Corewell Health

And so, yeah, we went.

We were in a Corwell facility for a while, which worked out really well.

So we hold our classes there.

We do our trainings there.

We do reading programs with elementary schools and in the summer we do Kent District Library where the dogs lay down and the kids read books and the dogs are trained to look at the book.

We do most of the hospitals.

So Corwell we're at, Mary Free Bed, Trinity.

I go to all three of those.

And, and the exciting thing from our side now is we're seeing this happen pretty routinely, so we have multiple examples.

But really, a really great one to dig in on would be a community-based health system at Corewell Health in Northern Michigan.

Um, and they've really established what a strong program looks like in year one.

Um, they focused on their launch, um, like a real service line, not just buying a piece of technology and placing it.

And, you know, it's been really amazing to see the community come out so much for this because they know how important this is.

We've got great, amazing community sponsors like Corwell.

Corwell has come in as an amazing large sponsor for us this year.

Also, the Whitcomb has also come together with us knowing day in and day out as they are servicing so many of our seniors in this area, how this disease affects us and how we need to find a cure.

So I've got amazing partners in this.

You can see our entire map of the walk.

And then also all of our amazing sponsors that are going to be there.

Brentwood at Niles, Corwell and Niles.

We're here today with Tina Friesen-Decker.

She is the president and chief executive officer of Corwell Health.

And with Mr. Lamont Yoder, he is the president of Corwell Health East, which is best in Detroit, southeast Michigan.

How's the past been for you all so far?

It's been very good to network and connect with legislative leaders, with people here to talk about policy issues and concerns and areas that we want to do to make sure that we're improving health care access and affordability.

It matters to the family.

And it matters actually to their health and their ability to get better because they can focus on something and focus on healing in a different way.

And so that's what we do at Corwell Health is we really look at the whole person.

And the point about the, you know, Prime coming in and conditions getting worse is something that I think we've seen in every single healthcare acquisition.

I mean, here in Michigan, when Corewell Health came in and, uh, took over

overAnd now I can't remember what they used to be.

Uh, there was, there was a bunch of people talking about getting fired or, or like downsizing in different areas of the, of the hospital that were, you know, keeping things running.