As the year 2025 played out, McLaren Central Michigan continued advancing its mission of delivering exceptional, patient-centered care through strategic growth and investment.
With more than $2.4 million invested in capital improvements, services expanded, facilities were enhanced, and resources needed to support high-quality care were strengthened. We welcomed new providers, earned advanced accreditations, and celebrated meaningful milestones that reflect our continued commitment to clinical excellence.
Remaining one of the largest employers in the county, our hospital remains a vital contributor to the local economy and a trusted partner in the health and well-being of our community.
Last year was one that saw 207,332 patient encounters within the hospital (and another 46,597 through our outpatient clinics in Mt. Pleasant), the past year was highlighted by progress, achievements, and people who defined our 2025.
January
McLaren Central Michigan Expands Lung Cancer Program, Adds Advanced Technology
McLaren Central Michigan has significantly enhanced its care of a common and very serious form of cancer with the expansion of its lung cancer program, which includes the addition of an Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS) unit, an advanced clinical technology that allows physicians to perform a bronchoscopy and look deeper in the lungs to view and biopsy suspected cancer in their earliest forms and begin treatment when it is most responsive to therapies.
March
McLaren Central Michigan Inducts Four Long-Time Physicians to Hall of Fame
McLaren Central Michigan, a longtime comprehensive provider for the communities of Isabella County dating back to its time as Central Michigan Community Hospital, has added four esteemed and long-serving members of its past medical staffs to its Physician Hall of Fame. Members of the Physician Hall of Fame are first nominated by their peers before a selection committee considers them for the honor of inclusion in the hall.
McLaren Central Michigan Offering Free Colorectal Cancer Screening Kits
In recognition of March as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and to further raise awareness — and promote the importance of — early detection, the Karmanos Cancer Institute at McLaren Central Michigan provided free at-home screening kits throughout the month.
April
McLaren Central Michigan Shows Appreciation for Volunteers
Leadership at McLaren Central Michigan proudly spent an afternoon recognizing the many and various contributions of its staff of dedicated and compassionate volunteers during its annual luncheon. Organized during National Volunteer Week, the event celebrated the selflessness of those who collectively volunteered more than 6,600 hours of their time to aid the patients, visitors, and staff within McLaren Central Michigan.
Lions Club Donation to Soothe Kids in McLaren Central Michigan ER
Leadership at McLaren Central Michigan is humbled by the generosity of the Mt. Pleasant Lions Club, whose members graciously organized and donated almost 200 backpacks — filled with stickers, colored pencils, a coloring book, and a stuffed animal — for children visiting the hospital’s emergency department.
May
McLaren Central Michigan Earns a Leapfrog ‘A’ Hospital Safety Grade
McLaren Central Michigan earned an ‘A’ Spring 2025 Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, a national distinction that recognizes the hospital’s achievements in protecting patients from harm while providing safe, compassionate health care. The highest achievable recognition, grades are assigned based on a hospital’s performance in preventing medical errors, injuries, accidents, infections, and other harm to patients in their care, as well as patient experience.
June
McLaren Central Michigan Earns Top Marks for Maternal Care
McLaren Central Michigan and its Family Birthing Center achieved Platinum Status from the Michigan Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (MI AIM), the organization’s highest achievable honor.
McLaren Central Michigan Recognizes Cancer Survivors with National Survivors Day Celebration
McLaren Central Michigan, part of the statewide Karmanos Cancer Network through its Morey Cancer Center, welcomed all local cancer survivors to share in a celebration of their triumphs over the illness on National Survivors Day on June 5.
McLaren Central Michigan Expands Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program
McLaren Central Michigan, which provides the region’s only specialized program dedicated to assisting survivors in the immediate aftermath of a sexual assault, has expanded its Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program with nurse Kathleen Swirtz, RN, earning her SANE-A accreditation from the International Association of Forensic Nurses.
July
McLaren Earns National Recognitions for Proficiency of Stroke Care
McLaren Central Michigan, part of the McLaren Stroke Network, which provides timely and potentially lifesaving care in the midst of the medical emergency, has again earned national honors for the exceptional level of care provided at its network hospital sites from the American Heart Associated/American Stroke Association.
August
McLaren Health Care and Medicaid Plans Increase Access to Care
McLaren Health Care began accepting Meridian Medicaid HMO, Molina Medicaid HMO, United Health Care Medicaid Community Plan, and many other Medicaid health plans at all 12 of our hospitals and clinics across the state, adding more ways patients and their loved ones to access high-quality, compassionate care within their community.
September
McLaren Central Michigan Hosting 4th Annual Health Fair
McLaren Central Michigan, again hosted its annual Health Fair, welcoming the community with opportunities to advance their wellness by participating in a range of screenings and talk with providers while enjoying an end-of-summer family fun festival. Health Fair attendees are able to be evaluated immediately for crucial aspects of their primary health, provided opportunities for screenings, such as blood pressure measurements, glucose levels, speech, language, cognition, and balance and strength evaluations, among others.
Karmanos Cancer Institute at McLaren Central Michigan, Morey Cancer Center Celebrates 20 Years of Care in Mount Pleasant
In 2005, Central Michigan Community Hospital opened the Norval K. Morey Cancer Center, an accomplishment that brought an exceptional level of cancer care to Mount Pleasant, increasing the accessibility of potentially life-saving care to the community. Now 20 years later, the commitment of providing the patients of Mount Pleasant with first-rate cancer care remains stronger than ever, having care for thousands of patients.
McLaren Central Michigan Family Birthing Center Earn Maternal Levels of Care Verifications
McLaren Central Michigan is among several McLaren Health Care hospitals to have earned advanced Maternal Levels of Care verifications from The Joint Commission, an achievement and sign of those locations’ commitment to providing a capable and safe environment and enhance outcomes for the patient and the child.
November
McLaren Central Michigan Earns Consecutive Leapfrog ‘A’ Hospital Safety Grade
McLaren Central Michigan earned a second ‘A’ Hospital Safety Grade in 2025 during the Fall 2025 Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, recognizing the hospital’s performance in preventing medical errors, injuries, accidents, infections, and other harm to patients in their care, as well as patient experience.
McLaren Central Michigan Invests $2 Million to Expand, Enhance Diagnostic Imaging
McLaren Central Michigan invested nearly $2 million to expand and enhance its diagnostic imaging services. The multimillion-dollar investment adds an advanced MRI unit and a DEXA bone density scanner, significantly reducing procedure wait times while increasing clinicians’ diagnostic precision through higher-quality scans, supporting providers’ early disease detection capabilities and critical care decisions.
McLaren Central Michigan Verified as Isabella County’s First Trauma Center
McLaren Central Michigan has earned verification from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to become the county’s first trauma center. As a Level IV trauma center, hospital emergency physicians, surgeons, and care teams have demonstrated that they have met rigorous — yet essential — national standards for trauma care, including rapid assessment, stabilization, and transfer of patients to higher-level trauma centers when necessary.
December
McLaren Central Michigan Urologist Reaches Milestone with 500th Procedure
Dr. Michael Cotant, a urologist with McLaren Central Michigan, has achieved a career milestone shared by only a handful of other physicians in the multistate Great Lakes Region, having performed his 500th UroLift procedure, addressing benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a common, quality-of-life-limiting condition.
Learn more at mclaren.org/centralmichigan.