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THRIVE and Local Health Systems Announce First Round of Patient Safety Data in Pursuit of Zero Harm Measures
FREELAND, MICHIGAN, April 6, 2021 – As part of a broad effort to advance patient safety in the region, the THRIVE Patient Safety Taskforce announced that the first year of Zero Harm metrics is now available from regional health systems comparing our local data to...
Empathy will be their guide: Quick response team wants to help people after a drug overdose
From The Saginaw News (MLive) "The QRT is funded by a $199,703 Michigan Opioid Data to Action initiative grant through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. The Michigan Health Improvement Alliance...
Addressing the Social Determinants of Health through Multi-Sector Collaboration
On March 5, 2021, MiHIA Board Chair and THRIVE Senior Fellow Dr. Catherine Baase spoke to a group of national stakeholders on addressing the social determinants of health through multi-sector collaboration. View a replay of the webcast here.
Saginaw health workers among first to try new tech that creates personalized diets for diabetics
Covenant HealthCare was one of the first two Precision Nutrition pilots in the country thanks to help from Michigan Health Improvement Alliance, Inc. and THRIVE. The groundbreaking technology from DayTwo analyzes the unique population of microbes found in the human...
Join our team! Opening for MiHIA Executive Assistant
MiHIA is looking for a talented individual to join our team! ABOUT THE ROLE This critical role will help build capacity for MiHIA and our role as the backbone for the THRIVE Portfolio. We are searching for an experienced, reliable, and outcome focused individual with...
U.S. Surgeon General’s Community Health and Economic Prosperity Report published
On Tuesday, January 19, the U.S. Surgeon General released Community Health and Economic Prosperity (CHEP): Engaging Businesses as Stewards and Stakeholders – A Report of the Surgeon General. The first of its kind, the comprehensive report calls out the important link between health and community success and aligns with a a majority of the THRIVE Portfolio.
Building provider capacity and shifting the culture of mental health in the Great Lakes Bay Region
The region gained 112 mental health providers from 2018 to 2019 in an effort to address a mental health provider shortage, with gains seen across four counties and all provider types. Read more about this effort here from THRIVE.
Here’s how Michigan health care experts are reducing risks of medication overload
Those taking five or more prescriptions, over-the-counter medications, or supplements concurrently can be at risk for serious combined side effects. Dr. Catherine Baase, MiHIA Board Chairperson and THRIVE Senior Fellow and Dr. Sasha Savage, THRIVE's Chief Health...
Michigan Health Improvement Alliance, Inc. Names New CEO, Key Staff
The Michigan Health Improvement Alliance, Inc., also known as MiHIA, today announced that Beth Sorenson Prince will assume the role of chief executive officer, effective October 19, 2020.
Volunteer Spotlight: Larry Daly, Covenant Healthcare
Larry Daly Director of Planning & Business Development/Patient Experience/Community Health/Ambulatory Network Operations In what roles have you worked with MiHIA over the years? It is rewarding for me to work with so many smart and dedicated people as part of...
Implicit bias
Implicit bias is the unconscious and negative stereotyping of a group of people. It is the culmination of what society directly and indirectly teaches its children and chooses to continue as social conditioning. This negative bias has routine unintended negative...
Job Description: Chief Executive Officer
The Michigan Health Improvement Alliance, Inc. (MiHIA) Chief Executive Officer’s provides visionary and strategic leadership of the mature backbone organization to achieve transformational improvement in the health and well-being of the multi-county MiHIA region fully...
Eleventh Annual Conference The Region’s Health and Health Care Systems: Communities Achieving Excellence and Moving Upstream
The 11th Annual Regional Health Conference, titled “The Region's Health and Health Care Systems: Communities Achieving Excellence and Moving Upstream,” was held at Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU) on Jan. 24. Coordinated by the Mid Central Michigan Area Health...
Strength In Numbers: MiHIA Provides Data and Report for Major Health System
Have you heard about MiHIA’s 14-county Regional Community Health Needs Assessment (RCHNA)? As part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, every three years, all not-for-profit hospitals are required to conduct a community health needs assessment...
Aligning & Connecting Expertise regarding Trauma Informed Work
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are severe childhood traumas that can result in toxic stress, causing harm to a child's brain. Children that experience trauma may have poor concentration, heightened aggression and anxiety. This toxic stress may make it difficult...
Robust Babies and Healthy Mothers
One of MiHIA’s comprehensive initiatives is the Region 5 Perinatal Quality Collaborative (PQC). Connected to THRIVE’s Phase 1 interventions of Prenatal, Infant, and Maternal Health, this area is one of the most active in population health improvement efforts in our...
The Opioid Crisis in the Great Lakes Bay Region: Forging a Path Out of the Crisis
MiHIA and its partners are working hard on forging a path out of Michigan’s opioid crisis. Affecting all communities, all ages, and all socio-economic strata, relieving our communities of the destruction the misuse of opioids is causing is a matter of utmost...
National thought leaders to speak during regional health conference at SVSU
Two thought leaders and change agents will headline a regional health conference at Saginaw Valley State University Friday, Jan. 24. This eleventh annual conference, titled “The Region's Health and Health Care Systems: Communities Achieving Excellence and Moving...
Hometown Health Hero Award Nomination Form
The Michigan Public Health Week Partnership joins the American Public Health Association in celebrating National Public Health Week in April 2020 with the annual presentation of the Hometown Health Hero awards. The Hometown Health Hero award is presented to...
MiHIA RECEIVES GRANT FROM MICHIGAN HEALTH ENDOWMENT FUND TO SECURE THE FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF THE THRIVE INITIATIVE
Saginaw, MI--The Michigan Health Improvement Alliance, (MiHIA,) is pleased to announce its recent award of $414,700 from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund to be used to develop a strategy for comprehensive and sustainable funding and financing system for THRIVE...