimens, as well as instrument systems and reagents to detect infectious diseases, healthcare- associated infections (HAI), and cancers. Its product line consists of integrated systems for specimen collection; safety-engineered blood collection products and systems; automated blood culturing systems; molecular testing systems for sexually transmitted diseases and HAIs; microorganism identification and drug susceptibility systems; liquid-based cytology systems for cervical cancer screening; rapid diagnostic assays; and plated media. Its BD Biosciences segment produces research and clinical tools that facilitate the study of cells and its components. Its product line comprises fluorescence-activated cell sorters and analyzers; monoclonal antibodies and kits for performing cell analysis; reagent systems for life sciences research; cell imaging systems; laboratory products for tissue culture and fluid handling; diagnostic assays; and cell culture media supplements for biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Becton serves healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, the pharmaceutical industry, and the general public.

Alliance HealthCare Services is the nation’s largest provider of advanced outpatient diagnostic imaging services, focusing on MRI, PET/CT and CT through its Alliance Imaging division and radiation therapy services through its Alliance Oncology division. Alliance also offers comprehensive, women’s breast health care solutions, including everything from breast imaging to cancer treatment.

Med BioGene Inc. (MBI: TSX Venture) is a life science company focused on the development and commercialization of genomic-based clinical laboratory diagnostic tests.The company develops gene expression assays (lab tests that examine organic samples on a molecular level) used to examine cancerous tumors. Its primary offering, LungExpress DX, is a late-stage assay candidate used to test lung cancer tumors in order to assist physicians in determining treatment options for their patients. The biotech firm's pipeline also contains similar methods for testing lymphoma and cardiovascular disease. Med BioGene filed for a US IPO in 2010, but fell short of funding and announced plans to review strategic alternatives later that year, including a possible sale or liquidation of the company.

Founded as Matrix Healthcare PLC in 1990, under the Business Expansion Scheme, ADL raised additional funds under the Enterprise Investment Scheme in February 1996 and obtained a quotation on AIM in June 1996. In January 2004 Jeremy Davies purchased a controlling interest in the Company and made a Rule 9 Offer for the remaining shares. In February 2004 Matrix Healthcare PLC acquired Woodland Healthcare Limited and Newsham House Limited, the enlarged group acquired new banking facilities and the Company's name was changed to ADL plc.In July 2006 ADL completed the arrangement of a new £25 million bank facility with IXIS Corporate & Investment Bank S.A. and acquired Solutions (Yorkshire) Limited that owns and operates a care home in Leeds with 40 operational beds.Today, ADL owns and operates nine care homes with 306 operational beds (five in ADL, three in its subsidiary Woodland Healthcare Limited and one in Solutions (Yorkshire) Limited). ADL also manages one care home, with 40 operational beds, on a joint venture basis. In addition Woodland Healthcare Limited manages one care home, with 23 operational beds, on a partnership basis. ADL works in partnership with local authorities, PCTs, NHS Trusts and the relatives of the residents of its care homes to provide the residents with the highest quality of care in homely surroundings.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) covers some 3 million members. The company, an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, offers a variety of individual and employer-sponsored health care plans, including HMO (HMO Blue), PPO (Preferred Blue), and point-of-service (Blue Choice) plans, as well as various hybrid options and personal spending accounts to cover out-of-pocket costs. BCBSMA also provides Medicare options and dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage. The health care firm was founded in 1937.

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