Spectrum Health - Priority Health

Spectrum Health System, commonly known as Spectrum Health, is a not-for-profit, integrated, managed care health care organization based in West Michigan. Spectrum Health's subsidiaries include hospitals, treatment facilities, urgent-care facilities, as well as physician practices that serve the western Michigan area. Priority Health is a subsidiary health plan with nearly 600,000 members. Spectrum Health is the largest employer in West Michigan with 23,900 staff, 3,100 physicians and advanced practice providers, including 1,400 members of the Spectrum Health Medical Group, and 2,000 volunteers. The annual payroll and benefits amounted to $734 million in fiscal year 2009. Spectrum Health is Aa3 rated by Moodyâ€™s Inv estors Service, placing it among only 40 health care systems in the country to receive this high rating. Spectrum Health System is recognized as one of the Top 50 Integrated Health Care Networks in the United States.

History

Spectrum Health was formally incorporated on Sept. 19, 1997, bringing together the resources of Butterworth Health System and Blodgett Memorial Medical Center. It became the largest and most comprehensive health care organization in West Michigan after years of planning and a high-profile legal battle. In August 2000, Richard C. Breon was hired to lead the organization as CEO, and sought to form an integrated health care system.

In 2011, Spectrum Health implemented a program that integrates medical services, behavioral health care, addiction and social services for frequent emergency department users. A review of 296 patients involved in the program found a 45% reduction in emergency department visits and hospital admissions after 3 months and a 65% reduction after 6 months.

Services

Spectrum Health provides inpatient and outpatient services at a variety of locations throughout Michigan.

Hospitals

The Spectrum Butterworth Hospital is located in downtown Grand Rapids. Patients are also seen at Spectrum Healthâ€™s community and specialty hospitals:

Blodgett Hospital, East Grand Rapids
Gerber Memorial Hospital, Fremont
Kelsey Hospital, Lakeview
Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, Downtown Grand Rapids
Reed City Hospital, Reed City
Spectrum Health Special Care Hospital, Grand Rapids
United Hospital, Greenville
Zeeland Community Hospital, Zeeland, Michigan
Spectrum Health Ludington Hospital, Ludington, Michigan
Spectrum Health Big Rapids Hospital, Big Rapids, Michigan
Spectrum Health Pennock, Hastings, Michigan

Health care providers

The Spectrum Health Medical Group employs more than 90 physicians and mid-level practitioners. Spectrum Health also has a multispecialty physician group (mmpc), which has more than 300 health care providers serving patients in more than 30 specialties.

Other facilities and services

Spectrum Health Continuing Care is West Michiganâ€™s largest provider of post-acute services, including rehabilitative, long-term acute, home and residential care. Spectrum Health has an air ambulance helicopter service, called Aeromed, that transports patients between accident scenes as well as between hospitals and the airport.