When it comes to surgical implants, RTI Biologics recommends the natural alternative. The firm develops products made from human and animal tissue that are used in orthopedic, dental, and other surgeries to repair fractures, spinal disorders, sports injuries, breast reconstruction, and other procedures. Using its BioCleanse and Tutoplast processes, the company sterilizes tissue -- including bone, tendons, and skin -- that is then used in surgeries. RTI Biologics sells its allografts (made from human tissue) and xenografts (made from animals) in the US and more than 30 countries. Its direct sales force targets the sports medicine and general orthopedic markets.

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.

Knoxville-based East Tennessee Children's Hospital (ETCH), with more than 150 beds, provides a full range of health care services to children from eastern Tennessee and nearby portions of Kentucky, North Carolina, and Virginia. Among its 90 specialized services are cardiology, neonatal care, orthopedics, and psychiatry. The hospital also offers several outside support services, including those for families of children stricken by cancer. Its emergency department treats some 70,000 patients each year. The hospital's roots are in the foundation of Knox County Crippled Children's Hospital in 1937, with less than 50 beds.

Greater Baltimore Medical Center, also known as GBMC, operates an integrated health system for residents of Baltimore and surrounding counties. The 300-bed medical center provides psychiatry, surgery, women's health, oncology, and other specialty and general medical services. The hospital provides inpatient and outpatient services, and its emergency room treats about 60,000 patients every year. In addition, it provides teaching services through an affiliation with Johns Hopkins University. GBMC also includes the Greater Baltimore Medical Associates physician practices and the Gilchrist Hospice Care agency.

Community Health Systems, Inc. provides healthcare services through the operation of hospitals in the United States. The company offers a range of general and specialized hospital healthcare services, including general acute care services, emergency room services, general and specialty surgery, critical care, internal medicine, obstetrics, and diagnostic services. It also owns or partners with physicians, physician practices, imaging centers, and ambulatory surgery centers. In addition, the company provides management and consulting services to non-affiliated general acute care hospitals. As of December 31, 2009, it owned or leased 122 hospitals with an aggregate of 18,140 licensed beds in non-urban and selected urban markets in 29 states. The company also owned and operated four home care agencies. Community Health Systems, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.

Advocat Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides long-term care services to nursing home patients primarily in the southeast and southwest United States. Advocat Inc. provides a range of long-term care services to the elderly, which include skilled nursing, ancillary health care services, and assisted living. It also offers various rehabilitative, nutritional, respiratory, and other specialized ancillary services. As of March 9, 2010, it operated 50 skilled nursing centers containing 5,799 licensed nursing beds. Advocat Inc. has nursing centers in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. Advocat Inc. was founded in 1994 and is based in Brentwood, Tennessee.

Danville Regional Medical Center (DRMC) serving residents of the Dan River Region in Danville, Virginia. Founded in 1884 as the Ladies Benevolent Society Home for the Sick, the hospital provides a variety of health care services such as home care, cancer treatment, psychiatry, and rehabilitation. Outpatient options include endoscopy (for gastrointestinal care), imaging, neurosurgical treatments, and pain management. DRMC administers a range of senior care services such as skilled nursing and coordination of assisted and independent living options. The health system is owned by LifePoint Hospitals.

Ellis Hospital serves the residents of New York's capital area. Its main hospital facility with some 380 beds provides services including diagnostic, primary, emergency, surgical, and rehabilitative care. The hospital is also home to centers of excellence in the treatment of and care for heart and cardiovascular ailments, cancer, women's health issues, stroke-related problems, and behavioral health concerns. The hospital also operates the Ellis Center (a more than 80-bed nursing home), the Bellvue Woman's Center, and the satellite outpatient clinic Ellis Health Center. Ellis Hospital operates academic programs to prepare students for careers in health care and nursing.

Baptist Health Care strives for coastal health excellence. The firm operates hospitals, clinics, and a home health agency in northern and western Florida, as well as southern Alabama. Founded in 1951, the Pensacola, Florida-based not-for-profit health care system operates four acute-care hospitals, including the 490-bed Baptist Hospital and 65-bed Gulf Breeze Hospital. Baptist Health Care, in conjunction with its affiliates, provides a wide variety of services such as home health care, rehabilitation services, and behavioral health services. Its Baptist Manor in Pensacola provides sub-acute care and long-term care, and the Andrews Institute provides sports medicine services.

Micro Identification Technologies Inc. ("MIT"), formerly Micro Imaging Technology is a development stage public company (OTCBB "MMTC"), objectives are to become a global leader in developing, supporting and marketing rapid systems and processes that detect and identify microbial organisms. MIT has developed and patented a technology for rapid microbe identification. The technology is a non-biological identification process that is extremely fast, easy to use and does not rely on conventional chemical or biological processing, fluorescent tags, gas chromatography or DNA analysis. The system measures scattered light intensity as individual microbes pass through a laser beam. The intensity pattern of the scattered light is a direct consequence of the size, shape and external and internal optical characteristics of the microbe. By measuring scattered light at specific angles, the system detects and differentiates objects the size of bacteria, protozoa, yeasts and molds.

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