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MyMichigan Health Receives Designation in Nursing Excellence, Culture fuels Magnet Program Success

MyMichigan Health achieves designation from The Magnet Recognition Program despite facing adversity. This distinction comes at the same time the health system makes Forbes “America’s Best Employers By State” list.

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Lynn Hendges, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services manager of housing and homeless services.
New data management tool aims to help medically vulnerable Michiganders escape homelessness

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is developing a standardized, statewide indicator to track not only an individual's homelessness risk but also their medical fragility. 

Currie Stadium in Midland's Emerson Park is slated for demolition.
Currie Stadium will never be forgotten

A major sports venue in Midland's Emerson Park will soon be history.

Nicole Shannon, systemic litigation and advocacy attorney for the Michigan Elder Justice Initiative, and Alison Hirschel, director and managing attorney of the Michigan Elder Justice Initiative.
Here’s how Michigan is working to ensure court-appointed guardians don’t take advantage of elders

Michigan providers and activists are working hard to ensure the guardianship system effectively serves Michigan's older adults.

Jamie Winkler, executive director of the Salvation Army Great Lakes Harbor Light System, in a short term residential care room at the Salvation Army's Harbor Light facility in Detroit.
Medical respite care helps Michigan’s most vulnerable recuperate after hospitalization

A handful of Michigan facilities offer daily wound care, help filling and taking prescriptions, or support with substance use disorder treatment for those in need.

Participants enjoy BMCC's 13 Moons of Anishinaabe programming.
Bay Mills Community College SNAP-Ed programs inspire healthy living

Bay Mills Community College is working with the Bay Mills Indian Community to leverage Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education programming to create environments that inspire healthy living.

Firearm deer hunting season begins on Nov. 15.
Profile Q&A with Chad Stewart, Michigan DNR

Hunting, specifically deer hunting, is one of Michigan’s traditions. It’s part of our culture and it’s big business. In our Profile Q & A with a DNR specialist, we’ll talk about that and what hunters need to be aware of during the upcoming rifle season.

Pill organizers at the Region VII Area Agency on Aging.
Inflation Reduction Act will cut crucial health costs for older Michiganders

Starting in 2023, the act will lower prescription drug costs for people with Medicare, cap out-of-pocket costs at $35 a month for insulin, and allow over-the-counter sales of hearing aids for the first time.

Erica Sprague is a science teacher and manages the "Home EricaNomics" Facebook page.
Catalyst Community:Change in Seasons-Erica Sprague

In the latest in a series of columns from different perspectives in our community, Catalyst Midland focuses on how a change in seasons fosters change in day to day life.  

Hidden Harvest Food Delivery Specialist Tyler Hecht (center) making a delivery to the West Midland Family Center.
A friendship and partnership that helps those in need in the Midland area

For more than 20 years, the West Midland Family Center has coordinated with Hidden Harvest to alleviate hunger for community members in the high poverty area of western Midland County.   

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