Healthcare

The Drummond Island ambulance service says it has been experiencing a decline in enrollment in their EMT training course. With their current volunteer staff already working past retirement age, the department is searching for more help.

Not many details of the new contract have been released, but a statement from the union said the agreement will see pay increases that move the wage scale ceiling beyond $50 an hour.

A Michigan Court of Claims judge has entered a provisional order that bars enforcement of a handful of the state's remaining abortion restrictions.

The procedure was pioneered about a year ago, and could help widen the pool of eligible heart donors for thousands of patients on the waiting list.

A potentially dangerous hot spell arrives in Michigan Monday, bringing additional risk to outdoor workers and manual laborers.

“It’s basically no quantitative or qualitative limits on mental health and substance use disorder treatment,” said Marianne Huff, the president of the Mental Health Association of Michigan

Both the Michigan Nurses Association and MyMichigan Medical Center Sault are not budging over their contract demands — even after 15 rounds of negotiation, the latest with a state and federal mediator present.

A recent report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture found working-age rural residents die from natural causes at a higher rate than their urban counterparts. And that gap has widened over the years.

The new program allows enrolled veterans to get medical care from home by phone.

Dozens of nurses in Sault Ste. Marie went on strike Monday morning demanding a new union contract. MyMichigan Medical Center Sault and the union have been unable to reach a new agreement after 14 rounds of negotiations.