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McLaren Bay Region, part of statewide McLaren Health Care and Bay City’s leading provider of comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation, was named among America’s Best Physical Rehabilitation Centers by Newsweek. The hospital was the sole facility in the Great Lakes Region to be honored. Inpatient Rehabilitation provides intensive treatment to help patients achieve their highest level of independence after a serious injury, illness or surgery, such as spinal surgeries to neurological conditions resulting fr...

Being a volunteer takes a very selfless and giving person. The holiday season is a great time to remind us all that volunteers make a big difference year round at McLaren Bay Region.  Ann Moseley is one such volunteer who has assisted at McLaren Bay Region for the past year. When she finished her medical career as a phlebotomist, she thought she was done, but another volunteer, Helen Cummings, convinced her to give volunteering at the hospital a try. “I work the front desk as a volunteer at McLaren...

A recent study published in Scientific Reports correlates higher levels of pollutant particulate matter to higher occurrences of head and neck aerodigestive cancer. The article “ Air Pollution Exposure and Head and Neck Cancer Incidence ” is the work of a multi-institutional collaboration with researchers from Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Johns Hopkins University and Mass General Brigham. The study was led by John Cramer, M.D. , otolaryngologist, member of the Head and Ne...

GQ Anthony Shields, M.D., Ph.D. , medical oncologist and member of the  Gastrointestinal and Neuroendocrine Oncology  and the  Phase 1 Clinical Trials  Multidisciplinary Teams at Karmanos, spoke to GQ about the imaging process for cancer screenings and his thoughts on full-body scans. Read the article here .

Mary Lou Brose never imagined having a CT scan of her back could be life-changing, but results from the test turned her world upside down.  A surgeon ordered the CT to get a closer look at what was happening with Mary Lou’s sciatic nerve, and what he found – a mass in her lung that turned out to be cancerous – brought the discussion about her back pain to an abrupt halt. “The surgeon noticed something in my lung,” Mary Lou said. “He said I was not going to have back surgery until this was taken car...

McLaren Health Care, with 13 hospitals and multiple care campuses throughout the state, has earned substantial improvement across its system following the release of the Fall 2024 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, a national distinction that recognizes the hospital’s achievements in protecting patients from harm while providing safe, compassionate health care. Nearly all McLaren hospitals throughout Michigan improved their letter grades over their Spring 2024 Leapfrog release, including two earning ‘A’s ...

The McLaren Proton Therapy Center is pleased to welcome board-certified Radiation Oncologist Hani Al Halabi. He joins a comprehensive team of oncologists at McLaren Flint who work closely to offer patients their best chance at fighting cancer.  “I am a passionate physician, and I love what I do,” Dr. Al Halabi said. “I am an advocate for my patients and always strive to deliver the best care I can. To me that comes down to the quality of the treatment my patients will receive, and at McLaren I have...

Two Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University School of Medicine researchers will co-lead a new grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health to identify mechanisms that contribute to cancer disparities in Detroit. Kristen Purrington, Ph.D., member of the Population Studies and Disparities Research Program and associate professor of Oncology, and Heather Gibson, Ph.D., member of the Tumor Biology and Microenvironment Research Program and assistant p...

McLaren Port Huron, along with its philanthropical arm, the McLaren Port Huron Foundation, are greeting the arrival of the holiday season with the 36th Annual Festival of Trees, a staple event in the community, with this year’s event debuting the Festival of Trees Gala. Following the success of last year’s display of designer trees throughout downtown Port Huron, several businesses will again host 22 lit trees in their displays along with more than 25 traditionally exhibited in the McLaren Port Huron lo...

Type 2 diabetes cases continue to rise, and heart disease is still the number one killer of both men and women. But what do they have to do with each other? “Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease,” said Dr. Hameem Changezi , an interventional cardiologist at McLaren Flint.  “Amongst the alterations that occur within the body, there are cholesterol abnormalities that develop resulting in high "bad" cholesterol as well as triglycerides, which cause cholesterol deposition in arteries and block...