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The newly formed nurses union at Corewell Health’s Southeast Michigan hospitals achieved its first win for its roughly 9,500 ...
Residents of Michigan nursing homes should be allowed outdoor visits with friends and family, and be given the option of indoor visitation, according to a state task-force report released this week.
He seemed to be pointing to Michigan’s policy of allowing nursing homes to accept COVID-19-positive residents. An editorial by the Detroit News published in early August made a similar claim.
The Michigan State Department of Health and Human Services clarified to WDIV that "nursing home patients who were transferred to the hospital and then died would be counted as nursing home deaths ...
The deaths of 1,947 nursing home residents and 20 employees at facilities across Michigan were COVID-19-related, the state health department reported Monday, as it released data on deaths ...
A collaborative plan to increase educational options to address the nursing shortage across Michigan was shared Wednesday by Michigan higher education and healthcare leaders. “Michigan’s ...
Through Aug. 19, 271 of Michigan’s 442 nursing homes (61%) had at least one COVID-19 resident case, and 209 (47%) had at least one COVID-19 resident death.
Nursing homes in Michigan must make “all reasonable efforts” to create units dedicated to residents with COVID-19, a new order from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer mandates. The governor, who issued the ...