Most proud of efforts to improve patient and employee safety
UMHS owns or is affiliated with 15 hospitals and 40 outpatient centers in Michigan
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Dr. David Spahlinger rounds with staff at University of Michian Hospitals.
Dr. David Spahlinger looks back on his 26 years as a manager and primary care physician at the University of Michigan Health System and takes most pride in how he helped improve employee and patient safety for the system s 26,000 workers and three core hospitals in Ann Arbor.
Spahlinger, a 66-year-old internist who completed his residency at UM Hospitals in 1983, became president of UMHS in 2016, after multiple administrative roles at the university, including executive director of the multispecialty faculty practice UM Medical Group 1997-2015.
A Super Private Estate in the British Virgin IslandsâOnce Asking $12 MillionâHeads to Auction for $3 Million Minimum Published: Dec. 28, 2020 at 10:21 a.m. ET By Email icon Resize icon
Villa Brise de Mer, an uber-private estate in the British Virgin Islands thatâs only reachable via boat, seaplane or helicopter and thatâs across the water from Sir Richard Bransonâs fabled Necker Island, is going on the auction block Jan. 5 for a minimum price of US$3 million.
The estate, whose French name means Sea Breeze, will be sold in a 48-hour online auction by Interluxe, Luxury Property Auction Marketplace in partnership with the current listing agent,
Mott Children’s Hospital delivers holiday cheer with socially-distanced ‘toy store’
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
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ANN ARBOR, MI Each year since 2012, Santa’s workshop has visited Ann Arbor’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital to transform a room into the “North Pole” for parents and family members to pick out gifts for their kids who are in the hospital.
The holiday tradition continues this year, but it looks a bit different due to COVID-19 precautions.
“In a typical year, we have a bunch of activities in the hospital for kids to socialize and play. We’ve had to close the activity room because of social distancing,” said Luanne Thomas Ewald, Mott and Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital chief operating officer.
Michigan Medicine vaccinates first employees for COVID-19
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Michigan Medicine began vaccinating people against COVID-19 today with an initial group of five frontline workers.
The first employee vaccinated, Johnnie Peoples, is a registered nurse with Survival Flight, Michigan Medicine’s critical care transport program. The others who received vaccinations today are a registered nurse in the Emergency Department, a physician in Infectious Diseases, a physician in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, and a resident physician in Internal Medicine.
Today’s initial shipment included 1,950 doses of the Pfizer Inc./BioNTech vaccine. Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center of the University of Michigan, expects to vaccinate about 40 employees beginning Tuesday and ramping up the volume further as early as next week, depending on supply