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An Overview of Meriter



Nurse with PatientMeriter Health Services is an innovative, comprehensive organization whose vision is to provide the best total healthcare experience to everyone we serve. Meriter's mission is to heal this day, to teach for tomorrow, to embrace excellence always, to serve our communities – for a lifetime of quality health care.

Meriter employs more than 3,200 people, who are all expected to follow Meriter's Code of Ethics & Standards of Conduct. Meriter is proud to be accredited by the Joint Commission. The Joint Commission is a nationwide seal of approval that indicates an organization meets high performance standards. Our accreditation helps us raise our level of patient care, improve our performance, and demonstrate accountability in a rapidly changing health care marketplace.

Meriter Health Service's family of companies includes the following.
 

Meriter Hospital

Meriter Hospital is a 448-bed, not-for-profit community hospital offering a wide-ranging scope of medical and surgical services to residents from throughout southern Wisconsin. It is a major teaching affiliate of the University of Wisconsin, and the fifth largest hospital in Wisconsin. Meriter Hospital has received many awards, including a 2007 Performance Improvement Leader award from Thomson Reuters and a 2006 Governor's Award of Excellence.

More than 1,100 physicians representing all specialties are members of the medical staff. Meriter Medical Group is a growing multi-specialty group and UW Health Physicians is the major affiliated physician group. Other affiliated groups are included in the list at right. Note that you can search a directory of all physicians that practice at Meriter Hospital in the Meriter Physicians section of this site.

Meriter distinguishes itself in two specific areas, its Cardiovascular Center of Excellence and its Women's Health Center of Excellence. Key service lines include Medicine, Surgery, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Meriter also offers the region's only community-based Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Hospital. Detailed information about the hospital's departments and services can be found in the Meriter Services section of this site.
 

Meriter Medical Clinics

As the Madison area grows, there is an increased request for primary care services. As part of Meriter's mission to serve the community, we offer Meriter Medical Clinics in Middleton and West Madison.


Meriter Medical Group

The Meriter Medical Group is the employed multi-specialty physician group of Meriter Hospital. Currently the group consists of more than 50 providers with a focus on improving patient access and providing the best patient care possible.

Meriter Medical Group seeks to be the destination of choice for patients, staff and physicians throughout Dane County and southern Wisconsin. The Meriter Medical Group currently includes cardiothoracic surgeons, hospitalists, internists, physiatrists and addictionologists.
 

Meriter Home Health

Meriter Home Health has provided comprehensive home health care services in southern Wisconsin for more than 15 years. Highly trained professionals are dedicated to ensuring a smooth transition from a hospital, nursing home or clinic to home. Meriter Home Health also carries a wide range of medical products.


Meriter Laboratories

Meriter Laboratories is a trusted provider of reference  laboratory services to physicians, researchers, skilled nursing facilities, clinics and hospitals.


Meriter Foundation

A not-for-profit, tax exempt 501(c)(3) organization, Meriter Foundation is the charitable arm of Meriter Health Services, raising, investing, granting and stewarding gifts on behalf of Meriter Hospital.


Physicians Plus Insurance Corporation

Meriter owns two-thirds of Physicians Plus Insurance Corporation, a nationally recognized health maintenance organization (HMO) serving the south-central region of Wisconsin. The company serves approximately 100,000 enrollees.

3/11/2009

 
Our Partners in Health Care:
Sites of Other Madison-Area
Health Care Organizations

Meriter Medical Group 

Physicians Plus Insurance Corporation

Advanced Pain Management

Anderson & Shapiro Eye Care

Associated Physicians

Thomas H. Bartell, MD, SC, Plastic Surgeon

Bone & Joint Surgery Associates

Dane County Medical Society

Group Health Cooperative HMO

Latino Health Council of Dane County

Madison Anesthesiology Consultants

Madison Patient Safety Collaborative

Madison Plastic Surgery Associates

Melius, Schurr & Cardwell, Physicians for Women

Memorial Hospital of Lafayette County

Meriter Medical Clinics

Meriter Medical Group

Midwest Sports Medicine Institute

Mile Bluff Medical Center

Moundview Memorial Hospital & Clinics

Physicians Plus Insurance Corporation

Reedsburg Area Medical Center

Richland Hospital

Richland Medical Center

John S. Rogerson, MD, SC, Orthopedic Surgeon

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Madison

Saint Joseph's Community Health Services

Sauk Prairie Memorial Hospital & Clinics

Turville Bay MRI & Radiation Oncology Center

University of Wisconsin National Center of Excellence in Women's Health (housed at Meriter)

Unity Health Plans

UW Health Physicians

Wildwood Family Clinic

Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care

Wisconsin Fertility Institute

Wisconsin Heart & Vascular Institute

Also, we're proud to be a member of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce