Hospital honors Dr. McCance’s years of serving community through primary care
Hillsdale Hospital recently named their endoscopy suite after Dr. Dan McCance in recognition of his years of serving the community through primary care. Dr. McCance retired on June 20 and was honored by the hospital team with a private ceremony to dedicate the suite.
Dan McCance, DO & Melissa McCance
“Dr. Dan, as he’s known in our community, has been a pillar of support for the health of so many families in Hillsdale County,” said Jeremiah J. Hodshire, president and chief executive officer of Hillsdale Hospital. “He has answered countless calls in the middle of the night to respond to patients’ needs, performed many procedures, and altogether served his patients with clinical expertise and a graceful bedside manner.”
Dr. McCance graduated from Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1981 and opened McCance Medical Clinic in Addison, Michigan in 1983. He became affiliated with Hillsdale Hospital in 1991 and permanently moved to Hillsdale in 2000 to own and operate Hillsdale Medical Associates, which is still providing primary care for the community under the leadership of Hillsdale Hospital.
Dr. McCance has served as chief of medicine, chief of staff, and the chair of the Endoscopy Committee, Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, and Medicine Committee at Hillsdale Hospital. He also served on the Executive Committee, Quality Improvement Committee and concluded his employment as a Hillsdale Hospital employee.
“It is with purpose that we named this endoscopy suite after Dr Dan McCance,” said Dr. Nichole Ellis, pediatrician and chief of medical staff at Hillsdale Hospital. “It is a reminder of our mission and the enormity of the task to care for patients with humility, calm and compassion when they are at times their most vulnerable. For patients, it is a statement of commitment to them and for those of us that had the blessing to work and know Dr. McCance, a call to uphold the integrity of his name.”
William Morgan, DO
Norris March, DO
Dr. McCance specialized in gastroenterology and internal medicine within his primary care practice and performed many endoscopies, an outpatient procedure to examine the digestive tract with a camera called an endoscope. Hillsdale Surgical Group is now performing endoscopies in the suite, named after Dr. McCance for his years of work. Patients needing an endoscopy will be referred to the surgical group’s Norris March, IV, DO or William Morgan, DO.
To learn more about endoscopies and other procedures with Hillsdale Surgical Group, call (517) 437-5350 or visit hillsdalehospital.com/surgery.
