Health

Emergency medical services are facing staffing shortages statewide, exacerbated by the pandemic. There are an estimated one thousand open emergency medical technician and paramedic positions in the state.

Union members at Lansing's Sparrow Hospital overwhelmingly approved strike authorization in a vote that ended Sunday.

How can COVID-19 be surging again in Michigan when more than five million people in the state have been fully vaccinated? Millions of others remain unvaccinated. Statewide data show the overwhelming majority of hospitalizations and deaths are being driven by people who haven't gotten the vaccine.

The medical director of the coalition urges people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and seasonal flu and wear masks in public indoor spaces.

The fourth surge in Michigan continues to pick up steam, as West Michigan’s largest hospital system hits a new record for COVID patients. But many health systems are already at capacity just caring for the non-COVID patients.

“I will also say personally, in our hospital, I have seen more children hospitalized and some very sick in the ICU with COVID-19 in just the last few months since the Delta variant came about than I have throughout the whole pandemic," a doctor said during a town hall meeting.

Current CDC guidelines allow for the majority of adults to get a vaccine booster, if it's been more than six months since their first round.

The state's health care system is buckling under the joint weight of rising COVID hospitalizations, the non-COVID patients pouring into Emergency Departments, and a "brutal" staffing shortage.

Survivors with severe injuries rallied again, after more than four months of limited response from elected leaders to the crisis caused by Michigan's new auto no-fault law.

A “remarkable achievement,” that’s how U.S. District Court Judge Judith Levy describes the roughly $626 million settlement in her 178 page opinion.