Health

Coverage of hospitals, clinics, public health, and mental health developments and initiatives.

Broadway Park West in Ann Arbor.

First public programming at new Ann Arbor park includes Pilates, yoga classes

Ann Arbor’s new Broadway Park West is coming alive this summer with its first public programming, featuring free Pilates and yoga classes for residents of all ages and experience levels.

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LaWanda Hollister and Josie Ann Lee of We the People Opportunity Farm in Ypsilanti.
Ypsi’s We the People Opportunity Farm will continue founder Melvin Parson’s mission after his sudden passing

Leadership at Ypsilanti nonprofit We The People Opportunity Farm is focused on ensuring the organization continues founder Melvin Parson's legacy after his unexpected death.

Young people participate in a cheerleading drill organized by Ypsilanti Community - The Village.
Making sports and fitness accessible to Ypsi-area kids is this nonprofit’s focus

The grassroots nonprofit Ypsilanti Community - The Village was created by Ypsilanti Community High School alumni who wanted to reduce young people's barriers to participating in sports.

Cherisa Allen
Ypsi schools’ Mental Health Awareness Fair aims to offer resources, reduce stigma

Ypsilanti Community Schools are celebrating Mental Health Awareness Month with their fourth annual Mental Health Awareness Fair on May 16 from noon-3 p.m. at Prospect Park in Ypsilanti.

Seeking help: What the mental health care journey looks like in Washtenaw County and beyond

More Michiganders are receiving mental health treatment for mental illness than ever before. 

The Ypsilanti Growers Cooperative offered home and hobby gardeners a cooperative table where they could sell their produce at the Ypsilanti Farmers Market in 2012 and 2013.
Want to sell your homegrown produce at the Ypsi Farmers Market? You can through this program.

Ypsilanti-based gardening nonprofit Growing Hope wants community members to help shape the future of a program that allows home and hobby gardeners to share a cooperative farmers market booth.

Bloodroot Herb Shop owner Alex Crofoot.
Ypsi herb shop launches monthly community clinic to help fill health care gaps

Bloodroot Herb Shop founder Alex Crofoot says the clinic builds on a longstanding vision to integrate free care into her shop’s broader model. 

A protestor holds a sign reading "Protect Trans Kids."
The University of Michigan has stopped gender-affirming care for minors. Here’s how that affects local trans youth.

Michigan teenagers are now seeking alternative sources of treatment after the University of Michigan ended gender-affirming health care for minors.

Melisa Tasker, a program manager at Washtenaw County Community Mental Health.
Expanded mental health crisis services have big results in Washtenaw County

Washtenaw County is serving more people experiencing mental health crises, as well as reducing arrests and hospitalizations, through two new mental health crisis response services.

How Medicaid supports early education and child development

Experts in Ann Arbor say health care access is inseparable from academic success.

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