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The union, which represents 53 worker classifications, including nurses, pharmacists, social workers and therapists at Sparrow, would provide a 10-day notice before setting a strike date.
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The system has reached peak hospitalizations, with 99 COVID in-patients spread across six of its northwest lower Michigan hospitals. The test positivity rate for the healthcare region is also a hair higher than the April surge—at 17.9%.
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Nursing facilities, hospitals, and EMS workers are being crippled by staffing shortages. Industry leaders say state funding can help — but are short on details.
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As healthcare workers head into what appears to be yet another surge in COVID hospitalizations, watching emergency rooms and intensive care units fill up…
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Michigan nurses took their concerns about COVID-19 workplace issues to members of Congress Thursday.Many Michigan hospitals are at or near their capacity…
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Today on Stateside, the Michigan Republican Party meets this weekend to select a new chair. Two reporters discuss the candidates, as well as the latest…
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Cardiac arrests outside of hospitals went up by 60% during the first 10 weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic over the same period the year before. And there was…
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Hope.A word that’s been in short supply in Michigan hospitals recently.But now, just maybe, there's a sign of it.The number of people hospitalized with…
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Fearing staffing shortages as COVID-19 hospitalizations are on track to break the state record set this spring, several major Michigan health systems are…
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Update, Monday November 16: After a weekend that was "incrementally better" than expected in terms of COVID-19 patient admissions, Sparrow leadership now…