New Physician Joins Bronson Family Medicine DowntownJune 03, 2009 KALAMAZOO, Mich. – Bronson Family Medicine Downtown has welcomed to its practice, Marti Peters-Sparling, M.D. Peters-Sparling is a board certified family medicine physician with special interests in women's health, low risk pregnancies, colposcopy and joint injections. She completed her family medicine residency at Oakwood Annapolis Hospital and received her medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine. Peters-Sparling joins Robert Janke, M.D., Shannon McKeeby, M.D., Steven Pollens, M.D., Michael Raphelson, M.D., Nicholas Sward, M.D. and Nanette Haring, FNP, at Bronson Family Medicine Downtown, located at 601 John Street. Peters-Sparling can be reached at (269) 341-8282. Bronson Methodist Hospital, located at 601 John St. in downtown Kalamazoo, Mich., is the flagship of Bronson Healthcare Group, a not-for-profit healthcare system serving all of southwest Michigan and northern Indiana. With 380 licensed beds and all private rooms, Bronson Methodist Hospital provides care in virtually every specialty - cardiology, orthopedics, surgery, emergency medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, oncology - with advanced capabilities in critical care as a Level I Trauma Center; in neurological care as a Joint Commission certified Primary Stroke Center; in cardiac care as the region's first accredited Chest Pain Emergency Center; in obstetrics as the leading BirthPlace and only high-risk pregnancy center in southwest Michigan, and in pediatrics as one of only six children's hospitals in the state. The hospital is the recipient of the 2005 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest presidential honor for quality and organizational performance excellence, and was recognized as one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals for cardiovascular care in 2008 by Thomson Reuters. Bronson Healthcare Group is one of Kalamazoo's largest employers and has been ranked for six consecutive years by Working Mother magazine as one of the nation's 100 best companies to work for. Annually, Bronson provides more than $83 million in community benefits through outreach and charitable care for the un- and under-insured. Bronson also serves the largest percentage of Medicaid patients of any Michigan hospital outside of southeast Michigan. ###
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