Big Rapids Hospital is an acute care hospital providing advanced birthing, rehabilitation, and inpatient and outpatient services, including cardiopulmonary services and rehab, emergency department, lab, imaging and surgical services. The hospital also includes Spectrum Health Big Rapids Physicians, a multispecialty practice.

Reed City Hospital offers a wide variety of services including cancer care, a Rehab and Nursing Center, outpatient services, family practice locations in Reed City, Tustin and Evart, diabetes education and more. We recently opened the Susan P. Wheatlake Regional Cancer Center bringing state-of-the-art technology together under one roof.

Posts for Big Rapids & Reed City Hospitals

Patient Story

‘They helped me dance again’

Reflexology helps a four-time cancer survivor dance at his son's wedding.

Patient Story

On the road again

It started with hiccups. More than a year later, long-haul trucker Ken White, 70, has conquered esophageal cancer and returned to the road.

Patient Story

Fighting cancer, not traffic

Video visits keep Ed Mikulskis closer to home as this farmer battles a rare lymphoma.

A volunteer’s perspective

Marjean Nickerson doesn't need a dictionary to know a volunteer is all about service—and for her, it's all about helping people.

Patient Story

Improving care, one patient at a time

When a patient saw a burdensome step in his twice-a-week hospital visits, he teamed with an advocate to make a time-saving change.

Patient Story

Warm hearts on a cold night

When Janice Covey found her husband barely breathing on the side of a cold and snowy road, she didn't know what to expect.

Faith and trust

When Gerald Peters suffered a stroke, he and his wife found care and rehabilitation close to home.

Patient Story

‘I think I’m Wonder Woman now’

Mary Bostwick delights in her new life after becoming a heart-lung transplant recipient.

Patient Story

Ready for her close-up

When medical needs separated a newborn preemie from her mother, video technology bridged the 60-mile gap.

Patient Story

Hope, healing and harmony

Music teacher Patricia Hazen beats cancer with help from a brother who donated stem cells.

Patient Story

‘I sure slept well that night’

Big Rapids resident puts to rest fear of telemedicine technology.

Patient Story

Tiny baby, big reunion

Eight years later, hospital nurse reunites with girl who was born at a fragile 4 pounds, 3 ounces.