Ventana Medical Systems wants to be a window into the cause of cancer. The company's slide staining systems (sold under the names BenchMark, NexES, and Symphony) are used to automate the processing and microscopic analysis of human tissue for the detection and treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. Ventana also sells consumables such as reagents and slides needed to operate the systems. It uses a direct sales force to market its products to hospital, anatomical pathology, and drug discovery labs around the globe. Its products are used by many cancer research centers, including the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins Hospital. The firm is led by CEO Hany Massarany and owned by Roche.

Greenville Hospital System (GHS) is out to keep residents of the "Golden Strip" (the corridor connecting Charlotte, North Carolina, and Atlanta) healthy. Founded in 1912, the system encompasses five campuses with some 1,100 inpatient beds. Its flagship facility is Greenville Memorial Hospital, a tertiary referral and academic medical center with more than 700 beds; other facilities include several smaller community hospitals, a nursing home, and a long-term acute care hospital. GHS offers a full range of services, including a primary care physician network, outpatient services, and home health care.

Emeritus Corporation operates senior living communities that provide assisted living, and Alzheimer’s and dementia care services to senior citizens in the United States. Its communities provide residential housing alternatives, including independent living, assisted living, specialized memory care, and skilled nursing services. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated or had an investment in 308 assisted living communities consisting of approximately 27,100 residential rooms or suites with a capacity for approximately 32,300 residents. It also provides management services to independent and related-party owners of assisted living communities. Emeritus Corporation was founded in 1993 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Liberty Regional Medical Center Inc. was established in 1961 as Liberty Memorial Hospital and is governed by the Hospital Authority of Liberty County. Liberty Regional Medical Center takes patient liberties to heart. The medical center consists of a 50-bed acute care hospital and a long-term skilled nursing facility with about 110 beds. Hospital services include emergency medicine, physical therapy, radiology, pediatrics, cardiology, laboratory, surgery, rehabilitation, and women's health. Liberty Regional Medical Center's long-term care facility, Coastal Manor, offers rehabilitation therapies and Alzheimer's and dementia care.

Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers has been improving the health of area residents since 1906. Located 55 miles southwest of Chicago in Morris, Illinois, the 86-bed Morris Hospital serves residents of Grundy County and parts of Will, LaSalle, Livingston, and Kendall counties and is the largest employer in Grundy County. The hospital owns and operates primary care physician practices within a 30-mile radius of the hospital. The practices are located in Braidwood, Channahon, Dwight, Gardner, Marseilles and Newark.Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers is known for its compassionate and personalized approach to healthcare. This is attributed to the outstanding work of 900 employees, 350 Auxilians, and a medical staff of more than 180 physicians representing most medical specialties. The hospital commits significant resources annually to continually enhance its diagnostic and treatment capabilities.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) as a leading pediatric hospital, CHOP also has one of the largest pediatric research programs in the world. The nation's first hospital devoted exclusively to the care of children, it has about 445 beds at its primary facility and operates a pediatric health care network with owned or affiliated offices, clinics, and research facilities in Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The hospital is a leader in formal pediatric medical training, pediatric emergency medicine, and adolescent medicine. CHOP's pediatricians also provide care at a number of other area hospitals.

DexCom, Inc., a medical device company, focuses on the design, development, and commercialization of continuous glucose monitoring systems for ambulatory use by people with diabetes, and for use by healthcare providers in the hospital for the treatment of both diabetic and non-diabetic patients. The company offers FDA approved SEVEN, which includes a disposable sensor that can be inserted by a patient and used continuously for up to seven days; a transmitter; and a small handheld receiver. Its SEVEN system also received CE Mark approval for commercialization in the European Union and the countries in Asia and Latin America that recognize the CE Mark. DexCom, Inc. also provides the SEVEN PLUS, which incorporates additional user interface and algorithm enhancements that are intended to make its glucose monitoring function customizable. Its SEVEN PLUS has FDA and CE Mark approvals. DexCom has a collaboration agreement with Edwards Lifesciences LLC to develop products for continuously monitoring blood glucose levels in patients hospitalized for various conditions. It also has development agreement with Insulet Corporation to integrate its continuous glucose monitoring technology into Insulet’s wireless, handheld OmniPod System Personal Diabetes Manager; and a joint development agreement with Animas Corporation to integrate its continuous glucose monitoring technology into Animas insulin pumps. DexCom, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Gwinnett Health System consists of the Gwinnett Medical Centers in Duluth and Lawrenceville, Georgia. Both offer acute care, day surgery, emergency care, and rehabilitation. The system also includes the Gwinnett Women's Pavilion (maternity and neonatal care) and the Gwinnett Extended Care Center. In total its facilities hold more than 350 beds. The Glancy Rehabilitation Center offers intensive inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation in what used to be the main facility at the Duluth campus. Gwinnett sold its SummitRidge psychiatric hospital to Universal Health Services in 2008.

St. Mary's Healthcare Center, consisting of a 60-bed acute-care hospital, a 105-bed long-term-care hospital, and 58-unit senior-living apartments, provides health care services in central South Dakota. The health care center offers both inpatient and outpatient care, including surgery, children's health, home and hospice care, and rehabilitation services. St. Mary's got its start in the nineteenth century; in the 1920s, it became one of the first hospitals in South Dakota to become accredited.

American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Health Plan is the health plan division of the American Postal Workers Union, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO. Providing health benefits to some 140,000 members, the not-for-profit organization is a self-administered and self-underwritten health plan. It provides a fee-for-service plan featuring a preferred provider network, as well as a lower-cost, high-deductible option with a health reimbursement account. The plan's provider network includes some 6.000 hospitals and nearly 600,000 health care providers across the US and its territories. The APWU Health Plan was founded in 1960.

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