An accident in Ottawa County has left one person in the hospital after an accident on Friday afternoon, according to Fox 17.
Fox 17 reports that Friday afternoon a 29-year-old man was driving westbound along 16th street trying to get through a curve just north of Comstock when he lost control of his vehicle and ended up overturning his vehicle when he left the road
Police arrived on the scene and Fox 17 reports that the driver was taken to Butterworth Hospital with serious injuries. They say alcohol wasn t a factor, but they are still investigating the accident and what caused it to happen.
Grand Rapids Business Journal
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The Economic Alliance for Michigan, a nonprofit group comprised of some of the state’s largest employers and unions, and the Leapfrog Group announced the fall 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade.
The independent grading system assigns A, B, C, D and F letter grades to general acute-care hospitals in the U.S. based on their ability to protect patients from avoidable errors, injuries, accidents and infections.
West Michigan hospitals that earned an A grade include Bronson Battle Creek, Metro Health in Wyoming, Spectrum Health United Hospital in Greenville and Spectrum Health Zeeland.
“Patient safety should be a priority for all residents of Michigan, especially during the pandemic. Costly medical errors are an unnecessary burden for patients and employers,” said Bret Jackson, president of the Economic Alliance of Michigan (EAM). “The EAM strives to work with hospitals, employers, policymakers and other stakeholders
Spectrum s first vaccination clinic vaccinates hundreds
and last updated 2020-12-15 22:49:03-05
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. â Spectrum Health has now vaccinated hundreds of its employees during its large scale vaccine clinic, the first of many taking place Tuesday at three regional hospitals. Those locations included Butterworth Hospital, Big Rapids and Lakeland.
As of Tuesday, Spectrum has 1,950 doses on hand and is expecting up to three more shipments this week. They are currently vaccinating frontline health care workers from 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
On Tuesday, more than 150 employees had been vaccinated by lunchtime. Once they receive more shipments, however, Spectrum intends on vaccinating around 6,000 people per week.
Beaumont employees join ranks of vaccinated frontline workers
For Dr. Nick Gilpin, the director of epidemiology and infection prevention at Beaumont Health System, getting the vaccine Tuesday was the shot in the arm he needed to help combat COVID-19.
Gilpin along with more than a dozen other health care workers were included in a high priority group to receive the Pfizer vaccine on Tuesday at the Beaumont Service Center in Southfield.
Those who had direct or indirect exposure to patients with COVID-19 were considered first. We ve all submitted lists of those frontline workers . so we re going to go through those lists until everybody is hit, said Gilpin who was the first to be vaccinated. Our goal overall is to get all of our health care providers vaccinated within about four to six weeks. It s an aggressive timeline, but we think we can make it work.
First COVID-19 vaccinations administered in Michigan
Two Michigan hospital systems administered the first COVID-19 vaccinations in the state on Monday, injecting the Michigan-produced Pfizer vaccine into front-line workers.
Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine and Spectrum Health s Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids were the first to begin vaccinating workers in the state the beginning of a massive inoculation rollout in Michigan expected to expand to other hospital systems in the coming days. It was momentous to see this happen for the first time, Spectrum President and CEO Tina Freese Decker announced at a Monday afternoon press conference.
The Grand Rapids-based health system, which has 14 hospitals in west Michigan, received its first shipment of 975 doses of the Pfizer vaccine shortly after 9 a.m. and administered its first vaccination just hours later at 12:04 p.m., Freese Decker said.