The roots of Kaiser Permanente date back to the depression era when a pre-payment system for hospital services was developed for workers on the aqueduct project in the Mojave Desert, California.

Finding Baptist Health Care in Northwest Florida is an easy task given the system's role in Pensacola and the surrounding communities. Baptist Health Care's commitment to the community that supports it extends far beyond delivering top quality medical treatment.

In central west Texas, the population is sparse and there are a lot of miles between cities. That hasn’t stopped Stonewall Memorial Hospital (SMH) in the town of Aspermont from leading the way for rural healthcare.

 Alverno Clinical Laboratories LLC is a Hammond, Indiana-based integrated lab that serves three Catholic healthcare organizations: Resurrection Health Care (Chicago, Illinois), Provena Health (Illinois) and the Sisters of St. Francis Health Services (Indiana).

The merger of two medical facilities in Cornwall, Ontario is just the beginning of the rebirth underway at Cornwall Hospital, a 170-bed acute-care facility with a long history serving the residents of Eastern Ontario.

Danbury Hospital is a non-profit medical facility with 371 licensed beds and 3,300 employees in Danbury, Connecticut. It is a university teaching hospital associated with New York Medical College, the Yale University School of Medicine, the Connecticut School of Medicine and Columbia University Medical Center

As a leading provider of kidney care services in America , it might come as a surprise that DaVita employees think of themselves as citizens of a community rather than cogs in the wheel of a giant company.

A quarter century ago, a group of volunteers began Hope Hospice with the belief that end-of-life care was as important as healthcare at any other stage of a person’s life.

Since joining Meadows Regional Medical Center in January 2000, President and CEO Alan Kent has marveled at the rural facility’s unprecedented growth across a range of quality indicators: scope of services, number of physicians, and gross revenue, to name a few.

The Ottawa Hospital is one of Canada’s largest academic health science centers, the result of a 1998 merger mandated by the Ontario government. In the beginning, there were two large teaching hospitals—one ``French`` and the other ``English``— and two smaller community hospitals.

Providing cost effective services and excellent customer service are a fundamental part of Progressive Medical’s competencies. CEO David Bianconi started Progressive Medical in 1986 with a vision of not only helping and assisting clients, but of also developing a work atmosphere that is conducive to efficiency and healthy attitudes.

For over twenty-two years, Providence Health Care President & CEO Dianne Doyle has played a dynamic role in the world of Canadian health care. Doyle’s value-centered leadership style is derived from decades of clinical nursing experience.

The Seton Family of Hospitals is growing quickly all across centralTexas . As the Seton Family grows with the communities it serves, CEO Charles Barnett thinks “about our opportunities to serve in non-traditional ways.”

Spectrum Laboratory Network is a full-service regional medical laboratory headquartered in Greensboro, NC. As a joint venture created by High Point Regional Health System and the Moses Cone Health System, the original goal of the organization was to consolidate laboratory function, and reduce operating costs in the Hospital Laboratories.

With 4300 employees at its two locations in Mississauga and West Toronto, Trillium Health Centre is already one of the largest community hospitals in Canada offering “a unique combination of community hospital services plus high end tertiary care,” according to President and CEO Janet Davidson.

All around the city of New Orleans , there are signs of rebuilding in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Tulane Medical Center, one of the major healthcare facilities in the downtown area is leading that effort to reconstruct the community.

Hans Thunem takes pride in the recent revitalization of LifeLabs, Canada’s largest medical laboratory service provider. Mr. Thunem, a former oil and technology industry leader, first applied his corporate skills to the struggling healthcare company in early 2005.

“We want to be part of the cure,” says Silverado Senior Living Inc. President and CEO Loren Shook.  “We do that by giving our residents life and our staff life.”  Founded just over 10 years ago in San Juan Capistrano, California, Silverado is exclusively focused on memory care.