CRC Health Group was founded in 1995 by Daniel Newby and Dr. Barry Karlin with the purchase of The Camp Recovery Center in Scotts Valley, California. Today, CRC Health Group has become the largest provider of specialized behavioral health care services in the U.S. Each day, we treat more than 30,000 people with drug and alcohol addiction, learning differences, weight management issues, eating disorders, and other behavioral issues. We operate residential treatment facilities, outpatient clinics, boarding schools, outdoor wilderness camps, and a variety of other therapeutic programs making us uniquely qualified to treat patients throughout the life cycle of their disorders, at every level of care.

Graymark Healthcare wants its businesses to help remedy the ills of small-town Americans. Through its operating subsidiaries, Graymark Healthcare acquires and operates independent pharmacies and sleep diagnostic centers, many of which are located in smaller US markets. Its ApothecaryRx subsidiary manages 18 pharmacies doing business in a handful of central US states, and the company's Sleep Disorder Centers (SDC) subsidiary manages about 10 sleep diagnostics businesses in the South and Midwest. Formerly Graymark Productions (a film production firm), Graymark changed its name in 2008 following the acquisitions of ApothecaryRx and SDC. The firm has agreed to sell its ApothecaryRx stores to Walgreen.

Located in central England, near Birmingham, SP Services is an international supplier of emergency medical equipment. The company sells oxygen kits, burn kits, immobilization braces, surgical instruments, bandages, blankets, defibrillators, and even sirens. Its products are for the medical, first aid, ambulance, paramedic, and emergency rescue fields. SP Services sells products manufactured by such companies as Ambu, Burnshield, and Sager. It has about 1,000 clients, including ambulance services, fire and rescue services, sports clubs, the British Red Cross, SmithKline Beecham, and the BBC.

CIGNA manages behavioral health care benefits and employee assistance programs (EAPs) for some 18 million health plan members nationwide. Other services include disability management programs, for employees on short and long-term disability, and referrals to services such as financial and legal services, childcare, and eldercare. The company's network includes more than 75,000 affiliated physicians and roughly 6,100 facilities. Founded in 1974, the company is one of the oldest providers of behavioral health benefits in the US.

Novation isn't reinventing the wheels of healthcare, just greasing them a little.Novation company offers management consulting and supply chain services to hospitals and other health care facilities. Novation is one of the largest health care supply chain management firms in the nation, serving tens of thousands of health care organizations. It procures medical equipment and supplies, pharmaceuticals, laboratory equipment, food, and other products needed to keep the nation's health care facilities running. Novation is an affiliate of health care alliances VHA and University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC). Novation company was founded in 1998.

Retractable Technologies knows you can't be too safe when you work around needles all day. Retractable Technologies company develops, makes, and markets safety syringes and other injection technologies for the health care industry. Its flagship VanishPoint syringe retracts after injection, reducing the risk of both syringe reuse and accidental needlesticks (both are means of transmitting HIV and other infectious diseases). Retractable Technologies also makes blood collection needles and IV catheters using the VanishPoint technology, which was invented by the company's founder, CEO, and majority owner Thomas Shaw. The firm sells to hospitals and other care providers in the US and abroad, both directly and through distributors.

Akers Biosciences,Inc. manufactures a variety of point-of-care rapid diagnostic tests. In addition to tests for such diseases as malaria, it has produced screening tools to detect drug and enzyme levels in blood. ABI has also developed sniffing devices to detect breath alcohol as well as diseases such as lung disease and diabetes through breath analysis. Another product whiffs for biological warfare agents in the air. Its Tri-Cholesterol product is a home-use test kit. ABI customers include healthcare facilities (hospitals, physicians' offices) as well as the US military and aid organizations.

The medical technology company,CONMED Corporatioin develops and manufactures a wide range of electronic instruments such as electrosurgical systems, powered surgical instruments, and endoscopic devices. Arthroscopic (joint surgery) products represent the company's largest segment and include reconstruction tools, scopes, implants, and fluid management systems. CONMED also manufactures patient monitoring products and handheld medical accessories such as scissors, sutures, and staplers. Brands include Linvatec and Hall Surgical. The company sells its products in more than 100 countries through its direct sales force and independent distributors.

SUNY Downstate Medical Center brings a healthy dose of education, research, and patient care to Brooklyn. SUNY Downstate is the borough's only academic medical center. It comprises colleges of medicine, nursing, graduate studies, and health-related professions, as well as the University Hospital of Brooklyn, a 400-bed teaching hospital that serves more than 2 million residents in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. The state-run hospital has intensive care, operating room, and emergency room units; an ambulatory care center with some 75 clinics; three satellite health centers; and a dialysis facility. SUNY Downstate's research laboratories study everything from alcoholism and Alzheimer's Disease to HIV/AIDS.

Neoprobe makes products for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, such as lymphatic mapping instruments (including the neo2000) that help surgeons identify trends about the spread of cancer in a patient. Subsidiary Cardiosonix markets non-invasive blood flow measurement devices under the Quantix brand. Neoprobe has additional products under development including procedural tracing agent Lymphoseek to be used in lymphatic mapping and handheld radiation probe RIGScan to locate tumors. The company is also working on an activated cellular therapy technology to treat cancers and viral and autoimmune diseases. The procedure activates certain lymph nodes to boost a patient's immune system.

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