Linda J. Ellis

Hospitalists Management Group LLC is a physician owned and managed equity model organization. It provides full-service billing company, human resources, physician recruitment, legal services/risk management, credentialing, third-party contracting, accounting, marketing and network development, information services and more. The company has also implemented the use of hand-held wireless technology that allows for instantaneous charge entry, access to patient medical record systems, and the ability to communicate with both primary care and consulting physicians on each patient's case. The company was founded by Stephen L. Houff in 1999 and is headquartered in Canton, OH.

Healogics LLC provides wound healing services to hospitals in the United States. It specializes in chronic wound treatment, operates wound care centers, collaborates with hospital and home care providers, and serves as a resource for wound care research. The firm offers treatment for various chronic and non-healing wounds, including venous ulcers, pressure ulcers, arterial ulcers, osteoradionecrosis, necrotizing infections, surgical wounds and burns, soft-tissue radionecrosis, diabetic lower extremity ulcers, and chronic refractory osteomyelitis. It manages wound care centers through a connected network of centers, partner hospitals, academic medical centers, patients, and families. The company was founded on June 10, 1996 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, FL.

Cogent HMG, Inc. provides healthcare services and operates hospitals. It offers hospitalist solutions that include physician staffing, practice management, case management, program management, quality improvement, standardized care, recruiting, training and mentoring, communication & reporting and marketing services. The firm also offers intensivist solutions for critically ill medical and surgical patients being treated at hospitals' intensive care units. The company was founded in April 2011 and is headquartered in Brentwood, TN.

Sterling Healthcare Group, Inc. provides healthcare services. It offers billing, collection, and physician staffing services to hospitals, government agencies, military, physicians, and other health care entities. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Coral Gables, FL.

EmCare, Inc. operates as a physician practice management company, that provides outsourced facility-based physician services for clinicians, hospitals, health systems, and other healthcare clients in the United States. The firm offers integrating clinical services; emergency medicine services; and hospital medicine services, including 24/7 hospitalist coverage, help hospitals manage their purchasing programs, lengths of stay management, daily inpatient care management, discharge care coordination with providers, recruit/retain physicians, physician leadership training/education, post-discharge follow-up, access to intensivists, coding and billing services, and customizing financial and staffing models, as well as consultation and coverage for intensive care, psychiatric, medical, skilled nursing, rehabilitation, surgery, OB/GYN, and other units. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.