by Emily Tyra | Jan 9, 2019 | Counties, Live Here, Towns
For more than 14 years, Copper Ridge Surgery Center (CRSC) in Traverse City has offered patients in Northern Michigan expert surgical care in a non-hospital setting under a wide umbrella of specialties. Chief Executive Officer LoAnn Vande Leest leads the CRSC team...
by Carly Simpson | Nov 6, 2018 | Work Here
Munson Healthcare will partner with 20Fathoms, Northern Michigan’s technology hub and startup incubator, as a means to support innovation in the Traverse City area. Munson Healthcare President and CEO Ed Ness says the partnership will explore potential entrepreneurial...
by Jeff Smith | Apr 10, 2018 | Counties, Live Here, Towns
Each year, women in Northern Michigan give birth to about 5,000 babies, and of those pregnancies, about a third are considered high risk. The region, however, has not had a robust network of services for high-risk pregnancy. High-risk-moms-to-be have had to travel...
by Jeff Smith | Feb 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
Kryptós … it’s the Greek word for hidden, and when it was imported to English as “crypto,” it became a combining word, stuck onto the front of other words to mean hidden this or hidden that. Cryptogenic stroke is an example. The medical term refers to strokes...
by C. D. | Mar 9, 2017 | Counties, Live Here, Towns
Hematologist/oncologist Yelena Kier, D.O., recalls the day the worst nuclear disaster ever in the world took place. She was 3 years old. “I just remember all of my toys had to be destroyed when we came home and my clothes thrown away,” she said. “My mother told me...
by C. D. | Jan 11, 2017 | Counties, Live Here, Towns
TRAVERSE CITY: Munson Medical Center’s pediatric unit recently opened an activity room that allows kids to be kids during their hospital stay, holding with the maxim that play offers its own healing power. “We see it as a place where they are able to get...
by C. D. | Dec 30, 2016 | Counties, Live Here, Towns, Work Here
TRAVERSE CITY: Breakthrough technology now allows certain heart patients at Munson Medical Center to receive a tiny pacemaker. And it arrives via catheter, not surgery. Munson Medical Center’s cardiologist is the first in northern Michigan to implant the device....
by Jeff Smith | Nov 9, 2016 | Counties, Live Here, Towns
Cancer, like any major disease, attacks more than just the body. It affects a patient’s emotions, spirit and mindset. The situation is exacerbated by treatment protocols—chemo and radiation—that take their own toll. Helping people deal with the broader effects of...
by Jeff Smith | Dec 18, 2015 | Counties, Live Here, Towns, Work Here
Northern Michigan patients who live in rural areas are benefiting thanks to Munson Medical Center. Discover Munson’s mobile treatment services. Featured in the 2015 issue of MyNorth Medical Insider. In the drive to stop the spread of HIV, a primary goal is...
