Memorial Hospital of South Bend is the region's only Level II Trauma center and the region's most comprehensive medical center that offers a 526-bed facility for cardiac, cancer, childbirth, emergency medicine and rehabilitation services.

Press Release

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (Nov. 19, 2009) – UnitedHealthcare customers in North Central Indiana will continue to have access to local, quality health care options as a result of a new expanded agreement between UnitedHealthcare and Memorial Hospital of South Bend.

The new multi-year agreement, effective Jan. 1, 2010, will ensure continued in-network access for UnitedHealthcare commercial and Medicare health plan participants to Memorial Hospital of South Bend and more than 150 physicians through Memorial Medical Group. In addition, the agreement expands access to three ancillary service lines within Memorial Home Care – home health, durable medical equipment and home infusion services.

Memorial Hospital of South Bend is the region's only Level II Trauma center and the region's most comprehensive medical center that offers a 526-bed facility for cardiac, cancer, childbirth, emergency medicine and rehabilitation services. It has been the recipient of the National Consumer Choice Award for Northern Indiana, published by the National Research Corporation, for the past nine years.

"Memorial Hospital of South Bend and its related entities are important to UnitedHealthcare in ensuring our health plan customers have continued and uninterrupted access to quality, cost-effective care," said Daniel Krajnovich, CEO of UnitedHealthcare of Indiana.

Kreg Gruber, chief operating officer of Memorial Hospital of South Bend, said: "For over 115 years, Memorial Hospital has continued to grow and build ever-advancing medical services for families in our region. Our continuing partnership with UnitedHealthcare allows access to this advanced care for UnitedHealthcare customers. We are very pleased that our two organizations can offer this access to care."

UnitedHealthcare's health care provider network in Indiana includes more than 10,500 physicians and 140 hospitals and medical facilities.

About Memorial Hospital & Health System

Memorial Health System, Inc., established in 1984, serves as the parent company of Memorial Hospital, as well as Memorial Health Foundation, Memorial Home Care and Memorial Medical Group. These organizations provide a variety of health care services to the community, ranging from inpatient care to home care, medical supplies, pharmacy services and occupational health services, as well as primary care physicians and specialists. For more information, visit www.quallityoflife.org.

About UnitedHealthcare

UnitedHealthcare (www.unitedhealthcare.com) provides a full spectrum of consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services to individuals, public sector employers and businesses of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 100 companies. The company organizes access to quality, affordable health care services on behalf of more than 25 million individual consumers, contracting directly with more than 600,000 physicians and care professionals and 5,000 hospitals to offer them broad, convenient access to services nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and well-being company.

Source: UnitedHealthcare and Memorial Hospital of South Bend