Corewell Health Foundation West Michigan Memorial/Tribute Page

In memory of my loved one, all donations are benefiting: The Dr. Stacey L. Hall Fund for Pediatric Rehabilitation

Tell us about him/her. A gifted and beloved pediatric rehabilitation physician whose life was tragically cut short — friends of the Hall and Perrone families have asked how they might honor her in a way that carries her life's work forward. Stacey's story began the way so many of her patients' stories do. Born ten weeks premature in West Michigan, she spent her first weeks fighting for life in Butterworth’s neonatal unit. She grew up to become one of a small number of fellowship-trained pediatric rehabilitation physicians in the country — devoting her career to children facing the steepest of climbs: kids with new brain and spinal cord injuries, spina bifida, and cerebral palsy, and the families walking beside them. The fragile newborn had become the healer. Her expertise was exceptional; her compassion, advocacy, and honest hope were what families never forgot. A graduate of the University of Michigan Honors College and Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Stacey completed her fellowship in Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine at Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare — placing her among an elite group of fellowship-trained pediatric rehabilitation physicians in the country. She served as Medical Director of the Pediatric Rehabilitation Program at TIRR Memorial Hermann in Houston and as Associate Professor at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, where she was honored many times over as a Top Doctor, an award-winning educator, and — above all — a tireless champion for every child in her care. To her patients she was a healer; to her students, a mentor; to her colleagues, an inspiration. But to Ryan she was a loving partner, and to Colton she was simply “Mommy” — his biggest cheerleader, his safest place, and his proof that there is no obstacle that cannot be faced with love, grit, and hope. With love from the Hall family — thank you for celebrating Stacey with us.

Is there anything else you would like to share? To carry that legacy forward, a collaborative program is being developed by Stacey's parents, Craig and Karen Hall; her husband, Ryan Perrone; Helen DeVos Children's Hospital; and Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital — so that West Michigan children and families will continue to receive the extraordinary care that defined Stacey's life. Every child Stacey cared for was taught, by her example, that no obstacle is faced alone. Through this tribute, her legacy of healing, compassion, and hope will do the same — for generations of children to come.