July 16, 2024
Authority Health’s Statement in Response to the U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory “Firearm Violence: A Public Health Crisis in America” The direct and indirect health impact of gun violence in...
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June 27, 2024
By Dennis Archambault The growing season is well underway, and with it growth in access points for fresh food in Detroit. The opening of two community-based food cooperative grocery...
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June 27, 2024
By Dennis Archambault Sally C. Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, criticized the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s regulation that beneficiaries should not wait more than...
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May 30, 2024
By Dennis Archambault Crises often lead to innovations that become part of the social infrastructure after the crisis passes. For example, the USDA created a Farmers to...
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May 30, 2024
By Dennis Archambault Legislation, particularly so-called “omnibus” laws, are convoluted and difficult for average people to understand. Most of the publicity surrounding the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was...
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May 30, 2024
By Dennis Archambault You may have noticed that in the natural world everything is occurring a little earlier this year: it’s a little warmer, the trees are flowering, the...
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May 30, 2024
The Authority Health celebrated the humanitarian service of Claire Hawthorne, a Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine student, and Asiimwe Najjuma, MPH, a recent graduate of the Wayne...
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April 29, 2024
Authority Health welcomed the 2024-25 cohort of Albert Schweitzer Fellows, who began their year-long Fellowship this month. Amanda Dawnrich, a Detroit Schweitzer Fellow for Life from the 2022-23 cohort,...
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April 28, 2024
What a difference a day makes. Rondalyn Everson is the primary care giver for her granddaughter, Khloe Edwards, age 9, who suffers from chronic asthma. Everson, a paraprofessional working...
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April 1, 2024
By Dennis Archambault Financial security is an under-publicized social determinant of care, and a significant aspect of that is medical debt. The cost of health care, especially for those...
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March 29, 2024
By Dennis Archambault Wellness has been around a long time. For some, it is part of their lifestyle. For others, it’s an aspiration. For others, it’s defined as resilience...
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March 25, 2024
Food is a healer, and it builds resilience. Both of these qualities are absent in populations who live with food insecurity and the malnutrition that comes from consumption of...
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