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Michigan Medicine to resume construction on new 12-story hospital in Ann Arbor Building will house 264 private rooms Meredith Bruckner, Community News Producer, All About Ann Arbor Published:  Updated:  Tags:  Architectural rendering of the new inpatient hospital on Michigan Medicines Ann Arbor campus. (Michigan Medicine) ANN ARBOR – Michigan Medicine announced it will soon resume construction on a new 12-story hospital that was paused due to the coronavirus pandemic. “Design work is alr...

Most proud of efforts to improve patient and employee safety UMHS owns or is affiliated with 15 hospitals and 40 outpatient centers in Michigan University of Michigan Dr. David Spahlinger rounds with staff at University of Michian Hospitals. Dr. David Spahlinger looks back on his 26 years as a manager and primary care physician at the University of Michigan Health System and takes most pride in how he helped improve employee and patient safety for the systems 26,000 workers and three core hospi...

Nurses approve 1-year contract with Michigan Medicine Updated Dec 22, 2020; Posted Dec 22, 2020 University Hospital, part of the University of Michigan Health System. Katie McLean | The Ann Arbor News Katie McLean | MLive.comKatie McLean | MLive.com Facebook Share ANN ARBOR, MI — Nurses represented by the University of Michigan Professional Nurses Council voted Friday, Dec. 18, to ratify a one-year contract with Michigan Medicine. The contract between Michigan Medicine, the academic medica...

17 important COVID-19 vaccine facts from Michigan’s top health official Dr. Joneigh Khaldun goes in depth on COVID-19 vaccine facts Published:  Updated:  Tags:  The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) LANSING, Mich. – Michigan’s top health official took a deep dive into COVID-19 vaccine facts Tuesday, including how effective the vaccines are, when everyone can expect to receive them and potential side...

4 types of COVID-19 vaccine scams circulating in Michigan and how they work Dana Nessel says residents should not buy treatment or vaccines online Published:  Updated:  Tags:  Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel at a Dec. 15, 2020, COVID-19 press briefing. (WDIV) LANSING, Mich. – Michigan’s attorney general outlined four specific types of COVID-19 vaccine scams circulating in the state and explained how they’re targeting residents. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer during Tuesday’s briefing to...

University of Michigan Hospital workers show what ‘reconstituting’ COVID vaccine means Simply put: It means adding saline to vaccine to prepare for immunization Tags:  ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Michigan Medicine plans to have 55 frontline workers receive the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday. Tom Mann, the director of occupational health at the University of Michigan Hospital, described what needs to be done to get the vaccine to these workers. “We have to coordinate with our pharmacy team, our sup...

Which COVID-19 vaccine should you take once both are approved: Pfizer or Moderna? Gov. Whitmer says Moderna vaccine expected to be approved in next week Published:  Updated:  Tags:  Dr. Marina Del Rios, from University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, receives Chicagos first COVID-19 vaccination from Dr. Nikhila Juvvadi on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, at Loretto Hospital, a 122-bed medical facility in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune via AP) LANSIN...

Health care workers at University of Michigan hospital receive first doses of COVID-19 vaccine First doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrive Published:  Updated:  Tags:  University of Michigan Hospital are now receiving the very first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. Workers at U of M Hospital The moment was meaningful and historic. It came about 11 months after the first COVID-19 cases started showing up. The first doses from Pfizer came rolling into Michigan Medicine on Monday morning. A del...