Munson Healthcare was formed in 1985 and is the parent company for Munson Medical Center, Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital, Munson Home Health and Hospice, and NorthFlight.
Munson Healthcare manages Kalkaska Memorial Health Center, and has affiliation agreements with West Shore Medical Center in Manistee, Mercy Hospital Cadillac, Mercy Hospital Grayling, and Otsego Memorial Hospital in Gaylord.
Munson Healthcare Service Area
Munson Healthcare’s seven hospitals and related businesses serve a regional population of 495,626, spread over 11,177 square miles in 24 counties.
Economic Impact of Munson Healthcare
Whenever possible and economically feasible, Munson buys locally.
Munson paid invoices to 1,500 northern Michigan vendors totaling about $40 million in 2009.
More than 110 local businesses did $50,000 or more in business with Munson Healthcare in 2009; almost 70 local businesses did $100,000 or more in business with Munson last year.
Northern Michigan Supply Alliance, jointly owned by Munson Healthcare and Trinity Health, manages $100 million in annual supply chain spending for Munson Healthcare. Supplies are the fastest growing expense due to advances in technologies for cardiology, surgery, and pharmacy services.
Munson Medical Center employees were paid $185.5 million in salaries and wages in 2009. Wages and benefits make up 52 percent of Munson’s expenses.
Using the economic multiplier for health care expenditures, the economic activity generated in the community by Munson Medical Center in 2009 totaled $905 million.
Combined, the hospitals and businesses associated with Munson Healthcare create the single largest employer in northern Michigan.
Revenue and Finances
Munson Medical Center’s net revenue in FY 2009 was $408 million.
Munson Medical Center typically needs to invest $30-40 million each year in new services, equipment, and maintaining its facilities.
Sixty-two percent of Munson Healthcare’s revenue comes from government sources (53% Medicare and 9% Medicaid).
The seven hospitals and other businesses associated with Munson Healthcare provided $32 million in benefit to the community in 2009. That includes charity care, write off of un-reimbursed costs, and free programs to the community.
In the 25-year history of Munson Healthcare, community donations have totaled $30 million; Paul Oliver Foundation and Munson Healthcare Regional Foundation together raise between $2 million and $4 million per year.
Physician Recruitment
As a system, Munson Healthcare works to recruit 40-70 physicians a year.
30 percent of Munson Medical Center's current medical staff are 55 or older and will likely want to retire in the next 10 years.
New physicians are faced with $180 thousand - $200 thousand average debt after medical.
70 percent of new physicians look for employment in a hospital or large group practice with no partner track.
60 percent of physicians who graduate medical school in Michigan leave the state for their residency programs.
Only 18 percent of Michigan State University's 2009 College of Human Medicine graduates chose to go into Family Practice or Internal Medicine, two front-line medical specialties.
Munson Medical Center Facts
391 licensed beds
24-county service area
The only verified Level II Trauma Center in northern Michigan
The only Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in northern Michigan
One of only two open heart surgery programs in northern Michigan
Employees: 3,783
Medical Staff: 420 physicians representing more than 50 specialties
Volunteers: 460
Volume at Munson Medical Center in 2009
ER Visits: 45,139 visits, averaging 127 patients a day.
Admissions: 23,125
Births: 1,830
Outpatient Visits: 445,194
Surgical Cases: 22,117 (including 7,296 at Northwest Michigan Surgery Center)
750 open-heart surgeries
360 bariatric surgeries
1,140 brain and spine surgeries
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