In August, Paul Senker took a trip home to Philadelphia and had a revelation. The 32-year-old water resources engineer had been living alone in Los Angeles since the start of the pandemic, his fifth year in Southern California. Back in Philly, seeing his parents and his brother who had recently moved home, he thought: “California’s really great, but it’s not going to give me the thing I need. This is way better for this new world we’re in.”
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In December, Senker drove across the country. He spent Christmas Eve in New Orleans, and now lives a short drive from his parents in Philadelphia. He sees his brothers and friends he grew up with. “It definitely feels good to be back in the nest,” he told me last week. “I’m lucky my parents live someplace I want to live they didn’t follow the rest of our relatives down to Boca Raton.” Senker sees his folks once a week, in the backyard. They’re in their 70s and cautious about COVID. The other day, he surprise
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For the staff at Metro Health-University of Michigan Health, âGo Blueâ is more than a sports cheer. Itâs also a phrase they use to remind colleagues to wash their hands, a vital practice for health care safety and quality.
âItâs a good phrase for us, as a Michigan institution,â said Dr. Ronald Grifka, chief medical officer. âItâs also just a gentle reminder that weâre working as a team and weâre going to help each other to get better as a team.â
Getting better as a team is a constant at Metro Health, the only Grand Rapids-area hospital to earn an âAâ rating in the Leapfrog Groupâs most recent Hospital Safety Grade.
Large COVID-19 vaccine clinic at DeVos Place designed to boost ‘shots in arms’
Updated Jan 22, 2021;
Posted Jan 22, 2021
DeVos Place is connected to the skywalk in downtown Grand Rapids on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. (Cory Morse | MLive.com)MLive/The Grand Rapids Press
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI West Michigan residents eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine will soon have a new place to get a dose.
A large-scale clinic at DeVos Place convention center in downtown Grand Rapids is scheduled to open Monday as part of a partnership between the Kent County Health Department, Spectrum Health and Mercy Health Saint Mary’s.
Initially, the clinic will have roughly 7,200 doses of the vaccine to distribute starting next week, with the goal of eventually ramping up to 20,000 doses a day. However, with the vaccine in high-demand and short-supply, it’s unclear when the clinic will be able to reach that goal.