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Spectrum Health Gerber Memorial |
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212 S. Sullivan Street |
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Fremont |
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Michigan |
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USA |
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49412 |
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231 924 3300 |
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szinn@gmhs.org |
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Specialization Of Spectrum Health Gerber Memorial
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Obestetrician/Gynecologist |
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About Spectrum Health Gerber Memorial
** About Spectrum Health Gerber Memorial **
Spectrum Health Gerber Memorial is determined to provide the highest quality, safest health care environment for meeting the needs of our patients. We take pride in caring for you and your family as we continue to uncover better ways to heal, serve, and learn in our ever-expanding community. It is your experience with our staff – that human connection – not just the new buildings or equipment that will bring you back whenever you need us.
Spectrum Health Gerber Memorial includes a 61-bed not-for-profit community hospital that offers a complete range of basic medical services you would find in urban hospitals, Continu-Care Home Health of Gerber Memorial Hospital services the fourth largest home health care program in West Michigan, the Hesperia and Grant Medical Centers - both of which are rural health clinics, Main Street Internal Medicine & Pediatrics, Women's Health Services, two rehabilitation and Personal Fitness locations in Newaygo and Fremont, a Specialty Services clinic that is home to our Cancer Care Center, Diabetes Self-Management Center, Occupational Medicine, Tamarac, The Center for Health and Well-Being and Ahhh, The Spa at Tamarac.
** Our Mission **
is to provide competent, compassionate, community health care.
** Our Vision **
is to be the source of renewal - in sickness and in health.
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History Of Spectrum Health Gerber Memorial
The Newaygo County General Hospital Association, doing business as Gerber Memorial Health Services (GMHS), has been nationally recognized as one of the Top 100 Hospitals in the country four times – the most recent being in 2005.
Gerber Memorial Hospital received this award for providing clinical excellence and efficient and quality care. The hospital also received the honor of being named as one of the country's 100 Top Orthopedic Hospitals.
** Community Directed Healthcare **
GMHS is a community directed healthcare system serving the people of Newaygo County and its surrounding area. The system is anchored by a 77-bed not-for-profit hospital, Gerber Memorial, located in Fremont, Michigan, forty-five (45) miles north of Grand Rapids. Rural Newaygo County has a population of 48,000 and growing.
Gerber Memorial Health Services has been a mainstay in Newaygo County for over 80 years. In 1918, the children of Joseph and Agnes Gerber (the namesake of the Gerber Products Company) gave the family home at 212 Maple Street in Fremont, Michigan, to the community as a memorial to their parents. They asked that it be used "for the relief of pain and suffering." The legacy of Gerber Memorial Hospital had begun.
** Legacy of Caring **
It is a legacy of caring, from its modest beginning to the modern facility that reaches out into an ever-expanding community -- Newaygo County and its surrounding area. As the community's needs increased, the hospital underwent several expansion programs.
In 1953, a new facility with 44 beds was added to the hospital complex. It marked the advent of many new concepts in health care that greatly expanded the hospital's services.
A one-story addition in 1968 highlighted Gerber Memorial Hospital's first 50 years of services. Many areas of the existing hospital were redesigned and expanded.
The hospital climaxed a $1 million building program in 1971 with the dedication of a three-story addition -- the East Wing. It was built on the site of the hospital's very beginnings, the Gerber home, which was torn down in 1969. The East Wing was of major benefit to the community, offering a new Intensive Care and Coronary Care Unit complete with electronic cardiac monitoring systems and staffed with specially trained nursing personnel.
The hospital began a $2.49 million expansion and renovation in 1982. The first phase of construction was a three-story wing at the north end of the hospital -- room for a surgery suite, the cardio-pulmonary department, offices and employee locker rooms. A major renovation and relocation of many hospital departments also was included in the project.
** Outpatient Specialty Services **
In 1989, the 2-E Nursing Unit was converted to a sixteen (16) bed adult mental health unit (New Focus -- The Center for Mental Health), and the Outpatient Specialty Services department was established in the former Administrative Suite and Boardroom. As the hospital continued to grow, it purchased the Fremont Medical Center building adjacent to the hospital in 1992, and added a $1.6 million addition to it in 1993, in order to accommodate additional physicians coming into the area. During 1991-1993, the hospital also initiated a Master Site Development Plan and began purchasing real estate directly to the west of its Sullivan Street location for future growth.
** Vision 2000 **
Expansion of the hospital campus continued with the Vision 2000 construction and renovation project in 1997.
The $8 million dollar project upgraded and expanded the hospital in order to meet the diverse medical demands of the growing Newaygo County community for accessible, affordable quality health care.
The project's key components include
* more room for patients, staff and equipment in the Emergency area
* modern labor and delivery rooms where the family can participate in the
warmth of the delivery of new life in the Family Birth Center
* an expanded and upgraded radiology department
* a new laboratory
* and electrical and mechanical upgrades for the entire physical plant
The Vision 2000 project was funded through the generous support and donations from the Newaygo County community including: GMHS patients, businesses, associates, physicians, Board members, Administration, vendors, area organizations, The Fremont Area Foundation and The Gerber Foundation
There has been much progress as well as many challenges for the hospital over the many decades of its service to the community
Gerber Memorial Health Services recently completed an expansion and renovation campaign called Phase II. The $10.9 million campaign, completed in 2004, increased surgery capacity; enhanced emergency, maternity and diagnostic imaging; developed women¡s services and provided additional space for patient comfort and confidentiality
** Complete Range of Clinical Services **
Gerber Memorial offers a complete range of clinical services, including many innovative services often found only at large urban facilities for a continuum of care including
The Newaygo Medical Center, in Newaygo, Michigan where both Pine Medical (a multi-specialty group practice) has a satellite family practice office, and GMHS provides wellness, rehabilitation, x-ray and laboratory services; Family practice offices in both Hesperia, and Grant, and an Internal Medicine and Pediatrics office on Main Street in Fremont.
The following hospital services: general acute care, surgery, intensive and cardiac care, 24-hour emergency services, obstetrics (Family Birth Center), pediatrics, and Women's Health Services which includes mammography, laser surgery and Spirit of Women national health programs.
The following diagnostic services: 24 hour laboratory; 24 hour radiology - CT scan, ultrasound, x-ray, mobile MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), nuclear medicine, mammography
The following outpatient services: pain center, cardiac rehabilitation, adult psychiatric, cancer treatment
Educational Services: diabetes self-management, nutrition counseling, perinatal educational classes (includes early pregnancy classes, expectant parent classes, labor review for mothers who have previously delivered, vaginal birth after Cesarean section classes, preadmission education, infant and child CPR, breastfeeding support) ContinuCare home health services
Life Wellness programs (fitness and preventative health care) in Newaygo, White Cloud and Fremont
New Focus, The Center for Mental Health (a 16-bed adult inpatient psychiatric unit), Interim House ( non-acute adult overnight/day psychiatric care
Rehabilitation services (occupational therapy, physical therapy, sports medicine, specialty services) in Newaygo, White Cloud and Fremont
Senior meals, Alzheimer's Support group, Geriatric Assessment Program/services
Visiting Medical Specialists (cardiology, ears/nose/throat, gastroenterology, hematology, oncology (Cancer Treatment), ophthalmology, plastic and reconstructive surgery, podiatry, urology, vascular surgery, neurology, pathology)
In-county physicians specializing in Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatric, Orthopedics, General Surgery, Radiology, Obstetrics/Gynecology
Occupational Health Services for local businesses
Led by dozens of active and associate physicians, consultants, and mid-level practitioners (Podiatrists, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists), Gerber strives to provide the best in healthcare as well as demonstrating its commitment to the community as a good neighbor
Our family physicians and specialists with local offices can refer their patients to an outstanding network of local regional medical facilities. We are fortunate to have the benefits of these and many other expanding health care providers and facilities, all dedicated to your good health.
** Our Mission **
The GMHS Mission is to provide competent, compassionate, community health care and to provide it close to home. And our vision is to be the health system of choice for greater Newaygo County. The long-term goal is to improve the health status of the residents that we serve. We all must concentrate on staying healthy and make sure that our communities have a system that both supports health, and is there when we need it.
Gerber Memorial Health Services is the second largest employer in Newaygo County, with over 450 associates. It inputs approximately $20 million per year into the local economy in salaries, wages and locally purchased goods and services. GMHS is directed by a 15-member Board of Directors consisting of community leaders, business people, volunteers and physicians.
Through the combined efforts of the Board of Directors, Medical Staff, Administration, Associates, Volunteers and interested friends, Gerber Memorial Health Services will continue to provide the same concerned care that is its legacy to residents and visitors alike.
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