COREWELL HEALTH

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Beaumont Children’s pediatric team has rolled out informational videos to help parents and caretakers of kids with Type 1 diabetes.

“I got Spectrum,” Patmon said, noting his excitement to stay in West Michigan for his continued medical training. Residents in internal medicine, family medicine, emergency medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, anesthesiology, surgery and other areas will spend three to seven years training under attending physicians before becoming practicing physicians themselves. In the months leading up to Match Day, medical students in the final year of their program will apply to residency programs that match their specialties of choice. At the University of Michigan, 151 medical students learned where they’d be continuing their training. As a patient, Bragg said people are likely to interact with resident physicians alongside physicians no matter what brings them in for health care.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Corewell Health has canceled its annual Irish Jig 5k race due to expected snowy and cold weather. Corwell Health announced the cancelation about 8 p.m. Friday, March 17. The race was set for 8:30 a.m. Saturday, March 18 near East Grand Rapids High School. The long-running event is now it’s 39th year. A National Weather Service forecast calls for 2-3 inches of snow in the Grand Rapids area on Saturday with gusty winds and a high temperature of about 25 degrees.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services and Corewell Health have formed a collaborative effort to tackle behavioral health issues facing the community. The two organizations have formed the Collaborative for Behavioral Health to address issues such as the overall cost of behavioral health care, wait times for care, and barriers to accessing behavioral health services. Focuses for the collaborative moving forward include reducing the cost of behavioral health care, Nykamp said. The collaborative is positioned to do so because Corewell Health owns an insurance company, Priority Health. The idea is better integration between physical and behavioral health providers, and to make it easier for patients at Corewell to access behavioral health care services at Pine Rest.

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GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Corewell Health is opening a new $17.5 million medical intensive care unit on the eighth floor of the Fred and Lena Meijer Heart Center. “This project fills a great need in the community,” said Chad Tuttle, senior vice president of hospital operations and post-acute care at Corewell Health. “It was approved before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the demand for critical care beds was certainly exacerbated throughout the pandemic. It also “aims to centralize all medical critical care patients to a single unit.”Space for the additional beds was made by removing offices and meeting rooms on the floor. Corewell is also planning to expand the cardiothoracic critical care unit on the heart center’s fifth floor from 22 beds to 36 beds.

Shoveling snow, especially the heavy, wet variety we’re getting Friday, is linked to medical emergencies like heart attacks.

Visitor restrictions have been lifted at all eight Corewell Health East hospitals, formerly known as Beaumont Health, in Metro Detroit due to a drop in respiratory illness spread.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Corewell Health is planning to build a one-story outpatient cardiovascular surgery center near the corner of East Beltline Avenue NE and Bradford Street. Once the tube reaches the heart, doctors can diagnose a heart condition and perform procedures to treat some problems, according to Corewell. As of now, those procedures are typically done downtown Grand Rapids at Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital’s Fred and Lena Meijer Heart Center. Last year, Corewell announced it was partnering with Atlas on its planned four-story Orthopedic Health & Performance Center at 2750 E. Beltline Ave. NE. Read more:Grand Rapids police make arrests after carjacked vehicle strikes cruiser, suspects flee on footScaled-back housing development at historic Sligh building approved by Grand Rapids commissionKent County denied grant to help purchase 272-acre Cannonsburg ski hill, outdoor recreation area

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THE GROSSE POINTES — The Grosse Pointe Public School System Board of Education Monday night approved a clinic with a maximum price of nearly $989,000 to be built at Grosse Pointe North High School. As was the case with a vote to approve an interagency agreement with Corewell Health to run the clinic, Ahmed Ismail

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Patients are expected in mid-January to move into a new, $19.5 million short-term rehabilitation facility built by Corewell Health, formerly known as Spectrum Health, near Leonard Street NE and East Beltline Avenue. The building is designed to complement a 125-bed, long-term rehabilitation facility under construction at the corner of Fuller and Cedar streets in Grand Rapids. Corewell also offers short-term rehabilitation at its Kalamazoo Avenue facility in Grand Rapids as well as other locations, Tuttle said. Spectrum Health and Beaumont Health in southeast Michigan merged early this year and formed Corewell Health. Addiction recovery services for women being launched by Christian nonprofit in Grand RapidsAlmost 20% of all Grand Rapids sidewalks will be cleared of snow as part of city program expansion

GROSSE POINTE WOODS — A health clinic at Grosse Pointe North High School that administrators originally said would cost $700,000 is now up to more than $915,700. Documents from the Grosse Pointe Public School System’s Facilities Committee meeting Monday, Dec. 5, show the new cost will be $663,418 for construction and $252,343 for management and

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THE GROSSE POINTES — At the Nov. 14 Grosse Pointe Public School System Board of Education meeting, a proposal to open a health clinic at Grosse Pointe North High School was presented to the school board by Jeff Cook, senior director of community health and health equity at Corewell Health, formerly known as Beaumont Health.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A surge in a child respiratory illness has DeVos Children’s Hospital looking to add beds to handle the influx of young patients. Corewell Health on Monday, Nov. 21, said it had filed an emergency certificate of need with the state to add 48 beds to DeVos Children’s Hospital. The health system also wants to designate 117 beds as intensive care beds. On Nov. 9, a DeVos Children’s Hospital emergency department doctor offered a glimpse at the surge of RSV illnesses in the Grand Rapids area. DeVos Children’s Hospital normally has 24 intensive care unit beds.

A Michigan professor is on the hunt for new kidneys, and he is spreading the news about the search through billboards across Metro Detroit.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — An annual Thanksgiving-time networking event designed to lure former residents back to West Michigan is returning this month. ReThink West Michigan, hosted by Hello West Michigan and The Right Place, gives attendees who are home for Thanksgiving an opportunity to connect with some of the region’s biggest employers. The free event is taking place Nov. 23, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., in downtown Grand Rapids at The Atrium at Uccello’s, 122 Monroe Center St. NW. Participating employers include Corewell Health (formerly Spectrum Health), PADNOS, Haworth, Specialized Recruiting Group, Attwood Corporation, Rockford Construction, Grand Valley State University, Gordon Food Service, Mercy Health, Meijer and others. “As the largest employer in the state, Corewell Health, formerly Spectrum Health, is committed to hiring and investing in some of the brightest and most talented people in the world,” said Nicole McConnell, senior vice president of human resources business partners at Corewell Health West.

60,000 children are hospitalized with RSV every year and according to officials, there were more cases per week in October than any other week in 2020.

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A new fleet of robots are coming to Beaumont Hospitals to help surgeons make smaller incisions, leading to less pain and quicker recovery times for patients.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — BHSH System, which launched earlier this year when Spectrum Health and Beaumont Health merged, is rebranding as Corewell Health. Over the next two years, the health system will install new signs for its hospitals, clinics and other properties throughout the state, the health system announced Tuesday in a news release. In Grand Rapids, for example, Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital will now be called Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital.

The largest health care system in Michigan has officially been named.