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Holland, MI - The National Diabetes Prevention Program, offered by Holland Hospital’s Center for Good Health, is being recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC has given the program "full recognition," a designation which the CDC says is reserved for programs that have effectively delivered a quality, evidenced-based program that meets all of the standards for CDC recognition. “We are honored to receive this designation for delivery of this high quality national level ...

Dr. Laurie Birkholz discusses birth control options and the truth and myths around the various methods.

For the 14th consecutive year, Holland Hospital has been named a West Michigan’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® by the Michigan Business and Professional Association (MBPA). According to MBPA, winning companies practice innovative strategies and represent best practices in human resources in industries as diverse as automotive, insurance, hospitality, communications and nonprofit organizations. “Performance like this requires a deep commitment to the patients we serve and to each other,”...

Holland Hospital is being honored by two national quality monitoring organizations. For the second year in a row, Holland Hospital has received the America’s 50 Best Hospital Award from Healthgrades. The award is reserved for hospitals that provide overall clinical excellence across a broad spectrum of conditions and procedures consistently for at least six consecutive years. This year, Holland Hospital is ranked by Healthgrades as the highest performing hospital in Michigan and the 7th highest nat...

For a seventh consecutive year, Holland Hospital has been recognized with a Gold Performance Achievement Award presented by the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR ACTION Registry.  Holland Hospital is one of only 78 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor in 2015. The ACTION Registry–GWTG Gold Performance Achievement Award recognizes hospitals that have sustained high performance levels in the treatment of heart attack patients, following the guidelines set by the American College of Cardiolog...

As part of its ongoing mission to improve the health of the community, Holland Hospital will become a completely tobacco free campus beginning July 1, 2015.  The use of tobacco in any form, as well as e-cigarette and vapor products will not be allowed on hospital property including buildings, grounds, and parking lots at the main campus and at the hospital’s off-site locations.  The new policy applies to all employees, patients, volunteers and visitors. “By becoming completely tobacco-free, we...

Holland Hospital’s annual fund raising event, the Culinary Cabaret, last week raised a record amount of $178,485.  More than 550 guests attended the March 5 event at the Pinnacle Center in Hudsonville, bidding on more than 100 auction items and enjoying food and beverages from fourteen area restaurants, catering companies and beverage producers.  All of the funds raised will benefit the Holland Community Health Center which provides primary care health services to 5,400 uninsured or underinsur...

For nearly 30 years, the Hospital’s Volunteer Auxiliary has conducted its Light of Love campaign, securing hundreds of thousands of dollars for hospital programs and services over the years.  This year, the campaign again received tremendous support from the community, employees and volunteers by raising over $13,500 in contributions. This campaign supports the purchase of items that enhance the care and comfort of patients and their families but are not typically included in a department's budget. ...

Holland Hospital’s Urgent Care services, located on the Lakeshore Medical Campus (LMC) near Riley Street on Holland’s north side, will relocate in early January to a larger space on the same campus.  Urgent care patients will be seen at the current location in Building A until 10 p.m. on Tuesday, January 6. Overnight, the services will be moved a short distance to Building B where patients will be seen beginning at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, January 7. “Our new space increases our number of patient treat...

More than half of Michigan hospitals have now engaged BCBSM in value-based agreements to transform health care reimbursement Michigan’s health care delivery system continues to transform its payment structure away from volume, toward a greater focus on quality and efficiency, as six Michigan health systems have signed new value-based reimbursement agreements with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. To date, 18 Michigan hospital systems, including 71 hospitals, have adopted this innovative payment model....