Xinjuan Deng - Capital News Service

LANSING — Michigan can improve long-term care by providing more home and community-based services as alternatives to nursing home care, AARP Michigan says, but an industry group cautions that nursing facilities are crucial to the state’s health care system.

LANSING — Some small businesses say they will be hurt by a “hidden” tax under the two-year-old federal health overhaul.

LANSING — The Department of Environmental Quality will distribute $250,000 in grants to help communities properly dispose of household drugs.