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Health care (often healthcare in American English), is the treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of health through services offered by the medical, dental, complementary and alternative medicine, pharmaceutical, clinical sciences (in vitro diagnostics), nursing, and allied...
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Pfizer
Pfizer Incorporated (NYSE: PFE) is a pharmaceutical company, ranking number one in sales in the world. The company is based in New York City, with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut. It produces Lipitor (atorvastatin, used to lower...
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Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) is a global American pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the...
Date founded:
- 1886
Boots Group
The Boots Company, commercially known as Boots is a leading pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom, with outlets in most high streets throughout the country. Its parent company, Boots Group plc merged with Alliance UniChem plc on 31 July 2006 to...
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Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. Kaiser Permanente is a consortium of three distinct groups of...
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- 1945
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Alliance Unichem
Alliance UniChem plc wholesales, distributes, and retails pharmaceutical, surgical, medical, and healthcare products throughout Europe. The Group serves pharmacies and other healthcare customers. Alliance UniChem's retail pharmacy division operates...
Date founded:
- Nov 1997
Meditech
Medical Information Technology, Inc., commonly known as MEDITECH, is a Massachusetts-based software and service company selling information systems, which are installed in health care organizations throughout the world. Founded in 1969 by Chairman...
Date founded:
- 1969
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Eli Lilly and Company
Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) is a global pharmaceutical company. Eli Lilly's global headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States. The company was founded in 1876 by a pharmaceutical chemist, Eli Lilly, after whom the...
Date founded:
- 1876
Gentiva Health Services
Gentiva Health Services (NASDAQ: GTIV), formerly based in Long Island, New York and now in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of the largest providers of home health care and related services in the United States.
Gentiva is a Fortune 1000 company with...
Extendicare
Extendicare Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX: EXE.un) is a Toronto, Ontario based company that operates 440 long-term care facilities across North America. The company became a REIT and began trading on the TSX on November 10, 2006 under the symbol...
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Health Net
Health Net, Inc. (NYSE: HNT) is among the United States of America's largest publicly traded managed health care companies. The company’s HMO, POS, insured PPO and government contracts subsidiaries provide health benefits to approximately 6.6...
Gilead Sciences
Gilead Sciences NASDAQ: GILD is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes therapeutics. For many years since the company was founded, the company concentrated primarily on antiviral drugs to treat patients infected with...
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Hospital Corporation of America
The Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) is the largest private operator of health care facilities in the United States. It is based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States and is widely considered to be the single largest factor in making that city...
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- 1968
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Medtronic
Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the world's largest medical technology company and is included in the list of Fortune 500 companies. Medtronic company was founded in 1949 in a garage in northeast Minneapolis by Earl...
Date founded:
- 1949
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is a prominent university hospital in New York City, composed of two medical centers, Columbia University Medical Center and the Cornell University Weill Medical Center.
New York-Presbyterian Hospital, chartered as "The...
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McKesson
McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK) is the largest health care company in the world, with sales of $101.7 billion in 2008.
McKesson is based in the United States and distributes health care systems, medical supplies and pharmaceutical products....
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Cardinal Health
Cardinal Health, Inc., is a health care services company based in Dublin, Ohio. It is currently ranked 18th on the Fortune 500. Cardinal health specializes in health care supply chain services, providing pharmaceuticals and medical products to more...
Date founded:
- 1971
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Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk (OMX: NOVO B, NYSE: NVO) manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products and services. Created in 1989 through a merger of two Danish companies dating back to the 1920s, it has become one of the world's leading companies in diabetes...
Date founded:
- 1923
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American Medical Response
American Medical Response, Inc. (AMR) is the largest private ambulance provider in the United States. AMR and EmCare are wholly owned subsidiaries of EMSC L.P., an emergency management company held by the investment firm Onex AMR has headquarters in...
Date founded:
- 1992
Anthem
Anthem was an insurance company which began in the 1980s as a spin-off of the group insurance operations of American General Insurance. From its move to a publicly-traded company in 2001 until its final merger in 2004, it merged the Blue Cross Blue...
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SSL International
SSL International plc (LSE: SSL) is a British-based manufacturer of healthcare products. Its most well-known brands are Durex and Scholl; other significant brands are Sauber and Mister Baby. The Company's name is an abbreviation of Seton Scholl...
Date founded:
- 1999
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MHM Services
MHM Services, Inc. is a privately held mental health services provider in Tysons Corner, VA. The company's principal customers are state and local governments.
The firm is divided into at least three functional divisions:
MHM is the only national...
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BUPA
Bupa is a large British healthcare organisation, with bases on three continents and more than ten million customers in over 200 countries.
Bupa (originally, the British United Provident Association) was established in 1947 when 17 British provident...
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- 1947
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Boston Scientific
The Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) (abbreviated BSC), is a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices whose products are used in a range of interventional medical specialties, including interventional cardiology,...
Date founded:
- 1979
ARINC
Aeronautical Radio, Incorporated (ARINC), established in 1929, is a major provider of transport communications and systems engineering solutions for eight industries: (aviation, airports, defense, government, healthcare, networks, security, and...
Amersham plc
Amersham plc is a UK pharmaceutical company, specializing in medical diagnostics and life science products. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but is now owned by General Electric.
The company...
Date founded:
- 1997
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WellPoint
WellPoint, Inc. is a large, U.S. based health insurance company and the largest member of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. It was formed when WellPoint Health Networks, Inc. merged into Anthem, Inc., with the surviving Anthem adopting the...
Kindred Healthcare
Kindred Healthcare Incorporated (NYSE: KND) is a healthcare services company that through its subsidiaries operates hospitals, nursing centers, and contract rehabilitation services across the United States. Kindred is the largest diversified post...
Date founded:
- 1985
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Stayhealthy
Stayhealthy, Inc. is a privately held corporation that creates web-enabled healthcare monitoring products. It was founded in the dot-com era by CEO John Collins, and produces devices that monitor and measure such aspects of one's health like body...
Date founded:
- 2001
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HealthSouth
HealthSouth Corporation (NYSE: HLS), based in Birmingham, Alabama, is one of the largest healthcare services providers in the United States. Best known for its rehabilitation services, HealthSouth has more than 200 facilities in United States and...
Date founded:
- 1984
Haemonetics
Haemonetics (NYSE: HAE) is a global provider of blood and plasma supplies and services. Founded in Braintree, Massachusetts in the 1970s, the company has expanded and has many offices located in 16 countries.
They started out producing the...
Date founded:
- 1971
EmCare
EmCare Holdings Inc., or EmCare, is one of the United States largest contract emergency room staffing agencies. EmCare is based in Dallas, Texas and employs over 4,500 doctors and several hundred nurse practitioners and physician assistants. They...
Date founded:
- 1972
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Rural Metro
Rural/Metro Corporation (NASDAQ: RURL) is a for-profit emergency services organization — the second-largest in the country — providing emergency medical transportation, non-emergency general medical transportation to healthcare facilities and health...
Date founded:
- 1951
Medco Health Solutions
Medco Health Solutions, Inc (NYSE: MHS) is a health care company currently serving more than 60 million people. Medco provides pharmacy services for private and public employers, health plans, labor unions, government agencies, and individuals...
Date founded:
- 2003
William Demant
The William Demant Holding Group (OMX: WDH) is a leading international hearing health care company within hearing aids, audiometric equipment, and personal communication.
The William Demant Holding Group was founded in 1904 by Hans Demant, under the...
Date founded:
- 1904
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Dabur
The story of Dabur goes back to 1884, to a young doctor armed with a degree in medicine and a burning desire to serve mankind. This young man, Dr. S. K. Burman, laid the foundations of what is today known as Dabur India Limited. The brand name Dabur...
Date founded:
- 1884
Fresenius AG
Fresenius SE (FWB: FRE, FRE3) is a health care company with approximately 120,000 employees, based in Bad Homburg, Germany.
Fresenius consists of three wholly-owned business units, Fresenius Biotech, Fresenius Kabi and Fresenius Vamed, and holds...
Date founded:
- 1912
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Chattem
Chattem (NASDAQ: CHTT) is a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based producer and marketer of over-the-counter healthcare products, toiletries, dietary supplements, topical analgesics, and medicated skin care products. Originally named the Chattanooga Medicine...
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is an $8 billion integrated global nonprofit health enterprise that has 50,000 employees, 20 hospitals, 400 outpatient sites and doctors’ offices, a 1.3 million-member health insurance division, as...
Date founded:
- 1893
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Cerner
Cerner Corporation (NASDAQ: CERN) is an international health care information technology corporation that specializes in providing complete systems for hospitals and other medical organizations to manage and integrate all electronic medical records,...
Date founded:
- 1979
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Baxter International
Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX), is an American health care company with headquarters in Deerfield, Illinois. The company primarily focuses on products to treat hemophilia, kidney disease, immune disorders and other chronic and acute medical...
Date founded:
- 1931
King Pharmaceuticals
King Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: KG), the world's 39th largest pharmaceutical company, is based in Bristol, Tennessee. King produces a wide range of pharmaceuticals, including Altace for heart attack prevention, Levoxyl for hypothyroidism, Sonata, a...
Date founded:
- 1994
Fresenius Medical Care
Fresenius Medical Care is a German company specializing in the production of medical supplies, primarily to facilitate or aid renal dialysis. It is 36%-owned by the health care company Fresenius SE. The company was formed in 1996 from the merger of...
Date founded:
- 1996
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Iowa Foundation for Medical Care
Iowa Foundation for Medical Care (IFMC) is a non-profit organization which provides services in health care quality improvement and medical information management. IFMC is based in West Des Moines, Iowa and has offices in Illinois, Maryland, Nevada,...
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Alliance Boots
Alliance Boots GmbH is a retail pharmacist and pharmaceutical wholesaler in several European countries. It has a turnover in excess of £17 billion. It was formed in 2006 through a merger of the listed British high street pharmacist Boots Group and...
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Wyeth
Wyeth, formerly known as American Home Products (AHP), was one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The company is based in Madison, New Jersey, USA. They are known for manufacturing the over-the-counter (OTC) drugs Robitussin and...
Date founded:
- 1860
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Biomet
Biomet, Inc. is a medical device manufacturer located in Warsaw, Indiana. The company specializes in reconstructive products for hips, knees and shoulders, fixation devices, orthopedic support devices, dental implants and operating room supplies....
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Celgene
Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG) is a manufacturer of drug therapies for cancer and inflammatory disorders. It is incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Summit, New Jersey. As of January 1, 2007, the company had 2441 full-time employees,...
Date founded:
- 1986
Bial
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Bial (Portela e Cª, S.A.) is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in S. Mamede do Coronado, in Trofa, Porto district, Portugal. It was founded in 1924, being among the largest and most...
Date founded:
- Apr 19, 1924
Express Scripts Incorporated
Express Scripts (NASDAQ: ESRX) is a company headquartered in Cool Valley, Missouri. It began in 1986 in St. Louis, Missouri as a result of a joint venture between a retail chain of more than 79 pharmacies (Medicare Glaser Inc.) and Sanus Corp....
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- 1986
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Abano Healthcare Group
Abano Healthcare Group is a leading healthcare and medical services provider in New Zealand. It incorporates numerous businesses, each with their own identities, brands, and specialist operations.
The group operates in four sectors of the healthcare...
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ViroPharma
ViroPharma Incorporated, a pharmaceutical company, develops and sells drugs that address serious diseases treated by physician specialists and in hospital settings. The company focuses on product development activities on viral diseases, including...
Date founded:
- 1994
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DaVita
DaVita Inc, NYSE: DVA, is one of the largest kidney care companies in the United States. Their offerings include in-center hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, home hemodialysis, vascular access management, chronic kidney disease education, and renal...
Dollond & Aitchison
Dollond & Aitchison are one of the oldest opticians in the United Kingdom, having been established in 1750.
On April 21 1750, Peter Dollond opened a small optical business in Vine Street, near Hatton Garden in London. He was joined by his father...
Date founded:
- 1983
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Riverside Health System
Riverside Health System is a non-profit healthcare organization based in Newport News, Virginia.
Founded in 1916, Riverside Health System was originally established as a small hospital. The health system and each major facility in the organization...
Date founded:
- 1916
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Polar Electro
Polar Electro, or shortly Polar, is a manufacturer of advanced training computers and heart rate monitoring equipment. The company is based in Kempele, Finland. Founded in 1977, Polar introduced the world's first wireless heart rate monitor. The...
Caremark Rx
Caremark Pharmacy Services is a prescription benefit management subsidiary of CVS Caremark Corporation, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
Caremark, formerly known as Caremark Rx, was founded in 1993 in Birmingham, Alabama as MedPartners, Inc....
Date founded:
- 1993
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Dubai Holding
Dubai Holding (Arabic: دبي القابضة) is a holding company that belongs to the Government of Dubai (Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum as the Ruler of Dubai holds 99.67% of the company). It manages and controls 20 companies, which operate in real...
Date founded:
- Oct 2004
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Alphapharm
Alphapharm is a generic drug manufacturing company based in Australia. Alphapharm manufactures many different generic pharmaceutical medicines. It is a owned by Mylan Pharmaceuticals (USA). Alphapharm's logo is a green circle with a white lowercase...
Date founded:
- 1982
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Niagara Health System
The Niagara Health System (NHS) is Ontario's largest multi-site hospital amalgamation, comprising six hospital sites and an ambulatory care centre serving 434,000 residents across the 12 municipalities making up the Regional Municipality of Niagara,...
Date founded:
- 2005
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Omnicare
Omnicare (NYSE: OCR) is a Fortune 500 company based in Covington, Kentucky. This company provides services to skilled nursing, assisted living, and other healthcare facilities in 47 U.S. states and Canada.
Omnicare functions as a network of...
