Grand Rapids Business Journal

DETROIT — A judge on Friday declined to halt a three-week ban on indoor dining in Michigan that is one of the most recent coronavirus restrictions imposed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's administration.

Dr. Adam London, administrative health officer at the Kent County Health Department, issued a public health warning and strong guidelines aimed at curbing communitywide spread of the coronavirus in Kent County and preventing another economic shutdown.

Pfizer said Friday that it is asking U.S. regulators to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine, starting the clock on a process that could bring limited first shots as early as next month and eventually an end to the pandemic — but not until after a long, hard winter.

Due to increasing demand for COVID-19 testing and a nationwide shortage of supplies, Spectrum Health announced eligibility changes for those seeking a test.

LANSING — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's administration on Sunday ordered high schools and colleges to stop in-person classes, closed restaurants to indoor dining and suspended organized sports - including the football playoffs - in a bid to curb the state's spiking coronavirus cases.

With the great outdoors deemed a safe space now more than ever due to the pandemic, the Merrell footwear brand is seizing the opportunity to connect with new customers and increase its sales.

When you’re just starting out in business, the road has plenty of bumps. When you throw in COVID-19, it becomes a wild ride.

A Miami-based startup is helping Grand Rapids residents and businesses pocket extra cash by renting out their parking spaces.

In response to the increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across the state, Priority Health is mailing "stay-well kits" to its 170,000 Medicare members to help protect the most vulnerable population during the ongoing pandemic and flu season.

In a health care call-to-arms, CEOs from Michigan’s largest hospital systems described the growing levels of COVID-19 across the state as “frightening” and are growing increasingly concerned neither the staff to care for patients nor beds to put them in will be available as COVID-19 numbers continue to rise.

DETROIT — Michigan's largest school district will suspend in-person classes next week, joining other districts that have shifted to online-only classes as coronavirus cases rise significantly around the state, officials said Thursday.

LANSING — Michigan on Tuesday posted a record number of daily confirmed coronavirus cases, near 6,500, and reported 59 deaths within the previous 24 hours — its deadliest day in six months.

Spectrum Health selected Dr. Marzia Leacche as the Richard DeVos Endowed Heart Transplant and ventricular assist device surgical director for its Richard DeVos Heart and Lung Transplant Program effective Jan. 1.

LANSING — Michigan on Monday launched the statewide rollout of a voluntary, free coronavirus app that notifies users if they have potentially been in close contact with infected people.

To ensure workers across Michigan remain healthy and reduce the spread of COVID-19, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services released recommendations for employers on how to keep workplaces safe.

Flu shots will be available Monday and Tuesday at Comerica Park in Detroit and Jackson Field in Lansing.

A group of local and state agencies is hosting a special event to help veterans get the benefits they have earned.

Hackley Community Care recently welcomed Dr. Byron Varnado to the family practice.

TRAVERSE CITY — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer urged Michigan lawmakers Thursday to enact a statewide law on mask wearing, as the state continues to shatter coronavirus case records and hospital admissions steadily rise.

Adejoke Ayoola, professor and chair of the nursing department at Calvin University, was inducted into the 2020 Class of Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing on Saturday.

Metro Health-University of Michigan Health’s first office exclusively for pediatric care opened Monday in Hudsonville.

A new study from Business Roundtable finds international trade supported 1,105,400 jobs in Michigan in 2018 and represented nearly one out of every five jobs in the state before the pandemic.

Recognizing the extra stressors employees are facing as the pandemic stretches on, a Michigan-based tax and accounting firm came up with a plan to make life easier and keep people productive and sane.

Kind words and tributes poured in from the community after the death of prominent donor, former U.S. ambassador and longtime businessman Peter Secchia on Oct. 21 at the age of 83.

LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's administration on Thursday tightened restrictions on indoor social gatherings and shifted the Traverse City region backward in Michigan's reopening plan, saying coronavirus hospitalizations have doubled in three weeks and the statewide death rate has risen for five straight weeks.