Participating Organizations
Borgess Health includes more than 120 sites of care in 15 southern
Michigan cities, as well as eight owned or affiliated hospitals, a
nursing home, ambulatory care facilities, home health care, physician
practices, managed care services, a cancer center and an air ambulance
service. These Borgess Health members form a health care network that
offers a complete continuum of services to the 1.1 million people living
in 11 counties in southwest and southcentral Michigan.
In 1999, the Sisters of St. Joseph, a sponsor of Borgess Health, and the
Daughters of Charity created Ascension Health— the largest nonprofit
health care system in the United States. The Ascension Health network
includes:
Over 107,000 employees in 20 states and the District of Columbia;
17,019 available beds;
64 general acute care hospitals;
6 long-term acute care hospitals;
4 rehabilitation hospitals; and
4 dedicated psychiatric hospitals.
Bronson Healthcare Group in Kalamazoo, Michigan, is a not-for-profit,
tertiary healthcare system serving southwest Michigan and northern
Indiana. With a workforce of nearly 5,000 and a medical staff of over
700, Bronson is one of the area's largest employers. They offer a full
range of services from primary care to advanced critical care and have
multiple service locations. Always mindful of their responsibility to
the community, Bronson provides more than $48 million in community
benefits annually through outreach and charitable care for the un- and
under-insured. The health system also has a track record of clinical and
workplace excellence as evidenced by numerous national achievements
including being ranked by Working Mother magazine as one of the nation's
100 best companies to work for.
The Bronson system includes:
Bronson Methodist Hospital
Bronson LakeView Hospital
Bronson Vicksburg Hospital
Bronson Medical Group
Bronson Outpatient Center Paw PawBronson Home Health Care
Bronson Lifestyle Improvement & Research CenterBronson Athletic Club
Bronson Health Foundation
Joint Ventures
In addition to its partnership with Borgess Medical Center and Bronson
Methodist Hospital, KCMS is a Michigan State University College of Human
Medicine campus, giving you the opportunity to teach medical students in
an academic setting. They are also affiliated with MSU’s College of
Osteopathic Medicine.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching places WMU among
the 76 public institutions in the nation designated as research
universities with high research activity. U.S. News & World Report's
annual ranking of American colleges and universities includes WMU as one
of the nation's top-100 public universities. Princeton Review included
Western Michigan on its 'best Midwestern colleges' list for two years in
a row.
The university offers 254 degree programs through 9 colleges. The
colleges that are part of WMU are: the College of Arts and Sciences, the
College of Aviation, the Haworth College of Business, the College of
Education, the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the College
of Fine Arts, the College of Health and Human Services, the Lee Honors
College, and the Graduate College.