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Beaumont Health, McLaren Health Care and Michigan Medicine are the latest Michigan hospital systems to announce they are easing visitor restrictions now that COVID-19 case rates are falling in the state and the number of people who ve been vaccinated grows.
Beaumont Health, the eight-hospital health system based in Southfield, said that starting at 8 a.m. Tuesday, patients who do not have COVID-19 and who are not suspected of having the virus may have one visitor per day, regardless of that visitor s vaccination status.
At Michigan Medicine, starting Wednesday, one visitor per day will be allowed for adult patients of the Ann Arbor-based health system affiliated with the University of Michigan as long as the patient does not have COVID-19 and is not suspected of having the virus.
A national study on childhood asthma led by Henry Ford Health System has found that family history, race and sex are associated in different ways with higher rates of asthma in children.
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by Alan Stamm The number of adults with Covid infections in Michigan hospitals has declined by more than 2,000 over the past four weeks. State data posted Thursday shows 2,158 hospitalized patients with confirmed or suspected coronavirus down 48% from April 14, when 4,187 beds held virus victims. Intensive care units, which had 864 Covid cases in mid-April, were treating 613 as of Thursday afternoon s tally from the Department of Health and Human Services. That s a 29% drop. Deadline Detroit compared figures for April 14 with the latest update. Weekly data shows the number of in-patients with confirmed or suspected Covid, the number in intensive care and overall bed occupancy rates at every Michigan hospital.
Cardiologists at Henry Ford Hospital Led the Development of Shock Treatment Protocol
DETROIT (April 28, 2021) – The results of a large, national heart attack study show that patients with a deadly complication known as cardiogenic shock survived at a significantly higher rate when treated with a protocol developed by cardiologists at Henry Ford Hospital in
Cardiogenic shock is a critical condition in which the heart is unable to pump enough blood to sustain the body’s needs, depriving vital organs of blood supply and can cause them to eventually cease functioning. The typical survival rate of this deadly complication during a heart attack has historically hovered around 50%.