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All of that, Peters said, is part of the
involvement in the community the
health care provider emphasizes.
According to a hospital spokesper-
son, the facility isworking to build on its
mission of healingmind, body and spirit
and has recently added several new
programs at theLivoniahospital.
One of those is a new Sports
Medicine program aimed at amateur,
professional or recreational athletes.
The program offers evaluation and
diagnosis of sports injuries, non surgi-
cal and surgical treatment option and
sport-specific physical therapy.
The program also includes healthy
athlete screenings, sport-specific edu-
cation and nutrition seminars and indi-
vidual sport specific enhancement
training.
The program is led by sports medi-
cine physicians, orthopedic surgeons
andphysicals therapists.
"Our Sports Performance Training
program teaches you how to push your
boundaries to improve your sports per-
formance and stay injury-free," a
spokesman said. "We work with you
while you are healthy to optimize your
athletic performance. You'll become
stronger, better, faster-and improve your
balance, strength endurance, speed and
agility," she said.
For information about the sports
medicine program, call (734) 655-2661.
St Mary, which is a part of Saint
Joseph Mercy Health System, will also
open a Center for Integrative Medicine
this summer.
The new center will emphasize the
healing of body mind and spirit and
offer strategies to patients to help
reduce stress, tension and chronic pain.
The new center will offer integrative
options to complement traditional med-
ical care including options like evi-
dence based modalities such as
acupuncture andnutrition counseling.
The Senior Assessment and
Resource Institute at St. Mary provides
a valuable service to senior adults, their
caregivers and their primary physicians
by conducting a comprehensive evalua-
tion that includes cognition, function,
medication, social support systems,
leading to a patient-centered plan that
improves senior wellness and quality of
life.
St. Mary Mercy Hospital is renovat-
ing 90 existing semi-private patient
rooms on the third, fourth and fifth
floors in the hospital North Wing. Most
of these renovated rooms will become
private patient suites. The North Wing
Renovation is part of the hospital's new
addition construction project: last fall,
St. Mary Mercy Hospital opened a
three-story, 154,000-square foot building
that consists of a new Emergency
Center and 80 private patient rooms.
St. Mary Mercy Hospital is a 304-bed
hospital providing acute-care medical
and health services to the community
by board-certified doctors and regis-
tered nurses. We provide the highest
quality services with leading-edge tech-
nology in our 24-hour Emergency
Center, Senior ER, Heart and Vascular
Center, Cancer Center, Birthing Center,
Women's Center, Center for Joint
Replacement, Inpatient and Outpatient
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Units, Sleep Center, Wound Care
Center, and Michigan Bariatric
Institute. We also offer same-day diag-
nostic testing and a variety of communi-
ty healtheducation services,” she said.
For additional information about St.
Mary Mercy, visit www.stmarymercy.
org.
St. Mary always involves the entire community on the float and last year, along
with one of the founding fathers and the Liberty Bell, some lucky students got to
ride along the parade route.