Guest opinion: When the ER becomes the healthcare system: A warning for Michigan’s seniors

Guest opinion: When the ER becomes the healthcare system: A warning for Michigan’s seniors

By Vincent Tilford Guest Opinion As CEO of the Hannan Center, my daily question is simple but urgent: How do we ensure that metro Detroit’s older adults retain both their resources and their dignity? For the past 100 years, we’ve supported seniors in Oakland, Macomb and Wayne counties through good times and bad. But today, Federal cuts will roll back decades of progress and risk a return to a past none of us want to relive. Our founder, Luella H…