Spectrum Health Gerber Memorial

Name :

Spectrum Health Gerber Memorial

Address  :

212 S. Sullivan Street

Town  :

Fremont

State  :

Michigan

Country  :

USA

Post Code:

49412

Phone  :

231 924 3300

Web URL  :

Available

Email  :

szinn@gmhs.org

Description

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 everexpanding 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 61bed notforprofit community hospital that offers a complete range of basic medical services you would find in urban hospitals ContinuCare 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 amp Pediatrics Womens 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 SelfManagement Center Occupational Medicine Tamarac The Center for Health and WellBeing 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

History

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 countrys 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 77bed notforprofit hospital Gerber Memorial located in Fremont Michigan fortyfive 45 miles north of Grand Rapids Rural Newaygo County has a population of 48000 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 quotfor the relief of pain and sufferingquot 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 everexpanding community Newaygo County and its surrounding area As the communitys 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 hospitals services

A onestory addition in 1968 highlighted Gerber Memorial Hospitals 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 threestory addition the East Wing It was built on the site of the hospitals 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 249 million expansion and renovation in 1982 The first phase of construction was a threestory wing at the north end of the hospital room for a surgery suite the cardiopulmonary 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 2E 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 16 million addition to it in 1993 in order to accommodate additional physicians coming into the area During 19911993 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 projects 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 109 million campaign completed in 2004 increased surgery capacity enhanced emergency maternity and diagnostic imaging developed womeniexcls 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 multispecialty group practice has a satellite family practice office and GMHS provides wellness rehabilitation xray 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 24hour emergency services obstetrics Family Birth Center pediatrics and Womens 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 xray mobile MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging nuclear medicine mammography

The following outpatient services pain center cardiac rehabilitation adult psychiatric cancer treatment

Educational Services diabetes selfmanagement 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 16bed adult inpatient psychiatric unit Interim House nonacute adult overnightday psychiatric care

Rehabilitation services occupational therapy physical therapy sports medicine specialty services in Newaygo White Cloud and Fremont

Senior meals Alzheimers Support group Geriatric Assessment Programservices

Visiting Medical Specialists cardiology earsnosethroat gastroenterology hematology oncology Cancer Treatment ophthalmology plastic and reconstructive surgery podiatry urology vascular surgery neurology pathology

Incounty physicians specializing in Family Practice Internal Medicine Pediatric Orthopedics General Surgery Radiology ObstetricsGynecology

Occupational Health Services for local businesses

Led by dozens of active and associate physicians consultants and midlevel 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 longterm 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 15member 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