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Health
6:38 pm
Tue December 14, 2010

Spectrum Hospital completes first heart transplant in west Michigan

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Spectrum Hospital first heart transplant
Credit Bruce Rossman / Spectrum Health
Rahn Bentley had his surgery November 27th, 2010
Spectrum celebrates first heart transplant
Credit Bruce Rossman / Spectrum Health
(left to right) Heart transplant surgeon Asghar Khaghani, Rahn Bentley, transplant cardiologist Michael Dickinson, and Rahn’s brother, Ray Bentley.
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Doctors are celebrating the first successful heart transplant done in west Michigan. In February Spectrum Health was approved to perform heart transplants. Three other hospitals in Michigan are allowed to do the complicated procedure, but they’re all located in southeast Michigan.

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