North Ottawa Community Health System will become part of Trinity Health Michigan on Oct. 1 when the two health care systems close their planned merger, MiBiz reports.
Executives have signed a final agreement to merge North Ottawa into Trinity Health, ending more than a century of independence for the small Grand Haven health system. Once the deal closes, North Ottawa Community Health System will become known as Trinity Health Grand Haven and maintain all existing operations.
The merger includes all of North Ottawa’s operations, including the 81-bed hospital in Grand Haven, MI, the Heartwood Lodge nursing home in Spring Lake and hospice care services.
Through the merger, North Ottawa aligns with a major health system in an era when costs are rising rapidly, finances are tight, and recruiting and retaining talent has been an increasingly difficult proposition for small hospitals.
North Ottawa will become the ninth hospital in Michigan for Trinity Health, whose portfolio also includes Saint Mary’s in Grand Rapids. The Catholic health system has 92 hospitals in 22 states with more than 120,000 employees, 5,300 physicians and $4.1 billion in annual operating revenues.
In Michigan, Trinity has 24,000 employees, 2,233 inpatient beds and 5,290 physicians and advanced practice providers. Read more.
