Positioned near the gateway to the isolated Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Munson’s service area stretches into 32 Michigan counties and it has nearly 400 physicians on staff. The medical center delivered a shocker in Sept. 2010, when it pulled out of a planned merger with Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, Mich. New suitors, such as University of Michigan Health Systems, emerged immediately. The 391-bed hospital is a real prize, having won the American Hospital Association-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize in 2008 and having been the only hospital in the state to win the Everest Award from Thomson Reuters in 2009.