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Spectrum Health System

Type	Not-for-profit
Industry	Healthcare
Founded	Sept. 19, 1997
Headquarters	Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Area served	West Michigan
Key people	Richard C. Breon, President & CEO
Number of employees	25,400 total (2017)
Website	http://www.spectrumhealth.org/

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 795,000 members. Spectrum Health is the largest employer in West Michigan with 25,400 staff, 3,200 physicians and advanced practice providers, including 1,400 members of the Spectrum Health Medical Group, and 2,300 volunteers. Spectrum Health is Aa3 rated by Moody’s Investors Service, placing it among only 40 health care systems in the country to receive this high rating. Spectrum Health was named one of the nation’s 15 Top Health Systems—and in the top five among the largest health systems—by Truven Health Analytics™ for 2017. This is the sixth time the organization has received this recognition. Spectrum Health System is recognized as one of the Top 50 Integrated Health Care Networks in the United States.

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.

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

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

The Spectrum Health Medical Group employs more than 1,400 physicians and advanced practice providers. Spectrum Health also has a multispecialty physician group (mmpc), which has more than 300 health care providers serving patients in more than 30 specialties.