Independent Health (IH) is a not-for-profit organization that provides a range of health insurance and related products to some 375,000 members primarily in western New York (it's licensed in 35 states). IH's plans include HMO, PPO, indemnity, and Medicare Advantage plans. It also provides dental and vision coverage, as well as coverage for Medicaid recipients. The firm offers a variety of community-based health and fitness programs including it Encompass 65 and SilverSneakers wellness programs for seniors. The company's Healthy Options program helps local restaurants design healthy menus. IH was formed in 1980 from a State University of New York at Buffalo graduate-school research project.

Established in 1916, Decatur Memorial Hospital has about 350 beds. Decatur Memorial Hospital serves residents throughout Macon County in central Illinois. The regional medical facility offers acute and tertiary care, including centers for treating cancer, heart conditions, sleep disorders, and chronic pain. The hospital also provides emergency care, home health and hospice programs, and women's health services. To support preventive care, the hospital's DMH Wellness Center offers an affordable healthcare plan. Decatur Memorial also operates local urgent care centers and primary care centers in the surrounding area.

St. Peter's Health Care Services is a health care system for the residents of Albany, New York, area. The network's primary facility, St. Peter's Hospital, has more than 440 acute-care beds and a medical staff of more than 600 physicians. Specialty services include emergency medicine, cancer and cardiovascular care, and women's health. The hospital was founded by the Religious Sisters of Mercy in 1869. St. Peter's Health Care also operates community health clinics, long-term care facilities, mental health centers, and home health and hospice agencies. The health system is a subsidiary of not-for-profit hospital operator Catholic Health East.

Catholic Health Initiatives is a national nonprofit health organization with headquarters in Denver. The faith-based system operates in 19 states and includes 73 hospitals; 40 long-term care, assisted- and residential-living facilities; two community health-services organizations; and home health agencies. In fiscal year 2010, CHI provided almost $590 million in charity care and community benefit, including services for the poor, free clinics, education and research. With annual revenues of approximately $9 billion, CHI is the nation's third-largest Catholic health care system. Catholic Health Initiatives thrives on our vision of Catholic health care as a vibrant ministry, ready to provide compassionate care of the body, mind and spirit through the 21st century and beyond.

In 1903, at the suggestion of Ellen White, a group of leaders from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists went from Battle Creek, Michigan to Washington, DC in search of a new location for the denominational headquarters, a publishing house, a sanitarium, and a college. They found just what they were looking for in Takoma Park, Maryland. Ellen White contributed a part of the proceeds from the sale of the book "The Ministry of Healing" to help build the sanitarium, and Adventist HealthCare was born. Today, Adventist HealthCare is a non-profit network of healthcare providers that includes hospitals, home health agencies, nursing centers, and other healthcare services.Based in Rockville, Maryland, Adventist HealthCare employs more than 7,200 people and cares for more than 450,000 men, women and children in our community each year among our various entities and services. The primary service areas for Adventist HealthCare are the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and northwestern New Jersey.

Sorin S.p.A is focused on cardiovascular health and heart care. Its heart valves unit makes Sorin, Carbomedics, Mitroflow, and Biomedica valves and annuloplasty rings. The cardiopulmonary group makes Didedco, Sorin, and Stockert oxygenators, heart-lung, and autotransfusion systems used during surgery, as well as endoscopic vessel harvesting devices. Rhythm management includes Sorin and Ela Medical pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, electrodes, and monitors. Sorin, which was formed in 2004, supplies healthcare providers in 80 countries worldwide.

The DCH Healthcare Authority is concerned with the Druid City's health. The company, which does business as DCH Health System, provides health services to residents of Tuscaloosa and several other communities in Western Alabama. Its flagship facility is the 580-bed DCH Regional Medical Center, a full-service teaching hospital located near the University of Alabama campus. DCH Health System also includes the Northport, Pickens County, and Fayette medical centers, which together house 320 acute-care beds. The hospitals offer a full range of inpatient and outpatient services, including primary, diagnostic, emergency, surgical, rehabilitative, and home health care.

Mediwatch keeps an eye on patients' urological health. The company designs and manufactures medical devices used in diagnosis, treatment, and management of urological disorders. Its PSAWatch product helps to detect and monitor prostate cancer. The company's other products include ultrasound imaging devices, urinary flow monitoring devices, and products to help with erectile dysfunction. Among its customers are hospitals, medical clinics, primary care physicians, and nurses.

Biosynergy, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of quality control products specifically designed to assist the medical, food, laboratory, and industrial markets in making sure they distribute and deliver safe and effective products to the general public.Biosynergy, Inc. specialize in the development of time-temperature indicators that change color to signal the occurrence of a potentially damaging heat or freeze event, allowing the user to determine whether or not their product should be used. The Company also distribute products designed to heat, cool, and activate medical samples and indicators.

AmeriHealth has been providing managed care, primarily HMO, products to more than 265,000 members in Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. As a subsidiary of Independence Blue Cross, the managed care provider operates as two entities, AmeriHealth HMO and AmeriHealth Insurance, though it prefers one unified name, AmeriHealth. AmeriHealth company offers traditional HMO, PPO, Medicare, Medicaid, and third-party administration (TPA) services. In addition, AmeriHealth provides health assessment, wellness, reimbursement, anti-fraud, and disease management programs. AmeriHealth company was formed in 1995.

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