McLaren Greater Lansing s vision for a state of the art facility will come to fruition in less than a year.
I can t tell you how many times I ve been driving on US-127 and looked over to see the new McClaren building being built. Their new healthcare campus is state of the art and will be opening soon in South Lansing.
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That s because, after months of incredible work, crews are putting the finishing touches on the outside portion of the 240 bed hospital and are now turning their attention to completing the spaces that will usher in a new era of health care inside the 500,000 foot facility.
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Wednesday is St. Patrick’s Day, one of the busiest days of the year for bars. In East Lansing, indoor capacity limits are being enforced, and lines outside bars are not permitted.
Also on the horizon is spring break. Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail hopes people will limit travel, but take precautions if they do hit the road. You know, nobody has locked down travel at this point in time, Vail says, so it’s just a matter of just trying to continue to encourage diligence about what is safe and what is not safe.”
Vail hopes that diligence will prevent a spring surge of COVID-19 cases. “It’s a concerning time, she concludes, especially when we’re seeing an increase in cases in general, which hopefully, we’re not going to see that giant surge. We’re just going to see a little bit of a tip up, and come back down.”
Five Simple Tips That Can Help Lead to a Healthier Heart
According to the Lansing State Journal along with McLaren Greater Lansing, we all know how important it is to take care of your heart, and it s very important to start taking steps right now to make sure you re healthy for many years to come.
It s never too late to start taking steps to improve your heart health. It s important to be proactive. It s also important to talk to your primary care provider about adopting a healthier lifestyle.
McLaren Greater Lansing cardiologist David McComb, D.O., has five simple tips that can start you on the road to a healthier heart.
McLaren agrees to $7.75 million settlement on opioid drug diversion charges
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McLaren Health Care Corp., a 14-hospital health system based in Grand Blanc, has agreed to a $7.75 million civil settlement over the health system s handling of controlled substances in its retail pharmacy program, federal officials said Tuesday.
The settlement resolved allegations that McLaren violated certain provisions of the federal Controlled Substances Act, according to a statement from U.S. attorneys Andrew Birge in the Western Michigan District and Matthew Schneider in the Eastern Michigan District.
It ended an investigation over several years in which employees at multiple McLaren facilities in Michigan were alleged to have diverted drugs from about 2014 to 2019 and violated federal laws, officials said.
McLaren agrees to pay record $7.75M settlement over drug diversion allegations
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
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PORT HURON, MI McLaren Health Care Corporation will pay the United States the nation’s largest settlement of its kind for allegations of drug diversion at a health care system.
The United States Attorneys’ Offices for the Western and Eastern Districts of Michigan announced Tuesday, Jan. 19, McLaren Health Care Corporation (MHCC) agreed to pay the United States $7.75 million to resolve allegations that it violated certain provisions of the Controlled Substances Act, according to a U.S. Attorneys’ Office news release.
The government alleged that McLaren Port Huron Pharmacy and McLaren Yale Pharmacy in the Eastern District of Michigan dispensed Schedule II drugs without written prescriptions and despite “red flags” that those drugs were being diverted by the MHCC’s pharmacist who were in charge. The government further alleged that several MHCC facilitie