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Since Traverse City-based Munson Healthcare announced a $50 million company redesign last fall, the organization has introduced new primary care offices, streamlined patient records, recruited physicians, expanded access to robotic surgery, and opened a community health hub.

And there’s more to come as northern Michigan’s largest health care system undergoes a planned three-year transformation aimed at keeping up with evolving patient needs and a struggling health care industry.

“Health care is changing, and we need to change as a system to be here for the next 100 years,” Munson Healthcare president and CEO Ed Ness told the Michigan Independent.

Munson, an eight-hospital health care system, has managed to remain independent while many hospitals have merged with larger health care systems in an effort to remain afloat financially and stay open.

In 2022, Spectrum Health acquired Beaumont Health to form Michigan’s largest health care system, which was eventually rebranded as Corew