{"title":"Health care matters.","authors":"Laura Appel, Brian Peters","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A landmark election year is an ideal time to remind the public about the critical role that health care plays in our quality of life. As candidates for office publicly debate the issues the matter most to Michiganders, it is imperative that we tell our story and elevate health care to the very pinnacle of the state's priority list. In short, we need to explain clearly why health care matters.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"38 6","pages":"12-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22086519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health care 2002: the State of the Nation.","authors":"Michael H Annison","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Over the last decade in Michigan, as in other states, health care has emerged as a significant public policy issue. One of the striking characteristics of the health care debate is that, because it is a relatively new issue compared to others such as education or civil rights, we are still uncertain as to what it means or how we should address it.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"38 6","pages":"8-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22085442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Saving lives after death.","authors":"Jennifer Oberski","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With more than 78,000 people on the waiting list, organ and tissue donation has become a national priority. Last year, the Department of Health and Human Services launched a nationwide campaign to create a \"donation friendly America,\" calling upon everyone from corporations to health care systems to help increase awareness about the need for organ and tissue donors.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"38 6","pages":"34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22086527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building relationships: the key to successful health care philanthropy.","authors":"Kay Sprinkel Grace","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Creating and maintaining a vigorous philanthropy program has seldom been more challenging to health care organizations. To our communities that are discontent with changed health care management and practices, we have now added economic insecurity and global unrest.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"38 6","pages":"36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22086528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do we have the will for change?","authors":"Mark Reinstein","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"38 6","pages":"42-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22086531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feeding a hungry work force.","authors":"Stephen O'Connor","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"38 6","pages":"35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22128394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proposal 4 is only right.","authors":"Katherine Knoll","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"38 6","pages":"28-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22086524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marcia M Piotrowski, Sanjay Saint, Daniel B Hinshaw
{"title":"Expanding the avenues for addressing patient safety.","authors":"Marcia M Piotrowski, Sanjay Saint, Daniel B Hinshaw","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Safety Case Management Committee, initiated in 1999, is a core component of the safety program at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Ann Arbor. It is one of several approaches the facility uses to address error prevention or to contain its damaging effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"38 5","pages":"33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22044796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}