DOWAGIAC, MI – Borgess-Lee Memorial Hospital has earned The Joint Commission‟s Gold Seal of Approval® for health care quality and safety.
The accreditation status demonstrates Borgess-Lee‟s compliance with The Joint Commission‟s national standards for health care quality and safety in hospitals. The accreditation award recognizes Borgess-Lee‟s dedication to continuous compliance with The Joint Commission‟s state-of-the-art standards. [...] Continue Reading…
DOWAGIAC, MI – One of the area’s biggest and most popular fundraiser golf events takes place on Friday, July 12, as supporters of The Lee Memorial Foundation tee off at the Foundation’s Ninth Annual Golf Outing.
The 2013 scramble event will again be held at Spruce Ridge Golf Club in Dowagiac. Registration begins at 9 a.m., with a shotgun start at 10 a.m. The entry fee is $50 per person. The event includes 18 holes of golf with cart, lunch on the course, and the opportunity to win prizes for the longest drive (male and female), closest to the pin (male and female) and more. [...] Continue Reading…
Dr. Dean Copely of Premier Radiology stopped by WVFM to speak about this year’s Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.
Dr. Copely serves on the Susan G. Komen Board of Directors. The interview focuses on the 17th Annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure running/walking event that will be held Sunday, May 19 from 11:30 am–3:30 pm at the Arcadia Creek Festival site in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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DOWAGIAC, MI – Borgess-Lee Memorial Hospital honored its volunteers during the hospital’s annual Volunteer Recognition Luncheon on Wednesday, April 24.
Thirty of the 34 active volunteers at Borgess-Lee were welcomed by John Ryder, chief operating officer, Borgess-Lee Memorial Hospital, and Mary Jo Appelt, volunteer coordinator at Borgess. During the 2012 calendar year, Borgess-Lee volunteers donated over 3,500 hours of service to the hospital, including working at the lobby desk, making cookies for bake sales and ordering merchandise for the Borgess-Lee Memorial gift shop.
“Our volunteers are an integral part of our mission to provide holistic, spiritually centered care, and they are [...] Continue Reading…
KALAMAZOO, MI – There’s a chorus of voices rising from Borgess Medical Center that many people feel connects with fostering an environment for better healing.
The newly formed Resounding Spirit Choir at Borgess Medical Center believes music helps people be well, get well and live well. The Choir will hold a spring concert at 5 p.m., Monday, April 29, in the Lawrence Education Center at Borgess Medical Center. The concert is free and open to the public.
“Music and music-based therapy continue to boost morale, elevate mood, and even help critically injured patients like former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords relearn how to walk and talk,” said Paul A. Spaude, president & CEO, Borgess Health. “That’s why we’re bringing music to the halls of Borgess Medical Center. The Resounding Spirit Choir provides support and inspiration to our patients, staff and community. This passionate group of individuals uses the communal spirit of singing to deliver encouragement and revive the spirit.” [...] Continue Reading…
DOWAGIAC, MI – Borgess-Lee Memorial Hospital is now partnering with Apogee Physicians, the nation’s largest physician-owned and hospitalist group, to provide hospitalist services for admitted patients to 2 North Medical Surgical the Special Care Unit.
The partnership will provide the placement of two permanent full-time hospitalists. Asad Kizilbash, MD, officially began his clinical role as the chief hospitalist at Borgess-Lee Memorial Hospital on March 11. His colleague, Abhijeet Nakave, MD, joined the hospital on April 2. Both physicians are experienced hospitalists specializing in internal medicine. Dr. Kizilbash most recently was an Apogee hospitalist at Providence Medford Medical Center in Medford [...] Continue Reading…
KALAMAZOO, MI – A major garden and courtyard on the campus of Borgess Medical Center will be dedicated the “Sister Anastasia Healing Garden” at 11:30 am, April 22–Earth Day. (Immediately after the ceremony, the Kalamazoo Nature Center will offer a presentation on strategies for “Greening” at home and at work.)
“Sister Anastasia Steffes was called a ‘Child of the Flowers’,” said Linda Root, Vice President, Mission Integration, Borgess Health. “She tended campus flower gardens in the 1960s and 70s that she had initiated years earlier. She would also visit patients daily.”
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Dr. Tom Goodwin of Borgess Orthopedics made several stops today speaking with Ken Lanphear and Lori Moore about the tragedy at the Boston Marathon, the growth of Borgess Run Camp and preparations for the Borgess Run for the Health of It!
Dr. Goodwin is head of the medical coverage for the Borgess Run for the Health of It! and physician with the Borgess Bone & Joint Institute and the Borgess Sports Medicine team.
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KALAMAZOO, MI – For years Alzheimer’s researchers have focused on testing experimental drugs on patients who already have a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and significant changes in cognition, memory and behavior. It has become quite clear that researchers have been trying to treat the disease at too late a stage. They agree that they need to be focusing on the very earliest stage, what is called “prodromal AD,” when patients suffer little or no cognitive or memory loss but scans show that their brains contain beta amyloid, the sticky plaques that are the hallmark of the disease that destroy healthy [...] Continue Reading…
KALAMAZOO, MI – Like 150,000 other babies, Bobby Hopewell, Administrative Director, Borgess Health Park Battle Creek, was born at Borgess Medical Center.
“Although I may be the one exception, everyone else born at Borgess fits our famous phrase–Gorgeous Borgess Baby,” said Hopewell. “I invite my Borgess sisters and brothers to share their Borgess heritage by posting a baby picture–whether it’s their own, their child or a grandchild–on their Facebook page and tagging Borgess Medical Center. We’d also love to see them on Instagram and Twitter. Users can upload their photos and tag them #GorgeousBorgessBaby.”
Gorgeous Borgess Babies
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