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Partner Content Jenifer Murray, a contracted grant coordinator with Munson Healthcare, works on programs for new parents in her office. Healthy Communities

Northern Michigan works to build supportive services for parents in "maternity care deserts"

ESTELLE SLOOTMAKERFriday, February 3, 2023
Feature Story Susan Sheppard, COO of Arbor Circle, which recently facilitated a statewide collaboration to better support medically fragile foster children. Healthy Communities

Michigan project highlights needs of medically fragile foster children

ESTELLE SLOOTMAKERThursday, January 19, 2023
Feature Story Berrien County Health Officer Guy Miller, Corewell Health South Medical Group and Continued Care Vice President Melinda Gruber, and Region IV Area Agency on Aging CEO Christine Vanlandingham at the Berrien County Health Department. Healthy Communities

Here's how a collaboration in Southwest Michigan helped older adults avoid hospitalization for COVID

ESTELLE SLOOTMAKERThursday, January 12, 2023
Partner Content Jametta Lilly. Healthy Communities

As it prepares to disband, Michigan task force on COVID racial disparities leaves a healthy legacy

ESTELLE SLOOTMAKER Thursday, December 15, 2022
Partner Content Lynn Hendges, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services manager of housing and homeless services. Healthy Communities

New data management tool aims to help medically vulnerable Michiganders escape homelessness

ESTELLE SLOOTMAKERThursday, December 1, 2022
Partner Content 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. Healthy Communities

Medical respite care helps Michigan’s most vulnerable recuperate after hospitalization

ESTELLE SLOOTMAKERThursday, November 10, 2022
Partner Content Pill organizers at the Region VII Area Agency on Aging. Healthy Communities

Inflation Reduction Act will cut crucial health costs for older Michiganders

ESTELLE SLOOTMAKERThursday, November 3, 2022
Partner Content 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. Healthy Communities

Researchers seek solutions for Michigan's 700,000 COVID long haulers

ESTELLE SLOOTMAKER Thursday, October 27, 2022
Partner Content 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. Healthy Communities

New project aims to increase health literacy among Southeast Michigan's older adults

ESTELLE SLOOTMAKER Thursday, October 20, 2022
Partner Content Synergy Health Center CEO Valarie Cunningham is the organizer of the upcoming symposium. Equity

Kalamazoo symposium to address mental health disparities in Black community

ESTELLE SLOOTMAKERThursday, October 13, 2022
Partner Content Todd Barlass. Healthy Communities

Michigan schools expand mental health services in wake of Oxford school shootingoxford-after-math.aspx

ESTELLE SLOOTMAKERThursday, September 29, 2022
Partner Content Children play at the Children's Healing Center. Healthy Communities

Grand Rapids offers nation's only safe recreation center for immunocompromised kids

ESTELLE SLOOTMAKERThursday, September 15, 2022
Partner Content Carol Sodman-Morris serves as a home visit nurse for the Achieving Birth Equity Through Systems Transformation program. Equity

Michigan project creates framework for communities to reduce racial disparities in infant deaths

ESTELLE SLOOTMAKERThursday, August 25, 2022
Partner Content An operator in the call center at Network 180, Kent County's community mental health agency. Healthy Communities

Here's what the new national 988 Suicide Crisis and Lifeline means for Michigan

ESTELLE SLOOTMAKERThursday, August 18, 2022
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