Michigan’s new Medicaid coverage for birth doulas brings benefits and new challenges
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has been bolstering support for Michigan doulas through its Doula Initiative.
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Michigan Age-Friendly Action Plan aims to make it easier for adults to age in place
Michigan's Age-Friendly Action Plan has established a blueprint that's helping Michiganders ages 50 and older remain connected, feel respected, and live more independently within their communities.
Detroit initiatives combat high Black infant mortality rate with dignity and compassion
Black infant mortality rates in Michigan are consistently two and sometimes even three times higher than in white communities.
New program offers physical and behavioral health care at home for Southwest Michigan’s older adults
The Region IV Area Agency on Aging's Integrated Care at Home program aims to reach 100 community residents in 2023 and continue to grow that number in the years ahead.
Program brings friendship, needed resources to older adults living with HIV in Detroit and Lansing
Seventy-five Detroit- and Lansing-area residents have benefited from a pilot program called Food and Friendship Connections, which offers meals, transportation, and community for older adults living with HIV.
Michigan’s breastfeeding networks educate parents, address disparities, advocate for parent rights
Support networks for breastfeeding parents are helping more little Michiganders get their best start in life.
Upper Peninsula program helps moms with opioid use disorder have healthier pregnancies
The program's goal is to identify and address the social determinant of health needs that create barriers for women with opioid use disorder.
Northern Michigan works to build supportive services for parents in “maternity care deserts”
Many in the Upper Peninsula and northern Lower Peninsula live in areas with a serious lack of resources, facilities, and practitioners for pregnant people, new parents, and infants.
Michigan project highlights needs of medically fragile foster children
A recent collaboration is working to address the many challenges faced by medically fragile foster children, who may live with chronic disorders or developmental disabilities.
Here’s how a collaboration in Southwest Michigan helped older adults avoid hospitalization for COVID
Health care providers repackaged existing community services that enabled older adults to stay in their homes if they came down with COVID, or return home more quickly if they were hospitalized.
