HEALTH CARE

Grand Rapids hospitals avoid disruptions despite water emergency 

Corewell Health and Trinity Health Grand Rapids say they have avoided any disruptions in operations resulting from a water main break on the city’s...

FDA fast-track drug approvals are costing Americans

America represents 4% of the world’s population, yet we consume 60% of all prescription drug sales made on Earth. We use prescription drugs more...
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Priority Health bottom line hit by rising drug costs, higher utilization in 2023

The rising costs for prescription drugs and higher utilization rates for medical care combined to cut into Priority Health’s bottom line in 2023.  The Grand...

Patients pay thousands at longevity clinics. Are they snake oil or the future of...

Cara Hiddings’ grandfather died of a heart attack at 46. Her cousin suffered the same fate at 55. Mortality is always on the mind of...

Grand Rapids-based benefits firm expands to metro Detroit

Opening an office in suburban Detroit gives Advantage Benefits Group Inc. a base from which to grow in Southeast Michigan.  The Grand Rapids-based employee health...

Legal exam removed from pharmacist certification in Michigan

It’s now easier to become a licensed pharmacist in the state of Michigan. State regulators recently eliminated a widely used certification requirement by removing the...

BAMF, Corewell Health partner on clinical trial for advanced cancer treatment

BAMF Health’s involvement in a clinical trial sponsored by a New York-based biopharmaceutical company begins moving the Grand Rapids company along the pathway to...

Lakeshore outpatient surgery center completes $9.3M expansion

A Muskegon outpatient surgery center that just completed a $9.3 million expansion is already considering a plan to add more capacity as patient volumes...

Nurses at Ascension Borgess Allegan ratify 3-year union contract

Nurses at Ascension Borgess Allegan Hospital have ratified a new contract union contract that grants them an average 26% pay raise over the next...

Investment returns boost Corewell Health earnings to nearly $1B in 2023

A large return on investments boosted Corewell Health’s 2023 bottom line to nearly $1 billion.  The nonprofit health system recorded $992.8 million in total net...

Skyrocketing drug spending hits Blue Cross bottom line

In 2023, more Michiganders used heath care services and used novel drugs to relieve ailments. That exacted a cost on Blue Cross Blue Shield...

State lawmakers take up bills aiming to ‘revolutionize the insulin market’

Lawmakers in Lansing began considering bills last week that would allow the state to partner with a private manufacturer to produce and distribute low-cost...
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Attorney general warns of scam targeting Pine Rest

Michigan’s attorney general today warned consumers about a scam targeting Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services that redirects people seeking treatment for substance abuse...

Corewell Health South president retiring after more than four decades in health care

Dr. Loren Hamel ends a four-decade career in health care when he retires at midyear as president of Corewell Health South.  A physician who joined...
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Perrigo to cut 6% of workforce under restructuring initiative

A sweeping restructuring plan that Perrigo Co. plc plans to pursue will result in hundreds of jobs cuts.  In a call this week with brokerage...

Perrigo expects to launch over-the-counter birth control pill ‘within a few weeks’

Perrigo Co. plc expects to introduce the first oral contraceptive available in the U.S. without a physician’s prescription by mid March.  The company has “activation...
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Corewell Health plans $80M service center at long-vacant GM site in Wyoming 

Corewell Health plans to transform a sprawling former General Motors manufacturing site into an $80 million service center that will support operations statewide.  The health...

New state laws toughen penalties for assaulting health care workers

Health care professional Shawn Bolen has been punched, kicked, spit on and had objects thrown at him while on the job.  A clinical urgent care...

Care Resources CEO Tracey McKnight Announces Plans to Retire

After a successful 45-year career ensuring West Michigan residents have access to quality health care, Care Resources Chief Executive Officer Tracey McKnight has announced...

Kalamazoo air ambulance service to discontinue operations in April 

Citing the dwindling number of transports it has provided over the last 15 years, West Michigan Air Care Inc. will cease operations this spring.  The...
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Corewell Health will sell former Kelsey Hospital site to village for $1

Corewell Health plans to sell the former Kelsey Hospital site to the Village of Lakeview for $1.  The health system also will pay to demolish...

Southwest Michigan medical school appoints interim dean

The board of directors at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine named Dr. Robert Sawyer as interim dean.  The chair of...
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$10M from DeVos family builds momentum for Pine Rest, Mary Free Bed projects 

Large contributions from the DeVos family boost ongoing capital campaigns for new pediatric care centers at Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services and Mary...
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DeVos family donates $50M to 3 Grand Rapids-area pediatric projects

A $50 million gift from the DeVos family will support a new psychiatric and medical care unit at Corewell Health’s Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital...

Corewell Health’s outpatient center building spree tops $260M

Corewell Health’s plan to build a new surgical center south of Grand Rapids is part of the health system’s broader investments in outpatient facilities...