Success Stories by State: Michigan

• HeartNet
  May 2009
  Alpena General Hospital developed a coalition of organizations to support a wide range of health education activities throughout the five-county region.
• EMS Co-op Helps Rural Providers
  September 2007
  Using the power of group purchasing within a cooperative structure, the North Central EMS Cooperative (NCEMSC) is an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) cooperative developed to serve Minnesota and surrounding states.
• One-Stop Shop for Mind and Body
  June 2007
  Designed to simplify access to care in Newaygo County Michigan, the Baldwin Family Health Care center is combining health care and human services in a one-stop shop for the mind and body.
• Alcona Citizens for Health, Inc.
  January 2007
  The project provided new psychiatric services at four clinics and added two new behavioral health consultants and neurological health services to address the needs of the substantial elderly population.
• Fighting Obesity in Children and Adolescents
  January 2007
  This project aims to reduce the proportion of children and adolescents who are overweight or obese in three Michigan counties.
• Huron-Sanilac Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Project
  January 2007
  The Huron-Sanilac Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Project will aggressively seek to reverse the declining number of active EMS providers in this rural area of Michigan.
• Softening the Sunset Journey Project
  January 2007
  This project seeks to maximize local coordinated care resources toward the improvement of community awareness, early identification, access to care, and caregiver screening for older adult memory loss.
• Thumb Area Nutrition and Physical Activity Campaign
  January 2007
  This project aims to reduce obesity and promote healthy lifestyles to adults and children through community outreach and health promotion interventions.
• Greater Iron County Advanced Life Support Project
  July 2005
  The project's primary goal was to improve and upgrade the prehospital healthcare delivery system in Iron County, Michigan by creating a full-time hospital-based paramedic transportation system to address the dwindling personnel resources, outdated transportation equipment, high cost of paramedic equipment, and the lack of access to a community-based paramedic-training program.