Immediate Care, Inc. has locations in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Wasilla. Immediate Care takes care of senior or disabled Alaskans in the comfort of their own homes. The company provides a variety of non-medical home health care services include personal care, bathing, bedtime assistance, and medication coordination, as well as help with chores including laundry, grocery shopping, cooking, and menu planning. Its personal care assistants and chore assistants are available on a daily basis or for occasional visits. Immediate Care focuses on older generations as the number of retirees living in Alaska grows.

Ophthalmic Imaging Systems makes digital imaging products for use in ophthalmology. Its WinStation product line is used by retinal specialists and ophthalmologists to diagnose and treat diseases of the retina, including age-related macular degeneration. While the WinStation systems focus on imaging the back of the eye, the company's Digital Slit Lamp Imager emphasizes front-of-the-eye imaging. Ophthalmic Imaging Systems also sells image archiving, medical records management, and practice management software. Israel-based MediVision Medical Imaging holds more than 50% of the company and markets its products abroad. In 2008 MediVision agreed to acquire all of the company in an all-stock transaction.

McLeod Health was founded in 1906. McLeod Health system provides health care to 12 counties in the northeast portions of South Carolina through a network of hospitals and medical centers. The flagship McLeod Regional Medical Center has more than 450 beds and provides a full range of inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services. McLeod Health is also home to two other acute care hospitals with a combined total of about 120 beds; an inpatient psychiatric care unit; hospice care; and a center for advanced surgery.

A leading maker of implantable biomedical devices, the company makes defibrillators and pacemakers that shock the heart to help it beat normally. Subsidiary Medtronic Sofamor Danek makes spinal implant devices, while Medtronic CardioVascular produces catheters, stents, valves, balloons, and surgical ablation technologies used to treat vascular and heart disease. The company's neuromodulation division makes nerve and brain stimulation and drug delivery systems. Medtronic also makes devices for diabetes; ear, nose, and throat (ENT) conditions; and emergency medicine.

All jokes about British oral health aside, 1st Dental Laboratories gives dentists in the UK the supplies they need to give patients a better smile. With more than a dozen labs spread from Devon to Northumberland, the company offers full-service dental laboratory services -- including the manufacture of crowns, bridges, and dentures -- to dentists and dental surgeons in the UK. 1st Dental Laboratories has grown by snapping up other independent dental laboratories throughout the country, including Advanced Restorative Techniques, Aesthetic Dental Lab, Benchmark Dental Laboratories, and Riley Dental Laboratory.

Blessing Hospital is the largest and most sophisticated medical center in a 100-mile radius, with a medical staff of more than 240 physicians and a team of more than 2,000 employees. As the regional leader in patient and family centered care, Blessing Hospital is committed to excellence. We offer quality, compassionate and comprehensive medical care, and place a strong emphasis on community wellness. Blessing continues to respond to the changing health care needs of the region's residents by keeping pace with technology and providing services that are convenient, accessible and vital to our mission to improve life.

Cutera has a handle on hairy situations and a firm plan for flabby faces. The firm makes lasers for medical and aesthetic use in doctors' offices and spas. Its FDA-approved devices are marketed under the names CoolGlide, Solera, and Xeo and are used for hair removal and treatments to reduce pigmented lesions (age and sun spots), wrinkles, and veins. Its Titan line of products uses deep tissue heating to firm up saggy skin. The company markets its products through a direct sales force and a distributor (PSS World Medical) in the US and relies on a small sales group and distributors in more than 30 other countries.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City provides health care insurance and related services for nearly 1 million members in 32 counties in Kansas and Missouri. Its Good Health HMO subsidiary is a for-profit health maintenance organization that serves more than 50,000 members. Another subsidiary, Blue-Advantage Plus of Kansas City, is a Medicaid HMO serving customers in nine counties in the Kansas City area. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City has other operations providing non-Blue life and disability insurance, third-party administration services, and provider network rental services. Founded in 1932, the company is the largest not-for-profit health insurance provider in the state.

Western Medical Center makes sure that The OC keeps health issues out of its drama. Western Medical Center - Santa Ana serves the residents of California's Orange County through an acute care facility that houses some 280 beds. It also boasts doctors who are able to perform heart, lung, liver, and kidney transplants. The hospital is one of three major trauma centers in the county. Tenet sold the facility (as part of a restructuring) to Integrated Healthcare Holdings (based in Costa Mesa, California). After taking over Western Medical Center, IHHI met with some rough financial times and, bleeding capital, faced the possibility of having to sell the center.

Dialysis Corporation of America has been an industry leader for over 25 years. We have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to our patients by providing the highest-quality of care, delivered by knowledgeable multidisciplinary care teams in state-of-the-art dialysis centers under the direction of our physician partners.

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