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Change-Ups: Kalaczinski named MOAâs Educator of the Year
Lillian Kalaczinski, an associate professor for Ferris State Universityâs Michigan College of Optometry, has been named the Michigan Optometric Associationâs 2021 Educator of the Year. Kalaczinski is a 1998 MCO graduate following three years in the pre-optometry program at Ferris. Kalaczinski served as director of vision services at a Grand Rapids-area community health center before joining the MCO faculty in 2015. Kalaczinski also is chief of primary care services at the University Eye Center, and an adviser to registered student organizations unique to the college.
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Rehmann won Clearlyratedâs Best of Accounting Diamond Award for providing superior service to its clients for at least five consecutive years. Rehmann received satisfaction scores of 9 or 10 from 82% of its clients, significantly higher than the industryâs average of 43% in 2020.
Whitmer urges residents to remain diligent as she gets second COVID-19 vaccine dose
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI Gov. Gretchen Whitmer encouraged Michigan residents to keep up the fight against COVID-19 Thursday afternoon as she received her second dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine at the West Michigan Vaccine Clinic at DeVos Place in Grand Rapids.
“As we keep ramping up our vaccinations, we can all see the light at the end of this tunnel,” she said. “It’s getting brighter. We’re still in the tunnel. We still have to be smart. We have to encourage our loved ones and neighbors and friends and coworkers to get vaccinated and keep wearing our masks. But we are getting closer to that normalcy that we all crave.”
Grand Rapids Business Journal
Spectrum Health hired a new leader to oversee its foundations.
The West Michigan health system said Wednesday that it appointed Kelly Dyer as incoming president of the Spectrum Health Foundation and Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital Foundation, effective in late May.
The announcement comes after a national search for a successor to Vicki Weaver, the foundations’ current president who is retiring at the end of April after 28 years with Spectrum Health.
“Kelly is an enthusiastic and forward-thinking leader with a national reputation for effective philanthropy and a passion for cultivating high-performing teams,” said Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Spectrum Health. “Philanthropy plays an integral part in realizing Spectrum Health’s mission and vision, and Kelly’s leadership will further the success of the foundation as we provide innovative, high-quality clinical care close to home for the communities we serve.”
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The state confirmed another 5,584 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the total number of cases since the start of the pandemic above 800,000. More than 17,000 people in Michigan have now passed away due to COVID-19.
That update comes as some hospital leaders in West Michigan expressed hope that the current surge may be reaching its peak. Nearly 4,000 people are currently hospitalized because of COVID-19, and 530 are on ventilators, according to the state.
“We are hopeful that we have reached a peak this past weekend,” says Tina Freese Decker, CEO of Spectrum Health, in an update with media on Wednesday.