Concept illustration of the 150-bed Dearborn mental health hospital
(Rendering: Universal Health Services) Beaumont Health has a fresh controversy, linked to its partnership with a Pennsylvania behavioral health company named Universal Health Services (UHS). The Royal Oak-based network of eight Metro Detroit hospitals has a joint venture agreement with UHS to build a 150-bed Dearborn psychiatric facility. Detroit Free Press report Jennifer Dixon reports in a subscriber-only article that UHS settled 19 whistleblower lawsuits in 2020 that had alleged patient mistreatment and fraud. Universal agreed to pay $122 million to the federal government and participating states, including Michigan. . In a statement to the Detroit Free Press, Universal said it unequivocally disputes any allegation that it engaged in wrongdoing of any kind.
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Since Governor Whitmer declared a state of emergency last March, Dr. Zafar Shamoon, chief of emergency services at Beaumont Hospital-Dearborn, has witnessed first-hand the precariously rising cases of COVID-19 in the community.
“Dearborn has been hit very hard,” Shamoon told The Arab American News. “This is one of the busiest, if not the busiest of my 14 years of emergency medicine that I’ve seen. We have a tremendous amount of patients and it’s not just COVID. We are also getting our regular volume of patients. That’s what makes it so overwhelming at times.”
This obituary is part of “We Will Remember,” a series about those we’ve lost to the coronavirus.
Larry Johnson of Garden City enjoyed teaching people what he knew and loved the look on their faces when they got it right.
Johnson, 64, died Aug. 14 at St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia as a result of complications from COVID-19.
Johnson was born in Flint and moved to Inkster with his family when he was a child. He dropped out of high school during his senior year and joined the Army, where he finished high school and was honorably discharged.
Johnson married his wife, Colleen, of 39 years, in 1981. In 1982, he rejoined the Army and served at Fort Hood and in West Germany. After he was honorably discharged, he and his wife moved back to Michigan and had their son Brandon.
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