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With more than one million employees, the health industry is a growth and innovation engine for NRW. A high-quality health landscape profits from excellence in technology, research and supply. Healthcare embraces over 430 hospitals and 134 preventive and rehabilitation facilities with a total of 144,000 beds and around 245,000 employees. The state's six university clinics and the decentralized model at the Bochum university clinic with their approximately 150 clinical departments and more than 34,000 employees are particularly noteworthy in this respect. Medical technology in NRW is characterized largely by small and medium-sized enterprises. There are more than 160 medical technology companies employing 20 or more people. With approximately 8,600 employees these companies generated sales of nearly 800 million euros in 2009. Well-known companies in NRW include 3M Medica, Brasseler, Medtronic, mnemoScience and Sarstedt. Nearly 50 pharmaceutical companies are based in NRW. They employ around 15,000 people and generate sales of 4.6 billion euros. The largest companies include Bayer HealthCare, Grünenthal, Janssen-Cilag, and Schwarz Pharma.