HENRY FORD WYANDOTTE HOSPITAL

JACKSON, MI – Jackson’s hospital is getting a new name as part of a Henry Ford Health System rebrand. Henry Ford Allegiance Health will become Henry Ford Jackson Hospital to better align itself with its parent company’s location-based names, such as Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital, Henry Ford Macomb Hospital and Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, said Emily Moorhead, the Jackson hospital’s interim president. Related: Interim president picked for Henry Ford Allegiance HealthThis change comes after Henry Ford Health System announced in March it was undertaking a rebrand by dropping the word system from its name to emphasize the word health in its facilities, officials said. The hospital then partnered with Henry Ford Health in 2016, and adopted the name Henry Ford Allegiance Health. Henry Ford Health employs more than 33,000 people, including nearly 6,000 physicians and researchers from the Henry Ford Medical Group, Henry Ford Physician Network and Jackson Health Network, officials said.

Thinking back on that night, in particular, it seems almost absurd that we talked about that first case in such detail, with millions more still to come.

For the first time since the start of the COVID omicron surge in Michigan, hospital officials with the Henry Ford Health System said they’re starting to see some signs of early progress.

More than $563 million in federal dollars is heading to Michigan to fix and maintain highway bridges.

The Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital is getting another federal team for assistance in response to rising COVID-19 cases.

Henry Ford Hospital officials spoke Thursday about COVID in Michigan, providing an update on the rapid spread of omicron and revealing that there are both hundreds of patients hospitalized and hundreds of employees out due to the virus.

President Joe Biden on Thursday announced another military medical team will arrive in Michigan to help hospital workers during the omicron surge. Gretchen Whitmer’s office announced a 30-person civilian disaster assistance team was heading to the Wyandotte hospital and would stay two weeks. As of Wednesday, the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Wayne County topped 300,000 and nearly 1/3 of the state’s total confirmed omicron cases are there. Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, Michigan’s chief medical executive, estimated about 90% of cases are omicron in Oakland, Macomb, St. Clair, Monroe, Washtenaw and Wayne Counties. In 2021, about 88% of those hospitalized in Michigan were unvaccinated, according to state data through Jan. 3.

A medical team from the military is being sent to Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital as COVID cases in Michigan continue to spike.

A fifth Michigan hospital is to receive federal staffing assistance as Michigan coronavirus cases soar and hospitalizations again rise. RELATED: Feds sending teams to Grand Rapids, Dearborn to support over-burdened hospital staff amid COVID surgeThe teams have been in Dearborn, Grand Rapids and Saginaw since November. Early this week, Henry Ford Health System reported it had 480 COVID-19 patients in all of its hospitals. “We have been facing this deadly virus for nearly two years and our health care workers have been working tirelessly on the frontlines through it all,” Gov. Elizabeth Hertel, state health department director, repeated the same, adding people should maintain distance from others and stay home as omicron quickly spreads and case rates and hospitalizations accelerate.

WYANDOTTE, Mich. – Staff at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital provided a terminally ill patient and his family with a Christmas celebration. Henry Dietz, 56, of Trenton, was in hospice care for metastatic liver cancer. Medical oncologist Dr. Jessica Schering, the hospital’s Oncology Team and the Progressive Care Unit threw a party for Dietz and his family Dec. 13. The Dietz family opens Christmas gifts provided by Dr. Jessica Schering and Henry Ford Wyandotte’s oncology team as staff members look on. (Photo: Henry Ford Hospital)Nurse Alexandra Sciacca raised $1,500 for the family in three hours, and Dr. Balbir Gandhi donated pizza and pop.