Spectrum Health West Michigan


Mercy Health, Metro Health – University of Michigan Health and Spectrum Health Announce New Visitor Restrictions

GRAND RAPIDS and WYOMING, Mich., March 15, 2020 –Mercy Health, Metro Health – University of Michigan Health and Spectrum Health have revised their visitor policies to align with a new executive order from Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. The additional restrictions are intended to prevent the spread of illness and protect patients, health care workers and […]



Spectrum Health Announces New Family and Visitor Restrictions

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 Michigan has its first presumed cases of COVID-19, and an official state of emergency has been declared by Governor Gretchen Whitmer. This act has […]



Spectrum Health Offers Free Virtual Screenings for Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 For Those with Symptoms

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 concerned they have the virus. The purpose is to prevent the spread of illness by enabling people to seek the information they need from their homes, while making it […]



Two Spectrum Health Leaders Recognized Nationally

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 19, 2020 – Becker’s Hospital Review, a leading health care trade magazine, recently recognized two Spectrum Health executives as national leaders in their fields. Becker’s named  Darryl Elmouchi, MD, MBA, chief medical officer, Spectrum Health, and president, Spectrum Health Medical Group, to its list of “100 hospital and health system chief […]



Area Emergency Departments Change Sobriety Clearance Process

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 17, 2020 – Inebriated patients can begin the process of receiving follow-up care and assessments sooner thanks to a collaborative approach among area hospitals in measuring sobriety. The work was spearheaded by Spectrum Health. This approach is a significant change in when emergency department (ED) patients can be evaluated and deemed […]



Spectrum Health Enacting Visitor Restrictions

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. 8, 2020 – Spectrum Health hospitals are working to meet the challenge of caring for our community amid an influx of respiratory illness. Because one of the most important tools in fighting the transmission of infection is limiting exposure, only healthy visitors may visit patients in the hospitals or outpatient locations. […]



Spectrum Health to Hold ‘Same Day Hire’ Event at West Michigan Works!

Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 6, 2020 – Spectrum Health will hold a ‘same day hire’ event Thursday, January 9, at West Michigan Works! from 1-4 p.m. The event includes open interviews for more than 50 full-time and part-time positions in the areas of nutrition services and environmental services. Full-time and part-time positions at 20 hours […]



Spectrum Health Opens Urgent Care in Ada

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 16, 2019 – Spectrum Health officially opened its newest urgent care center today at the Integrated Care Campus at 7128 Fulton St.SE in Ada. The health system now offers nine urgent care centers throughout West Michigan. The new Ada location brings this important level of care closer to home for patients […]



Michigan State Police Troopers Undergo Rare Living Donor Liver Transplant

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. 22, 2019 – Two Michigan State Police troopers are back on the road after one donated half of his liver to the other in a living donor liver transplant earlier this year. Trooper David Burr, 28, of Grand Rapids, donated part of his liver to the officer who trained him, Trooper […]



Spectrum Health Plans Second Retail-based Walk-In Clinic

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., July 24, 2019 – People who live near and shop at the newly-renovated Meijer store in Wyoming, Michigan will soon be able to access care conveniently when they shop. Spectrum Health will open its second Meijer walk-in clinic at the store at 5500 Clyde Park Ave, SW in October 2019. The first […]



Spectrum Health Achieves Magnet® Designation for Third Time

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 27, 2019 – Spectrum Health Grand Rapids has earned the prestigious Magnet® designation for exceptional nursing for a third time. The American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet Recognition Program is the highest international distinction a health care organization can receive for nursing excellence and outstanding patient care. Magnet hospitals are designated for […]



Answering the call to Michigan’s lack of addiction specialists

EAST LANSING, Mich., Feb. 22, 2019 — The number of opioid-related deaths in Michigan have hit an all-time high, requiring the resources of three of the state’s major universities and one of its largest health systems to tackle the problem. Under a two-year, $1.5 million grant, Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, Wayne State […]



Spectrum Health Announces Pennock Leadership Change

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Sept. 27, 2018 – Angela Ditmar, RN, MBA, has been named president, Spectrum Health Pennock and southeast regional market leader, effective November 1, 2018. Ditmar is currently the vice president for cancer health at Spectrum Health. She will assume this new role from Sheryl Lewis-Blake who announced her plans earlier this year […]


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