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By Ben Sutherly, Staff Writer 8:35 PM Saturday, December 17, 2011

Health care not only has surpassed manufacturing as a job provider but it also is changing the makeup of the state’s most dominant companies.

Five of the 12 largest employers in Ohio are now health care systems, including Dayton-based Premier Health Partners, which ranked 12th with more than 14,000 workers.

Our reporters discovered how this could leave the state vulnerable and why health care is so dominant in the state.

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