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Stories about Lakewood patients, educational resources, and updates about our community.
Free Bicycle Helmets to be Distributed to Area Children
The Lakewood Health System Foundation will be distributing free bicycle helmets at its clinics to area children as part ...
Improved Ear Tube Procedure is Setting Lakewood Apart
We’re always looking for those things that set us apart from the rest; the next big thing that makes us special or ...
New Partnership with Children’s Minnesota Keeps Care Closer to Home
When something happens to your child, it feels like the world should come to a standstill. You want every person, every ...
Staples Clinic Expansion Officially Open
Approximately 250 community members turned out for the official ribbon-cutting and opening of the newly expanded ...
Switching Paths
“I’m from the cities, and I’d never really thought about rural medicine, but I came to Lakewood for a one-month summer ...
Coming Home
“I used to joke that I wished there was a pediatric/OB specialty because that’s what I wanted to do. Dr. [Dave] Freeman ...
Expansion Updates - October
Oct. 6, 2017: Fall has arrived, and that means some of the final touches are being done on a couple of Lakewood’s ...
Call Me Crazy - The Joys of Joint Replacement
Almost a year to the day, Gayle Christenson had knee replacement surgery at Lakewood Health System on October 4, 2016. ...