Tag: Community Partners
Hospital. Healing. Home. Recuperative Care at the Shelter.
July 2019
Think about the last time you were hospitalized. You recovered enough to go home - to family and friends to help with medications and personal care. Watchful eyes, home-cooked meals, and your own bed eased your pain and sped your recovery. If you had no home to return to, the story would have been very...
Packard in the Community
July 2019
Good work team! Lots of community connections: Packard is one of 11 "hublets" (community organizations) in Washtenaw and Livingston counties working to decrease inappropriate and unnecessary ER visits, via the State Innovation Model (SIM), a federally-funded project. By identifying underlying issues, the project seeks to match frequent users with appropriate medical or social services treatment....
Hometown Health Hero - Lori Bennett, FNP
April 2019
Lori Bennett, Family Nurse Practitioner, has a friendly smile and warm heart, and she brings that caring to her patients at Packard Health as well as to family shelters across the county. Lori received a great honor last week - 2019 Hometown Health Hero from the Michigan Public Health Week Partnership. Lori created a program...
Gift for Good Health from First Congregational Church of Ann Arbor
February 2019
Heartfelt thanks to the The First Congregational Church of Ann Arbor for a grant award to purchase home blood pressure monitors for low income, at risk patients, as well as oral nutritional supplements for our homeless and cancer patients. Patients who receive a monitor will also receive 1:1 counseling by our Chronic Disease Care Manager,...