2022-02-02 City Council Item No. 12.1 MOU with Menifee Global Medical Center Presentation Regular MEETING - Additional Meeting MaterialsItem 12.1
Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) with
Menifee Global Medical
Center (MGMC)
•The City of Menifee is consistently working to develop and build a safe, thriving, and premier place to be, and strives to continue to enhance the quality of life for our residents, businesses, and regional trade area. Strong components related to jobs, amenities, infrastructure, education, parks, public safety, housing, and healthcare help create a great quality of life.
•City Council Strategic Goal (Partner w/Healthcare Entities)
•Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) (* Healthcare Facilities/Medical Firms)
•Menifee Jobs Blueprint Plan (Draft) (Healthcare job creation)
Background
•Since 2008, Menifee’s population has nearly doubled and is now over 105,000.
•The City and its regional partners have consistently been working together on advancing the region as a
regional medical economic hub for excellence in healthcare from birth to end of life care, to research and
development to cancer care.
Background
•Through the continued development of additional healthcare amenities, physicians specialized networks, and
care, Menifee could more easily diversify its local economy, enhance medical care, and overall health of the
City.
•This would provide needed care not only for Menifee’s fast-growing population needs, but also creating a
much-needed and targeted healthcare careers locally in the region.
•Within the last three years, Menifee has added over 50 new healthcare businesses and networks and is
working hard with local partners to attract new research facilities, and new healthcare firms and businesses
bolstering the overall industry in Southwest Riverside County.
Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
Menifee Global Medical Center (MGMC):
•Currently the only Medical Hospital Facility in Menifee.
•MGMC’s mission is to support and maintain a full range of specialty services that serve both Menifee’s
inpatient and outpatient acute care needs.
•MGMC is confident about providing Menifee residents and the surrounding region with the most
comprehensive, personalized treatment plan available in the healthcare industry.
•Over the years, MGMC has explored expanding the hospital with additional office facilities for patient care,
possible physician medical and local nursing school, and partnership opportunities for local student pathways
or pipelines at the hospital and local schools for in-demand positions/workforce needs.
MOU:
•Proposes a partnership that would help advance healthcare in the City and region through co-promotion of the
organization and events.
•The City and MGMC would work together to support, enhance, and explore the possibility to strengthen
healthcare in Menifee through healthcare workforce.
Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
MOU continued:
•MGMC and the City would explore opportunities to expand the medical facility and identify strategies to
support the medical needs of Menifee residents and the surrounding region.
•The City and MGMC hope to identify enhancements that would help to develop the medical facility as MGMC’s
central hub, thereby allowing Menifee to be recognized as a regional medical economic engine and hub or
become an “anchor institution” playing a much larger role in the vitality of Menifee and the region.
Staff report:
•Allocates up to $30,000 for professional services agreements at a later date for possible marketing, feasibility
studies, healthcare needs study or any other partnership requests to accomplish the set goal of advancing
healthcare in the Menifee region.
Staff Recommendation
•Approve and authorize the City Manager to execute a Memorandum of
Understanding between the City of Menifee and Menifee Global Medical
Center.