I GOT A CALL THE OTHER day from someone who has an issue with the hospital, and frankly, I wasn't sure what to do with it. Our hospital, or rather Duke LifePoint’s hospital, has been the subject of a lot of complaints ever since they opened their new facility some four years ago. Thanks to social media, we’ve ... Continue Reading
A Grass Roots Crusade to Make the Hospital Better
"WE HAVE TO help LifePoint help themselves. They need help!" The impassioned words of Cindy Nyquist, the president and founder of UP Home Health and Hospice. She's become the point person for a local campaign to fix what's wrong with LifePoint's local hospital, UP Health System Marquette. And what's wrong with UPHS? ... Continue Reading
“Duke” LifePoint Questions, Jazz Club Delays, Panera Rumors!!!, the Cruelty of a Stroke, Marquette’s Two Energy Dinosaurs, the View from Abroad, and Our Phenomenal Wildlife Photographer
QUESTIONS WERE RAISED last week when it was announced that LifePoint Health (the parent of UPHS) was being sold to or merged with RCCH HealthCare Partners. The press release announcing the transaction made no mention of "Duke" as in "Duke LifePoint", so did that mean Duke University was out of the deal? No, says DLP ... Continue Reading
Questions about Hospital Sale (or Merger), Plans for a New Patisserie–and a New Coffee Shop, Anger over a News Story, More Plaudits for the UP, Tourism Figures Are Up, an Unusual Write-In Campaign, and Trillium House’s First Guest
WELL, THE RUMORS were true, after all. UP Health Systems-Marquette (along with the other UPHS hospitals in the UP) is being sold. Or "merged." Semantics. What we know, if the deal goes through, is that Apollo Global Management, a huge private equities firm that owns RCCH Healthcare Partners, is buying Duke LifePoint ... Continue Reading
The View from the Sidewalk
SARAH BANNAN'S ONE of those nurses in red shirts walking outside the hospital yesterday and again today. Holding a sign. Waving at honking cars. Putting in her unpaid, eight hour shift on the sidewalk even though she'd much rather be inside the hospital taking care of her patients in the cardiac unit. She needs the ... Continue Reading