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LANSING – A Lansing nonprofit serving at-risk children and families has its eyes on parts of the soon-to-be vacant McLaren Greater Lansing campus.
Child and Family Charities has proposed taking over five buildings on McLaren’s Greenlawn campus to consolidate its services that are currently spread across Lansing. If the plan advances, Child and Family Charities would move into the buildings once McLaren fully vacates the spaces in early 2022.
“We just want to get everything together in one location,” Child and Family Charities CEO Julie Thomasma said.
McLaren will shutter its two existing hospitals at 401 W. Greenlawn Ave. and 2727 S. Pennsylvania Ave, when the its new 240-bed complex opens. The nearly $600 million facility is expected to go online in late 2021 or early 2022.
MSU program aims to double number of specialized sexual assault nurses
EAST LANSING – Michigan has more than 160,000 licensed nurses working around the state, but only a tiny fraction of them have specialized certification to assess and treat survivors of sexual violence.
A program at the Michigan State University s College of Nursing aims to nearly double that figure. The university received a $1.4 million federal grant to certify nurses as sexual assault nurse examiners. The training program will start in January 2022.
“These nurses are really able to provide compassionate, supportive, respective care to sexual assault survivors,” said Katherine Dontje, the project’s leader and an associate professor at the College of Nursing.
LANSING – State of Michigan offices became more lively Monday as employees began returning to downtown Lansing.
State employees returned to their offices after nearly 18 months of working remotely because of the COVID-19 pandemic, though the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget did not have an exact figure available Monday afternoon of how many ended their stint as remote workers. Half of the state s more than 50,000 employees worked remotely during the pandemic, including roughly 20,000 workers in downtown Lansing.
State employees are expected to return to their offices gradually, depending on each individual department’s return-to-work plans, according to DTMB.
Michigan passed the 55% vaccination benchmark on May 10, paving the way for businesses to resume in-person work on May 24. Despite the reopening benchmark, the state decided to delay its return-to-work date.