Kalkaska Memorial Health Center

Description

Kalkaska Memorial Health Center offers quality personalized care for primary and urgent medical needs Visiting medical specialists from Munson Medical Center provide services not often found in a small community Laboratory rehabilitation and radiology services are networked with Munson Medical Center ensuring prompt and convenient diagnosis and treatment A dialysis center assisted living facility longterm care and a new outpatient services facility with operating rooms all provide exceptional care in a comfortable communitybased setting

Mission
Your Link for Quality Health Care

We will improve the health of the community by encouraging peoples participation in their own health care

We will continue to provide basic health care in rehabilitative services diagnostic services emergency services specialty clinics and access to an integrated health care system in a cost effective manner

We will provide education to ourselves our employees and the community on health related services including the economics of health care

We will continue to provide services in a competent caring way

We will collaborate and cooperate with the others involved in community services

Vision
Our Vision is quotPeople use us because they are proud of usquot

The Board developed a vision statement that was designed to achieve the following

Provide access to care being the communities first choice with a broad
realistic offering of health care programs for facilities our size

Used because of perceived quality

Be part of a larger health system

Be financially stable

Partner with local physicians winwin relationship

Recruit and retain adequate manpower physicians and employees that will
meet consumer expectations of quality friendly timely customeremployee
interactions

History

On October 1 1953 Kalkaska Memorial Health Center opened as a quotDistrict Hospital Authorityquot with governing representatives from 12 townships in Kalkaska County Munson Medical Center was asked to help out with clinical oversight of the startup of Kalkaska Memorial

October 18 1953
Open house for Kalkaska Memorial Health Center Took first patient and
delivered a baby at 815 pm on the day of the dedication

October 25 1970
Open house for new physicians office building attached to the hospital a
3400 square feet addition

September 9 1976
KMHC affiliated with Munson Medical Center by way of a management agreement

October 26 1979
Eight beds converted to Longterm Care
13 beds remained available for Acute Care

July 24 1983
Open house for new Jabara Health Center Mancelona

July 16 1989
Open house for new 60bed Longterm Care Unit after starting the year with
85 employees

September 25 1991
Certified as States first Provider Based Rural Health Clinic in addition
to being licensed as a hospital and longterm care program The clinic
allowed for the expansion of outpatient programs especially the Specialty
Clinics

December 1 1999
Kalkaska Memorial became the second Certified Critical Access Hospital in
the State of Michigan This status allows KMHC to receive special
reimbursement from Medicare contributing to the hospitals financial
stability

August 1999
The first part of a 7 million addition is opened with new facilities for
ER Acute Care Cardiac Rehab Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy and
Speech therapy

October 1999
Completion of the 7 million addition with the new Dementia wing for Long
term Care residents

Hospital has grown to 240 employees