Founded in 1957 as a cooperative, HealthPartners is an integrated health care organization providing care services and health plan financing and administration. It’s the largest consumer governed nonprofit health care organization in the nation – serving more than 1.8 million medical and dental health plan members nationwide. HealthPartner’s care system includes a multi-specialty group practice of more than 1,800 physicians that serves more than 1.2 million patients and employs over 26,000 people.

Medtronic, the creator of the world’s first pacemaker, employs more than 86,000 employees across 150+ countries and 350+ locations. They bring in $30 billion each year in revenue and are at the forefront of the industry’s medical device innovations. Since Medtronic’s humble beginnings in 1949, the company has become the world’s single largest medical device company and has developed core technologies including implantable mechanical devices, drug and biologic delivery devices, and powered and advanced energy surgical instruments that are used to treat nearly 40 medical conditions.

As a leading global provider of medical devices and technologies, Smiths Medical provides solutions for the hospital, emergency, home, and specialist environments. The company’s extensive range of products are carefully crafted to improve and save the lives of patients throughout the world in critical and intensive care, surgery, post-operative care, and home infusion therapies. Headquarted in Minneapolis, Smiths Medical employs 7,700+ people world-wide and operates in more than 30 countries.

UnitedHealth Group is a distinctively diversified health and well-being company headquartered in MSP. UnitedHealth Group’s core capabilities are in clinical expertise, advanced technology, and data and health information that enable the company to meet the evolving needs of a changing health care environment. The organization operates through two distinct platforms: Optum and UnitedHealthcare, together which employ more than 15,000 people in Minnesota alone and 305,000+ worldwide.

Ecolab is the global leader in water, hygiene, and energy technologies and services. Around the world businesses in foodservice, food processing, hospitality, healthcare, industrial, and oil and gas markets choose Ecolab products and services to keep their environment clean and safe, operate efficiently, and achieve sustainability goals. Since 2010, the number of people employed by Ecolab has more than doubled to the current 48,000. Over its history, Ecolab has received thousands of patents to protect its innovations, is headquarted in Saint Paul, and operates in more than 170 countries.

Medica, one of MSP’s largest health care provider giants, represents a group of companies held by a nonprofit, tax exempt holding company called Medica Holding Company. Its family of businesses that has received the highest accreditation status, Excellent, from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA®) for its Minnesota Medicaid HMO plans and commercial health plans in Minnesota and North Dakota. Medica also has achieved Quality Plus Distinction for Physician and Hospital Quality from the NCQA. The organization employs around 1,200 people and is headquartered from its Minnetonka offices.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is a taxable, nonprofit organization with a mission to make a healthy difference in people’s lives. Chartered in 1933 as Minnesota’s first health plan, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has promoted wider, economical and timely availability of health services for the people of Minnesota for 80+ years. Roughly one in three Minnesotans have a health plan with the company, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has received numerous awards recognizing the organization as a top employer and best place to work.

Allina Health is a group of 12 hospitals, 90+ clinics, 52 rehabilitation locations, 15 retail pharmacies, and two ambulatory care centers with a headequarters in Minneapolis. In addition to providing a wide range of general care services, Allina Health offers specialty medical services including hospice care, oxygen and home medical equipment, and emergency medical transportation. The organization employs more than 29,000 employees and 6,000 associated and employed physicians. In 2018, Allina Health staffed 1,864 beds, was home to 15,222 births, and ran more than 8 million lab tests.

Mayo Clinic is consistently the #1 ranked care system in the U.S. and is based out of nearby Rochester, MN with clinics throughout MN, WI, and IA in addition to major campuses in AZ and FL. More than 4,500 physicians and scientists are employed throughout the clinic, with an additional 58,000+ in administrative and allied health staff. It also operates one of the top 10 medical schools and has a robust, world-leading research program. Serving more than a million people from around the world each year, Mayo Clinic is the center of Destination Medical Center, a regional and Minnesota state funded economic initiative to make the region the premiere world destination for care.

Park Dental is a dental group practice with dozens of practice locations throughout MSP and Western Wisconsin. They provide a range of services, including preventative dentistry, restorative services, cosmetic procedures, and advanced services such as dental implants and sleep apnea treatment. They were named a Top Workplace by the Star Tribune and employ more than 130 registered and accredited dental professionals.

For the thousands of people diagnosed every year with life-threatening blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, a cure exists. Over the past 30 years Be The Match^®, operated by the National Marrow Donor Program^® (NMDP), has managed the largest and most diverse marrow registry in the world. To date, Be The Match has facilitated more than 92,000 blood stem cell transplants, and nearly 6,200 transplants a year to give patients hope for a future. As the recognized leader in unrelated marrow transplantation, Be The Match continues to develop services and interactive technologies used by transplant experts around the world to reach more patients, also leading in developing new cellular therapies. Be The Match opened their new North Loop Minneapolis headquarters in 2016 across the street from Target Field and a few short steps off the Green Line serving the metro’s roughly 1,000 local employees of the organizaiton.