Detroit-based Henry Ford Health has announced a plan for a “joint venture” with Ascension Michigan, a division of St. Louis, Missouri-based Ascension Health, that would bring eight Ascension hospitals in southeast Michigan under the leadership of Henry Ford.
One hospital system across Michigan has begun the process of eliminating midwives from their birthing centers. It is a move being seen with alarm by professional nurse midwives in Washtenaw County. WEMU’s Cathy Shafran talks to Lee Roosevelt, the President of the Michigan affiliate of the American College of Nurse Midwives, about the impact on local birthing centers as the Ascension hospitals in Michigan begin eliminating their midwife staff.
Ascension Health says that as of March 1, midwives will no longer staff the Alternative Birthing Center at Providence Southfield Hospital. The move has outraged Michigan’s midwifery and birthing communities.
A Michigan man was found dead after driving his car off a ramp and into the St. Clair River in Clay Township, according to the St. Clair County Sheriff's Office.