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FREMONT, Mich., March 16, 2020 – In an effort to better screen visitors during the coronavirus pandemic, Spectrum Health Gerber Memorial is keeping only a few entrances open for staff, patients...

Pennock Health & Wellness Center will close effective today, March 16, to help slow the transmission of coronavirus. The Health & Wellness Center will be closed beginning at 3 p.m. until further...

FREMONT, Mich., March 16, 2020 – Spectrum Health Gerber Memorial announced today that it is limiting outpatient rehab services at the Fremont/Tamarac and Newaygo locations. Gerber Memorial is...

Following Executive Order 2020-6 from Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer GRAND RAPIDS and WYOMING, Mich., March 15, 2020 –Mercy Health, Metro Health – University of Michigan Health and...

Some of this information may have changed. | FIND THE LATEST COVID-19 UPDATES HERE Beaumont Health is taking numerous additional actions to help stop the spread of COVID-19, care for patients who...

Some of this information may have changed. | FIND THE LATEST COVID-19 UPDATES HERE Beaumont Health’s medical team is currently caring for the first Beaumont patient who tested positive for...

Dr. Barbara Ducatman has been appointed chief medical officer for Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak and associate dean of clinical affairs at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine...

Some of this information may have changed. | FIND THE LATEST COVID-19 UPDATES HERE Beaumont COVID-19 hotline provides community with timely, accurate information Confirmed cases of the new coronavirus

Action in response to COVID-19 outbreak GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 12, 2020 – In order to keep community members, team members and the public healthy and safe, Spectrum Health is taking the...

Some of this information may have changed. | FIND THE LATEST COVID-19 UPDATES HERE As the new coronavirus, COVID-19, continues to evolve, Beaumont Health is taking multiple steps to help reduce...

Free downloadable posters and videos for businesses, churches, schools GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 11, 2020 – Spectrum Health today announced it has posted downloadable materials, travel tips,...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 11, 2020 – Spectrum Health has taken additional action to help limit the spread of COVID-19 by announcing new hospital family and visitor restrictions. The State of...

Beaumont Health is pleased to announce the following recognitions: Four Beaumont employees appointed to Michigan medical boards and task force Governor Gretchen Whitmer has named four employees to...

Grand Rapids and Wyoming, Mich., March 9, 2020 – Officials from the Kent County Health Department, Mercy Health, Metro Health – University of Michigan and Spectrum Health are in contact with...

Screening available to anyone in Michigan GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 6, 2020 – Spectrum Health is offering free screening for the novel coronavirus COVID-19 to those who have symptoms and may be...

The typical school sports physical may fall short in assessing heart health. Because sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death in young athletes, Beaumont Health cardiologists and...

FREMONT, Mich., March 3, 2020 – As a wedding destination, most people might put Las Vegas on the list, or closer to home, The Shak, Camp Newaygo or the red barn in Fremont. Spectrum Health...

Lung cancer kills more Americans each year than any other cancer, but doctors say early detection can make the difference between life and death. Jo Pastula, 60, of Plymouth, is thankful for new...

Spectrum Health moves into teaching kitchen space to expand culinary medicine programming and open a lifestyle medicine specialty practice GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. March 2, 2020 – Spectrum Health is...

Meleah Mariani, MSN, has been named the chief nursing officer at Spectrum Health Ludington Hospital, effective immediately. She has been serving as interim CNO at the Ludington Hospital since...

U.K. and U.S. scientists have discovered a combination of two commonly available drugs could boost the body’s ability to heal bone fractures – accelerating bone formation and healing. The...

ZEELAND, Mich., Feb. 24, 2020 – Spectrum Health adult and pediatric outpatient rehabilitation facilities in the Holland and Zeeland areas are reorganizing to better serve patients and families....

Jason Joseph and Darryl Elmouchi named in Becker’s “100 to know” GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 19, 2020 – Becker’s Hospital Review, a leading health care trade magazine, recently recognized...

FREMONT, Mich. (Feb. 19, 2020) – Spectrum Health is helping shine a spotlight on vaping. Spectrum Health physician Shelley Schmidt, M.D., and Spectrum Health Gerber Memorial tobacco treatment...

New protocol allows for timelier behavioral health care GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 17, 2020 – Inebriated patients can begin the process of receiving follow-up care and assessments sooner thanks...