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Following months of planning and consideration, St. Luke’s Hospital in Maumee, Ohio and McLaren Health Care have officially signed a letter of intent to define ways that the two organizations will work together to best meet the needs of the communities they serve. The letter of intent was signed on Dec. 4 at St. Luke’s Hospital, a 312-bed facility serving Maumee, Ohio and the surrounding communities. As part of the potential integration, McLaren Health Care plans to make significant investments in St. L...

Precise Treatment Spares Healthy Tissue with Fewer Side Effects McLaren Health Care is proud to introduce the newest weapon in its arsenal of cancer-fighting technology: Proton Therapy . The most powerful and precise radiation oncology treatment available to treat cancer is now provided at the McLaren Proton Therapy Center, located on the campus of the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Flint, Michigan. As one of only 28 proton therapy centers in the United States, the McLaren Proton Therapy Center features l...

Port Huron, MI – McLaren Port Huron and the Karmanos Cancer Institute will host a cancer survivor picnic Wednesday, June 19, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. The picnic will take place at the Marysville Community Health Center, 867 East Huron Boulevard, Marysville. Cancer survivors, their families and care team are invited to saddle up and celebrate survivorship at this western themed event. Enjoy barbeque vittles and fellowship, with special performances by the Hooked On Country Line Dance Team. This program is made po...

The National Cancer Institute’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences featured a research publication that includes work by a student in the Cancer Biology Program at Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University School of Medicine (WSU SOM) in its Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program’s Research Highlights of 2018. Donovan Watza is a M.D.-Ph.D. student and the lead author of the publication, “Prognostic Modeling of the Immune-Centric Transcriptome Reveals Interleukin Signaling ...

The Bariatric Center of Michigan at McLaren Port Huron was recently re-accredited as a Comprehensive Center by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP) – a joint program of the American College of Surgeons and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. The Bariatric Center of Michigan at McLaren Port Huron is the only MBSAQIP-designated program in St. Clair County. Since 2002, McLaren Port Huron has performed more than 3,500 bariatric pro...

Port Huron, MI – If you’ve ever had to take a sick child to the emergency department in the middle of the night, you know how stressful it can be. Will you wait long? Will your child be comfortable until you see the doctor? Very often, the ER wait can add to the anxiety for both your child and yourself. But McLaren Port Huron has changed all that. With online emergency check-in, powered by In Quicker, patients can register in advance for care in the emergency department at McLaren Port Huron. With just a...