News Releases

Parents in the Grand Rapids area will be rewarded for publicly exhibiting good parenting skills as part of a campaign sponsored by Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital. Members of the Child...

Butterworth Campus Front Lobby Closes for Expansion and Remodel Spectrum Health will close its Butterworth Campus Main Lobby Entrance on Michigan Street March 11, 2007 for construction. The...

Michigan Community Blood Centers Blood Drive on March 28 Michigan Community Blood Centers (MCBC) will hold their blood drive with Spectrum Health on Wednesday, March 28, 2007. The MCBC blood bus...

Spectrum Health Reed City Campus has been named a recipient of the Total Benchmark Solution Best Acute Care Hospitals Award for 2005. It is based upon quality measure data provided by U.S. health...

Patients More at Risk for Stroke Than Cardiac Arrest While most of the focus during heart month in February is on preventing or recognizing heart attacks, a heart rhythm abnormality is growing...

Tune into the eighth annual Kids Come First STAR 105.7 Radiothon or stop by the Fred and Lena Meijer Heart Center lobby and pledge to make a difference in the life of a child during a three-day...

Additional Dose to Increase Resistance to Childhood Illness Most adults vividly remember their childhood experience with the chickenpox. From baking soda baths to a week off school, chickenpox...

Spectrum Health United Memorial announced the organization’s Excellence Award winners on Saturday, February 17 at the annual Winterfest program held to honor staff, physicians and volunteers....

Following a community-wide body mass index (BMI) health assessment that revealed 59 percent of Kent County residents are overweight and 44 percent of African/Black American participants have a BMI...

Spectrum Health and Orthopedic Associates of Grand Rapids today announced the appointment of Michael P. Mott, M.D., as medical director of orthopaedic oncology, Spectrum Health and practicing...

After a warm December, it appears Michigan weather is returning to its frigid norm. And as temperatures drop, medical experts expect cases of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning to rise. CO is a...

Steve Fahlen, D.O., has been named medical director of the Kelsey Campus emergency department in Lakeview. He is board-certified in emergency medicine by the American Association of Physician...

Five-year-old Damon Oakley is like many boys his age. He likes video games, Sponge Bob Square Pants and pizza. There’s just one thing that separates the Cheboygan resident from his friends’his...

The Grand Rapids Medical Education & Research Center for Health Professions (GRMERC) Voting Board has appointed as its President and CEO, Peter Coggan, M.D., M.S.Ed. Coggan will also serve as...

The efforts of two area groups to provide early detection of colorectal cancer have earned state recognition, and may have saved lives as well. District Health Department 10 and Spectrum Health...

Ken Fawcett, MD, Stephen F. Rechner, MD, and Timothy J. O’Donovan have joined the system board of Spectrum Health. Fawcett is medical director of Spectrum Health Primary Care Partners. Rechner...

Spectrum Health is proud to announce today that Press Ganey Associates has named it a 2006 Success Stories Award Winner. Spectrum Health is one of six hospitals in the country to be recognized for...