NEWS RELEASE
MYMICHIGAN HEALTH
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SAULT STE. MARIE – MyMichigan Medical Center Sault was named among the 2025 Top 100 Rural & Community Hospitals by The Chartis Center for Rural Health. Chartis’ annual Top 100 award program honors outstanding performance among the nation’s rural hospitals based on the results of the Chartis Rural Hospital Performance INDEX®. MyMichigan Medical Center Sault was only one of five hospitals in the state of Michigan to be recognized. MyMichigan Medical Center in Alpena and Tawas also received the award with MyMichigan receiving three of the five recognitions in the state.
“While we take great pride in receiving this honor, what truly brings us joy is knowing it directly reflects our commitment to providing high-quality care to our communities,” said Kevin Kalchik, president, MyMichigan Medical Center Sault. “Esteemed independent agencies, renowned for identifying excellence, have recognized us as one of the top-performing community hospitals. There is something extremely special about that and one to which we all should be proud. Such an achievement is a testament to the tireless efforts of our employees, nurses, medical staff, leaders, board of directors, and volunteers, who work diligently every day to ensure the continuity of excellent health care to all who step through our doors. Our employees are our number one asset.”
The INDEX is the industry’s most comprehensive and objective assessment of rural hospital performance. Leveraging publicly available data, the INDEX is utilized nationwide by rural hospitals, health systems with rural affiliates, hospital associations, and state offices of rural health to measure and monitor performance across a variety of areas impacting hospital operations and finance.
“The Top 100 Rural & Community Hospitals award program elevates the very best performers and helps create a roadmap for those seeking to improve financial and operational performance while continuing to care for the communities they serve,” said Michael Topchik, executive director, The Chartis Center for Rural Health. “This is our 10th year recognizing the Top 100 Rural & Community Hospitals and we’re thrilled to be able to celebrate this milestone with this year’s winners.”
Celebrating its 100-year anniversary in 2024, MyMichigan Medical Center Sault is a 49-bed hospital specializing in high-quality rural medicine. Its more than 900 employees, volunteers, health care providers and other personnel focus on providing high-quality care through continuous quality improvement. The Medical Center has been awarded as a high-reliability organization (HRO), from the Michigan Health & Hospital Association (MHA). In addition, in 2024, MyMichigan Medical Center Sault was awarded with a CMS 5-Star Rating for Patient Experience in Discharge Information in 2024 and was recognized with a 2024 Governor’s Award of Excellence offered through a collaboration of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, iMPROve Health and the Michigan Health & Hospital Association (MHA) Keystone Center.
MyMichigan Health, a non-profit health system headquartered in Midland, Michigan, is a leader in providing award-winning, high-quality care to the 26-counties it serves. With Medical Centers in Alma, Alpena, Clare, Gladwin, Midland, Mt. Pleasant, Saginaw*, Sault Ste. Marie, Standish*, Tawas*, and West Branch, MyMichigan also has affiliations with Medical Centers in St. Ignace* and Mackinac Island.* MyMichigan Health provides a full continuum of care across a wide array of settings, including urgent care centers, home health, virtual care, as well as medical offices in more than 80 specialties and subspecialties including cardiology, family medicine, hematology/oncology, neurosciences, orthopedics, pediatrics, vascular surgery, and more. MyMichigan Health demonstrates its commitment to the future of medicine by partnering with leading institutions to offer medical education programs that train medical students, physicians, nurse practitioner and physician assistant students, nursing students and other clinical experts for our region. Recognized by Forbes in 2022, 2023 and 2024 as one of ‘America’s Best Employers by State,’ MyMichigan is a major employer in all of the areas it serves. In fact, its more than 13,800 employees, volunteers, health care providers and other personnel work together to create healthy communities through solutions designed to meet the ever-changing needs of the more than one million residents in the health system’s 26 counties served. In fiscal year 2023, MyMichigan Health provided more than $128 million in community benefits, as well as supported its patients and families with new equipment, services and programs with funds raised by the MyMichigan Health Foundation, MyMichigan Medical Center Saginaw Foundation, MyMichigan Medical Center Tawas Foundation, and Field Neurosciences Institute.
*Not affiliated with the University of Michigan Health System.
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