Kate Wells
Reporter at WUOM-FM (Ann Arbor, MI)
Reporter at NPR
Covering public health @michigan_public. 2023 Pulitzer finalist. Peabody, Livingston Award winner @BelievedPod. Previously @IowaPublicRadio @NHPR.
Articles
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4 days ago |
michiganpublic.org | Kate Wells
The Trump administration is investigating the University of Michigan Health system in the case of a physician assistant who claimed she was fired after requesting religious exemptions from providing gender-affirming care to transgender patients. A spokesperson for the U of M health system confirmed the employee in the case is Valerie Kloosterman, who sued her former employer in 2021.
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1 week ago |
michiganpublic.org | Kate Wells
Access to gender-affirming care in Michigan remains legal and accessible, advocates say, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Wednesday in which the court’s conservative majority upheld Tennessee’s ban on some types of medical care for transgender minors. That ban is similar to prohibitions currently in effect in more than 20 other states.
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2 weeks ago |
michiganpublic.org | Kate Wells
Proposed federal cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program would come with a steep price tag for Michigan: an estimated $800 million annually to cover the benefits residents receive, plus another $90 million a year in new administrative costs.
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3 weeks ago |
michiganpublic.org | Kate Wells
Nurses at Ascension Borgess Hospital in Kalamazoo say they’re unsure whether their jobs will carry over once Beacon Health System takes over four hospitals in southwest Michigan this summer. “We're asking for a guarantee that the nurses that we have now will remain at Borgess after the transition,” said Lori Batzloff, a registered nurse in the neuro Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and president of the local union chapter.
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3 weeks ago |
michiganpublic.org | Kate Wells
Two Marquette County adults are the latest measles cases in the state, according to local health officials. Residents are being warned about several public exposure sites across three counties in the Upper Peninsula, including a bank, a grocery store and an urgent care. This brings the state to 10 total measles cases so far this year.
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Here's what we know so far about the Ingham County one-year-old girl who's the 5th measles case in MI, and may have exposed other kids at her daycare. https://t.co/DDPDwH6DKl