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Susanna Storeng, DMSc, PA-C, DFAAPA, is a pediatric physician assistant who built her career serving the needs of rural, traditionally underserved populations. Susanna Storeng It was as a rural primary care provider for more than 20 years that she discovered her passion for health advocacy and education, and, following a return to Michigan after years out of state, she has joined McLaren Central Michigan Pediatrics. With the compassion and kindness she’s honed throughout her practice, she will focus on ...

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute ’s 11th Annual Pink Out the Park event with the Detroit Tigers and McLaren Health Care, the official health care system of the Tigers, was a home run in Motor City. As the Tigers battled against the Seattle Mariners on Friday, May 12, 2023, hundreds of breast cancer survivors and their loved ones filled the stands at Comerica Park, decorated in pink to promote breast cancer awareness and support. “It is gratifying to see so much support from the community of sur...

The 2023 list of Crain’s Notable Leaders in Behavioral Health contains two members of Karmanos’ Supportive Oncology Multidisciplinary Team (MDT): Felicity W.K. Harper, Ph.D., and Mary Morreale, M.D. The publication announced the list on Monday, May 22. Dr. Harper is a clinical psychologist, professor of oncology at Wayne State University (WSU) School of Medicine, and associate center director of Population Sciences at Karmanos. She has dedicated her leadership, research and clinical practice to improvin...

McLaren Thumb Region, part of McLaren Health Care and a critical access hospital serving the entire Thumb region, has brought magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology to the area. By providing local access to this advanced and commonly used diagnostic imaging technology, patients will no longer have to travel outside their community for the non-invasive procedure. The mobile MRI unit will be located on the hospital’s main campus along South Van Dyke Road, just outside the walls of its diagnostic imag...

Though many people enjoy having sun-kissed skin, we should be careful. More Americans are diagnosed with skin cancer than any other cancer – in fact, millions are each year! There are three main types of skin cancers: basal, squamous and melanoma. Basal and squamous cell skin cancers are the most common types diagnosed among Americans. Around 8 out of 10 skin cancer cases start in the basal cell, and 2 out of 10 are squamous cell carcinomas. Both cells are found in the top layer of the skin, known as th...

During a regular Girl Scout meeting in March 2023, Monica Papasian was the guest speaker that evening. She asked the troop to think of words they consider scary. Her 8-year-old daughter Olive and her fellow scouts were participating with intent. After the girls chose their “scary” words, Papasian revealed her word: cancer. “My goal was to reassure the girls that they didn’t have to be fearful or afraid of the word cancer. I was a living, breathing example of that,” said Papasian. “When my mom told me th...

Every year, National Nurses Week is celebrated on May 6 and ends on Florence Nightingale’s birthday, which is May 12. As part of the Nurses Week festivities, McLaren Greater Lansing highlights a nurse who has gone above and beyond the call of duty. This year, Christina Zimmerman, RN, was selected as the 2023 Nurse Excellence Award Winner. Zimmerman works on 5W, an advanced telemetry unit, where nurses have a high level of compassion and critical thinking. Zimmerman has been a registered nurse with McLar...

  In early 2020, before Covid-19 reached pandemic proportions, Judy Springsteen had her regular screening mammogram. “Everything was fine,” Judy said. “There was nothing unusual. ” Like so many women during the pandemic, Judy skipped her 2021 mammogram. She did not think much of it when she finally scheduled one in September 2022. However, this time the screening did not end with a mammogram. “They followed up with an ultrasound,” Judy said. “They found two lumps, one in each breast.” Judy was init...

McLaren Greater Lansing, part of McLaren Health Care and a leading Ingham County provider through its expansive health care campus, has appointed Jodi Stein, MSN, RN, as Vice President of Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer, effective May 22. Bringing more than 32 years of nursing and administrative experience to the role, Stein will provide the clinical and operational oversight across the spectrum of nursing throughout the McLaren Greater Lansing organization. Jodi Stein, MSN, RN Most rece...

McLaren Central Michigan, part of McLaren Health Care and the leading Isabella County health care provider, has awarded a pair of local students with its Louise Williams Volunteer Scholarships, aiding in their educations toward eventual careers in health care. Applicants must be enrolled in an accredited college or graduate program, involved in their community or hospital, and maintain a high grade point average. Local students Paige Sian and Shelby Trevino each received partial scholarships as part of ...