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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

Estelle SlootmakerMonday, December 5, 2022

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

Estelle SlootmakerTuesday, November 22, 2022

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

Estelle SlootmakerMonday, November 14, 2022

Pill organizers at the Region VII Area Agency on Aging.

Inflation Reduction Act will cut crucial health costs for older Michiganders

Estelle SlootmakerThursday, November 3, 2022

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 SlootmakerThursday, October 27, 2022

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

Estelle SlootmakerThursday, October 20, 2022

Synergy Health Center CEO Valarie Cunningham is the organizer of the upcoming symposium.

Diversity

Kalamazoo symposium to address mental health disparities in Black community

Estelle SlootmakerThursday, October 13, 2022

A children's vaccination event at the Ottawa County Department of Public Health.

Healthy Communities

Michigan health providers work to reverse falling childhood vaccination rates in pandemic's wake

Estelle SlootmakerMonday, October 3, 2022

Todd Barlass.

Michigan schools expand mental health services in wake of Oxford school shooting

Estelle SlootmakerMonday, September 26, 2022

Michigan produce at the lunch counter at George Long Elementary School in Grass Lake.

Major expansion coming for program that offers schools "10 Cents a Meal" to serve Michigan produce

Estelle SlootmakerMonday, September 19, 2022

Help Home Personal ID* Program GPS ID bracelets.

Many happy returns: GPS ID bracelets help Michiganders living with dementia find their way home

Estelle SlootmakerMonday, September 12, 2022

Children play at the Children's Healing Center.

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

Estelle SlootmakerMonday, September 12, 2022

Carol Sodman-Morris serves as a home visit nurse for the Achieving Birth Equity Through Systems Transformation program.

Diversity

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

Estelle SlootmakerThursday, August 25, 2022

An operator in the call center at Network 180, Kent County's community mental health agency.

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

Estelle SlootmakerMonday, August 22, 2022

Detroit Area Agency on Aging staff recently accepted two awards from USAging.

Healthy Communities

Detroit Area Agency on Aging receives national awards for work to stop Detroiters dying prematurely

Estelle SlootmakerTuesday, August 16, 2022

Stacy Stout, director of equity and engagement for the city of Grand Rapids.

Diversity

Nearly 20 Michigan communities have declared racism a public health crisis. What happens next?

Estelle SlootmakerThursday, July 28, 2022

Katherine Rosenblum, co-director of the University of Michigan's Zero to Thrive program.

Michigan programs aim to prevent preschool expulsions, reducing lifelong harmful effects

Estelle SlootmakerTuesday, July 26, 2022

PLANE program creator Dr. Leah Ketcheson with program participants Martin Paige-Fowlkes and Amanda Paige.

Kids on autism spectrum get physical activity, nutrition support through Detroit program

Estelle SlootmakerThursday, July 14, 2022

Kimberly Singh, My Community Dental Centers chief of community and governmental affairs, with Rebekah Condon, Barry-Eaton District Health Department emergency preparedness coordinator.

Healthy Communities

How COVID strengthened relationships between Michigan health departments and community organizations

Estelle SlootmakerMonday, July 4, 2022

R2AAA elder-abuse victims specialist program manager Angela Shepherd, R2AAA assistant director Kara Lorenz-Goings, and R2AAA executive director Julie Wetherby.

Neglect far outpaces other forms of elder abuse in Michigan – and here's what can be done about it

Estelle SlootmakerMonday, June 20, 2022

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