Munson Healthcare to Provide COVID-19 Update on Tuesday
February 22, 2021
You can view the press conference from 11-11:45 a.m. on 9&10 Plus.
The following health care professionals will be on the press conference:
Christine Nefcy, M.D., FAAP, Chief Medical Officer, Munson Healthcare
Dianne Michalek, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Munson Healthcare
Wendy Hirschenberger, M.P.H., Health Officer, Grand Traverse County Health Department
Jennifer Morse, M.D., M.P.H., FAAFP, Medical Director, District Health Department #10
Heidi Britton, CEO Northwest Michigan Health Services
Joshua Meyerson, M.D., M.P.H., Medical Director, Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department and Health Department of Northwest Michigan
Certain Michigan schools have found a winning formula for vaccinating teachers
Updated Feb 21, 2021;
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Chris Timmis insists he and Dexter Community Schools personnel have done everything possible to get students into the classroom two days a week.
As the Dexter superintendent looks down from a balcony overlooking desks spread out evenly across the Dexter High School cafeteria, students scan QR codes on the corner of their socially distant desks to bring up the lunch orders that will be brought to them in prepackaged brown bags.
Orange cones serve as makeshift roundabouts stationed at the intersections of road-resembling hallways lined with tape and signage reminding students to socially distance. Hand sanitizer stations are on the walls and everywhere else. Drinking fountains are off limits.
For Michigan’s older population, navigating vaccination options is complicated
Updated Feb 28, 2021;
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When am I going to vaccinated? That’s the No. 1 question at the moment for seniors such as Sally Biggs, a 77-year-old Leland woman.
She has been unable to get even her first shot in the arm by mid-February, despite her age placing her near the top of Michigan’s COVID-19 Vaccination Prioritization plan.
With both pulmonary and cardiovascular conditions, she makes daily calls to all the nearby vaccine sites to no avail. Her confidence in the vaccine process, as well as many of her senior peers, is waning.
LAKE CITY â Missaukee County EMS is finding itself overextended by providing mutual aid ambulance services to Wexford County.
Mutual Aid services are commonly established to allow either county to help the other out when needed. Wexford County had an agreement with North Flight, now superseded by Mobile Medical Response (MMR) to provide ambulance services to that county.
However, the merger has not been without its hiccups, which Missaukee EMS director Aaron Sogge believes are due to a staffing shortage at MMR.
Missaukee EMS has been asked to cover calls at a rate that is no longer financially viable for the department, Sogge said. He said calls for Advanced Life Support and Basic Life Support are routinely called off. When they are called off it results in non-billable calls and costs for Missaukee staff overtime, fuel, vehicle maintenance and other expenses.
But when the threat is gone, what changes are here to stay?
Businesses and communities are always looking for positive changes and ways to make life easier and more enjoyable.
There’s a saying, “Necessity is the mother of invention” and when COVID-19 hit, the necessity was to survive. Whether it was your business, your city or your way of life and what it forced people to do was come up with creative ways to get by. Some of those, once the masks are gone and we are through this pandemic, are going to stick around because they showed things can be done better and more efficient.