July 20th, 20220DEARBORN — The Dearborn Homecoming Festival is coming back and seeing major support from local businesses.
The city said in a press release that the popular festival, now in its 41st year, has received support from more than 30 local sponsors, which have provided a record-breaking $126,000 to bring back the cherished community...
January 18th, 20220DEARBORN — Metro Detroit residents now have the opportunity to participate in a mental wellness program at no cost to themselves.
As a part of the Beaumont Healthy Communities program, using a computer and an Internet connection, participants who may be experiencing anxiety or depression or just wish to feel better can participate...
January 9th, 20220DEARBORN — The current COVID-19 surge is taking a huge toll on both Beaumont and Henry Ford Health Systems throughout Metro Detroit.
The surge in cases is the highest ever, with more than 12,000 cases reported per day on average.
Henry Ford Health Systems said it has had nearly 700 employees test positive in the last week, which...
November 11th, 20210ROYAL OAK — With COVID cases on the rise again, Beaumont’s chief medical officer is saying this fourth surge is taking on a different shape.
Previous COVID surges in 2020 and early 2021 saw rapid increases in cases and then climbs in hospitalizations, followed by rapid declines in both cases and hospitalizations. But this...
August 12th, 20210DEARBORN — A free physical activity program adapted for youth with disabilities is now being offered to students in Dearborn who are ages 5- to 18-years-old.
The Program for Inclusive Physical Exercise and Recreation Strategies (PIPERS) is designed to increase access to opportunities for physical activity among Dearborn youth with...
May 26th, 20210LANSING — On Wednesday, Governor Whitmer announced five appointments to the Commission on Middle Eastern American Affairs.
Of the five, three are reappointments and two are new appointees, namely Hamtramck Public Schools Superintendent Jaleelah Ahmed of Dearborn Heights and Dearborn’s Amal Berry, senior manager of global...
April 20th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — Though increased vaccination efforts in the U.S. continue giving hope, some parts of the county are still in the grip of COVID-19 surges, hospitalizations and deaths.
Public health officials say there are several factors for the continuing surge, even though COVID-19 vaccines have been delivered to Americans’...
April 15th, 20210One of the state’s biggest hospital networks is warning Michiganders that hospitals and staff have hit critical capacity levels. Health care workers are now pleading for Michiganders to personally take immediate steps to help stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Michigan’s COVID-19 surge is the worst in the country, with even...
March 31st, 20210DEARBORN — Beaumont Health announced that it is expanding its COVID-19 units at its hospitals and changing its visitation policy amid another surge.
The health system said it will be carefully allowing fully vaccinated individuals to visit their loved ones who are hospitalized for issues other than COVID-19, but these visitors will...
March 25th, 20210Michigan residents aged 16 and older with disabilities or preexisting conditions are now eligible to receive the vaccine. All residents 16 and older will be eligible to receive the vaccine beginning April 5.
Residents should schedule appointments through their hospital group or other vaccine providers, such as the Ford Field clinic....
March 24th, 20210DEARBORN — Effective March 25 at 8 a.m., all Beaumont Health hospitals will be reinstating their visitor restrictions due to rising COVID cases.
This is the third time the health system has issued visitor restrictions.
Under the restrictions, no one will be allowed in rooms of patients with pending or positive COVID tests except...
February 15th, 20210COMMUNITY - Beaumont Health Systems has updated their COVID-19 visitation guidelines effective Monday, Feb. 15 at 8 a.m. for all facilities in the system.
Visitation will now be permitted for patients who do not have or are not suspected of having COVID-19.
Beaumont Health Chief Nursing Officer Susan Grant said that having visitors...
November 22nd, 20200DEARBORN — With COVID-19 cases seeing record high numbers over the last couple of weeks, local hospitals are bracing for the second wave.
The state of Michigan is tracking bed capacity and available personal protection equipment (PPE) on its website and updates the information daily.
Statewide, bed occupancy among all hospitals...
November 13th, 20200LANSING — Governor Whitmer held a press conference to address the state’s rising COVID-19 cases as the state is reaching record numbers of new cases daily.
“We are in the worst part of this pandemic to date,” she said. “This is the moment medical experts have been warning about and dreading since the beginning of the...
June 16th, 20200DEARBORN — Downtown Dearborn welcomes back the Farmers Market on Friday, July 10, from 2 to 7 p.m., and the Movies in the Park series, kicking off on August 7 at Wagner Park. Tailored to follow suggested local and state safety guidelines, both events will continue throughout the summer.
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April 6th, 20200DEARBORN — In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Henry Ford College of Health and Human Services has provided medical equipment and supplies to area hospitals, including five life-saving ventilators.
For its part, local hospitals and health systems are being stretched to their limits to provide life-saving care to people...
March 21st, 20200DEARBORN — On Saturday afternoon, the state of Michigan once again revealed its latest tallies of coronavirus infections. As of 2 p.m., the state has announced a total of 787 confirmed cases and five total deaths. With the expansion of testing capabilities, health experts are now beginning to understand the scope of the outbreak in...
March 18th, 20200DEARBORN — A Beaumont Health patient, a man in his 50s who tested positive for COVID-19 and had other underlying medical conditions, passed away early this morning at a Beaumont Hospital in Wayne County.
“Our medical team went to extraordinary efforts to care for this patient and we are deeply saddened by his passing and...
December 17th, 20190
Dearborn — Dearborn Mayor Jack O’Reilly and Dearborn Heights Mayor Daniel Paletko will address local business leaders and the public at the Dearborn Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual “A Tale of Our Cities” Business Builder Series luncheon on Tuesday, January 14, from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at the Warren Valley Golf...
September 14th, 20190DETROIT — Two Detroit area residential care facilities operated by Beaumont Health will pay $400,007 in back wages to 476 employees after investigations by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) found the employer violated the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) overtime and record keeping...
June 27th, 20190DEARBORN – Beginning July 10, Healthy Dearborn, Mayor Jack O’Reilly and Beaumont Health will launch a new eight-week challenge to offer people more opportunities to participate in a healthier lifestyle. The campaign will run until September 10.
The campaign is currently looking for volunteer walk leaders. Anyone interested is...
May 20th, 20190ROYAL OAK — An ongoing study at Beaumont Hospital is recruiting patients for a nationwide cancer study on targeted therapies. The research will be conducted at Beaumont hospitals in Royal Oak and Troy.
The National Cancer Institute seeks to determine whether targeted therapies for people whose tumors have certain gene mutations will...
September 3rd, 20180DEARBORN — The number of Dearborn students becoming involved in more activism and learning development committees is increasing each year and the Environmental Health Research-to-Action (EHRA) Academy under Healthy Dearborn has empowered Dearborn high school and college preparatory students to take action in the health concerns facing...
August 20th, 20180ROYAL OAK — Beaumont researchers are looking for women with and without breast cancer for a national research study at its hospitals in Dearborn, Farmington Hills, Royal Oak and Troy. Its investigators' goal are to learn more about the effects chemotherapy has on breast cancer patients. The research is known as the UPBEAT study or...
July 6th, 20180DEARBORN – Local healthcare experts and U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) held a town hall Monday on the state of healthcare and pre-existing conditions coverage and what it means for people in Michigan. Dingell joined Marianne Udow-Phillips, executive director of the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation at the...
