Editor's Choice for Best Mind, Body Experience in Michigan

Wege Institute for Mind, Body and Spirit, Saint Mary's Health Care, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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It’s not just the leg, the arm, the back, the mind, the heart, that staff at Wege Institute see. It’s the whole person, says Micki Benz, vice president of development. Wege is a member of St. Mary’s Health Care in Grand Rapids, a comprehensive spectrum of patient services. Wege focuses on getting people to well-being through its experience with pain and symptom management, for both acute and chronic ailments.

“The unique feature of the Wege services”—such as massage, acupuncture, and music, art and pet therapy—“is that they are integrated into traditional services,” says Benz. Integrating traditional medical care in the Institute’s major service lines of cancer and neuroscience with other, complementary treatments helps the whole person.