Memorial Health System

Over the last several years, Memorial Healthcare has experienced tremendous growth, including the opening of our Neuro-Ortho-Wellness Building, the expansion of our primary care and specialty practices, and the implementation of several new service support efforts like our Childcare Academy. Adopting a system-oriented model allows us to better manage new and growing service lines from a business perspective while also protecting the best interests of the organization.

Memorial Healthcare has experienced sizeable growth in both the scope of services we provide and the populations we serve. This growth has resulted in numerous opportunities for innovative community partnerships and service lines which will help our hospital to remain financially resilient and available to the community. Our reach has expanded in many areas, including new provider practices in a growing geographic region, clinical research activities, a childcare offering, and outstanding care for our seniors at The Meadows.

Memorial Health System leadership will be focused on the strategic direction of the entire system and the execution of our mission and vision. The system model allows for new areas of governance expertise that reflect the growth and complexity of our organization. The system also ensures enhanced attention at the hospital board level to provide excellent patient care, quality and safety, and service excellence.

No, although opportunities for employee advancement and recruitment of additional team members with varied talents are expected as Memorial Health System integrates into further areas within the healthcare and community landscape.

Immediate changes will be concentrated on Memorial’s governance and legal structures, which allow for greater strategic exploration of innovative community partnerships while limiting the legal risks associated with increasingly diverse service lines.

No. The Memorial Healthcare Board of Trustees spent over two years considering the organization’s best path forward and did so while placing tremendous value on our independent community hospital and the service it provides our patients and our community. This unique community hospital system model better reflects our tremendous growth and organizational maturation into several community-based service lines and partnerships.

In fact, a system structure actually ensures greater security for Memorial’s independent status by allowing, through expanded service lines across a wider swath of the healthcare and community landscape, better control of our future in a sustainable fashion.

Memorial Health System will continue to consider collaborations and partnerships with any organization that assists us in delivering quality, compassionate healthcare.  There are no plans regarding a merger with or acquisition by another health system.

Initial costs related to the system structure will be minimal and directly related to the legal process of implementation. Additionally, the initial system board will be drawn entirely from the present members of the Memorial Healthcare Board of Trustees.  Both boards will continue to be populated by members who serve on a volunteer (non-paid) basis.

Any future costs as the system structure becomes further established will be directly correlated with the resulting value proposition for the organization.

No. In order to better focus on strategic objectives and capture present and future sustainable growth opportunities, the Memorial Healthcare Board of Trustees unanimously voted to implement a new governance structure, the Memorial Health System. This decision followed over two years of careful deliberation.

The makeup of the hospital board of trustees remains unchanged, and will now have an increased opportunity for focus on hospital governance which prioritizes patient care, quality and safety, and service excellence.