John Weiland

C. R. Bard, Inc. engages in designing, development, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, and sales of medical, surgical, diagnostic, and patient care devices. It sells its products to hospitals, individual healthcare professionals, extended care facilities, and alternate site facilities. The company was founded by Charles Russell Bard in 1907 and is headquartered in Franklin Lakes, NJ.

Meridian Health System, Inc. operates as a not-for-profit health care organization. It offers home health services, skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers, ambulatory care, ambulance services and outpatient centers. The firm also provides Assisted Living Community, medication management and consumer technology innovations centers. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Neptune, NJ.

DENTSPLY International, Inc. engages in the manufacturing and distributing of dental and other healthcare products. It designs, develops, manufactures and markets a full range of professional dental products, including dental implants, endodontic instruments and materials, orthodontic appliances, restorative materials, preventive materials and devices and prosthetic materials and devices. The company operates through the following segments: Dental Consumable and Certain International Businesses; Dental Specialty and Laboratory and Certain Global Distribution Businesses; Healthcare and Emerging Markets Businesses. The Dental Consumable and Certain International Business segment designs and manufactures company's chairside consumable products. The Certain Global Distribution Business segment designs, manufactures, sells and distributes dental specialty products, including endodontic, orthodontic and implant products, in most regions of the world. The Healthcare and Emerging Markets Businesse segment designs, manufactures, sales and distributes healthcare products, primarily urological and surgery-related products, throughout most of the world. DENTSPLY International was founded by Jacob F. Frantz, Dean C. Osborne, George H. Whiteley and John R. Sheppard on June 23, 1899 and is headquartered in York, PA.