April 29, 2021
Michigan Medicine Nationally Recognized for Straight ‘A’s in The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade Only 27 other hospitals in the U.S. have achieved this distinction
Ann Arbor – The Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization driven by employers and other purchasers of health care, today announced the spring 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades. Michigan Medicine is one of only 27 hospitals in the United States to be awarded an “A” grade every grading cycle since 2012. For the 19
th consecutive time, Michigan Medicine was awarded an “A” for achieving the highest national standards in patient safety.
“At Michigan Medicine, we are so proud of receiving this recognition,” said David Miller, M.D., M.P.H., president of the University of Michigan Health System and executive vice dean for clinical affairs for the U-M Medical School. “Our exemplary performance in this program reflects our core values, which include caring, in
Study highlights how women s choice of birth control is affected by out-of-pocket costs
Getting a birth control implant used to cost some women hundreds of dollars, if they were among the nearly half of privately insured Americans covered by a health plan with a high deductible that they were responsible for paying.
But a new study in the April issue of
Health Affairs shows that after the Affordable Care Act s no-cost birth control provision took effect in 2013, women in these high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) opted for long-acting contraception even more than women with other types of health plans.
The study s findings have important policy implications, because employers now have the ability to opt out of the birth control portion of the ACA, following a Supreme Court case decided in 2020. Many employers have shifted to HDHPs to hold down their overall health benefit costs.
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April 01, 2021
Michigan Medicine enacts visitor restrictions due to COVID-19 surge Visitors allowed for adult patients only when medically necessary beginning Friday, April 2
As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rise across Michigan, beginning Friday April 2, Michigan Medicine will move to a more restrictive visitor policy similar to earlier in the pandemic.
Michigan Medicine will not allow visitors for adult patients, unless medically necessary. This change is being made to minimize the risk of the spread of COVID-19 to our patients and staff, said Jeffrey Desmond, M.D., chief medical officer at Michigan Medicine.
“At Michigan Medicine, we’ve seen our COVID-19 hospitalizations rise, doubling in the last few weeks to 68 patients today. COVID-19 transmission rates continue to climb,” Desmond said.
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