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Today's News - Sunday, July 06, 2008
 
   

Dr. Thomas Gribbin of Cancer and Hematology Centers of Western Michigan, who is medical director at Saint Mary’s Health Care’s Lacks Cancer Center, is pictured with registered nurses Karole Murphy (left) and Ashley Mitchell from CHCWM.

Local Practice
Has Big Impact
on Cancer Care
Elizabeth Slowik

GRAND RAPIDS — Since its inception in the late 1970s, Cancer and Hematology Centers of Western Michigan has become Michigan’s largest medical oncology practice and an important influence in cancer care within a wide radius of Grand Rapids. (Full Text)

 

 

Aviation Offers Health
Care Some Lessons
Anne Bond Emrich

LANSING — The health care industry can learn a thing or two or three about patient safety from what might seem an unlikely source: the aviation industry. (Full Text)

Interphase Changes Name

GRAND RAPIDS — Interphase, the exclusive Haworth dealer in West and Northern Michigan, has changed its name to Interphase Interiors. (Full Text)

MORE NEWS THIS WEEK

 

Foreign Currency Exchange Rates

Survey
The last of a series of increases to Michigan's minimum wage kicks in this week as part of legislation passed in 2006. That legislation gradually raised the lowest wage for workers from $5.15 an hour in 2006 to $7.40 per hour - or the equivalent with tips - this year. Before that, the last time Michigan's minimum wage increased was in 1997. Your business:
Is being be hurt by the increase in the state's minimum wage.
Is not significantly impacted by the increase.
Survey Results
 

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