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L Dicks

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Reaching into the community. Winners of the 1996 MHA Patric E. Ludwig Community Service Award.

Webster's definitions of community and service form an accurate picture of what MHA seeks to reward with the 1996 MHA Patric E. Ludwig Community Service Award--members who have collaboratively worked with individuals and organizations in their communities to benefit the health and well-being of citizens. The nominees were judged on criteria that focused on true collaboration, leadership efforts, impact on community health status and innovative delivery methods. The winners were chosen from 24 deserving nominations. These four outstanding programs effectively demonstrate the spirit of community service in health care--providers working in concert with local organizations to improve the community's health status. All of the winning programs focused on healthier babies and school-aged youth. Congratulations to the winning programs. They are tangible proof of the important role MHA members play in their communities.

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The key is teamwork.

What does it take to be listed among the nation's top 100 hospitals? According to administrators at three Michigan facilities included in the 1995 list--Blodgett Memorial Medical Center, Grand Rapids; Butterworth Hospital, Grand Rapids; and W.A. Foote Memorial Hospital, Inc., Jackson--the key is teamwork.

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Pleasing the patient.

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But we want to have a baby.

Janice Jean has some words of encouragement for couples who have given up hope of ever having a child of their own. "Look at my son." Janice, 37, believes little Jacob Michael, born July 31, 1995, to her and her 40-year-old husband, Ron, is truly a miracle. And she feels Michael H. Fakih, MD, director of the Fakih Institute of Reproductive Sciences and Technologies (FIRST) and in whose honor Jacob received his middle name, is a miracle worker. "We never thought there was hope. With one fallopian tube and a zero sperm count? But I believe in miracles--and I believe in Dr. Fakih."

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Michigan hospitals: helping where there's need.

The MHA received 24 nominations for the 1997 Ludwig Community Benefit Award, representing programs that range from addressing youth violence and teen pregnancy to multifaceted approaches to improve a community's overall health status. Five programs were chosen to receive Ludwig Awards this year, each of them representing an impressive collaborative effort to improve life in the communities they serve. A brief synopsis of each of these outstanding programs follows.

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Life's little miracles. The Recuperation Center helps people heal.

"I see miracles happen here all the time." That's Dawn Brouwers' assessment of the Recuperation Center (TRC) in Grand Rapids, where she serves as executive director. Brouwers watches people come to TRC unable to walk, and later head for home under their own power. Patients arrive with no idea how they'll be able to live independently again, and leave with supportive systems established in their homes that allow them to be self-reliant.

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Looking at the alternatives.

"Are there alternatives to this treatment?" In the recent past, many health care providers have been unable to fully answer that question. But as health care continues to evolve, increasing numbers of physicians, hospitals and medical schools are determining that complementary and alternative medicine does have a place in quality patient care.

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Michigan Harvest Gathering creates a sense of family.

In 1998, the MHA became the primary sponsor of the Michigan Harvest Gathering food- and fund-raising drive to help the Food Bank Council of Michigan (FBCM) and its 12 regional food banks.

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