How Your Gifts Help How Your Gifts Help

Your gifts make a difference in patients’ lives. Your gifts provide support for staff and patients every day.

Dear Friends,

Your generosity supports:

• Medical technology

Your gifts to the McLaren Northern Michigan Foundation are making a difference in the ongoing fight against COVID-19, as well as in all our programs.

• Medical equipment

Your generosity provides:

• Patient assistance

• Facility upgrades

• Pediatric rehabilitation programs

• Personal Protective Equipment for staff

• Medical technology

• Preventative care and wellness initiatives

• Medical equipment

• Hospice care

• Patient assistance

• Recruitment and retention

Winter is here, in northern Michigan, and with it comes time for reflection. For all of us at McLaren Northern Michigan, we look back with gratitude for the ways you have supported patients through your generous involvement with the Foundation.

• Behavioral health

• Facility upgrades

In this issue, read how your gifts have helped provide state-of-the-art equipment for orthopedic surgery patients. Investment in technology has been instrumental in our ability to attract talented physicians to the area.

• Education

• Innovation

• Pediatric rehabilitation programs

• Medical excellence

• Areas of greatest need

• Preventative care and wellness initiatives

We also invite you into the new Surgery Center Entrance. Extensive renovations mean a more comfortable space for patients and their families.

• Programmatic support

• Hospice care cEThe entire team at McLaren Northern Michigan appreciates your support—as does every patient who relies on the hospital for their care.

The entire team at McLaren Northern Michigan appreciates your support—as does every patient who relies on McLaren Northern Michigan for their care. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and share our stories with your friends and family to encourage them to give back as well!

We are excited about the construction for the new Justin A. Borra Behavioral Health Center, located on the Cheboygan campus. We invite you to read more about it on page 5.

On behalf of our staff and patients, thank you for your generous support. We’re grateful for you and the difference you make for health care in northern Michigan.

With gratitude,

360 Connable Avenue

360 Connable Avenue

Petoskey, MI 49770

Petoskey, MI 49770

231-487-3500

231-487-3500

Julie Jarema

Friends of the Foundation Newsletter is a publication of the McLaren Northern Michigan Foundation and is produced three times a year for contributors to the Foundation. Find out more about our work by visiting mclaren.org/NorthernMichiganFoundation.

Friends of the Foundation Newsletter is a publication of the McLaren Northern Michigan Foundation and is produced three times a year for contributors to the Foundation. Find out more about our work by visiting McLaren.org/NorthernMichiganFoundation.

Vice President and Chief Philanthropy Officer McLaren Northern

Michigan Foundation

Elise Fisher Board Chair McLaren Northern Michigan Foundation

2023 McLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES

2020 McLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Elise F. F, Chair | Robert (Ham) Schirmer, Vice Chair | Matthew J. Frentz, CPA, Treasurer | Miriam Hollar, Secretary | Kal Attie, MD

Kal Attie, MD | Robbie Buhl | Todd Burch, President & CEO, McLaren Northern Michigan | Katie Coleman | Steven C. Cross | Matthew J. Frentz, CPA

Robbie Buhl | Todd Burch, President & CEO, McLaren Northern Michigan | Steven C. Cross | Arthur G. Hailand, III | Ellen Hatch

Patrick Leavy | Rogan L. Saal | James Schroeder, PhD | Darcie Sharapova, MD | Tracy Souder, MA, CCC-SLP | Pamela L. Wyett

Arthur G. Hailand, III | Matthew Krieger | Patrick Leavy | James Riehl, III | Rogan L. Saal | James Schroeder, PhD | Tracy Souder, MA, CCC-SLP

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