Healthcare

APACHE Medical Systems, Inc.
a software and database company that predicted outcomes and their associated costs for critically ill patients admitted to a hospital’s intensive care and critical care units. The initial software and database were developed at the National Institutes of Health.

DentureCare, Inc.
a chain of low cost, consumer oriented, dental offices staffed by board certified dentists offering high quality care with offices located throughout the Eastern U.S.

Zoll Medical Corporation
an early investor in Zoll which designed and developed the first successful, FDA approved, portable defibrillator. Today the company is publicly traded and is one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of these products world wide.

Cohr Inc.
a California based company that provided outsourcing services for the maintenance, repair, and refurbishment of medical devices and equipment by offering its clients - including hospitals, integrated health systems, acute care facilities, medical groups and acute care facilities - long term, fixed cost equipment management plans.

Johnson & Johnson, Inc.
Fairfax Partners was one of three investment groups that joined with Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to form an investment partnership to invest in emerging medical technologies and healthcare services. J&J was interested in participating in this partnership in order to 1) identify technologies that might prove key to the company’s future success and 2) as a means to access the medical expertise that existed in these new investments that could eventually be acquired and transferred into J&J.

Together with J&J the Partnership founded three medical device companies and one therapeutic drug company:

Indigo Medical, Inc.
a less-invasive surgical company whose primary technology was based on a laser developed at and then licensed from Los Alamos National Labs. Indigo was eventually acquired by J&J and is now one of its surgical divisions

CollaGenex, Inc.
a drug development company based on technologies that inhibit the action of collagenase enzymes within the body. The company was taken public in 1999.

Vaso Products, Inc.
a surgical device and development company which developed less invasive surgical devices for the reduction and elimination of the effects of deep venous disease

Ovamed Corporation
a surgical device company which designed and developed minimally invasive ob-gyn infertility surgical and endoscopic devices.