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University of Michigan Health-West, GRCC take on nursing shortage with new partnership
College of Michigan Well being-West will assist nursing college students at Grand Rapids Group School pay for his or her coaching via a brand new partnership designed to handle an acute nursing scarcity.
Beneath the initiative, the well being system intends to pay for as much as three semesters of tuition for college kids enrolled in GRCC’s nursing program who’ve accomplished one semester of their instruction. Nursing college students accepted into this system must decide to working at College of Michigan Well being-West for 2 years after incomes a two-year diploma at GRCC and securing their state license.
College of Michigan Well being-West will then “encourage and assist their completion of a bachelor’s diploma in nursing via present partnerships and tuition reimbursement,” in accordance with an announcement on the partnership with GRCC.
“By eradicating price obstacles — together with for grownup learners and others who have to proceed working whereas ending their training — this system creates and nurtures a various pipeline of native well being care expertise,” College of Michigan Well being-West CEO Dr. Peter Hahn mentioned in an announcement. “We see this as an funding not simply in our workforce however in West Michigan itself. This can be a method to make sure that the brand new technology of rising well being care leaders displays the communities we serve.”
Labor challenges worsen
As we speak’s announcement cites U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics information that predict a deep scarcity of nurses nationally, with 203,000 openings yearly throughout the U.S. via 2031.
In West Michigan, the latest Well being Verify report printed by Grand Valley State College’s Seidman School of Enterprise initiatives employment for registered nurses within the four-county Grand Rapids space to develop by 1,171 positions between 2020 and 2028, to fifteen,111. When retirements, elevated demand, attrition and different points are figured into the equation, GVSU initiatives the Grand Rapids-area market to common greater than 900 registered nurse job openings yearly, together with 130 new positions every year, in accordance with the 2022 Well being Verify report that makes use of state and federal information.
Statewide, Michigan will common a projected 6,442 RN job openings yearly via 2028, together with the expansion of 956 new positions.
This yr’s Well being Verify report famous {that a} “lower within the quantity of highschool graduates, together with a notable lower within the variety of training jobs in the previous couple of years, means that the pool of people getting into college applications could lower in future years” throughout a number of well being care professions.
“As such, coverage and neighborhood efforts will probably be very important to retain the present expert healthcare workforce, in addition to encourage gifted people to pursue levels resulting in employment inside the well being care sector,” GVSU researchers wrote.
Care suppliers have lengthy been coping with a scarcity of nurses that has worsened because the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, as many professionals retired or left for different care settings reminiscent of a high-paying journey nurse group, or moved to a completely totally different career.
At one level within the pandemic, College of Michigan Well being-West had a 20 % emptiness fee for nursing positions, Chief Nursing Officer Steve Polega informed MiBiz. The emptiness fee has since settled at 12 to fifteen % on the well being system, which presently employs about 830 nurses. College of Michigan Well being-West has been filling expertise gaps with high-cost journey nurses, Polega mentioned.
‘Do one thing proactive’
The GRCC partnership will assist to “feed our pipeline and develop our pipeline of nurses which are working right here,” he mentioned.
“The pandemic was life-changing for lots of people. We had lots of people go away the nursing area, and we had a number of our most skilled of us retire early and that left a giant expertise hole there, and it looks as if of us will not be coming again to nursing,” Polega mentioned. “It’s actually brought about a problem for the entire native hospitals to fill their positions … so we actually felt like we needed to do one thing proactive to fill a few of these holes.”
The well being system is funding this system via assist from the College of Michigan Well being-West Basis that dedicated funding for 20 positions yearly for 2 years. The well being system now seeks a everlasting funding supply to assist this system past 2024, Polega mentioned.
“We’re already pursuing funding to fund this program longer than two years. We’re working with our basis and dealing with different alternatives to safe funding,” he mentioned. “Hopefully, we will get funding to have this program go on for a number of years.”
As nicely, College of Michigan Well being-West has had “preliminary talks” with different neighborhood faculties about related nursing partnerships, Polega mentioned. The well being system can increase this system if it might probably safe funding and would method different potential companions “if we get a giant donation,” he mentioned.
“The great thing about this system we developed is that it’s actually scalable,” Polega mentioned.
By the partnership with GRCC, College of Michigan Well being-West goals to have 10 to fifteen nursing college students enroll in this system in December and graduate in April 2023. This system will goal 10 extra nursing college students in every of the subsequent three semesters via December 2024, or 20 per yr.
“Aiding college students with tuition permits them to deal with finishing their training, and finally enter the office extra rapidly and higher ready,” mentioned Michelle Richter, GRCC’s Nursing Program director. “The chance for employment upon commencement permits college students to have the ability to serve the neighborhood in a rewarding profession, and proceed including expertise and advancing their training.”
The appliance for this system began final week. College of Michigan Well being-West will choose contributors inside a couple of weeks, with a desire for current workers who need to turn into a nurse, Polega mentioned.
The partnership between GRCC and College of Michigan Well being-West is the newest effort within the area searching for to carry extra folks into the nursing career.
Corewell Well being Ludington Hospital early this month shaped a nursing apprenticeship program. Members will enroll in West Shore Group School’s nursing program for classroom instruction and medical training and work at Corewell Well being Ludington Hospital the place they’ll obtain on-the-job coaching.
This system ought to start in 2023 and is meant to expedite how lengthy nursing college students take to arrange to offer affected person care.
“The agricultural well being workforce faces many challenges, together with nursing shortages,” mentioned Meleah Mariani, chief nursing officer at Corewell Well being Ludington Hospital. “The registered nurse apprenticeship can open doorways for many who in any other case may not pursue a profession in nursing. So many occasions, I’ve heard somebody say, ‘I all the time needed to be a nurse,’ however the necessity to work full-time, the calls for of childcare, and different related bills create roadblocks.”
Corewell Well being again in April additionally dedicated $19 million towards growing the expertise pipeline for nurses who earn their diploma at Grand Valley State College. Beneath the West Michigan Nurse Scholar program, the Grand Rapids well being system seeks to assist as much as 500 extra college students over six years on the GVSU Kirkhof School of Nursing.
GVSU deliberate to make use of the funding to assist scholar monetary assist, medical placements, enhanced curriculum, know-how and tools, and scholar assist companies.
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Michigan’s red flag gun laws: What to do if you believe someone is a danger to themselves or others
Michigan has laws in place that can require someone give up their weapons if they are believed to be a danger to themselves or others.
In February of this year, Michigan enacted new gun laws that included an Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) law. The ERPO law allows the courts to temporarily prevent people deemed a risk to themselves or others from having or buying firearms.
A spouse, former spouse, partner, former partner, family member, roommate, guardian, law enforcement officer, or healthcare provider can petition the court to have a person’s firearms temporarily removed if they are deemed to be a risk.
According to the University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, there are three types of ERPO petitions in Michigan:
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An Immediate Emergency Ex Parte ERPO, which can only be filed by law enforcement. This type of petition can be filed verbally, over the phone, by a law enforcement officer who is responding to someone involved in a crisis who the officer believes is at risk of harming themselves or others. If the order is granted, the court will schedule a hearing on the order within 14 days of the order being served.
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An Ex Parte ERPO is filed if someone believes there is a risk of the person harming themselves or others in the very near future. This type of petition is given priority by the court. The petition is required to offer evidence that the person may hurt themselves or others and does pose a risk of harm in the near future. If the request is rejected by the court, the petitioner can request a hearing within 21 days of the denial. If the ERPO is ordered, the person served the ERPO will have to request a hearing within seven days of receiving the order.
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A Final ERPO hearing is scheduled if an Ex Parte ERPO is not requested by the petitioner; if an Ex Parte ERPO is denied and the petitioner requests a hearing; and if an Ex Parte ERPO is granted and the respondent requests a hearing.
How to file an ERPO in Michigan
The University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention has a website dedicated to helping people understand the ERPO filing and order process in Michigan.
Here is a overview of the steps required to file an ERPO petition:
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Fill out an ERPO petition. An ERPO petition is called a complaint. The person who fills out the complaint is known as the petitioner and must fill out forms and submit them to the family division of the circuit court. The complaint should detail any facts that show the person is a significant risk or harming themselves or others. The person does not need to currently have a firearm to an ERPO to be filed.
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The petition must be submitted to the appropriate circuit court.
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ERPO petitioners are required to attend a hearing and review the complaint and evidence for why an ERPO may be necessary. If the petitioner does not attend, the ERPO will not be granted.
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The court makes a decision and if granted, the ERPO will be served.
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An ERPO in Michigan can last up to one year.
More information on the process and links to the correct forms are available at firearminjury.umich.edu/mi-erpo-filing/.
The order forms are also available at courts.michigan.gov/SCAO-forms/extreme-risk-protection/
What happens when an ERPO is ordered?
If an ERPO is ordered, the respondent must give up any firearms they have to law enforcement, or, if allowed by the court, to a licensed firearm dealer. They are not allowed to have firearms for the duration of the order, which lasts a maximum of one year.
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What does the court consider?
Here are the factors that the court will consider during an ERPO hearing:
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Threats or acts of violence towards themselves or others, even if the threats did not involve a firearm;
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History of violence or signs of serious mental illness;
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Previous protection orders and violation of protection orders;
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Reckless use, display, or brandishing of firearms;
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Recent acts of cruelty to animals;
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Previous criminal charges for assault and/or domestic violence;
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Alcohol and/or substance abuse;
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Recent purchase or attempt to purchase firearms or deadly weapons.
Extreme Risk Protection Order manual
Below is a PDF of the manual for the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act 2023 PA 38 that went into effect on Feb. 13, 2024. The PDF can also be found and downloaded at courts.michigan.gov.
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Mitch Albom: Michigan Central Station celebrates not just Detroit’s future, but its present
‘It’s beautiful to be a Detroiter’: Residents react to Michigan Central Station reopening
Detroiters Darlene Calloway, 67, and daughter Algeria Calloway, 40, came to Michigan Central Station’s reopening to witness the legacy of Detroit.
“The past is a bucket of ashes.”
— Carl Sandburg
Sandburg was right. The past is ashes. And the first thing you should know about Detroit’s newly famous train station is that, much like our city itself, it has now risen from the ashes twice.
A fire claimed the city’s previous train depot in 1913 and rushed a new building in Corktown into immediate service — one day after Christmas. It wasn’t finished, but it didn’t matter. Anyone coming through the doors saw its promise.
Today, 111 years later, history is repeating itself. Now dubbed the Michigan Central Station, the once magnificent Beaux Arts building has risen from the ashes again, this time the ashes of urban decay, under which it sat in shadowed abandonment for 35 ugly years.
And what mattered last century is what matters in this one.
Promise. Hope. A future of the possible.
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Here in the Motor City, we have been making a big fuss over the station’s reopening — special tours, a massive concert, etc. And perhaps the outside world is wondering why we bother. It’s just a train station, right?
Not to us. Michigan Central is more than a building. It’s more than a new beginning. It’s the end of something.
It’s the end of rot as a symbol of Detroit. The end of decay as some kind of Detroit sport. The end of headlines like the New York Times ran in 2012:
“How Detroit Became the World Capital of Staring at Abandoned Buildings.”
Sorry, great Gray Lady. You want poverty porn, you’ll have to go someplace else.
We’re about the future now.
Decades in the making
I recently took a tour through the Michigan Central renovation with the project’s CEO, Josh Sirefman. As we walked through the former lobby, the reading rooms, the elegant parlors and the various magnificent spaces of this 15-story tower and adjacent buildings, covering 30 acres of a future tech and innovation hub, he gave witness to the transformation this project represents.
“It’s been a privilege to help this come together,” he said.
Sirefman himself is a microcosm of Detroit’s full circle. He came here as a young man to get a master’s at the University of Michigan. While enrolled, he moved into Detroit, about six blocks from the train station. This was in the mid-1990s.
“It was a lot different then,” he understated. “But I fell in love with Detroit, and kind of always hoped for an opportunity to be able to be involved again.”
He left for New York and was gone for decades. Still, Detroit stayed with him, the way it stays with many people who come to know it. So when the chance to helm the renovation arose, under the new ownership of the Ford Motor Co., Sirefman jumped at it.
Since then, he has helped spearhead Ford’s nearly $1 billion effort. It’s taken six years, thousands of workers, and everything from an original clock being dropped off anonymously to 3D laser printers re-creating rams heads above doorways. But the results are nothing shy of stunning.
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You can’t fit into words what the MCS now represents. It’s a blend of past and future so bright it appears seamless.
Here, refurbished tiles and copper skylights spill into modern art displays and a virtual mini-museum of historic Detroit posters. Here, the Doric columns and the marble tiles of the early 20th century surround an undulating 21st century history display. Original and freshly created architecture dance together under a 29,000-tile ceiling. In adjacent buildings, modern tech businesses bustle under the arches and exposed rafters of bygone days.
This is not just a train station. Hardly. In fact, trains have little to do with it. Sure, someday in the not-too-distant future, a train may begin to stop here. But for now, this project is about rebirthing an entire neighborhood and anchoring a second Detroit downtown, not only the main terminal, but with the beautifully redone Book Depository building, which already houses dozens of budding startups, shared office space and food options.
Not to mention the hotel that is coming, the massive parks, the additional structures tabbed for tech and innovation, the outdoor leisure options and the parking.
The fabulous future. Not the rot of the past.
Take your ruin porn obsession elsewhere
I remember the year I went to the Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. Reporters had heard of impoverished areas in the city that the government was hoping to shield from the press. One day, I got into a taxi and, through a translator, asked the driver to see “one of the really poor neighborhoods.”
He hesitated. He looked upset. Finally, he turned to the translator and said, “Why does he want to see the worst of my city? He is a guest here. Let me show him the best.”
For years, many of us felt that way when people came to visit Detroit. Our Poverty Porn, or Ruin Porn, had somehow become a major attraction, often the first thing outsiders wanted to see. The Packard Plant. The train station. The rows of abandoned homes.
Eight years ago, Britain’s newspaper, “The Guardian,” did a story about those gawkers, and how they were advancing nothing and helping no one.
“The ruins,” it wrote, “are gazed upon for amusement, gratification and pleasure.”
Well, guess what, decay junkies? We’re no longer here for your debris obsession. We are not interested in putting our ugly past on display.
Instead, come look at our growth. Come see a future we’re proud of, not a past we can’t help.
The Michigan Central Station, by itself, isn’t a cure-all. But it’s part. It isn’t a neighborhood. But it’s anchoring one. It isn’t everything to everybody. But it’s a whole lot to a whole lot of people. And anyone who witnesses its impressive span will see what we mean.
There’s a small section of the train station’s reconstruction that deliberately left a rotting staircase and a graffiti wall. It is chained off, and clearly marked as a historic relic. But it’s there: as a reminder of what was, and an appreciation of what is. If we want to be reminded of the bad old days, we’ll set aside a reminder. But that’s our prerogative. It’s no longer the reason for people to come to town.
Carl Sandburg’s full quote is as follows: “The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now.”
Pretty good advice, for life, or for a symbol of rebirth in the form of a train station. And like a locomotive pulling to a steaming stop, it’s no longer coming, folks. It’s here.
All aboard.
Contact Mitch Albom: malbom@freepress.com. Check out the latest updates with his charities, books and events at MitchAlbom.com. Follow him @mitchalbom.
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