the morning post - july 12, 2012
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
HFHS IN THE NEWS
Harvard Business School Club of Michigan Selects
Business Leader of the Year (dbus iness ) The Harvard Business School Club ofMichigan, comprised of localgraduates of Harvard BusinessSchool, announces that NancySchlichting, CEO of Henry FordHealth System , has been selectedas the Club’s annual Business Leaderof the Year. “The Harvard BusinessSchool Club of Michigan supports theHarvard Business School mission to
train business leaders to make a difference in theircommunities. Ms. Schlichting is a shining example of thegood that can be accomplished from both a business andcommunity perspective when outstanding leaders are incharge,” says Harvard Business School Club of Michiganboard chair, Richard Shapack.
Senior housing to be built at Cottage
(Grosse Pointe News) Construction to develop onsite senior housing at theHenry Ford Medical Center - Cottage should begin this
fall. A purchase agreement was signed March 16between American House Senior Living Communities,REDICO and Henry Ford Health System, paving the wayfor a development to provide resources for seniors andtheir caregivers in the Grosse Pointes, Harper Woods andSt. Clair Shores. Plans call for 38 housing units to belocated on the second floor and 40 units on the third floorat Cottage, 159 Kercheval. "We're excited about ourpartnership with American House," says Paul Szilagyi,Henry Ford's regional vice president of Primary Care& Medical Centers . "The senior housing will complementour medical services offered at Cottage, as well as thoseservices offered next door at the Henry Ford Medical
Center-Pierson."LOCAL NEWS
EDITORIAL: Blues case must be decided quickly
(Crain 's Detroi t Busin ess) Is Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan guilty of anti-competitive practices? Or, as the market-share leader forhealth insurance in Michigan, is it exercising its clout toobtain the best possible pricing from hospitals to keeprates low for its customers? Aetna Inc., one of the nation'slargest for-profit health insurers, thinks it's the former.Blue Cross maintains it is the latter. As Michigan beginsto create the framework for a federally mandated healthinsurance exchange, regulators should decide what'skosher. Why? Because if Aetna is right, its rates may behigher than they should be in the exchange, which wouldgive Blue Cross an unfair advantage and customersfewer choices.
NATIONAL NEWS
Repeal of Health Care Law Approved, Again, by House
(The New York Tim es) Waging old battles with new zeal, the House passed a billon Wednesday to repeal President Obama’s health careoverhaul law less than two weeks after the SupremeCourt upheld it as constitutional. The bill was approved bya vote of 244 to 185, with five Democrats supportingrepeal. It has no chance of approval in the Senate andwould face a veto from Mr. Obama if it ever got to him.But the House debate exposed the depth of passion overefforts to remake the health care system and suggestedthat the fight would continue next year, regardless of whowins the November elections for president and Congress.The House has voted more than 30 times to repeal partor all of the 2010 law or to choke off money needed forvarious provisions, including coverage of more than 30million uninsured people.
INSIDE HFHS
Class on K2, Spice and Other Synthetic Drugs July 17 Attend a free informational class and discussion on K2,“Spice” and other synthetic drugs from 7 - 9 p.m.Tuesday, July 17, in the Demonstration Kitchen at HenryFord West Bloomfield Hospital. Dr. Brooke Weingardenand a panel of Henry Ford addiction experts will speak toparents, teens and healthcare workers about syntheticdrug use and treatment options. RSVP by Monday, July16 to Roxene Blakely at (248) 325-1556 [email protected] . Learn more at this link .
Blood Drive at Northfield July 27 A Red Cross blood drive will be held from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.Friday, July 27, at Henry Ford Northfield, 5600 New KingDrive, Suite 200, in Troy. The blood drive is sponsored byPatient Financial Services. To make an appointment, callRose Morrison at (248) 641-4025.
Peripheral Vascular Access Ultrasound CourseHenry Ford Ultrasound University is offering a peripheral
vascular access ultrasound course from 1 – 4:30 p.m.Wednesday, Aug. 8 at the Center for Simulation,Education and Research at Henry Ford Hospital. The
course will provide basic bedside ultrasound principles,image orientation and acquisition, and standard views forperipheral vessels, as well as the practice of ultrasound-guided peripheral vascular access. Register athenryford.com/cmeevents . Contact Grace Pacini at
[email protected] for more information. To read more,
click this link .
Project Helios Update As part of the System’s preparations for the
implementation of Epic, Paul Tang, M.D., M.S., aninternist and chief medical information officer at the Palo
Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF), Sutter Health and
associate clinical professor at the University of California,San Francisco School of Medicine, visited Henry FordHealth System to share his expertise on quality and theelectronic health record. Learn more at this link .
Reminder:
Play Ball! Discount Tigers Tickets AvailableThe Detroit Tigers, in their ongoing partnership withHenry Ford Health System, are offering discount ticketsthroughout the season to System employees, includinggames on July 16, 17, 18 and 19! To take advantage ofthis offer, employees must fill out and submit the formfound at this link , via fax or email, to (313) 471-2599 [email protected] . For a list of the available
games, times, days, dates and price, visit this link . Ticketsare subject to availability, while supplies last.
…One More Thing
GEN-ERG-Y hasVolunteerEnergyHenry FordHealth System'sGEN-ERG-Y
group recentlypartnered withlocal companyIdeal Group to
volunteer at Scarcyny Park in Southwest Detroit.Volunteers helped with a variety of tasks, includingplanting, weeding, general lawn maintenance, tire clean-up and painting, sidewalk clean-up and landscaping,among others. Thanks to all who came out to beautify thepark!
Published by the HFHS Media Relations Department.