Many critical-care doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers expect to work 12- to 16-hour shifts to take care of the numbers of increasingly ill patients — not just from the coronavirus, but from a combination of influenza and the normal winter uptick in medical activity at the end of the year.

Beaumont officials said the deal is expected to close in mid-December. About 500 Beaumont employees will move to Superior, which employs 150 and reported $2.24 million in sales, according to Dun & Bradstreet. 

Detroit Medical Center is going through another round of layoffs as parent company Tenet Healthcare Corp. of Dallas also begins the process to close or sell its remaining four MedPost urgent-care centers in Southeast Michigan.

Nursing homes in Michigan are pursuing legislation or an executive order from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that would give them additional liability protection when treating COVID-19 patients, especially those homes that operate or plan to open special coronavirus units.

Nurses tell Crain's that 90% of the CRNAs have refused to sign NorthStar's contract, which they say amounts to a "take-it-or-leave-it" offer and $12,000 less than what they make in salary and benefits at Beaumont.

The Cleveland-based health system and Cuyahoga Falls-based independent, physician-owned hospital announced they entered into an agreement for UH to join Western Reserve Hospital as a minority partner.

Hospitals in Wisconsin, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Tennessee and Texas have already changed how they handle elective surgeries, testing and visitations.

The Michigan Blues made the offer to about 8,650 nonbargaining unit employees in September. The offer to retire or leave employment was made for several reasons, including helping to lower the Detroit-based company's administrative costs.

With COVID-19 cases on the rise in Michigan and flu season approaching, healthcare executives said in a news conference that demand for clean laundry has become even more important.

Legacy DMC, the not-for-profit board created to monitor the sales agreement with the owner of Detroit Medical Center, has triggered a clause in the 2010 contract that requires six-hospital DMC to negotiate a new charity and indigent care agreement.

Officials at 328-bed McLaren Oakland hospital Pontiac, Mich., became aware of a computer desktop file containing an unauthorized and unsecured link to a file containing patients' protected health information, according to a hospital statement.

Despite losing millions of dollars this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lassiter said the pay raise helps to fulfill Henry Ford's mission of improving lives and healing. The raise will tack on another $6 million in additional costs.

Beaumont did not give a reason for the ending of talks, which had been put on hold while Beaumont tried to work out issues with doctors and other staffers.

Three Oakland County legislators are warning of negative patient effects if the board of eight-hospital Beaumont Health gives final approval to a proposed merger with Advocate Aurora Health, a 26-hospital system with corporate headquarters in Illinois and Wisconsin.

A voluntary safety recall of widely used Alaris infusion pumps has several health systems in Michigan and others nationally scrambling to replace or repair them or educate providers how to use the problematic Becton Dickinson-made devices.