Care Choices Expands its Natural Options Program

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI – Care Choices adds the Wege Institute for Mind, Body and Spirit to the list of discounts with its Natural Options program. By partnering with the Wege Institute, Natural Options will now include more value added complementary medicine options for its members. Effective September 1, Care Choices members will be able to choose a variety of complementary health care services at the Wege Institute at a fee-for-service discount. The discount for services will be between 10-15%, based on the specific service.

The Wege Institute uses traditional healing methods and innovative therapies for an effective and balanced approach to wellness. Working with the client’s primary care physician or other involved health care practitioners, they offer interdisciplinary approaches to health care prevention, and to the treatment of both acute and chronic health challenges. They support the healing process by integrating their approach with traditional health care practices whenever desired or indicated.

All practitioners at the Wege Institute are licensed professionals. The Wege Institute is part of the Peter M. Wege Center for Health and Learning at Saint Mary’s Mercy Medical Center and is located at 300 Lafayette SE, Suite 2014 in Grand Rapids. To contact them directly call 1-616-752-6923.

Care Choices is a nonprofit health care organization and a subsidiary of Trinity Health, Novi, Michigan, one of the nation’s leading providers of health care services. Since 1986, Care Choices HMO has been making available quality health care to thousands of members throughout Michigan. Care Choices offers a broad, fully integrated network of physicians, hospitals and other health care professionals all sharing a strong commitment to improving the health status of the communities we serve by delivering effective and affordable healthcare.

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