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MEMBERS ON THE MOVE FOCUS MAGAZINE | FEBRUARY 2022
(RMHMM) applied for a Jackson community as part of its A Simple will support things such as video
Community Grant to fund a phone Gift: Community Tree Program. connections between Sparrow’s
and family communications This year, the foundation extended various sites, for example allowing
upgrade project. Jackson National the invitation to participate in a physician at Sparrow Hospital in
Life Insurance Company awarded the Greater Lansing community. Lansing to connect with a patient
RMHMM $29,000 to support their Each group received a three-foot at Sparrow Ionia Hospital. It will
upgrade to an internet-enabled artificial tree from the foundation also fund efforts such as a virtual
telecommunications system. This and worked together to decorate stethoscope, permitting a physician
change will help the House meet and shop for items to share with at one site to listen to the heart of a
higher guest satisfaction goals, as a charity, family, or individual. patient at another location.
families will now be able to make Nearly 50 groups participated in
calls to their network of support the program and donated to local
systems across the United States, charities, as well as families or
Canada and Mexico in addition to people in need.
local numbers. The upgrade will
also reduce IT equipment and
service costs, saving RMHMM over
$6,620 annually.
Origami Rehabilitation
celebrated six months of creating
opportunities and transforming
If you passed the Lansing Center on lives at their new satellite
your way to Silver Bells in the City, location, Origami West. Origami
you likely saw artwork that LAFCU West opened in June 2021 and
Students in the National Technical is sharing to raise awareness of the is located at 137 S. Marketplace
Honor Society at the Wilson Talent importance of love and equality. Blvd. in Lansing. Origami West
Center held a donation drive to The 10 pieces of art projected offers the same outpatient
make the holidays more cheerful on the Lansing Center’s exterior services available at their Mason
for the teen moms and babies east-facing wall are of healing location, such as physical therapy,
residing at Angel House. The words depicted by area residents occupational therapy, speech-
students purchased and collected for LAFCU’s Love & Equality Art language pathology, psychiatry,
several new items, including Initiative. The words are love, psychology, drivers’ rehab,
clothing, toys, diapers and personal humanity, change, peace, kind, and more. Origami provides
care items for the residents and empathy, unity, one, hope and heal. comprehensive rehabilitation for
their infants. The items were children, adolescents, and adults
delivered to Angel House on Friday, Sparrow Health System has with neurological, developmental,
Dec. 17, 2021, just in time for the received a $586,000 federal grant mental health, and orthopedic
holidays. to purchase telehealth equipment, conditions.
primarily aimed at expanding
With the holidays in full swing, patient access and leading-edge MSUFCU employees raised
the McLaren Greater Lansing medicine for areas served by $52,349 for local organizations
Foundation teamed up with local community hospitals in Carson during the third quarter of 2021.
businesses, civic organizations and City, Charlotte, Ionia, and St. Johns. Employees chose New Hope Pet
hospital departments to spread Sparrow had the top application Rescue in Charlotte, Mich., as
holiday cheer across the mid- in Michigan and was among 62 their third-quarter charity partner,
Michigan community. For 11 years, healthcare facilities nationwide that raising $43,152 through internal
McLaren Greater Lansing (MGL) received funding by the Federal fundraising initiatives, including
departments have come together Communications Commission in dress-down days and raffles. They
to decorate and donate trees and the second round of its COVID- 19 also raised $9,197 for Capital Area
gifts to charities and families in the Telehealth Program. The funding United Way (CAUW), the Credit
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