Metro Health

In an effort to make homecoming safer for newborns, Metro Health Hospital is rolling out a pilot program to provide free whooping cough vaccinations to all family caregivers.

The new program, which will debut in January, is designed to prevent the spread of whooping cough, or pertussis, to infants.  Whooping cough is a highly contagious bacterial disease that is easily transmittable - and potentially fatal to infants.  In 2006, more than 300 Michigan infants under the age of six weeks required hospitalization for whooping cough.

Help is at Hand 

Do you have carpal tunnel syndrome? Trigger finger? Arthritis? What about lumps and bumps in your hands?

Learn all about common hand problems and solutions at a free, one-hour educational seminar on Thursday, December 4, 10 - 11 a.m., in the Metro Health Professional Building lower level conference room.

For questions and to RSVP, call Pat at 616-252-7199.

 

The Metro Health Hospital Foundation has approved more than $125,000 in grants to support programs and services provided by the Hospital. Eight grants ranging from $4,000 to more than $35,000 will support a wide variety of initiatives, including the purchase of new equipment, the addition of new outreach programs and the expansion of educational services.

The 2008 fall grants include:

Metro Health has received the 2008 VHA Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence for its work in the area of heart failure and pneumonia. The regional health-care organization was in the top 10 percent of national performance standards over four quarters in 2006-07.