<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2C89Yr_1D4kSLB500" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2C89Yr_1D4kSLB500" width="1299" height="739" ><figcaption>Artist’s rendering shows plans for Ashland Medical Center’s expansion, which is intended to keep healthcare “closer to home,” said Kevin Roy, Tamarack vice president. Rendering courtesy of Tamarack Hospital</figcaption></figure>Tamarack Health Ashland Medical Center’s $14 million new addition is expected to open at the end of this summer, according to officials. The expansion will add 28,000 square feet to the hospital’s existing footprint and add 21 exam rooms along with 10 physician provider offices.Tamarack Health formed when the Hayward Hospital, operated by Regional Enterprises, Inc. (REI), and the Memorial Medical Center of Ashland, joined to become Tamarack Health. The health system also has clinics in Cable and Superior.The Cable clinic is a 4,500 -square-foot freestanding medical facility that includes six exam rooms, laboratory space and offices for seven physician providers. The Superior clinic offers three MD providers in the 5,190 square foot stand-alone facility that, according to tax and sales records available online, sold to Memorial Medical Center (Tamarack Health) in 2022 for $925,000. Current market value for the facility, according to Douglas County online records, show $1.7 million.Tamarack Health has more than 1,200 employees, including physicians, providers and staff members across all its facilities. The Ashland campus alone employs more than 700, while the Hayward campus employs more than 500.The organization reports more than 150 physicians and care providers systemwide. The Ashland Medical Center includes more than 60 full-time physicians, while the Hayward campus employs more than 30 physicians.“We’re really looking forward to what this expanded space will mean for our community and timely access to primary care services,” said Kevin Roy, Tamarack Health’s vice president of providers and clinics. “We’re passionate about keeping care close to home, and we’re excited for how it will meet the needs in our community. This investment speaks to our commitment to primary care – the full scope model, including inpatient and obstetrical care – not just now, but well into the future. We will have room to grow to meet the community’s needs. We understand the importance of these services in rural areas. It means a lot for us to be able to see the positive, local economic impact, the increased healthcare services for our patients and the continuous advancements in our organization.”Tamarack’s services now include family medicine, obstetrics, orthopedics, dermatology, ENT services, ophthalmology, urology, gastroenterology, behavioral health, oncology infusion services, emergency medicine, rehabilitation, podiatry, surgery, intensive care and senior living services through Water’s Edge Senior Living in Hayward. Tamarack Health and Spooner Health announced in 2025 that Tamarack physicians would begin providing primary care and obstetrics outreach services in Spooner, with an expanded clinic project now planned on the Spooner Health campus.The Ashland expansion project is being managed by Market &amp; Johnson, a Wisconsin-based general contractor with extensive healthcare construction experience, hiring subcontractors and employing workers in the trades including excavation, steel, electrical, plumbing, medical gas installation and finish carpentry, among many others. The company also served as general contractor and construction manager for the Cable clinic project.Ashland Area Chamber of Commerce President Mary McPhetridge said of the expansion’s economic impact, “The entire Tamarack complex is an incredible contribution to three levels of the local economy. It creates jobs, brings in young professionals and improves health care, plus there are numerous sub-clinics like the eye clinic and the cancer center.”Steven Wiley, City of Ashland Planning Director, said, “Tamarack is our biggest employer now. They have many expansion projects going all the time using local contractors, designers and architects etc. It has a very positive economic impact city-wide.” Wiley cited the groundbreaking last December for a new 151-unit complex of, “high-quality” up-market apartments on a brownfield site on Beaser Avenue. This is being built by Vision Inc. of Superior, builders of Central Flats, Acadia Apartments and Lake Superior Apartments LLC, among many other regional apartment complexes.Vision Inc. is headed by CEO Ryan Nelson. The chief operating officer (COO) is Shannon Grayson, a former AMSOIL employee of 10 years. She was also the director of housing for Catholic Charities Bureau in Superior. Founded in 2024, Vision Inc. hopes to have the Bay Vue apartments in Ashland ready for occupancy by this time in 2027. The new construction’s Ashland budget, according to Grayson, “…is north of $30 million.” CEO Ryan Nelson said, “There is real demand for quality workforce housing in the Ashland community, and we’re excited to develop Bay Vue Apartments to support that need.”Beyond Tamarack Health’s $14 million expansion budget, the payroll for all employees amounts to multiple millions annually infusing the economies of Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota counties with cash.Tamarack Health’s IRS 990 form, as per ProPublica’s website, reports that year 2024 revenue was $165 million, with $154 million in expenses. The non-profit’s total assets were $274 million with $52.1M in liabilities. 2024 sources of revenue were $160M from program services, accounting for 97 percent of income. Investment income of $2.3 million was 1.4 percent of the revenue stream. Rental income was $95,000 while sales of assets amounted to $1.7M in 2024. Salaries and wages were $52.4 million with executive compensation amounting to $2.7 million, with Justin Cummins (physician) receiving $1.5 million, John Watkins (physician) receiving $1.01 million and Jason Douglas (former president and CEO) getting $700,000. 2023 revenue was $155 million.Regional Enterprises, Inc. (REI) reported on its 990 that 2024 revenue was $11 million from program services with net expenses being the same figure with zero net income. REI net assets for 2024 was $294 million. Executive compensation of $530,000 went to Kent Dumonseau (VP) getting $437,000, Joy Keller (VP) receiving $167,000, and Derick Gudowski (director) receiving $165,000. REI total assets as of 2024 were $7.7 million.Total liabilities were $7.4 million.</div></body>

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