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Three Michigan health care leaders were honored with the 2013 MHA Healthcare Leadership Award, presented by the Michigan Health & Hospital Association (MHA) during the MHA Health Foundation Governance Leadership Forum in Acme, Michigan. Each autumn, the MHA honors outstanding individuals who have provided exceptional leadership to healthcare organizations and to the health and well-being of the community. The 2013 recipients of the award include Spencer Maidlow, CEO, Covenant HealthCare; Tim Z...
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9/20/2013, News
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Ed Bruff Covenant HealthCare President/CEO Beth Charlton Covenant HealthCare EVP/COO/CNO After a fulfilling 38-year career, Ed Bruff, Covenant HealthCare President/CEO, has announced his retirement on June 30, 2021. As such, the Covenant HealthCare Board of Directors also shared that Beth Charlton will officially transition into the role beginning July 1, 2021. Bruff started with the former St. Luke’s hospital in 1983 as the Director of Materials Management and shortly thereafter was promoted to Vice Pr...
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2/10/2021, News
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Video Credit to WNEM TV 5 Featuring: Beth Charlton, President and CEO, Covenant HealthCare It is our greatest gift and honor to provide extraordinary care to our community alongside thousands of talented, compassionate individuals at Covenant HealthCare. Be sure to tune in for a special Christmas message from Beth Charlton, President/CEO. Wishing you and your loved ones a warm and joyful holiday season!
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12/25/2024, News
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Video Credit to WNEM TV 5 Featuring: Beth Charlton, BSN-RN, MSA, President/CEO Covenant HealthCare Happy Hospital and Nurses Week from Beth Charlton, BSN-RN, MSA, President/CEO of Covenant HealthCare! #ExtraordinaryTogether
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5/11/2022, News
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All families scheduled for live interviews on the 2018 Covenant Kids Telethon, sponsors, and volunteers are asked to stay home. Please do not come to the Mid-Michigan Children's Museum. Covenant CEO, Ed Bruff wishes everyone to be safe and limit travel for volunteers and families. The new format for the 2018 Covenant Kids Telethon will include the prerecorded stories scheduled for today, and the phone bank will be manned by members of the Covenant Kids planning group. Since there will be no live intervi...
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4/14/2018, News
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Starting March 8, 2023, Ascension St. Mary’s and Covenant HealthCare will begin a partnership for emergency air medical transportation services provided by FlightCare. Covenant is entering a preferred provider agreement with Ascension St. Mary’s FlightCare, which is operated by Med-Trans, a member of the Global Medical Response family. “It’s the patients who truly benefit from this healthcare partnership,” said Beth Charlton, president and CEO of Covenant HealthCare. “Air transportation is a key compone...
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3/9/2023, News
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Covenant HealthCare and Mary Free Bed Forge Partnership to Expand Inpatient Rehabilitation Care This week, leaders from Covenant HealthCare and Mary Free Bed signed a partnership agreement to form a 50-50 joint venture. Working together, Covenant and Mary Free Bed will bring advanced rehabilitation care to Saginaw and the Great Lakes Bay Region. Located in Saginaw, Covenant HealthCare is a 642-bed health care system. Providing quality inpatient rehabilitation has long been part of the care delivered to p...
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12/1/2017, News
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Through collaborative efforts of the Castle Museum of Saginaw County History, Saginaw County Sports Hall of Fame and Covenant HealthCare some notable pieces of Saginaw history have been preserved and will soon be on exhibit at the Castle Museum. North School, located just west of the Covenant campus, was opened in 1922 and was the academic home to tens of thousands of Saginaw students. However, by 2004 the aged facility became too costly for the Saginaw school district to maintain and operate. When the ...
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12/20/2013, News
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The Covenant Medical Staff leadership has selected Dr. Lowell Butman to receive its Distinguished Physician of the year for 2013. Given each year by the medical staff, this award recognizes an individual who has distinguished him/herself by making significant contributions to the medical profession, community, and Covenant HealthCare. Throughout his multifaceted medical career, Butman’s work in quality and governance made a major impact on the practice of medicine at Covenant HealthCare. Under his admin...
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12/9/2013, News
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Covenant HealthCare knows medical care, and we do it well. But we also strive to be extraordinary neighbors and an extraordinary employer. “Covenant is working hard to make our community better,” said Beth Charlton, President/CEO. “We know that the health of a community does not rest on medical care alone, it’s about the whole person having their basic needs met, and housing is foundational to all other needs and outcomes. That’s why we’re investing $500,000 each year for the next five years into neighb...
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9/4/2024, News
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Covenant HealthCare leadership has been actively evaluating the current skilled nursing operation at the Transitional Care Unit (TCU) within the Covenant Michigan campus and exploring ways to enhance skilled nursing care delivery in the future. After exploring several options, Covenant identified that a partnership between Covenant and Wellspring Lutheran Services offers the most extraordinary way to enhance skilled nursing care in our region. The Covenant Board approved the establishment of a joint ven...
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12/1/2020, News
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The Covenant Regional Thumb Network (CRTN), a network of six independent hospitals, is pleased to announce its formation. The network is composed of Covenant HealthCare, located in Saginaw, and five critical access hospitals located throughout Michigan’s Thumb area including Deckerville Community Hospital, Harbor Beach Community Hospital, Hills & Dales General Hospital, Marlette Regional Hospital, and Scheurer Health. While CRTN formed in late 2018, these hospitals have been working together for mor...
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3/25/2019, News
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Covenant HealthCare recently received the 2017 Governor’s Award of Excellence for outstanding achievements in improving the quality of healthcare in the following three areas: Effective Reporting and Measurement: Acute Care Hospitals Effective Reporting and Measurement: Acute Care Hospitals (ENHANCED AWARD) Lowering the Risk of Infection: Hospitals The Governor's Award of Excellence program is a partnership between MPRO and the Office of the Governor to recognize outstanding achievements by providers an...
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5/17/2017, News
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Saginaw, Mich . – In a virtual ceremony, leaders from Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation at Covenant HealthCare dedicated a new hospital today. The three-story building, located on the main Covenant HealthCare campus, is specially designed for rehabilitation. It houses 60 private inpatient rooms, outpatient therapy spaces, offices for six board-certified rehabilitation physicians as well as treatment and fabrication space for patients who require braces and prosthetic limbs. Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony at Mary Fr...
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12/1/2021, News
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Leaders from Covenant HealthCare and Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation are drawing plans for a $40.7 million rehabilitation hospital. Located in Saginaw on the Covenant HealthCare main campus, the new building will include 48 inpatient beds (with shelled space for 12 beds for future use) and a state-of-the-art outpatient therapy facility. By investing in this expansion, Covenant HealthCare and Mary Free Bed are developing a Rehabilitation Center of Excellence that will serve patients and families from ...
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2/28/2019, News
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Leaders from Covenant HealthCare and Mary Free Bed are expanding the scope of their existing 50-50 joint venture. In addition to the current 41-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit, four more areas will be included in the partnership. The expanded Mary Free Bed at Covenant Joint Venture will now include: Inpatient Rehabilitation Outpatient Rehabilitation Orthotics and Prosthetics Rehabilitation Physician Services Covenant Center for Autism Mary Free Bed at Covenant will also provide rehabilitation services...
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10/7/2019, News
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Covenant Receives Three Additional Women’s Choice Award® Seals Endorsed As One of America’s Best Breast Centers, Best Hospitals for Cancer Care, Orthopaedics, and Patient Experience in Obstetrics After receiving the 2014 Women’s Choice Award for Patient Experience in Obstetrics, Covenant HealthCare has also been named a Women’s Choice Award® recipient as one of America’s Best Breast Centers, America’s Best Hospitals for Cancer Care, and America’s Best Hospitals for Orthopaedics. These awards ackno...
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11/26/2014, News
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Expansion Planned for Covenant Emergency Care Center On May 2 at 9:30am, Covenant HealthCare hosted a ground breaking ceremony for expansion to the Emergency Care Center. In 2001, the existing facility opened with the anticipation of accommodating roughly 60,000 patient visits per year. The Covenant Emergency Care Center volumes have continued to rise over the past five years and in 2012, the Emergency Care Center cared for more than 85,000 patient visits. The existing building is 34,715 square feet and...
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5/2/2013, News
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March 4, 2021 – Today, Ascension St. Mary’s, Covenant HealthCare, Meijer/SVSU, and Saginaw County Health Department are all holding vaccination clinics that, when completed, will put the county’s "doses administered" total over the 50,000 mark. "The 50,000th dose administered is a milestone worth celebrating", says Chris Harrington, MPH, health officer, Saginaw County Health Department. “We are doing a fantastic job getting the limited doses we receive into the arms of those prioritized to receive them....
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3/4/2021, News
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Technology is making it easier for patients and providers to interact, thus improving communication, safety and patient-provider relationships. New tools are helping patients become more actively involved in their care and maintaining their health, according to results of the 19th Annual Health Care’s Most Wired® survey, released today by the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Health Forum. According to the survey, Most Wired hospitals are using smart phones, telehealth and remote monitoring to creat...
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7/28/2017, News
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Covenant HealthCare was again awarded an ‘A’ in the spring 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, a national distinction recognizing Covenant HealthCare’s achievements providing safer health care. This is the fourth consecutive “A” Covenant has received recognizing efforts in protecting patients from harm and meeting the highest safety standards in the United States. The Leapfrog Group is an independent national watchdog organization committed to health care quality and safety. The Safety Grade is a lette...
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5/12/2020, News
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SAGINAW, MICHIGAN – Covenant HealthCare was awarded an ‘A’ from The Leapfrog Group’s Fall 2018 Hospital Safety Grade . The designation recognizes Covenant HealthCare’s efforts in protecting patients from harm and meeting the highest safety standards in the United States. The Leapfrog Group is a national organization committed to improving health care quality and safety for consumers and purchasers. The Safety Grade assigns an A, B, C, D or F grade to hospitals across the country based on their performan...
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11/8/2018, News
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Pictured (left to right): Beth Charlton, George Grant Jr and Jill Jarvis In a move that builds on their longstanding collaboration, Saginaw Valley State University and Covenant HealthCare have forged a partnership aimed at providing higher education opportunities for the employees of Covenant HealthCare and bolstering the talent pool in the Great Lakes Bay Region and other communities Covenant serves. Under this agreement Covenant employees who enroll in undergraduate, graduate or certification programs...
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6/21/2023, News
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Covenant HealthCare received its seventh consecutive “A” grade in the fall 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade , a national distinction recognizing the Covenant team’s achievements protecting patients from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections. The Leapfrog Group is an independent national watchdog organization committed to health care quality and safety. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade assigns an “A,” “B,” “C,” “D,” or “F” grade to all general hospitals across the country and is updated every ...
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11/10/2021, News
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Saginaw, MI – Covenant HealthCare has recently achieved accreditation as a Center of Excellence in Robotic Surgery, recognized for providing the highest quality of care and patient safety by Surgical Review Corporation (SRC) . Additionally, eight surgeons joined Covenant HealthCare on the journey and became accredited Surgeons of Excellence. Status as an accredited facility means that Covenant HealthCare has met nationally and internationally recognized standards. Not all hospitals and surgeons seek acc...
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6/15/2021, News
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