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Robotic surgery has been widely celebrated for its ability to assist in surgery with more precision and dexterity than a human hand. This can lead to faster recovery, less pain, and smaller scars for surgical patients. In 2007, McLaren Greater Lansing launched its robotic program with its first da Vinci robotic-assisted procedure. Now, 17 years later, it is celebrating a major milestone of 10,000 robotic-assisted cases completed at this Lansing hospital. The 10,000th case, an incisional hernia repair , ...

When a Viral Illness Becomes an Emergency      Colds, flu, and other viral illnesses tend to run rampant during the winter months. Most of the time, in healthy adults, the body will knock out a viral illness after 1-2 weeks of rest and proper nutrition. However, there are a few cases of when a viral illness becomes an emergency, and you may need to seek medical care.    Difficulty Breathing   “One of the key things we want to see people for is if they are experiencing short...

From a young age, music has been a big part of Sierra Watson’s life. In seventh grade, she started playing the bassoon. It became a passion of hers, and she decided to make it a career path, studying music for her higher education degree. “I am now a doctoral student at Michigan State University [MSU] and a member of the MSU Bassoon Studio,” said Watson. “After high school, I decided to go to college to focus on music and got my bachelor’s degree and then I came to MSU for the master’s program and loved...

The McLaren Stroke Network, Grand Blanc-based McLaren Health Care’s integrated structure in which to provide comprehensive stroke care, has expanded to provide critical access Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital (SMH) with an enhanced level of potentially lifesaving care. Through an agreement between the health care providers, patients arriving at Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital’s Emergency Room suspected of having a stroke will be initially evaluated by a McLaren Stroke Network interventional neurologist in or...

In today’s modern medicine, new minimally invasive procedures are making headway instead of the more conventional methods when it comes to treating the many forms of heart conditions and disease. These procedures can address quality-of-life limiting symptoms caused by heart disease with fewer risks and faster recovery time. Opened in March 2022, the McLaren Greater Lansing hospital campus utilizes its state-of-the-art cardiac catheterization lab and hybrid operating rooms to provide these more common pr...

There has been a lot of progress over the past few months since we officially broke ground on the McLaren Grand Ledge ambulatory care center and freestanding emergency department in September of 2024. Here are a few of the many milestones, bringing us closer to opening day in late 2025: Installing underground utilities Foot and foundation construction Structural steel construction began the week of December 16. You can view the live progress through our construction cam here.

Officials of The Ally Challenge presented by McLaren announced today that the seventh playing of the official PGA TOUR Champions event, which concluded August 25, 2024, at Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club, raised a total of $1,005,260.21 for charitable organizations in southeastern Michigan and beyond, surpassing the $1 million mark for the fifth time in the tournament’s brief history. Since its inception in 2018, The Ally Challenge presented by McLaren has donated nearly $8.4 million to support ch...

Winter conditions can make the occurrence of a stroke more probable. More than 800,000 people in the United States suffer a stroke every year, with the majority of them caused by a rouge blood clot disrupting blood flow in the brain. The American Heart Association, during a nationwide conference in front of an audience of physicians specializing in the treatment of strokes, presented the results of a study that concluded strokes are more common during the winter months. For some, colder weather can be a...

McLaren Health Care, the statewide health care provider with 15 hospital-based and freestanding emergency departments, has established the position of Chief Medical Director of Emergency Services with Crystal L. Arthur, MD, FACEP, joining the system to assume the newly created role. Through her leadership, Dr. Arthur will collaborate with emergency providers and leaders of McLaren’s emergency departments to advance the care and experience of patients, focusing initiatives to bolster and enhance patients...

Stress has become so prevalent in countless lives that the American Psychological Association classifies it as a public health concern , and it can take many forms: depression, anxiety, and exhaustion to list a few. Often spiking during the holiday season, everyday stressors can be borne out of work pressures, deadlines, financial struggles, among many others. And the effects sufferers feel can lead to very real symptoms — and the body reacts : heart rate increases, blood vessels narrow. Over time, thes...