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As we get closer to the start of 2014, the emphasis on educating people about decisions and responsibilities under the Affordable Care Act seems to be cranking up. Read More

Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, beginning in 2014, any company designated as a "large employer" will be required to offer minimum . . . Read More

The Michigan Senate Economic Development Committee moved a bill to the full Senate last week that would eliminate some of the processes currently used by the Michigan Department of Community Health to eliminate health care service duplications that fuel the escalating cost of health care and health care benefits for employers. Read More

There are two colors that bubble to the surface as it relates to at-home senior adult care. The first: Graying baby boomers are averse to living in a nursing home. The second: Older adults are willing to part with their greenbacks in exchange for services that help them avoid spending their remaining years in a skilled nursing facility.

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Kent County has been looking for a location where it could consolidate the health department's clinics in Kentwood and Wyoming under a single roof. The looking has gone on quietly for roughly two years, but Kent County Assistant Administrator Wayman Britt said the search may be over.

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The Grand Rapids-based Michigan Center for Clinical Systems Improvement intends to use a $1.7 million grant to fund a collaborative care management strategy whose mission is to improve the outcome of patients suffering from depression and related chronic diseases and shave health care costs.

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Legislation approved by a Michigan Senate committee would change the Michigan Certificate of Need process for determining where and when new hospitals should be built, and would eliminate West Michigan’s Alliance for Health from the process altogether. Read More

When Grand Valley State University engineering students Phil DeJonge and Jake Hall enrolled in a product design class last fall, they didn’t know they would be adding mobility to the life of 2-year-old Madison Riemersma. She has spina bifida, a spinal condition that causes loss of function and sensation in the lower half of the body.  Read More