Sparrow Carson Hospital

Programs: Carson city hospital (cch) is a 61-bed, acute care hospital located in central michigan. It is the oldest osteopathic hospital in michigan, founded in 1936 by emmett binkert, do. Since this time, cch has been committed to serving the residents in a four-county area. Cch currently operates a short-term, acute-care facility and several satellite clinics offering inpatient and outpatient healthcare services, psychiatric services, physician services, and home health care, primarily to patients in the carson city, michigan area, including gratiot, montcalm, clinton, and ionia counties. Cch provides care to patients who meet certain criteria under its charity care policy without charge or at amounts less than established rates. Because cch does not pursue collection of amounts determined to qualify as charity care, they are not reported as revenue under arrangements with various governmental insurance programs. Cch provides significant care to the local indigent population for which reimbursement for services rendered is generally less than the cost of providing such services as part of its obligation to the local community. Cch also provides services to indigent patients under the medicaid program at payment amounts less than the cost of the services provided. For the year ended december 31, 2014, cch provided over 2 million in uncompensated care. The estimated annual total local economic impact is 30,000,000.

ithaca family care center (ifcc) is an office with 2 physicians, 1 nurse practitioner, and 1 physician assistant that focuses on family practice for gratiot county. Ifcc provides outpatient services such as audiometry, blood pressure check, ear examination, ekg, excision, foreign body removal, gynecological examinations, health education, hemoccult, immunization, laceration, office visits, osteopathic manipulative therapy, patient counseling, physical examinations and premarital counseling. They also provide laboratory services such as blood sugar, hemoglobin, pregnancy testing, ua (dipstick) and wet prep.

carson family care center (cfcc) is an office with 2 physicians, 1 nurse practitioner, and 1 physician assistant that focuses on family practice for montcalm county. Cfcc provides outpatient services such as asthma services, audiometry, blood pressure checks, disability/impairment evaluations, drug and alcohol screening, ear examination, ekg, employee screening, excision, foreign body removal, gynecological examination, health education, immunization, immunotherapy, injury management work related injuries, laceration, laser cosmetics, office visits, osteopathic manipulative therapy, patient counseling, physical examinations, pre-employment physicals, premarital counseling, safety programs and work site visits. They also provide laboratory services such as blood sugar, hemoglobin, pregnancy testing, ua (dipstick) and wet prep.

other program services include the operation of the following facilities: ashley family care center, carson city hospital, orthopedics and general surgery, physical rehabilitation center, fowler family care center, greenville family care center, hospitalists, lyons family care center, pediatric and adolescent specialists, stanton family care center, carson home care, carson pain management.