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DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan ranked among America’s best by U.S.News & World Report
06/18/2009
DETROIT - DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan has again ranked among the nation’s top 30 pediatric hospitals, according to U.S.News & World Report’s annual America’s Best Children’s Hospitals survey. |
Detroit Triplet Gives Birth to Triplets at DMC Sinai-Grace
06/04/2009
Amber Ali found out at the ultrasound and didn't believe it. Her boyfriend did, and the technician had to fetch him a chair. Triplets? Yes, triplets -- Amir, Armann and Amari Whitaker, also known as Baby A, Baby B and Baby C, in residence at Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit for the next two to three weeks. The brothers arrived May 26 at 3:48, 3:50 and 3:51 p.m., bucking odds of 8,100-1 just by showing up. What makes them more remarkable than all the other remarkable triplets is this:Their mother is a triplet, too. |
DMC Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital Names Nurse of the Year
05/28/2009
DMC Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital (HVSH) named White Lake resident Carol DeVore, RN, BSN, OCN as the 2009 Nurse of the Year. |
How Mike Duggan used 29 minutes to put the Detroit Medical Center back on the path to profitability
05/13/2009
In January 2004, Mike Duggan took over the Detroit Medical Center, a health care system that had lost $500 million during the previous six years, including $130 million in 2003. The available time to turn the system around was growing short. “We basically had about six months to get the place turned around,” Duggan says. |
Young Mom Shares Her Recovery From Stroke - WDIV Channel 4
05/12/2009
Tina Paul, 29, of Livonia, Mich., had just started a new job last June when an ordinary work day became anything but.
"I was standing at the front desk with my boss and one of our workers, kind of just getting to know each other," said Paul. "All of a sudden, I realized I had a bit of drool coming down my face. I went to go wipe it, and I completely missed. My boss looked at me and was puzzled, and he was like, 'I'm going to go get you a napkin.'" |
Health care providers urge governor to avoid Medicaid cuts
05/05/2009
Health care providers on Monday urged Gov. Jennifer Granholm and lawmakers not to cut Medicaid reimbursements, in anticipation of budget cuts to be announced Tuesday by the Granholm administration. |
Woman with Swine Flu in Michigan Did Right Thing -- Freep.com
04/30/2009
"She did everything she was supposed to do," Dr. Donald Lawrenchuk, medical director of the Livingston County Department of Public Health, said Wednesday. Since falling ill, the woman started a course of antivirals, stayed at home and avoided public contact. |
Granholm: Steps in Place to Avoid Outbreak - Freep.com
04/30/2009
There’s no need to panic over a possible swine flu epidemic, Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Wednesday.
She said the state’s emergency preparedness network is on alert, and urged the public to take common sense precautions such as washing hands frequently, covering sneezes and coughs and staying home if ill. |
Swine Flu Alert Nears Pandemic, WHO says - Associated Press
04/30/2009
Global health authorities warned Wednesday that swine flu was threatening to bloom into a pandemic, and the virus spread farther in Europe even as the outbreak appeared to stabilize at its epicenter. |
DMC Huron Valley–Sinai Hospital Receives Chest Pain Center Accreditation
04/24/2009
DETROIT -- DMC Huron Valley–Sinai Hospital received full Cycle II Accreditation with PCI from the Society of Chest Pain Centers’ Accreditation Review Committee. |