February 26, 2024
It’s distressing to learn from practicing physicians that racism and sexism continues to create a toxic work environment for professionals. A recent LinkedIn post involving the career choice of...
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February 26, 2024
By Dennis Archambault Credit Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities in Traverse City for fostering the vision and advocacy to create a healthier environment based in the preservation and distribution...
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February 26, 2024
By Dennis Archambault Pandemics, like wars and other catastrophic experiences, offer lessons that, when realized and learned, can improve the human condition. One of the lessons learned during the...
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February 26, 2024
By Dennis Archambault Healthy students learn better. Conversely, unhealthy students struggle to learn. Keeping kids healthy results in improved academic performance, through improved mental acuity, increased immunization rates, and...
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January 29, 2024
By Dennis Archambault As a young religious minister, Albert Schweitzer told his congregation in the early 20th century that he was leaving his church to study medicine and use...
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January 29, 2024
By Dennis Archambault The World Health Organization believes a healthy community is not defined merely by health status. It is a process of improving health. The “built environment” or...
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January 29, 2024
By Dennis Archambault I discovered the art and science of soup years ago when I was first experimenting with serious cooking on a low budget. As I wrote in...
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January 29, 2024
By Dennis Archambault As we have seen with Medicaid redetermination, the administrative process is responsible for a majority of failed redetermination efforts. Navigation is key to maintaining Medicaid coverage,...
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January 29, 2024
By Dennis Archambault The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid announced that 21.3 million people selected an Affordable Care Act Health Insurance Marketplace plan during the 2024 Open Enrollment Period....
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January 11, 2024
By Rep. Julie Rogers, D-Kalamazoo – Chair, House Health Policy Committee (guest commentator) Over the past 13 years, the people of Michigan have benefited from the Affordable Care Act...
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January 9, 2024
“The youth in the community are a vital resource that must be protected, nourished. and loved.” – Excerpts from Claire Hawthorne’s essay on humanitarianism. CLAIRE HAWTHORNE is a Michigan...
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December 13, 2023
By Dennis Archambault Dr. Robert Graham, a physician and chef, noted in a recent Detroit News commentary that “over the last 50 years, food has become more accessible than...
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