Spectrum Health System, commonly known as Spectrum Health, is a not-for-profit, integrated, managed care health care organization based in West Michigan. Spectrum Health's subsidiaries include hospitals, treatment facilities, urgent-care facilities, as well as physician practices that serve the western Michigan area. Priority Health is a subsidiary health plan with nearly 600,000 members. Spectrum Health is the largest employer in West Michigan with 16,000 staff, 1,500 physicians and 2,000 volunteers. The annual payroll and benefits amounted to $734 million in fiscal year 2009. Spectrum Health is Aa3 rated by Moody’s Investors Service, placing it among only 40 health care systems in the country to receive this high rating. Spectrum Health System is recognized as one of the Top 50 Integrated Health Care Networks in the United States.
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