Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order creating the Health and Aging Services Administration (HASA) within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services yesterday, Oct. 14.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed on Thursday and executive order to establish the Health and Aging Services Administration within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
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System Failure
The mission of senior care facilities to ease residents’ twilight years turned into a nightmare after state leaders failed to adequately separate COVID-19 patients from healthy individuals.
When COVID-19 started roiling through nursing homes last winter, Cecelia Payne had more
at stake than most. And her worst fears soon became reality. Her husband, Arnold Brown, 78, died of COVID-19 on April 24, 2020, at McLaren Macomb Hospital in Mt. Clemens after being transferred there from the Martha T. Berry Medical Care Facility.
Brown, a former manufacturing tooling engineer before a stroke disabled him, had been in the Mt. Clemens skilled nursing facility since 2006. His roommate at the medical care facility died, as well. “I really do feel that he got it from a staff member,” Payne, of Macomb Township, says of her husband’s illness. “Especially when I learned his roommate had it, too.”
Whitmer praises reversal of Medicaid work requirements waiver
Whitmer praises reversal of Medicaid work requirements waiver
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Michigan Governor s Office
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addresses the media at Ford Field in Detroit, where she received her first vaccine dose Tuesday as eligibility in Michigan opened up to adults over age 16.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday praised a recent decision by the administration of President Joe Biden to rescind a waiver that allowed work and community engagement requirements to maintain Healthy Michigan Medicaid program access requirements that have since been dismantled by the federal courts.
State officials were notified Tuesday of the recission in a letter sent by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.