In The Media, MLive: Huron Valley Ambulance honors project aimed at reducing heroin-related deaths
People and organizations in the Ann Arbor area are saving lives, and Huron Valley Ambulance took time this month to recognize them. The ambulance service that covers all of Washtenaw County and parts of Livingston and Wayne counties gave multiple honors and awards at a banquet May 18 during National EMS Week…
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business, In The Media: Michigan still fine tuning Medicaid mental health system
President John F. Kennedy started the mental health deinstitutionalization ball rolling early in 1963 before his assassination later that year by a man, Lee Harvey Oswald, who some believe had an untreated mental illness. Kennedy’s signing of the Mental Retardation Facilities and the Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act eventually led to Michigan closing more than 30 psychiatric hospitals beginning …
Read more >In The Media, Michigan Radio: Fewer Michiganders without health insurance, federal report says
The Michigan population without health insurance has dropped substantially since start of the Affordable Care Act, according to a report this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The percentage of uninsured Michiganders fell to 7% in 2015, down from more than 10% uninsured the previous year…
Read more >Herald Times Reporter, In The Media: ThedaCare upgrades fit into new hospital plan
After spending millions of dollars in recent years to upgrade its facilities or build new ones, leaders at ThedaCare say the changes would fit into a more efficient health care system should it build a new regional hospital in the Fox Cities…
Read more >In The Media, The Michigan Daily: School of Nursing Symposium aims to further philanthropy abroad
Stephen Strobble, Clinical Associate Professor at the University Michigan School of Nursing and Co-Chair of the Washtenaw Health Initiative (WHI) Opioid Project, was awarded the faculty poster award at the University of Michigan School of Nursing’s 125th year anniversary event and spoke about the importance of the event in recognizing local and global health concerns.
Read more >In The Media, Midland Daily News: HHS awards more than $3 Million to Michigan health centers to health treat substance use
The U.S. Department Health & Human Services recently announced that 10 Michigan health centers have received more than $3 million in funding to improve and expand the delivery of substance use services. Among them is Health Delivery, Inc., Saginaw, which received $352,083. Nationwide, more than $94 million in funding was provided to 271 health centers…
Read more >In The Media, The Wastenaw Voice: An all inclusive medical amnesty law needs to be enacted in Michigan
My generation faces a growing drug problem. Opiate drug overdoses have been on the rise in the last several years and 911 calls for help occur less than 50 percent of the time. The fear of police involvement deters many from calling for help. But, there’s a simple solution to this problem: creating a decent and effective medical amnesty, or …
Read more >In The Media, Michigan Radio: Hospitals may be required to show service charges
A bill in Lansing could make all Michigan hospitals publicly show their specific charges for services, as part of a push for greater transparency in health care…
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business, In The Media: Who should we credit for lowering uninsured in Michigan by nearly 1 million?
One of the clear successes of the Affordable Care Act — and there have been many more successes than failures — has been how it has reduced the national and Michigan uninsured rate. Before 2010, the national uninsured rate had steadily climbed, up to 16.3 percent in 2009 from 15 percent in 1992, according to the U.S. Census Bureau…
Read more >Appleton Post-Crescent, In The Media: ThedaCare’s potential merger part of trend
ThedaCare, a health system in Wisconsin, is considering consolidating its two largest hospitals. The potential merger would become the latest in a nationwide trend of merging health care operations. CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips warns that using research on consolidation in the healthcare industry to predict effects on ThedaCare is the equivalent of comparing apples to oranges. That’s because nearly all research on the consolidations in the health …
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