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and the Okemos Walgreens which Sparrow served as Medical days old, Auriya was transported
located at 2131 W Grand River Ave, Examiner at that time. The report to C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in
Okemos, MI 48864. To schedule an shows accidental and drug-related Ann Arbor, where her case was
appointment, or to learn more, visit deaths, along with homicides, down overseen by pediatric surgeon
www.mclaren.org/nowclinic. in some local counties. The report Erin E. Perrone, M.D., a Michigan
also reveals the generosity of local Medicine physician who also works
Mid-Michigan Recovery Services organ donors in 2022. The Office of at Sparrow’s Pediatric Subspecialty
announced that, thanks to the Medical Examiner says referrals Clinic. Auyira, who left Sparrow just
generous funding led by the Joe to connect families wishing to 30 days after she was born, is now
D. Pentecost Foundation, it will donate organs and tissue to Gift healthy and enjoys eating.
have a new central office for its of Life Michigan were up greatly
work helping people to recover across the five counties, saving and A top Sparrow
from drug and alcohol disorders. healing hundreds of lives. physician and
Over the coming months, the researcher
nonprofit agency will move Sparrow Health System’s top recently spoke
administrative staff, outpatient entities will receive new names to a prestigious
counselors and supporting staff that include University of Michigan national
to a building currently used by an Health, effective April 1, 2024, conference
information-technology services as part of Sparrow joining the about Sparrow’s
firm at 316 Moores River Drive. Michigan Medicine clinical network. participation in a
MMRS is purchasing the new Srkalovic groundbreaking
building and will add office spaces A Grand Ledge baby born weeks study of a cancer
to accommodate its counseling prematurely is healthy today drug for patients with genetic
and administrative staff. In addition because of life-saving care from mutations. The results of the phase
to the Pentecost Foundation, the pediatric partnership between 2 Targeted Agent and Profiling
other supporters of the project Sparrow and University of Michigan Utilization Registry (TAPUR)
include the Michigan Department Health (U-M Health). Born at E.W. Study were presented by Gordan
of Health and Human Services, Sparrow Hospital in Lansing at Srkalovic, M.D., Ph.D., medical
Dart Foundation, River Caddis just 32 weeks in August 2022, director of the Sparrow Herbert-
Development and Emergent Auriya Moore was diagnosed with Herman Cancer Center, at the
BioSolutions. Duodenal Stenosis, or narrowing annual American Society of Clinical
of the small intestine which Oncology meeting. The findings
Sparrow Forensic Pathology affected her ability to digest suggest the drug talazoparib may
Services has released its 2022 food. She required a complex be effective in any cancer that has a
annual report on deaths in the surgery in order to eat. She also BRCA1/2 mutation – which results in
five counties (Eaton, Ingham, had evidence of a structural heart uncontrollable cell growth and the
Ionia, Isabella and Shiawassee) in defect and Down syndrome. At six inability to repair damaged DNA. l

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