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Research Leads
to Groundbreaking Treatments
Clinical and scienti c advances and discoveries make modern medical science breathtaking even to those who work with it daily.
Such transcendental innovations give us new reasons to hope, grant us new powers over our own bodies, and, with each advance, take us one step further into an exciting future.
Discussing “medical research and innovation” requires some de nitions. For McLaren Health Care, it means shaping an active, supportive,
and integrated climate for research and clinical trials in medications, procedures and technology. This requires funding, infrastructure and personnel, plus a medical sta and oversight system that meets the standards of regulators and industry.
This all sounds demanding; and it is. But the bene ts of McLaren’s medical research and innovation climate extend throughout our statewide structure, often in less than obvious ways. First is the basic
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2015 ANNUAL REPORT