New year’s first babies born at Grand Rapids hospitals
Updated Jan 01, 2021;
Posted Jan 01, 2021
Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital s first baby of the year, Sumayah Abdalla Annia Murjaan, was born at 12:57 a.m. Friday, Jan. 1, 2021. (Photo by Taylor Ballek of Spectrum Health Beat)
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI Two Grand Rapids hospitals, Mercy Health Saint Mary’s and Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital, announced their first babies of the new year born early Friday.
The first child born at Saint Mary’s in 2021 was Henry Normandin, who came into the world at 12:32 a.m.
“Congratulations to parents, Brooke and Thom Normandin, and all the families at Mercy Health Saint Mary’s and Mercy Health Muskegon birthing centers that will be safely welcoming a little blessing into the New Year,” the hospital said in a Facebook post. “We wish all of our patients the best as we begin this new year full of hope for what is to come.”
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Senior Vice President of hospital operations at Spectrum Health, Chad Tuttle says from a COVID care perspective, the numbers are trending favorably. As we look ahead to 2021, we do see so much hope on the horizon, says Tuttle. First and foremost, the vaccine. Nearly 10,000 of our team members have been vaccinated now, all of our front line caregivers who want to receive the vaccine will have received the vaccine by January 8. We know the seven day average of positive test is coming down, we know the number of inpatients with COVID is also comin
Meet the first baby born at Spectrum Health in 2021
and last updated 2021-01-01 19:01:55-05
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich â A Grand Rapids family celebrated their new year by welcoming a daughter.
Sumayah Abdalla Annia Murjaan was born at Friday, January 1st, at 12:57 a.m. at Spectrum Health Butterworth.
Parents, Brianna Rincone and Abdalla Abdi told FOX 17 that everyone is happy, healthy, and that delivery went smoothly.
Rincone said, I pushed and she came out within 30 minutes.
Baby Sumayah arrived a little ahead of schedule, weighing in at 8 pounds, five ounces, and is 21 inches long.
Rincone was able to have Abdi, her husband, in the delivery room and felt very safe knowing that the doctors and nurses at Spectrum Health were taking necessary COVID-19 precautions.