Meet Lawrence Burns Of The Michigan Children's Foundation - A Partner Of The City Of Detroit

BEHOLD!

Another transposable model of privatization, or what I prefer to refer as stealin' the children, land & vote.

These people just refuse to stop, I tell you!

I am eerily stimulated by their tenacity....

https://yourchildrensfoundation.org/

Almost half of the children in Michigan have had exposure to at least one adverse family experience. As a foundation, we have parntered a number of organizations that focus on creating awareness, otherwise known as child welfare campaigns as well as early intervention for the abuse and neglect of childrenCPS. This includes Care House of Oakland County-Breaking the Cycle of Abuse Program, Beaumont Health System and KidsTALK, a community-based program that provides comprehensive services to child victims of sexual and physical abuse or other forms of psychological trauma

https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2017/320/087/2017-320087353-0ffbae93-9.pdf

This is what they are working with:

GROSS RECEIPTS
$79,838,807
ASSETS
$113,221,583 <===almost all in stocks and investments, probably real estate, but I do not know, yet.

How much do you actually think it cost to do all those things in this video?

I would definitely say it would fall well under $500,000, wouldn't you say?

By the way, they just handed out about $85 million, this year.

Here is a sample of their innovative research in child abuse and neglect. 

It sucks.

They bill Medicaid in their crappy predictive modeling programs for the purposes of gerrymandering.

If you do not live there, you cannot vote.

They consider it an investment in human capital, that their Public Private Partnerships just so happen to be the foreign corporate parent, to run their gerrymandering game of stealin' the children, land and vote.

GO BLUE: Predictive Modelling Crappers Share Their Child Welfare Gerrymandering False Claims Methodologies For Stealin' Children, Land & Votes 

There is nothing wrong with research, but why are you going to do it as a financial fraud scheme against the U.S. government for the purposes of personal inurement?

I mean, come on, I have been on this for how many decades now?

Two, almost?

Larry has some big brass balls, right about, now.

They are running low on tiny humans to research, due to the competing industry of infant mortality.

Foundation awards $4 million for Metro Detroit programs

Lawrence Burns

Detroit — The Children’s Foundation has awarded $4 million in grants to fund 93 community, research and educational initiatives in Metro Detroit.

The foundation awarded a $50,000 grant to a program at the University of Michigan Medicine called "Transforming Research into Action to Improve the Life of Students," which serves children in the Detroit Public Schools Community District.

How about some quality housing, that is not prone to fake ass property tax foreclosures. That might improve the quality of life, but, hey, what do I know? God forbid I even mention the quality of life for the parents who survived the foreign invasion, to care for the students, but if I did that, it would just throw off all their white paper research and Social Impact Bond Investment Programs they are working on.

Four grants totaling $52,376 related to burn services were awarded to the Children’s Hospital of Michigan. The funds will allow the hospital to provide burn patients with take-home gauze and burn ointments and custom-made pressure garments that promote healing and reduce scarring.

The grants also will support the expenses of a burn survivors event and educate staff at the annual American Burn Association conference, officials said.

Do you know why so many kids in Detroit are getting burned?  It is because the housing stock has not been replaced in at least five generations, nor replentished since the Privateers landed in the Port of Detroit to commence to stealin' in the Great Foreclosure Crisis of their Corporate Shape Shifting LLCs, flipping fake ass mortgages, to fund the campaigns to put in their "Elected Ones" to put in that Emergency Manager Law, to run that fake ass Detroit Bankruptcy, to set up that fake ass Detroit Land Bank Authority, to steal the fake ass property taxes to do fake ass property tax foreclosures, to flip through federal mortgages and fraudulent billing of TARP, that left the properties intentionally blighted, then taking over the Detroit Water & Sewage Department with a fake ass Great Lakes Water Authority that runs fake ass watershutoff schemes, and makes you write a check to a fake ass Board of Water Commissions, so the properties became blighted, and people became poorer, not wanting to leave their communities and families, ending up living any place they could find, paying rent to a foreign landlord of one of those fake ass foreign LLCs, who does not give a flying rat's arse is the property gets torched from jacked leg electrical, or a gas shutoff situation of trying to keep warm, because there is insurance and they got a land patent, which is why so many kids in Detroit are getting burned.

Lawrence J. Burns, president & CEO of The Children’s Foundation, said in each grant cycle there is a greater demand and a more diverse pool of applicant organizations all seeking to use funds in constructive ways to help Metro Detroit children.

Here is a really constructive way to stop child poverty - STOP STEALIN'.

“We are so grateful to donors and partner organizations who allow us to be able to provide $4 million to help programs get underway and make an impact in children’s lives today — rather than years down the line,” Burns said.

The foundation has granted more than $58 million to more than 75 partners across the state. More than $500,000 was awarded to 14 organizations undertaking youth mental health initiatives in Michigan.

Grant recipients include:

•A grant of $113,573 to Hamtramck Public Schools to support continued operations of a health clinic for children who are immigrants.

You do know there are clinics for children who are immigrants in Hamtramck, that bill Medicaid, right?  Have you ever taken a peek at that Recreational Center? You should.

•Boys Hope Girls Hope Detroit received $20,000 for an art therapy program and to fund staffing of a certified art therapist at the Hope House residential scholar program.

Using the word "therapy" means you can bill at your heart's desire to Medicaid.

•Common Ground received a $50,000 grant to support work in its runaway and homeless youth program.

Did anyone ever think that runaway and homeless youth are what we call today, victims of human trafficking, who, pretty darn sure, came out the Michigan Child Welfare System, that which this Children's Foundation has been funding research on child abuse and neglect, going back as far as when they launched this crap as CAPTA?

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

The Detroit Transposable Model Of Gerrymandering - Stealin' The Children, Land & Votes

This is part of the transposable model that led to the 2016 election interference.

This is Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare.

HAPPY TRAFFICKING TINY HUMANS MONTH!

As Mayor Mike Duggan touts Make Your Date's success, Detroit's preterm birth rate spikes

Despite recent claims that the City of Detroit’s handpicked program to fight preterm birth is uniquely successful, the city’s preterm birth rate is now at a 13-year high, according to the latest statistics from the State of Michigan.

The newest state data comes on the heels of Mayor Mike Duggan's vigorous public defenses of the Make Your Date program's efforts to fight preterm birth. The mayor was compelled to defend the program after a critical inspector general's report found that the mayor gave Make Your Date preferential treatment when teaming up five years ago.

This week, the March of Dimes ranked Detroit the second-worst city nationally for its preterm birth rate in 2017, earning the city an "F" grade.

Reacting to the spike in the city's preterm birth rate, a city official and an academic researcher said Make Your Date isn't operating on a large enough scale to make a significant impact.

Babies like the one shown here in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at DMC Hutzel Women's Hospital in 2014 are among hundreds born prematurely in Detroit each year. The city has one of the highest preterm birth rates in the country. (Photo: Kimberly P. Mitchell, DFP)

Yet Duggan has publicly touted the achievements of Make Your Date as confirmation that the program was worth his special consideration. On two occasions — at a news conference and on a local TV news appearance — Duggan said that moms who participated in Make Your Date had a 37% reduction in preterm births.

Free Press investigation

“We picked the right program,” Duggan said at a news conference in late October after release of the OIG report. “The program has worked and there is no finding anywhere in this report that says Make Your Date doesn’t work, that a dollar was misspent or says that this wasn’t the right program.”

Make Your Date's success also was included in an official response to the inspector general that requested a reversal of findings that were critical of the city's support for Make Your Date. "Women who received services from WSU via the Make Your Date program experienced a reduction of up to 37% in preterm births," Eli Savit, who serves as senior adviser and counsel to Duggan, wrote to Inspector General Ellen Ha on behalf of Duggan and others.

The mayor's claims about Make Your Date's impact can be traced to a Wayne State University study announced in September that analyzed data from 1,945 women who participated in the program in 2014 and 2015. According to a Wayne State news release, the study found that Make Your Date participants were 37% less likely to deliver at less than 32 weeks than women who gave birth at the same hospital but were not served by Make Your Date.

"Our study showed evidence that the Make Your Date program reduces the rate of early preterm delivery in the population studied," Wayne State professor of obstetrics and gynecology Adi Tarca said in a statement to the Free Press. "However, the Make Your Date program has only reached a fraction of women in the city. In order to make a significant impact on the rate of preterm birth in the entire city of Detroit, the program would need to be expanded."

The Free Press asked Wayne State for a copy of Tarca's study showing Make Your Date's effectiveness. Wayne State did not provide the study, explaining that it has not yet been published.

Maternal health experts said Detroit’s high preterm birth rate cannot be attributed to any single factor and the causes of premature delivery are vast and complex. Premature birth can be caused by chronic health conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure.

But many health professionals agree Detroit women also face socioeconomic determinants such as lack of access to prenatal care and health insurance and implicit bias in the medical field.

Other systemic issues such as inequity, poverty, racism and discrimination also are driving factors, according to Michigan’s Mother Infant Health and Equity Improvement Plan.

Detroit's preterm birth rate rose to 15.3% in 2018 — the highest since 2005. The 2018 figure represents a "significant increase" from 13% in 2013, according to the state health department.

Of the 9,476 births in Detroit last year, 1,451 babies were born prematurely — before 37 weeks — according to state data. 

Michigan's preterm birth rate dropped slightly from 10.2% in 2017 to 10% in 2018. The state's lowest rate since 2000 was 9.7% in both 2013 and 2014. Nationwide, the preterm birth rate has increased for the last four consecutive years to 10% in 2018.

Health educators and physicians who spoke with the Free Press in a series of interviews said the city's preterm birth rate — as well as infant mortality and maternal health — has long troubled professionals.

"It is is very concerning," Dr. Ray Bahado-Singh, chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology for Beaumont Health, said about the city's rate. "But changing those dynamics is a decades-long and generational commitment. So, I believe progress will continue to be incremental and, in my view, explains why the prematurity rate is so high in Detroit because as everyone knows, there's really a significant disparity in Michigan, most particularly in Detroit."

(Photo: Mandi Wright, Detroit Free Press)

This week, the March of Dimes released its annual preterm birth report card, which grades all 50 states and the 100 largest cities with the most births. The 2019 report card analyzed 2017 local and state data from 2018. 

At 14.3%, Detroit had the second-highest preterm birth rate among the 100 cities that the March of Dimes studied. Cleveland was No. 1 with a preterm birth rate of 14.5%.

Although Detroit nearly topped the list, the March of Dimes noted it's encouraged by the amount of organizations coming together to jointly dedicate resources to the problem.  

Kara Hamilton-McGraw, director of maternal child heath and government affairs for March of Dimes in Michigan, said the organization is also pleased with Make Your Date's efforts.

"These rates are not acceptable but I believe we can find a rejuvenated hope," Hamilton-McGraw said. "What I see in WIN Network and and other programs such as Make Your Date, the Black Mothers Breastfeeding Coalition in Detroit, these programs are looking to provide wraparound services. And we're seeing that addressing the woman as a whole, and not just a pregnancy, is really having fantastic outcomes."

Dawn Shanafelt, director of the Division of Maternal and Infant Health at MDHHS, declined to comment specifically on Make Your Date's impact, but said the state is closely watching Detroit's preterm birth rate.

"Premature births and low birth weight babies are the primary drivers to infant mortality," she said. "So, it’s a critical focus area and a serious public health concern."

Shanafelt said infant mortality rates in Detroit and southeast Michigan are among the state's highest.

The problem

The City of Detroit has historically struggled to address its high rate of preterm birth, which is an issue that disproportionately impacts African American women across the country. Detroit has one of the nation’s largest African American populations — 78% of its residents are black.

African American women are 42% of the city's total population, according to 2018 Census estimates.

“I think it's hard to not be concerned about living in a state that has only a C grade for preterm birth but also for our primary city, Detroit, to have such a high preterm birth rate,” said Dr. Marjorie Treadwell, University of Michigan’s director of the Fetal Diagnostic center and a maternal-fetal physician. “I can't think that anybody would think that was acceptable or would be comfortable with that."

Premature birth is defined as a live birth before 37 weeks.

"There are certain things that just set out your life course and your gestational age at delivery is one of those things that has the potential to impact the rest of your life," Treadwell said. "We need to provide mothers and their babies with the best possible start to their life and being able to improve their condition and their health at birth is probably one of the major ways we can do that.”

Babies that are born too early can face several issues, including cerebral palsy, visual and hearing impairments, heart problems and more. Preterm birth complications are also the leading cause of death among children under the age of 5, according to the World Health Organization.

“I think the entire medical community continues to be frustrated with the health disparities that we continue to see,” Dr. Courtney Townsel, a University of Michigan maternal fetal medicine specialist, said. “I think it’s highlighted by cities like Detroit and the top 10 cities which have high rates of African American patient populations. So, really trying to understand how we reduce these health care disparities is really at the heart of this.”

Dr. Kimberlydawn Wisdom, the senior vice president of Community Health & Equity for the Henry Ford Health System, said a lot of work has been done over the past decade to address premature birth and infant mortality, but challenges remain.

The Bloodless DMC Battle Continues In Detroit

MSU Sparty battlecry at NYSE

See, that is what you get when you try to bleachbit Detroit history.

The Wayne State University Medical School is part of history of Detroit but Michigan State University seems to have skins in the game because, at one point, had all their Sparty Flags a-furhling all over WSU campus.

Privatization sucks, just ask Bill Clinton...oh...wait, the funeral is over.

Well, have no fear because Dana Nessel is busy, busy, busy.

I bet Dana will find all the answers in those emails about all the nasty things they do over there at DMC.

We could always just ask Mike Duggan.

I bet Mikey knows lots of stuff, but so do we.

DMC, Wayne State lose neurosurgery training accreditation

DMC

A training program for neurosurgeons at the Detroit Medical Center has lost its accreditation, jeopardizing the reputation of the health system and its longtime academic partner, Wayne State University.

The Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education withdrew accreditation from the program earlier this month following a site visit on Sept. 18. Accreditation is set to end on June 30.

Wayne State University School of Medicine Dean Jack Sobel said the program would appeal. Neither the Council nor the program sponsor, DMC, would comment on how the program could restore its credentials or the specific causes.

A training program for neurosurgeons at the Detroit Medical Center has lost its accreditation, jeopardizing the reputation of the health system and its longtime academic partner, Wayne State University.

"We are going to appeal together to recreate a teaching environment, with both sides participating, that will create an optimal teaching environment,” Sobel said.

The accreditation loss is a byproduct of the discordant partnership between WSU and the DMC, although Sobel said that was not the direct cause. That relationship has deteriorated sharply over the past several years, putting at risk the medical attention provided to high numbers of indigent and under-served residents in the nation's poorest metropolitan city.

Someone was not compliant because they were defrocked.

Sobel said that Wayne State's top neurosurgical teaching faculty left the college to join DMC, which left them without the required teaching credentials to run the program.

"The failure of the residency is a failure of one or two teaching individuals. It's not a conflict between DMC and Wayne State," he said.

"This is an outlier," he said, adding that other residency programs are not at risk.

Loss of accreditation is rare, and rarer still for the seven-year residency programs in neurosurgery, with just 218 positions available nationally each year. They train physicians who perform brain and spine surgeries and treat patients with neurological disorders like stroke, Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease. Doctors must exit accredited programs to be licensed in their specialty.

"These men and women are pretty stellar," said Atul Grover, executive vice president of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Neurosurgery is among the most competitive medical professions, and requires seven years of surgical residency following medical school. Neurosurgery residents contacted by The Detroit News declined to comment on the situation Thursday, but one described the situation as desperate.

"When I look at the characteristics of the average person who's matched with neurosurgery these days, they're not only exceptional clinicians with great academic credentials, they've done research, in many cases they have two degrees — these are really competitive people who are exceptional," Grover said.

Beyond the immediate impact, even a threatened loss of status can impact recruiting. Applicants rank their preferred choice of programs and go through a matching process to determine their placement, ensuring that the best applicants get their preferred programs. The DMC-Wayne program is unlikely to rank highly among top surgical candidates who fear it is risky.

Guess this Tenet Health Human to AI transfer program
did not work out so well

The Council accredits 11,000 residency programs across the country. Accreditation was withdrawn from eight programs in 2019. It's not clear how or if accreditation can be restored; the Council would not comment on the Detroit program.

The Council conducted site visits to the Detroit Medical Center's 65 residency programs on Sept. 18, and the eight residency programs sponsored by the Wayne State University Medical School on Oct. 18.

The hundred-year relationship between Wayne State and the DMC was nearly severed last spring before they reached an agreement to continue. Both the university and the health system have sought partnerships with other institutions, with some success.

Loss of accreditation is rare, and rarer still for the seven-year residency programs in neurosurgery, with just 218 positions available nationally each year.

On Thursday, the two entities took turns contesting whether Wayne State was even affiliated with the program.

If medical housekeeping staff do not get the flu shot,
they do not get paychecks.

"The neurosurgery residency program at the Detroit Medical Center belongs solely to the DMC," the university said in a statement. "The Wayne State name is listed on the ACGME website because of a prior teaching affiliation agreement. That agreement ended a year ago when WSU neurosurgeons joined Tenet Physician Resources, or TPR. Since that time, Tenet has named the chair of the program and been responsible for all teaching."

DMC spokesman Brian Taylor, however, said: "(Wayne State is) affiliated with the program. They're our academic partner."

Wayne State still lists the individual residents on its website. Residents have WSU email addresses, and their photos and biographies are listed in the university’s directory of team members.

The website also informs prospective residents how to apply for the residency and and states “Neurosurgery applicants successfully matching to our program will complete all years of training in the Detroit Medical Center-sponsored training program.”

DMC could provide no information or documentation on the reason for the accreditation loss.

"(A)t this point, we have yet to receive detailed information outlining the reasons for the decision," Taylor told The News in an email.

"It's unusual for a small specialty like this that's populated by people who are really exceptional surgeons to not be accredited," said Grover, of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Always busy collecting data to maximize profits from
non-profit, federal programs, like Medicaid.

The American Board of Neurological Surgery, which provides board certification for neurosurgeons, requires that candidates receive training through a program accredited by the Council.

According to Betsy Koehnen, chief administrative officer for the Board, residents unable to complete their seven years at an accredited institution will need to seek admission to an another program that is accredited to complete their training.

"We only recognized trained individuals who graduate from an accredited program," Koehnen said. It’s unclear whether the residents in the program could depart for other programs, or how soon.

Grover, of the American Association of Medical Colleges, said the program's loss will reverberate throughout the field as medical graduates who hope for careers in neurosurgery compete for fewer available training slots.

"You need all the doctors you can get, especially in a small, narrow specialty like neurosurgery," Grover said.

"There's probably only a hundred or so training programs in the entire country. So anything that effects the ability of an entire program to train people is likely to have an impact — not just on the local area but certainly regionally."

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©