Centura Health was established in 1996 as a not-for-profit health care system serving the Denver metro area and surrounding counties. The health system encompasses 12 hospitals (with a combined bed count of about 2,800), seven senior living communities as well as home care, hospice, home medical equipment, and oxygen services. Centura partners with a bevy of local diagnostic imaging and ambulatory surgery centers in rural and mountainous regions to provide those communities with better access to services. The system was established by Catholic Health Initiatives and Adventist Health System.

Philips Healthcare makes it easier to get a look on the inside of things. Its parent company, Royal Philips Electronics, developed the first X-ray tube for medical use in 1918. Today, Philips Healthcare is a top global maker of medical imaging equipment, including X-ray, ultrasound, MR (magnetic resonance), and CT (computed tomography) scanners. The firm also makes patient monitors, resuscitation products, and data management systems, and it offers consulting, financing, training, and maintenance services. Philips Healthcare accounts for about 30% of its parent's sales and has operations in more than 60 countries.

Trover Health System (formerly Trover Foundation) provides health care services to residents of western Kentucky through its Regional Medical Center, a general hospital with more than 400 beds, and nine Trover Clinic locations with some 100 physicians on staff. Regional Medical Center provides specialized services such as home health care, nephrology, rehabilitation, and trauma care. Trover Health's physicians represent about 40 specialties to residents in an area covering six counties. Its centers of excellence include the Merle M. Mahr Cancer Center, the Center for Women's Health, the Center for Heart and Vascular Services.

North Memorial Health Care seeks victory over illness in the Twin Cities. Established in 1939 as Victory Hospital, the health care network is home to North Memorial Medical Center with some 520 beds and the Humphrey Cancer Center, as well as an emergency vehicle fleet of about 130 ambulances and helicopters. The network also offers a heart center and a childbirth program, and it operates about a dozen primary and specialty care clinics in the Twin Cities region. Its outpatient center, located next to the North Memorial Medical Center, provides oncology, radiation, and imaging services. North Memorial Health Care also provides home health and hospice services.

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.

WellMed's doctors can probably treat it. Specializing in health care services for Medicare-eligible senior citizens, WellMed provides primary care services through more than 24 offices in Texas, as well as a handful of offices in Florida. It provides supplemental programs through affiliates as well, including health care plans, transportation, fitness programs, chronic disease management, and imaging services. Other operations include providing management services to some 100 affiliated physicians' offices in the San Antonio and Orlando (many of which also serve as an extended network for WellMed's patients). WellMed was founded in 1990 by CEO George M. Rapier III, MD.

Froedtert Hospital was founded in 1980 and has some 500 beds. Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital for a full range of health services, including trauma, transplant, sports medicine, and senior care. The hospital, also known as Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin, is part of the Froedtert Health system (pronouned frey-dert). Specialty units include cancer, neuroscience, birthing, fertility, and vein clinics. The hospital also serves as a teaching facility for the Medical College of Wisconsin, and it partners with the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin to provide pediatric services.

Lourdes Health System is a health care provider to residents of southern New Jersey, with regional hospitals in Camden (Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center) and Willingboro (Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County). With more than 650 beds combined, the two medical centers specialize in acute care, cancer, cardiology, diabetes, organ transplantation, and maternity services. The health system also encompasses the Lourdes Wellness Center in Collingswood, which focuses on integrative and holistic medicine. Lourdes Health System is sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Alleghany, NY and is a member of Catholic Health East.

ConnectiCare is one of the largest HMOs in Connecticut. In 1979 a group of doctors at Hartford Hospital planted the seeds for what would become ConnectiCare; today, the company's 240,000 members in Connecticut and western Massachusetts choose from HMO, PPO, or point-of-service options. It also provides dental and supplemental Medicare plans, as well as health savings and reimbursement accounts. ConnectiCare has a network of some 150 acute-care hospitals and about 35,000 care providers. The company is a subsidiary of Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP).

Some of Life Care's specialized services include home health care, adult day care, hospice, and wound care. Founder Forrest Preston opened his first center in 1970. If you or a loved one has reached the Golden Age of retirement, there's a good chance Life Care Centers of America offers a service you can use. The company is a privately owned operator of more than 225 retirement and health care centers in 28 states. Its offerings include retirement communities, assisted-living facilities, and nursing homes (and even some campuses that provide all three in a continuum of care). In addition, Life Care operates centers specifically for people with Alzheimer's disease or related dementia.

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