After writing this “Around Every Corner” blog about Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital for the past several months, I now have a new role as Director, System Community Relations for Spectrum Health.  It is time to move my blog over there and take the opportunity to share my expanded perspective from that vantage point. You can follow me at: http://www.spectrumhealth.org/BlogModule:aroundeverycorner . Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed.

My new location will be a place to discuss more new developments and greater possibilities I find “around every corner” across the Spectrum Health system. You will still meet patients and families who consent to let me share their stories. You will meet extraordinary doctors and nurses and other health care providers on the front lines. There will be times I turn a “corner” and discover something I can’t wait to tell you about.

You will gain a “ringside seat” for the advances and the initiatives that are transforming health care in West Michigan and beyond. Come back later to learn about the incredible changes in technology I discovered at a Spectrum Health Leadership conference today. Here is a sneak peak: http://futuremed2020.com/ featuring Daniel Kraft, MD who is also speaking to the Spectrum Health Perspectives conference conducted by our Patient Family Advisory Committee.

I hope you have enjoyed reading my blog about the children’s hospital as much as I have writing it. As one of the more highly visible Spectrum Health entities, the big blue building atop the Medical Mile will continue to be a major source of my stories so stay tuned.

I am interested in hearing from you and creating a dialogue in this space. Let me know what you think.