State of Health

Art teacher Steven Pryce teaches at Lincoln High School in Augusta Township.

State program helps Michigan schools handle students with extra care if they’ve experienced trauma

Since it was piloted in 2017, the state's Handle With Care program has helped schools provide compassionate care to thousands of children identified by law enforcement as having experienced a traumatic event.

Profile Q & A with Dr. Catherine Bodnar, Midland County Medical Director

What to know about RSV, COVID-19 and the flu going into the winter season

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. 

The Magnet Recognition Program provides a roadmap to nursing excellence.
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.

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.

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.

Dr. Sara Santarossa is the lead on a Henry Ford Health project that asked COVID long haulers to draw body maps representing their condition. She sits next to several of their works here.
Researchers seek solutions for Michigan’s 700,000 COVID long haulers

Michigan health care organizations are racing to determine what support those with "long COVID" need and how best to provide it.

Laurie Arora, PACE Southeast Michigan vice president of public affairs, philanthropy, and organizational development; and Sadie Shattuck, PACE Southeast Michigan's grant and communications specialist, look over health literacy handouts.
New project aims to increase health literacy among Southeast Michigan’s older adults

A new project called "The Power of Understanding" uses proven health literacy tools to empower participants to become engaged as advocates for their own health.

Gateway Healthcare's website describes its mission as "Reaching one more life with Jesus through affordable healthcare."
Gateway Healthcare, where healing begins

A new local non-profit in Midland is trying to address the issue of affordable and accessible health care. 

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