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Tina Swanton, Michigan Health Improvement Alliance (MiHIA) executive director of community impact and strategic partnerships, and MiHIA CEO Heidi Tracy at Hidden Harvest and East Side Soup Kitchen in Saginaw.

Despite agricultural hub, Michigan's Thumb has high food insecurity. Can collaboration change that?

Estelle SlootmakerThursday, January 5, 2023

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

Estelle SlootmakerThursday, December 8, 2022

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 SlootmakerThursday, December 1, 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 SlootmakerThursday, November 17, 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 SlootmakerThursday, November 10, 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

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

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

Gateway Healthcare, where healing begins

Abby Keeley-ScherzerThursday, October 20, 2022

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

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.

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

Estelle SlootmakerThursday, October 6, 2022

Todd Barlass.

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

Estelle SlootmakerThursday, September 29, 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 SlootmakerThursday, September 22, 2022

Children play at the Children's Healing Center.

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

Estelle SlootmakerThursday, September 15, 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 SlootmakerThursday, September 8, 2022

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

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 SlootmakerThursday, August 18, 2022

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

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

Estelle SlootmakerThursday, August 11, 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 SlootmakerThursday, June 23, 2022

Stethoscope and money

How can Michigan maintain care for 500k residents who gained Medicaid health insurance during COVID?

Estelle SlootmakerThursday, June 9, 2022

Dr. Sabrina Ford, an associate professor in the Michigan State University College of Medicine Institute for Health Policy, is leading a project to analyze and address the causes of disparity in ER follow-up care for Black patients.

Black ER patients are less likely to receive follow-up care, and this project is examining why

Estelle SlootmakerThursday, June 2, 2022

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