Grand View Health System and Aspirus Continue Negotiations

IRONWOOD, MI - Thursday, July 15, 2010 - Grand View Health System considered a number of potential partners and characteristics when it decided to explore an affiliation with a regional health care network. Chief among Grand View Health System’s objectives was to find a financially sound, experienced, and successful partner with an established record of excellence in health care. After significant deliberation, Aspirus was selected as its top choice to pursue negotiations towards a long-term partnership.

Aspirus has received numerous awards and recognition from such respected sources as U.S. News and World Report, Thomson Reuters and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The many specialties among its facilities include women’s health, cancer treatment, heart and vascular health, spine and neurosciences, and more.

Aspirus and Grand View share a common passion for exceptional care, leading-edge technology, compassion, accessibility and fiscal responsibility. The organization’s experience with multiple partners, including Ontonagon and Keweenaw, demonstrates its respect for and willingness to communicate with individual agencies.

Aspirus is a non-profit, community guided health system based in Wausau, Wisconsin. With more than 4,200 employees, Aspirus serves 14 Wisconsin counties and three counties in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan through hospitals; home health and hospice care; pharmacies; critical care, access to helicopter transport services; skilled nursing homes; an affiliated physician network; and an extensive clinics network.

Grand View Health System is continuing negotiations with Aspirus to provide ongoing, long-term, quality health care for our community. Alignment with Aspirus is expected to afford Grand View greater stability, expanded services, more recruitment opportunities and access to top-notch visiting health care specialists.