News Releases

Super heroes and princesses are just a few weeks away from making their Halloween debut. As children dream of creating the perfect costume, carving the best pumpkin and bringing home a stash of...

The Children's Healthcare Access Program Shows Encouraging Results; Receives Awards for Collaboration As the nation debates healthcare reform, a community partnership in Kent County is ensuring...

The vascular surgery and VeinSolutions practices of Robert Cali, MD, Christopher Chambers, MD, PhD, Robert Cuff, MD, RVT, FACS, Lewis L. DeKryger, MD, Jill Gorsuch, MD, M. Ashraf Mansour, MD, and...

Helen DeVos Children's Hospital Participated in National Study A substantial percentage of children who receive a CT scan after apparently minor head trauma do not need it and are consequently...

Spectrum Health Reed City Hospital is offering a series of classes during the month of October for comprehensive diabetes self-management education by Lori King, RN and Kim Lombard, RD. If you or...

Will Provide Inpatient Support at Butterworth Hospital Spectrum Health Medical Group has added two new physicians who will help provide increased support for obstetric and gynecological patients...

Kristi Demock, DO, a family medicine physician, has joined the Spectrum Health Medical Group effective today. “We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Demock,” said James M. Tucci, MD, MMM,...

Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital today announced the consolidation of pediatric cardiology services to improve access and coordination of heart care for the children of Michigan. Beginning...

Quick Action, Technology Aids In Full Recovery According to Tom Torresson – a 39-year-old volunteer firefighter, advertising executive, outdoors enthusiast, husband and father of three on...

Spectrum Health is hosting the work of 28 artists at four of its sites during ArtPrize, the community art competition. The art is primarily paintings, but also includes photography, quilt art and...

Spectrum Health Reed City Hospital, as well as hospitals and healthcare organizations around the world this October will commemorate the third annual Patient-Centered Care Awareness Month....

Spectrum Health Reed City Hospital has invested in new technology to enhance breast biopsies. With the $180,000 investment, a state-of-the-art stereotactic biopsy table has been added to the...

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the mammographers at Spectrum Health Reed City Hospital will be doing a little extra pampering for those women who receive a mammogram at...

Emotional Shock Can Cause Heart Failure A broken heart has long been considered an emotional issue but research has shown it to be a real ailment that can mimic a massive heart attack. Broken...

Flu Shots Available Throughout Community Spectrum Health is offering the flu vaccine in multiple locations throughout the community in the coming weeks, to encourage as many residents as possible...

Network Includes 28 Hospitals Working Together for Pediatric Health Care War Memorial Hospital has joined Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital’s Partners in Children’s Health, becoming one of 28...

Listen to Dr. Leonard Wright Discuss Alternative Medicine (MP3, 12MB) When Les Crater, 75, told his wife of 53 years that he had enough of hospital stays, Nancy Crater knew what he meant. “It...

John MacKeigan, MD, FRCSC, FACS, FASCRS, has been named executive vice president and chief medical officer for Spectrum Health system. He began his duties September 14. “We are fortunate to have...

Spectrum Health has named Anthony Senagore, MD, MBA, MS, FACS, FASCRS, to the new position of vice president, chief academic officer, Spectrum Health. He begins his new role immediately. Dr....

Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital today announced the appointment of hospitalist Martina Keeler, MD, to its medical staff. Keeler joins Rebecca Bultman, MD, David Duffey, DO, Daniel McGee, MD,...

Award Acknowledges Leadership Contributions Richard C. Breon, Spectrum Health President and CEO, has received the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Senior-Level Executive Regent’s...

Erica Armstrong, MD, has joined the Spectrum Health Medical Group effective today. “We are pleased to welcome Dr. Armstrong to our group,” said James M. Tucci, MD, MMM, president, Spectrum...

What‘ Lilly Oncology On Canvas, an art exhibition honoring the physical and emotional journeys people face when confronted by a cancer diagnosis, will be on display at the Spectrum Health...

Marianne Melnik, MD, has joined the Spectrum Health Medical Group effective today. “We are pleased to welcome Dr. Melnik to our group,” said James M. Tucci, MD, MMM, president, Spectrum Health...

An estimated 63 infants in Kent County died within the first year of life from 2001 to 2006 likely as a result of unsafe sleeping environments. This statistic concerns experts at Helen DeVos...

David Scheeres, MD, has joined the Spectrum Health Medical Group effective today. “We are pleased to welcome Dr. Scheeres to our group,” said James M. Tucci, MD, MMM, president, Spectrum...

Pediatric Health Information Available Online A new resource is available for parents seeking information about pediatric health care. The Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital channel as part of...

Infectious Disease Specialist Urges Vaccination According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the influenza virus is likely to infect 20 percent of Americans this year. Commonly called...

Mobile Clinics, Urgent Care Centers, Physician Offices Offer Vaccine Spectrum Health will be offering the flu vaccine in multiple locations in the coming weeks to make it as convenient as possible...

Spectrum Health Medical Group is expanding its capabilities in urogynecology with the addition of a new physician. Christine A. Heisler, MD, a specialist in female pelvic medicine and...

Kevin Hayes, DO, has joined the Spectrum Health Medical Group effective today. “We are pleased to welcome Dr. Hayes to our group,” said James M. Tucci, MD, MMM, president, Spectrum Health...

Study Places Spectrum Health System in Top 50 Health Systems in the U.S. Spectrum Health has been recognized as one of the top 50 health systems in the U.S. in a new report from Thomson Reuters....

The Spectrum Health Medical Group has established a new office in Rockford, Michigan. The Spectrum Health Medical Group Family Medicine office, which opens today, is located at 570 E. Division Street.

A $133,030 donation from Kohl’s Department Stores is helping to keep children in West Michigan safe. Representatives from Kohl’s will present Safe Kids Greater Grand Rapids-a program of Helen...

Spectrum Health Reed City Hospital staff, physicians and volunteers continue to personally involve themselves in the communities in which they live and work by organizing the 2nd Annual School...

Michigan Community Blood Centers (MCBC) will hold their blood drive with Spectrum Health Reed City Hospital on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the MCBC blood bus. The bus...

Good sleep habits often take a summer vacation when school is out. Now is the time to resume a normal routine according to pediatric sleep medicine experts at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital....

Spectrum Health is using a cutting edge technology to delicately reach areas of the heart that are difficult to access in order to correct irregular heart rhythms. Cardiologists at the Fred and...

Spectrum Health Reed City Hospital is offering a series of evening classes during the month of September for comprehensive diabetes self-management education by Lori King, R.N. and Kim Lombard,...

Jambunathan Krishnan, MD, has joined Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital as a pediatric critical care medicine specialist. Dr. Krishnan will provide care to infants, children and adolescents with...

Richard Freeman, MD, FACP, has been selected to serve as chief medical officer for the Spectrum Health Medical Group starting today. “We are very pleased that Dr. Freeman has agreed to take on...

D. Eugene Wiley, MD, has joined the Spectrum Health Medical Group in its Neurology Department effective today. “Dr. Wiley will be an exceptional asset to our group,” said James M. Tucci, MD,...

Travel Coffee Mugs Available at 14 Area Biggby Coffee Locations A partnership between the Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital Foundation and Biggby Coffee is showcasing artwork made from the...

Priority Health, a nationally recognized health plan, today released a new and improved Web tool, “Find a Doctor,” on’priorityhealth.com. The tool enables patients to find specialists,...

Spectrum Health has been selected to participate in a three-state project that will seek to reduce the number of people who must be readmitted to the hospital for clinical reasons related to the...

Cancer Pavilion Opening Earns National Recognition Spectrum Health recently received national recognition for its efforts in the opening and initial marketing of the Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion...

New Study Finds Children Don’t Need Long-Term Steroids After Kidney Transplant Researchers at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital Implement New Protocol to Eliminate Side Effects from Steroids...

Mark A. Kadlec has been selected to serve as chief operating officer for the Spectrum Health Medical Group.’ “We are very pleased that Mark will be stepping into this critical role,” said...

Karen Pakkala, MBA, has been named the new executive director of the Spectrum Health Visiting Nurse Association (VNA). “Karen has a great vision for what the VNA can be as its role grows in our...

Spectrum Health Reed City Hospital is offering a series of classes during the month of August for comprehensive diabetes self-management education by Lori King, RN and Kim Lombard, RD. If you or...