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Medical facilities would be required to store sharps, such as needles, syringes, scalpels and more, in a special box called a sharps container for up to 18-months or until the container is 75% filled under SB 482 , which passed unanimously with immediate effect.

More than 2.6 million Michiganders were enrolled in Medicaid in May 2024 after the year-long redetermination, which means the state added more than 400,000 people since before the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and dropped 500,000 people since the end.

Bystanders who attempt to help stop another Michiganders’ bleeding wounds would no longer be held liable, under a three-bill package introduced in the House last week.

Remember Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s $5,000 caregiver tax credit idea she brought up in her State of the State address and during her budget presentation?

The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is putting $1.3 million from the opioid settlement toward keeping babies exposed to addictive drugs with mothers in the same room after birth.