That slowing of coronavirus cases has prompted the state’s largest hospital system to reassess staffing and space.
Robin Erb
Robin Erb covers health care and aging for Bridge Michigan, focusing on a state that is aging faster than most. She has led investigations tracking opioid settlement money and health care worker shortages, and previously spent six years at the Detroit Free Press covering the Affordable Care Act and Michigan's Medicaid expansion. She holds a master's degree from Lourdes University in Toledo.
Robin and her husband raised two children in southeast Michigan — and have failed miserably at training their Beagle-Bassets.
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Michigan Medicine: 22,000 coronavirus surgical masks from feds don’t work
The Ann Arbor-based health system said 2,000 of the masks were distributed to health workers but were found to be unusable, so they are not using any of them. This follows similar mask complaints from Alabama and Oregon.
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Testing immunity to coronavirus may help Michigan open for business sooner
Serologic studies are being launched in at least three hospital systems to identify those with immunity to COVID-19 after surviving the virus. Such data can inform business openings and patient treatment.
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Coronavirus moves Michigan doctor visits online, for good and bad
Insurers have loosened restrictions and boosted benefits to extend telemedicine as never before.
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Detroit Medical Center laying off 60 amid coronavirus; McLaren eyes furloughs
As the coronavirus decimates hospital revenues, the Detroit Medical Center notifies 60 lab assistants and more they are being laid off, while McLaren is exploring cost-cutting measures and furloughs.
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Beaumont has 1,500 workers with coronavirus symptoms, including 500 nurses
The numbers at Beaumont Health, Michigan’s largest hospital system, are the latest reminder of the dangers facing hospital workers in metro Detroit.
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Intensive care nurse in Flint dies of the coronavirus
The latest death underscores the danger and anxiety for health care workers on Michigan’s front lines as the virus spreads through the state.
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Nurses say Detroit hospital told them to leave after coronavirus protest
Night-shift nurses staged a protest at the hospital over heavy patient caseloads that they said were dangerous. Hospital officials asked the nurses to leave, they said.
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Beaumont chief blasts Michigan for lack of hospital data during coronavirus
Beaumont Health CEO John Fox faults the state for not forcing hospitals to share real-time data on available resources at other hospitals when patient counts surge, leaving patients to wait hours to be transferred.
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Inside Michigan hospitals, a ‘crushingly hard’ week in coronavirus fight
In the toughest week yet in Michigan’s fight against coronavirus, hospital workers share their fears, anxieties and triumphs of treating patients and ensuring they don’t bring the highly contagious virus home to their loved ones. “You don’t know what you’re walking into, and you don’t know if you’ll be able to walk away without being sick, yourself,” one says.