Health & Seniors
HEALTH CARE in Gratiot County
Offering State-Of-The-Art Care In A Rural Setting MyMichigan Medical Center Alma, is a 97-bed teaching hospital located in Alma, Michigan and specializing in high-quality rural medicine. The Medical Center has been serving the health care needs of residents throughout central Michigan since 1955. It is a subsidiary of MyMichigan Health and is affiliated with Michigan Medicine, the healthcare division of the University of Michigan. To keep you and your family healthy, we are continuously expanding access to primary care providers including family medicine, internal medicine and obstetrics/gynecology. Along with our main Medical Center campus in Alma, we have physician offices in Ithaca, Alma, Breckenridge, Shepherd and Mt. Pleasant. We offer online scheduling; virtual care including telemedicine, video visits and e-visits; and a patient portal for personal access to your health information. We also have convenient urgent care and state-of-the-art emergency services located at the Medical Center. Our full range of specialty services include heart and vascular care, cancer care, orthopedics, general and bariatric surgery, urology diagnostic imaging, laboratory, maternity, behavioral health, pain management, sports medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation, a wound treatment center and rehabilitative services including physical, occupational, and speech. Our ongoing investments ensure we have the latest in advanced technology. For example, we have recently added a new $2.6 million Maternity Center, invested $1 million in a Cardiac Catheterization Lab and installed the very latest in MRI technology. 24
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Next, we will be breaking ground and renovating the west side of the facility to complete a 51,200 square-foot operating room (OR) renovation and expansion project. This $34.5 million, multi-year project will include three new large, state-of-the-art surgical suites; two procedure rooms; private pre-operative and recovery rooms; as well as new sterile processing department with proximity to the OR. Our redesigned patient care areas will offer patients and their families with increased privacy and security, as well as an environment of seamless, coordinated care. An additional phase of this project will include a new main entrance to the Medical Center. What’s more, we are training the health care providers of the future. In 2016, a family medicine residency program was established to train family medicine physicians. Since this program’s start, we’ve exceeded our goal to keep at least 25 percent of graduates right here in Central Michigan. In addition, we partner with area nursing schools and other clinical disciplines to help train future health care team members. Our Simulation Lab offers a leading-edge way to train staff in patient assessment skills with life-like manikins that are programmed to present with symptoms and respond to treatments. Above all, in addition to our patients, we care for our communities. We give back with our time, talent and treasure through local support of a diversity of charitable, community and development organizations, such as Art Reach of Mid Michigan, the Alma Highland Festival, Central Michigan University, Child Advocacy of Gratiot County, food distributions with East Lansing Food Bank, Toys for Tots, United Way and more.
