Grand Rapids Business Journal
Courtesy Spectrum Health
Spectrum Health West Michigan hired Dr. James Moses, M.D., MPH, as senior vice president of quality, safety and patient experience. He will begin his new role in April.
Moses comes to Spectrum Health from Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, where he served as chief quality officer and vice president of quality and safety.
At Spectrum Health, Moses will develop and execute strategy, set targets and lead efforts for continuous improvement of quality, safety and patient experience. He will be responsible for integrating quality, safety and patient experience through collaborative leadership and targeted initiatives across Spectrum Health West Michigan.
Health organizations in Grand Rapids are setting up a vaccine clinic that they hope will eventually be able to vaccinate 20,000 people per day. The clinic
Michigan essential workers now among those competing for a short supply of COVID-19 vaccines
Updated Jan 22, 2021;
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Those essential workers are finding themselves now competing for the state’s limited supply of COVID-19 vaccines.
Not including vaccine allocations for long-term care facility staff and residents, Michigan has been getting about 60,000 first doses a week for residents age 65 and older as well as a select list of essential workers, including teachers below the college level, police and other first-responders, jail and prison employers and front-line state and federal workers.
Seniors are the largest group Michigan has 1.8 million residents in that age range and also the most vulnerable to COVID-19. For those reasons, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services are recommended that health-care providers allocate about 75% of the vaccine doses they receive for seniors, with the remaining 25% available for essential workers.
Posted January 19th, 2021 for Spectrum Health James Moses, MD, joins Spectrum Health West Michigan from Boston Medical Center
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. 19, 2021 – Spectrum Health West Michigan has hired James Moses, MD, MPH, as senior vice president of quality, safety, and patient experience. Dr. Moses will begin his new role in April. Dr. Moses comes to Spectrum Health from Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, where he has served as chief quality officer and vice president of quality and safety. At Spectrum Health, Dr. Moses will develop and execute strategy, set targets and lead efforts for continuous improvement of quality, safety and patient experience. He will be responsible for integrating quality, safety and patient experience through collaborative leadership and targeted initiatives across Spectrum Health West Michigan.
At first, it was all about making sure the COVID-19 vaccine got to the right people in the right order. But five weeks into its mass vaccination program, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is shifting its strategy, with a heightened focus on vaccinating as many people as fast as possible. “The way we’re going to get through this is not through the number of vaccine doses we .