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[email protected] Courtesy Photo An employee with MidMichigan Medical Center-Alpena puts on their personal protective equipment in this photo shared by MidMichigan Health on Monday. ALPENA MidMichigan Medical Center-Alpena officials are seeing a “significant increase” in the number of patients being admitted for COVID-19. Hospital President Chuck Sherwin said on Monday of the 70 patients admitted in the hospital, 26 were admitted because of COVID-19. Sherwin said the hospital at the beginning of December saw more patients admitted because of COVID-19. However, he said the current influx of patients comes close to that time. “If the numbers continue to go up the way that they have over the last two weeks, we’ll probably exceed that level because I think we were at a high of 28 before,” Sherwin said. ....
[email protected] News Photo by Crystal Nelson MidMichigan Medical Center-Alpena is pictured under renovation on Chisholm Street on March 1. The hospital is building a new patient tower to include 60 new private patient rooms. ALPENA New federal transparency rules are meant to make health care services more “shoppable,” but the voluminous price databases hospitals post online can be hard for a consumer to navigate. Greg George, director of legislative affairs at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a Midland-based think tank, said hospitals are just two months into complying with the new federal rules, so some formats may not yet be very consumer-friendly. ....
[email protected] News Photo by Crystal Nelson MidMichigan Medical Center-Alpena President Chuck Sherwin, second from right, and Regional Vice President of Medical Affairs Richard Bates, far right, on Thursday talk during one of the hospital’s vaccination clinics. ALPENA An Alpena doctor has received national attention for his willingness to drive the COVID-19 vaccine nearly 150 miles from Midland to Alpena, highlighting the struggles of rural health care. Richard Bates, a former OB-GYN and regional vice president of medical affairs at MidMichigan Medical Center-Alpena, has for weeks regularly traveled about 300 miles roundtrip in his pickup truck to bring the COVID-19 vaccine to Alpena from Midland. ....