Facts at-a-glance
Portage Health is a community-owned, not-for-profit health care system with 800 employees. Portage Health has 96 beds (36 general acute beds and 60 skilled nursing) and treats nearly 2,000 inpatients each year. Portage Health offers dedicated services for family medicine, pediatrics, women's health, surgery, and skilled nursing care and wellness plus ancillary services that include radiology, laboratory, cardiopulmonary, certified sleep disorder center, regional dialysis unit, pharmacy, rehab and therapy, audiology, a 12/7 hospitalist program, home care and hospice, and a 60-bed senior living community. Portage Health offers a Level III ACS verified trauma center and emergency department as well as an Express Care walk-in clinic. More than 35 physicians are on the Portage Health medical staff. Portage Health provides a variety of healthcare services throughout Houghton, Baraga, Ontonagon and Keweenaw Counties, with facilities in Calumet, Hancock, Houghton, Lake Linden and Ontonagon. Portage Health is accredited by the Joint Commission.
Leadership
President & CEO – Jim Bogan
Chairman – Steve Zutter
Locations
Hancock, Houghton, Lake Linden, Ontonagon, Calumet
Facility type
General medical and surgical hospital, skilled nursing facility, three free-standing outreach clinics, Express Care, outreach rehab office, free-standing sleep disorders center.
Number of beds
96 (36 general acute care beds and 60 skilled nursing)
Number of employees
800 - second largest employer in Houghton County
Number of physicians on medical staff
35
Number of volunteers
200 - contributing more than 50,000 hours per year
Services
Inpatient Services
- Family Birthing Center
- Elderly/disabled (Intermediate nursing care)
- End-of-life services (Hospice, Pain management and Palliative care)
- Hospitalists
- Infection isolation room
- Cancer services
Outpatient
- Breast cancer screening/mammograms
- Certified trauma center
- Chemotherapy
- Fitness center
- Geriatric services
- Home health services
- Kidney dialysis
- Physical rehabilitation
- Sleep center
- Stop-smoking program
- Sports medicine
- Urgent-care center
- Women's health
- Wound management services
Patient/Family Support Services
- Ambulance services
- Help with government services
- Chaplaincy/pastoral care services
- Cancer services
- Patient support groups
- Patient representative/ombusdman
- Transportation for elderly/handicapped
- Translation services
FY 2010 Patient Statistics
Inpatient admissions: 1,942 (includes births)
Outpatient visits: 119,623
Births: 399
Surgeries: 475
Emergency Department Visits: 9,514