Rae Kaare

Rae Kaare is Vice President-Chief Operating Officer for Aspirus Iron River and Aspirus Ontonagon which are two critical access hospitals located in the western end of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

She is originally from the western end of the Upper Peninsula and actually began her career in the one of the Aspirus UP sites 37 years ago before it was Aspirus.

Rae began her career as a medical technologist and through the years progressed into a number of different leadership roles before moving into her current role five years ago.

Rae loves her job and works very hard to ensure that rural patients have access to excellent healthcare and services.  She describes her role as challenging and rewarding!