The alpena medical center is a 139-bed hospital that serves the Alpena, Michigan community with general medical and surgical inpatient care. It offers a 24-hour emergency department, and physician practices include behavioral health services, cancer care, diagnostic imaging (x-ray, CT scanning, etc), orthopedics, pain management, rehabilitation services, surgical services, women’s health, wound & hyperbaric medicine.
The hospital made $254.7 million last year, according to tax forms. This spring, it received an A rating in safety from the Leapfrog Group. It’s one of only 13 hospitals in Michigan to earn that honor. The hospital recently completed a three-story patient tower addition, which includes 60 private rooms in the emergency department and eight labor and delivery suites.
In the latest Medicare and Medicaid Star Ratings, MyMichigan Medical Center Alpena earned five stars in “safety of care,” two stars in “efficiency and effectiveness” and four stars in “outpatient experience.” It also got a three-star rating in “readmission.” The hospital is owned by Midland-based MyMichigan Health, which has its corporate headquarters in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
MyMichigan Medical Center Alpena’s new president, Hunter Nostrant, will take the reins of the hospital on Sept. 1. He’s the third leader at the facility in as many years. Mike Erickson ran the hospital from 2022 to last spring, and he took a job running MyMichigan’s Saginaw, Tawas and Standish hospitals afterward.
Nostrant has served as president and CEO of Helen Newberry Joy Hospital and Healthcare Center in Newberry since 2015. He previously held leadership roles at MyMichigan Medical Center Sault and Precision Edge Surgical Products. He and his wife, Whitley, live in Alpena and enjoy watching their children, Bryton and Brielle, play sports.
Physicians at the alpena medical center are board-certified in family medicine. Other providers in the clinic are certified nurse midwives and nurse practitioners. They are licensed by the state of Michigan and are members of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Besides the main office, there are three other locations in Alpena. Other services include an Urgent Care Walk-In Clinic, a Wound Healing Center and a Wound Wound Ostomy Surgery Service.
The hospital also has a Family Health Center, which provides primary care and preventive services to the entire family. It has a full-time family nurse practitioner and a team of experienced support staff.
The hospital has a Walk-In Clinic and provides x-rays, blood work and basic labs. It’s open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. It accepts most insurance plans. It’s a Federal Tort Claims Act Deemed Facility. It is covered by the Federal Government’s FTCA with respect to claims for medical/dental/behavioral health malpractice liability.