What services does the GVSU Campus Health Center offer. How has the new Daniel and Pamella DeVos Center for Interprofessional Health enhanced medical education at GVSU. What are the benefits of having on-campus health facilities for students.
GVSU Campus Health Center: Expanded Capacity and Services
The Metro Health GVSU Campus Health Center, located on 42nd Avenue in Allendale, has recently undergone a significant expansion to better serve the Grand Valley State University community. This renovation has doubled the center’s capacity, allowing it to accommodate and treat more students and faculty efficiently.
The health center now boasts:
- Increased patient capacity
- New laboratory facilities
- Radiology spaces
- Expanded treatment areas
These improvements ensure that GVSU students and faculty have access to high-quality healthcare services right on campus, eliminating the need to travel far for medical attention.
Staffing and Expertise
The GVSU Campus Health Center is staffed by experienced healthcare professionals, including:
- Dr. Boyd and Dr. Beall – GVSU sports medicine team physicians
- Emily Gerardy and Heather Maurey – mid-level providers
This team of experts ensures that patients receive comprehensive care tailored to their specific needs.
Comprehensive Healthcare Services Offered
The GVSU Campus Health Center provides a wide range of medical services to address various health concerns. These include:
- Diagnosis and treatment of short-term illnesses, injuries, and infections
- Annual health screenings
- Sports physicals
- Gynecological exams and pap smears
- Allergy shots
- Immunizations (Tetanus, Flu, Hepatitis A & B, Meningococcal, MMR, Pneumonia, Shingles, Varicella, and Polio)
- Sports medicine services
- Sexual health services
- Medication prescriptions
- Diagnostic tests
- Laboratory services (blood work)
- Radiology services (X-rays)
Can students receive same-day appointments at the GVSU Campus Health Center? Yes, the center typically offers same-day urgent appointments when needed. While they primarily operate on an appointment basis, they also accommodate walk-in labs and immunizations to ensure students receive timely care.
Accessibility and Convenience for Students
The Campus Health Center’s location and services are particularly beneficial for students who live far from their primary care providers. Alison Hige, a freshman nursing student at GVSU, expressed her appreciation for the center’s proximity: “It will be really convenient to have the health center so close this year, especially since I’ve already been sick this year, and it was a hassle to try and call my doctor at home to try and help me.”
How can students easily access the GVSU Campus Health Center? The center is conveniently located and can be reached by:
- Walking from campus
- Taking the Rapid bus route 48 through south campus
Insurance and Payment Options
The GVSU Campus Health Center aims to make healthcare accessible to all students, regardless of their insurance status. Here’s what you need to know about insurance and payment:
- The center bills all major insurance plans for services provided
- Students without health insurance receive a 40% discount off the bill amount
- Services are not billed through student tuition
This approach ensures that financial concerns do not prevent students from seeking necessary medical care.
Hours of Operation and Appointment Scheduling
The Metro Health Campus Health Center maintains regular hours to accommodate students’ busy schedules:
- Monday and Thursday: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
To schedule an appointment, students can call (616) 252-6030. When visiting the center, patients should bring:
- A list of all current and recent medications (prescription and non-prescription)
- Driver’s license or GVSU ID
- Insurance card or a copy of the card
A student registration form is also available on the Campus Health Center website for convenience.
The Daniel and Pamella DeVos Center for Interprofessional Health: A Game-Changer for Medical Education
In May 2024, Grand Valley State University unveiled its newest addition to the Health Campus in downtown Grand Rapids: the Daniel and Pamella DeVos Center for Interprofessional Health (DCIH). This state-of-the-art facility represents a significant leap forward in medical education and training for GVSU students.
Key Features of the DCIH
The DCIH is a five-story, 166,000-square-foot building that offers:
- Advanced simulation centers
- A model living suite
- Culinary kitchen
- Anatomy labs
- Active learning spaces
- Cutting-edge simulation technology, including life-like mannequins
How does the DCIH enhance medical education at GVSU? The center’s advanced facilities and technology provide students with hands-on experience that closely mimics real-world medical scenarios. This practical approach to learning better prepares students for their future careers in healthcare.
Impact on Students and Healthcare Education
The DCIH has already made a significant impression on students. Doreen Siriboe-Achampong, a nursing student, shared her reaction: “I was awed. I was in total shock. It’s well equipped and gives you a hands-on experience versus having an imaginary or abstract thinking of how the clinical world should look like. It’s going to help me and it’s going to help every student who attends Grand Valley State University.”
This enthusiasm underscores the transformative potential of the DCIH in shaping the next generation of healthcare professionals.
GVSU’s Role in Healthcare Education
Grand Valley State University has established itself as a leader in healthcare education. Marie Cimitile, provost and executive vice president at GVSU, emphasized this point: “We are the largest provider of healthcare employees in the state. Having this new building allows us to continue to be at the cutting edge of all of our medical training we do for our students.”
What makes GVSU’s approach to healthcare education unique? The university’s commitment to providing state-of-the-art facilities, combined with its focus on interprofessional education, ensures that students receive a comprehensive and modern healthcare education. This approach not only benefits the students but also contributes to the overall quality of healthcare in the region and state.
The Importance of On-Campus Health Facilities for Students
The expansion of the GVSU Campus Health Center and the addition of the DCIH highlight the university’s commitment to student health and well-being. These facilities offer numerous benefits to the GVSU community:
- Convenient access to healthcare services
- Reduced travel time for medical appointments
- Integrated care that understands the unique needs of students
- Opportunities for hands-on learning in state-of-the-art facilities
- Improved overall health outcomes for the campus community
How do on-campus health facilities contribute to student success? By providing easy access to healthcare services and reducing barriers to seeking medical attention, these facilities help ensure that students can maintain their health and focus on their studies. Additionally, the presence of advanced medical education facilities like the DCIH enhances the quality of education for students in healthcare-related fields, better preparing them for their future careers.
The combination of the expanded GVSU Campus Health Center and the new Daniel and Pamella DeVos Center for Interprofessional Health positions Grand Valley State University at the forefront of both student healthcare and medical education. These facilities not only serve the immediate health needs of the GVSU community but also play a crucial role in shaping the future of healthcare in Michigan and beyond.
Campus Health Center doubles its capacity – Grand Valley Lanthorn
At the south end of Grand Valley State University’s Allendale Campus, there is a hidden gem that many students do not know about. The Metro Health GVSU Campus Health Center is located on 42nd Avenue, across the street from the water tower and down the road from Laker Village.
The health center is a family practice office only available for the students and faculty of GVSU. This past summer, the center went under a complete renovation where they doubled their capacity in order to accommodate and treat more students and faculty. Part of this renovation included laboratory and radiology spaces.
Amy DeGood is the office manager of the Allendale and GVSU Metro Health centers.
“We are staffed by Dr. Boyd and Dr. Beall – both who are the GVSU sports medicine team physicians on campus,” DeGood said. “We also have Emily Gerardy and Heather Maurey who are both mid-level providers on staff.”
The GVSU Campus Health Center offers many services, such as the diagnosis and treatment of short term illnesses, injuries and infections.
The center also creates access to annual health screenings, sports physicals, gynecological exams, pap smears and allergy shots. The center will give immunizations for Tetanus, Flu, Hepatitis A & B, Meningococcal, MMR, Pneumonia, Shingles, Varicella and Polio. Also provided by Metro Health are sports medicine and sexual health services, medication prescriptions, diagnostic tests and laboratory and radiology services such as blood work and X-rays.
“We see patients by appointment only,” DeGood said. “But typically (we) have the availability for same-day urgent appointments if needed. We will accommodate walk-in labs and immunizations.”
The Campus Health Center is especially useful to students whose homes are far away from GVSU.
“It will be really convenient to have the health center so close this year, especially since I’ve already been sick this year, and it was a hassle to try and call my doctor at home to try and help me,” said Alison Hige, freshman nursing student at GVSU.
The center processes insurance information just as a student’s home doctor’s office does. The Metro Health Campus Health Center bills all major insurance plans for any service provided. If a student does not have health insurance, the office offers a 40 percent discount off the bill amount. The services provided will not be billed through the student’s tuition.
The Metro Health Campus Health Center is open Monday through Friday every week. Their hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday and Thursday, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. It can be accessed easily by walking or taking the Rapid bus route 48 through south campus.
To schedule an appointment at the health center, call (616) 252-6030. They suggest patients bring a list of all prescription and non-prescription medications they are taking or have taken recently to the appointment. Also needed is a driver’s license or GVSU ID and an insurance card or a copy of the card. There is also a student registration form available on the Campus Health Center website at www.
metrohealth.net/gvsu-campus-health-center.
GVSU’s ‘flagship’ medical building open in Grand Rapids
GRAND RAPIDS — Six years in the making, Grand Valley State University’s newest addition has arrived in downtown Grand Rapids.
The five-story, 166,000-square-foot Daniel and Pamella DeVos Center for Interprofessional Health located on Medical Mile officially opened in May.
Design on the building began in 2015, followed by a construction process that started in June 2018.
The DCIH is considered the “flagship building” of GVSU’s Health Campus, which also includes the Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences and Raleigh J. Finkelstein Hall.
“We are the largest provider of healthcare employees in the state,” said Marie Cimitile, provost and executive vice president at GVSU.
“Having this new building allows us to continue to be at the cutting edge of all of our medical training we do for our students.
Classes have started in the building and students have been impressed with the facility.
“I was awed. I was in total shock,” nursing student Doreen Siriboe-Achampong said of seeing the building’s features.
“It’s well equipped and gives you a hands-on experience versus having an imaginary or abstract thinking of how the clinical world should look like.
“It’s going to help me and it’s going to help every student who attends Grand Valley State University.”
The building features a variety of instructional spaces and technology, including simulation centers, a model living suite, a culinary kitchen, anatomy labs and active learning spaces.
The simulation technology includes life-like mannequins with a range of features, including the ability to speak back to students and even “give birth” to other mannequins.
Anatomy instruction spaces include real, plastinated (preserved) bodies and a simulation table where students can dissect parts of the body and see the effect of various pathogens on the body without needing a physical specimen.
Students will also have access to rooms with interactive projections that simulate real-life care scenarios, such as caring for a person in a car crash.
Director of Simulation Katie Branch said the hands-on opportunities are a critical piece of medical education at GVSU.
“The simulation center is where students who are in health-related programs come to learn and practice their clinical assessment skills,” Branch said.
“The ability to have those hands-on experiences and to practice some of these skills before they go out into the real hospital or out-patient care environment and work with real patients, it builds on their confidence and their skill set, so that they are competent healthcare practitioners.”
The spaces and technology in the building are designed to be multidisciplinary, meaning they can be used by students in any of GVSU’s medical majors.
The building features 17 classrooms, 12 labs, three computer labs and a library. There are also study spaces, conference rooms and even a rooftop patio overlooking the area.
Despite several challenges throughout the project, including a complete shutdown of 40 to 50 days during the COVID-19 pandemic, the project was completed on time, said Associate Vice President for Facilities Planning Karen Ingle.
“It turned out beautiful,” Ingle said. “This is one of our largest buildings that we’ve ever built. It is a large accomplishment for Grand Valley to complete this project.”
GVSU plans to apply for LEED certification for the building, which signifies environmental sustainability.
There are more than 400 works of art throughout the building as well, headlined by a glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly titled “Laker Blue and Opaline Persian Chandelier.”
— Contact reporter Mitchell Boatman at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @SentinelMitch.
Grand Valley State hosting COVID-19 vaccine clinic for students
ALLENDALE, MI – Grand Valley State University will host a student-only COVID-19 vaccine clinic next week open to students who live, work or take in-person classes on campus.
The university has received 1,700 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to administer at the campus clinic on April 16 at the Allendale Fieldhouse Complex, 10915 N Campus Dr.
, the university announced this week.
The clinic is open to students by invitation-only, not by a first-come, first-serve basis, university officials said.
The following students are prioritized for vaccination based on guidelines developed by the GVSU Vaccine Ethics Task Force:
- Dining student workers
- Resident assistants
- Laboratory student workers
- In-person student workers
- On-campus residents
- Near campus and in-person students
Metro Health will lead distribution of the vaccine at the clinic. The university has received doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which requires only one dose.
Students who are eligible for a vaccine will receive an invitation to schedule an appointment from Metro Health via text or email over the next few days.
The university has been working with the Ottawa County Department of Public Health for months to plan on offering some kind of campus vaccine clinic, said Greg Sanial, GVSU vice president of Finance and Administration.
RELATED: Michigan colleges seek vaccine allocations as vaccine eligibility opens up
Vaccines will play a big role in the university’s plans for a traditional, full-campus experience in the fall, Sanial said. An overwhelming majority of students and staff have indicated in campus surveys that they were likely or extremely likely to get a vaccine when offered.
“We are hopeful that with increased vaccine availability we will be able to provide future vaccine clinics on campus so all students, faculty and staff who want to get vaccinated can get vaccinated,” Sanial said in a prepared statement to MLive.
The university is continuing to encourage students, staff and faculty to schedule a vaccine appointment through local health departments or at the West Michigan Vaccine Clinic, a large-scale COVID-19 vaccine center inside DeVos Place. The clinic recently opened up eligibility to adults over the age of 16.
DeVos Place is on the Laker Line route, and students can self schedule an appointment online.
Anyone who lives in West Michigan can visit Vaccinate West Michigan to register for a vaccine appointment.
As of April 9, over 3,500 people in the GVSU community have received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and 1,275 people have received the first dose, according to the university’s dashboard.
RELATED: COVID-19 cases on the rise again at Grand Valley State University
GVSU is seeing another rise in COVID-19 cases as Michigan continues to experience a surge in new cases among young adults. The university’s seven-day average of new cases per day was 17 on Thursday afternoon, up from around three cases per day reported in early March.
There were 202 active COVID-19 cases in the GVSU community as of Thursday, April 8, data shows. Students made up 187 of those cases, while 15 cases were among faculty and staff.
More on MLive:
Student-only COVID-19 vaccine clinic opening at Michigan State University
7,500 doses of COVID-19 vaccine now available to University of Michigan students
Ferris State University getting nearly 2,500 COVID-19 vaccine doses for students, staff
Davenport University to host COVID-19 vaccine clinic for students, employees, family members
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Working To Mint Traverse City’s Next Healthcare Professionals
The nearest medical school may be almost 150 miles away, but Traverse City is growing its status as a health education hub. As COVID-19 (coronavirus) raises concerns of overwhelmed medical systems nationwide – and as the globe faces an overall shortage of healthcare professionals – local educators and organizations are taking strides to attract, educate, train, and employ the next generation of medical professionals.
According to the World Health Organization, there is already a global healthcare worker shortage of more than seven million professionals. In the next 15 years, that number could increase to 13 million.
These shortages tend to hit less developed nations the hardest, but they can also have an impact in the United States – particularly in rural areas. Marguerite Cotto, vice president of lifelong and professional learning at Northwestern Michigan College (NMC), says it falls upon rural regions like northern Michigan to take a “grow your own” approach in meeting healthcare workforce demands.
“There is a goal statewide to ensure that local students have access to career pathways [in healthcare] near home,” Cotto explains. “It’s about taking the local roots that students have, expanding those roots, and then being able for them to turn around as new professionals in the field and be quickly recognizable by the people they’re going to be providing care for.”
That goal – of helping local students become local healthcare providers – is what inspired Traverse City native Nicholus Kopacki to help launch a local physician assistant studies (PAS) graduate program six years ago.
The program, offered by Grand Valley State University (GVSU) through the NMC University Center, recently received the nationwide “Outstanding Credit Program Award” from the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA). The award recognizes “outstanding professional and continuing education programs.”
Kopacki, a certified PA who now serves as both the assistant department chair for GVSU’s PAS program and the site director for the Traverse City cohort, says he would likely have stayed local for the early part of his career if there had been educational pathways to do so.
“I went to NMC for a couple years, but there was no opportunity for me to continue my education locally at that point in time, at least not in healthcare,” he tells The Ticker. Instead, Kopacki headed off to GVSU, enrolled in the PA program (at that time only offered at the school’s main Allendale campus), and then practiced downstate for six years. An urge to return home and shift his focus to teaching led to the creation of a distance-learning version of the PAS program, funded by federal grant money that stipulated the program had to target students from the northern Michigan rural region.
“When we came up here, the criteria that we had for the Traverse City cohort was that we were looking for individuals who are from northern Michigan – and we say Ludington and north, including the Upper Peninsula,” Kopacki says. “The reason for that is there is research out there that shows that students who are educated and trained in rural communities tend to stay and practice in rural communities.”
So far, that research is proving true. To date, there have been three graduating classes from the Traverse City PAS cohort; approximately 70 percent, Kopacki says, are working in rural northern Michigan communities. That number could increase in the future, too: GVSU just entered into an articulation agreement with NMC that will annually reserve two spots in the local PAS program for NMC students. The rigorous 28-month program only offers 12 open spots each year.
It’s not just the PAS program that is minting tomorrow’s local health workforce. Cotto says that NMC has made a concentrated effort in recent years to add new healthcare-focused programs, both at the college itself (newer associate’s degrees in surgical technology and biomedical technology) and at the University Center (a graduate specialization in drug and alcohol treatment, offered by Western Michigan University).
Across the board, Cotto says that 75-80 percent of graduates from NMC-affiliated healthcare tracks end up practicing in a local “five or six-county circle.” Many of them end up employed by Munson, including approximately 80 percent of NMC nursing grads and nearly 100 percent of biomedical technology students.
Even at the high school level, local students have the option to start focusing on healthcare. The largest program at the Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District (TBAISD) Career-Tech Center is allied health, which currently consists of 150 students from schools throughout the ISD. According to Allied Health Instructor Gwen Tafelsky, seniors in the program spend four hours per week getting work experience “in an allied health field of their interest.”
“Munson Healthcare has been a great partner, offering students work experience to train with nursing assistants, radiology, ultrasound, emergency department, NICU, dietary office, and medical assistants,” Tafelsky says.
“The Cowell Family Cancer Center has allowed students in the infusion clinic and pharmacy. We also have allied health students who get work experience outside of Munson Healthcare, in veterinary offices, dental offices, and pharmacies. Last year, a student was with the Suttons Bay Fire Department, working with EMTs and paramedics. And Great Lakes Orthopedics in Traverse City has allowed many of our students to complete work experience in an outpatient setting.”
PICTURED: GVSU/NMC physician assistant studies students, with Shannon Owen (director of GVSU’s northern Michigan programs) far left and Nicholus Kopacki far right.
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GVSU College Of Nursing Receives $500K Grant To Offer Primary Care For Vulnerable Grand Rapids Population
GRAND RAPIDS — Grand Valley State University’s Kirkhof College of Nursing received a $500,000 grant from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund to offer a unique model of integrated behavioral health and primary care to a vulnerable population in Grand Rapids.
The two-year grant establishes Project Thrive and offers fully integrated services at the GVSU Family Health Center, which is operated by KCON in the city’s Heartside District, and at two housing complexes (Mount Mercy and Reflections) that serve adults with limited incomes. Through a partnership with the Grand Rapids Housing Commission (GRHC) and Dwelling Place, respectively, KCON has operated satellite clinics at these sites since 2018.
Della Hughes Carter, assistant professor of nursing and principle investigator for the grant, said the project will address the critical gap in underserved adults receiving behavioral health services. She said integrating behavioral health care services with primary care provides the most comprehensive approach to a person’s wellness.
“The people we serve do not have access to behavioral health or even primary health for many reasons, including the lack of transportation or technology for telehealth visits,” Hughes Carter said. “This grant offers an opportunity to improve the social determinants of health for many.
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The grant will support the hiring of a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, nurse case manager and two part-time peer support advocates who will blend their services with the primary care team for a fully integrated approach to wellness.
Cynthia McCurren, dean and professor of KCON, said faculty and staff members at KCON are well-suited to facilitate Project Thrive. KCON has operated the nurse-managed GVSU Family Health Center for 20 years, serving a vulnerable population and then expanding primary care services to senior citizens who live at Mount Mercy and Reflections, with support from another Michigan Health Endowment Fund grant.
Reflections is a senior housing community with 60 units managed by Dwelling Place in southeast Grand Rapids; Mount Mercy Apartments is a 180-unit building on Grand Rapids’ northwest side managed by the GRHC.
McCurren said Project Thrive also provides excellent, high-impact learning opportunities for nursing and health professions students who will then bring knowledge of the critical importance of integrated, team-based care and care coordination into the workforce.
“This project aligns with our mission. Students will work with providers and deliver patient-centered, integrated care,” McCurren said. “There is a shortage of behavioral health providers and our students will have the opportunity to learn more about this integration of services early in their academic journey.”
When Project Thrive begins in January, telehealth and in-person services will be available to patients. For more information about the project, contact Hughes Carter at [email protected]
90,000 infectious disease center is equipped with a unique sanitary control system – Complex of urban planning policy and construction of the city of Moscow
An unparalleled system of sanitary control for doctors and medical personnel has been installed in the infectious diseases hospital in New Moscow, said Andrey Bochkarev, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Urban Development and Construction.
“Much attention was paid to the issues of safety and health of the medical staff during the design and construction of the infectious diseases center in the Voronovskoye settlement.
A sanitary inspection facility has been equipped here – a sanitary control system that has no analogues in Russia, designed for disinfection treatment of 1400 people, that is, two shifts of doctors, ”Andrey Bochkarev said to .
According to him, the building is divided into 14 identical compartments with 100 seats in each, divided into male and female.
“Personnel must enter from the side of the common area. Here, doctors can take off their personal clothes, take a shower, and only then put on a service suit to move around the treatment area, ”Bochkarev explained.
The head of the Stroykompleks noted that the access of personnel to patients through the sanitary passages is controlled by the access control and management system – ACS.
“This system provides different degrees of personnel access according to the areas of responsibility, thus eliminating the accidental passage of untrained personnel into the so-called“ dirty area ”,” added Bochkarev.
On April 17, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and Mayor of the capital Sergei Sobyanin opened an infectious diseases hospital in New Moscow by videoconference.
Coronavirus center was built near the village of Golokhvastovo. About 11,000 builders and more than 1,500 pieces of equipment worked here every day and around the clock. The construction lasted for a month. This is a full-fledged infectious diseases hospital, which will function even after the coronavirus pandemic.
“The builders handed over to the hospital in New Moscow and handed it over to medical workers. This is one of the largest infectious diseases clinics in the country, which will serve for decades. The capital facility is equipped with all the necessary infrastructure.The hospital is ready to receive 800 patients on Monday. We can say that the builders have accomplished a feat! ” – noted Sergei Sobyanin.
Chronicle of the construction of an infectious diseases hospital in the TroiNAO, exclusive photos “before and after”, as well as everything about medical equipment and the “stuffing” of buildings – in the section on stroi.mos.ru.
Initially, the medical building was designed taking into account the transformation into an intensive care building in 24 hours. In the course of construction, due to the optimization of the internal space of the building, it was possible to increase the capacity to 800 beds, if necessary, compaction to 900 is possible.All beds can be converted into resuscitation beds.
During the construction, more than 200 thousand cubic meters of sand and over 1.5 tons of reinforcement were used, about 14 thousand cubic meters of concrete, 6.5 thousand tons of metal structures and about 280 thousand square meters. meters of sandwich panels. Only during the arrangement of the premises, more than 5 thousand internal and external doors and more than 3 thousand ventilation systems were installed.
Government customer – Moscow City Construction Department. The developer is ANO Social Infrastructure Development.Designer / general contractor – Mosinzhproekt JSC.
More than 27 contractors were involved in the work, including: LLC PSF KROST, LLC IBT, PJSC Group of Companies PIK, LLC Dorhan, LLC PSF STALKON, JSC Holding company GVSU Center “, JSC” MSU-1 “, PJSC” Mospromstroy “, JSC” DSK No. 1 “, LLC” Mercury “, JSC” MISK “, PJSC” Mostotrest “, LLC” Gera “, etc.
Infectious Diseases Hospital in the Troitsky and Novomoskovsky administrative areas
Where infectious disease centers are being built in Russia
90,000 The court recognized the refusal of the UK to initiate a criminal case due to the poisoning of Navalny
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The Second Western District Military Court dismissed the appeal from the defense of Aleksei Navalnogo against the criminal case against Aleksei Navalny’s defense against the criminal case against Alexei Navalny. “The appeal was dismissed. The lawyers did not appear at the hearing, ”the court officials told Znak.com.
In March, the 235th garrison military court considered a lawsuit filed by lawyers of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK was recognized as a foreign agent) due to the inaction of the Main Military Investigative Directorate (GVSU) of the Investigative Committee of Russia.Navalny’s defense filed a complaint with the military investigation demanding that a criminal case be opened against FSB officers after the opposition leader was hospitalized last summer. But the court recognized the decision of the GVSU as legal and justified, and the complaint of the FBK – not subject to satisfaction.
The military investigators considered that “the application does not contain specific information about the circumstances indicating signs of a crime in the actions of the RF FSB officers,” therefore there are no grounds for a procedural check, and even more so for initiating a case.
On August 20, on the way from Tomsk to Moscow, Navalny felt unwell on the plane. The liner was urgently planted in Omsk. Navalny was hospitalized, he fell into a coma. As the main reason for the deterioration of health, Russian doctors named a sharp drop in blood sugar levels, which caused metabolic disorders. Two days later, Navalny was hospitalized in the Berlin clinic “Charite”. German doctors said that the results of clinical studies indicate poisoning of the politician with a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors.Several independent laboratories concluded that Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent from the Novichok group.
Navalny was treated in Germany for almost six months, in January he returned to Russia. On the day of his return, he was detained. In February, by decision of the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow, Alexei Navalny went to a colony – his suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case was replaced with a real one. The reason for this was the statement of the Federal Penitentiary Service that the politician violated the conditions of the probationary period several times, including when he was being treated in Berlin.On February 20, the decision survived in the Moscow City Court. According to the calculations of Navalny’s lawyers, the oppositionist will be released only in August 2023.
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Victory of Soviet medical science …
“Each soldier returned to service is our victory. This is a victory for Soviet medical science … This is a victory for a military unit, into whose ranks an old warrior, already hardened in battles, has returned ”- a strategic task facing medicine.
From an editorial published in 1941 in the Pravda newspaper.
The Great Patriotic War showed how important medical science is, and military medical science has become the main driving force of practical health care.
Military medical topics were fundamental in the research activities of scientific institutions of a medical and biological profile. The coordination of this work in the system of the People’s Commissariat of Health was carried out by the Academic Medical Council.
The Scientific Medical Council of the People’s Commissariat of Health and the Military Sanitary Commission under the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences worked in close cooperation with the GVSU and its Scientific Medical Council.
Active scientific work was carried out in these difficult years and in the troops. The generalization of the experience gained and its further implementation in practice was facilitated by the front-line and army scientific and scientific-practical conferences of doctors, where the most pressing issues facing the military medical service were discussed.
In order to further develop medical science, the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR on June 30, 1944 adopted a resolution “On the establishment of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR” in Moscow. The opening of the Academy took place on December 20, 1944. The Academy included 22 research institutes and 5 independent laboratories. In total, there were 6717 employees in the academy system, of which 158 were doctors and 349 candidates of medical sciences.
Major successes were achieved by Soviet medical scientists and research teams of institutes in the treatment of wounds and a number of diseases.
After the end of the war, the experience of medical scientists was summarized and presented in fundamental works: “The experience of Soviet medicine in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.” in 35 volumes, “Medical Service of the Naval Forces of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.” in 3 volumes, “Encyclopedic Dictionary of Military Medicine” in 6 volumes and others. Thus, the result was summed up of the painstaking and heroic activity of physicians who worked and fought for victory in the Great Patriotic War.
The documents of the RGANTD presented in the publication are devoted to the struggle of medical scientists for victory in the Great Patriotic War and testify to their selfless work.Despite the current situation that was not conducive to their creative activity, the evacuation of institutes, they continued their scientific research, which was now mainly aimed at helping the wounded and sick soldiers, medical care for home front workers, protecting the health of children, and anti-epidemic measures.
Within the framework of this publication, we will focus on only a few areas of scientific research in the field of medicine and name the names of their researchers.
The proposed documents will introduce the development of the organization of military and civil health care, ophthalmology, traumatology, therapy, epidemiology, etc.
In addition, the publication includes documents testifying to the scientific activities of breeders, chemists, whose scientific developments were aimed at improving and treating the wounded, military personnel and the rear. These scientists participated in meetings of the Scientific Medical Council, conferences on medical problems, their scientific activity is inextricably linked with the research of physicians.
The developed system of staged treatment of the wounded and sick with their evacuation to their destination was of great importance for the successful work of physicians during the war.Its author is the head of the Main Military Sanitary Directorate of the Red Army E.I. Smirnov is an outstanding organizer, theorist of military medicine and Soviet health care, and a practitioner of Russian medicine. The main elements of the system included a clear and consistent provision of medical care to the wounded and sick, starting with the first medical aid on the battlefield and ending with an exhaustive specialized one in the hospital bases of the front and rear of the country. Scientific research of E.I. Smirnov refers to the development of theoretical and organizational issues of military and civil health care, as well as issues of the history of medicine.
Of particular importance was the formulated by E.I. Smirnov in February 1942 at a meeting of the 5th plenum of the Scientific Medical Council under the head of the GVSU military medical doctrine, which included: a unified understanding of the principles of surgical and therapeutic work in military field conditions; availability of common views on methods of prevention and treatment of lesions and diseases; continuity in the implementation of medical measures at various stages of evacuation; maintaining concise, clear medical documentation, ensuring continuity and consistency in the conduct of medical and evacuation measures.
More progress has been made by medical scientists and research teams of institutes in the treatment of wounds. Much scientific research has been devoted to the analysis of combat surgical trauma and its pathogenesis. In the course of their work, medical scientists have developed common principles for treating wounds, a common understanding of the “wound process”, and have standardized specialized treatment. Chief specialists, surgeons of fronts, armies, hospitals, and medical battalions performed millions of surgical operations; methods of treatment of gunshot fractures, primary treatment of wounds, application of plaster casts have been developed.
One of the main problems of ophthalmology during the Great Patriotic War was a combat eye injury. Activities Central Ophthalmological Institute named after Helmholtz, headed by Academician M.I. Averbakh, at this time was directed to provide assistance to the wounded and the civilian population. This consisted in conducting new scientific research and in solving practical problems.
M.I. Averbach owns numerous works on the most important problems of theoretical and practical ophthalmology: the study of various refractions of the eye, eye traumatism, problems of blindness, glaucoma, trachoma, etc.He developed and introduced into practice a number of new eye surgeries (retinal detachment, rhinostomy, etc.).
The creation of specialized hospitals and evacuation hospitals played a positive role in the struggle of ophthalmologists during the war. Through the efforts of scientists under the leadership of M.I. Averbakh, new methods of treatment were developed: the use of optical operations, plastic and prosthetics.
One of the priority tasks of the Institute of Neurology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, headed by N.I. Grashchenkov, was the study of the dynamics of the course of traumatic lesions of the nervous system and the development of effective means of their diagnosis and therapy.
N.I. Grashchenkov – Soviet neurologist, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1939), full member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1944) and the Academy of Sciences of Belarus (1947) during the Great Patriotic War was a consultant in neurology and neurosurgery of the 33rd Army, periodically went to the front. Since December 1944 – Director of the Institute of Neurology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR.
The main attention of the institute was focused on studying the effectiveness of penicillin, in cases of fresh cranial wounds in the army area of the front, and in late complications of injuries to the skull and brain in a clinic.In addition, much attention was paid to the problem of studying the dynamics of the course of traumatic lesions of the nervous system, in the presence of neuroinfections, in particular neuroviral encephalitis.
The role of N.N. Priorov – a prominent surgeon, traumatologist, orthopedist, founder of a large scientific school, academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR – one of the founders of Russian traumatology and orthopedics. During the Great Patriotic War N.N. Priorov headed the Central Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics.
A significant share in the scientific heritage of N.N. Priorov’s works are devoted to the issues of rehabilitation treatment of the wounded with the consequences of gunshot wounds and the organization of complex treatment for invalids of the Great Patriotic War. Provision of prostheses and orthopedic apparatus for invalids of the Great Patriotic War N.N. Priorov considered it an important part of the comprehensive rehabilitation treatment of this contingent of patients.
Largely thanks to the efforts of N.N. Priorov, his erudition and organizational talent, specialized hospitals were opened for the treatment of disabled people of the Great Patriotic War, regional, city and district medical selection commissions began to function to identify disabled people in need of treatment and referral to medical institutions.
Military field therapy achieved high results during the Great Patriotic War. A harmonious system of military field therapeutic service was created at all stages of the evacuation and treatment of the wounded and sick. For the first time, therapists began to take a direct part in the treatment of the wounded. The chief physician of the Red Army was M.S. Vovsi is an outstanding scientist, therapist and teacher, academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (1948), Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1944), Major General of the Medical Service.
M.S. Vovsi was the founder of one of the largest therapeutic schools. His main scientific research is devoted to the physiology and pathology of the kidneys, lungs, heart, liver.
During the Great Patriotic War M.V. Vovsi participated in the development and implementation of a system of therapeutic measures in the troops, studied the peculiarities of diseases in servicemen in the army.
Scientific development of the issues of anti-epidemic protection of troops and population continued successfully throughout the war.To maintain a favorable sanitary and epidemic situation during the war, the vaccines developed by domestic scientists were of great importance: a polyvaccine based on the principle of associated vaccine depots using complete microbial antigens; tularemia vaccines; typhus vaccine. Tetanus vaccinations with tetanus toxoid have been developed and successfully applied.
It is necessary to note during the war years serious successes in the treatment of infectious patients.Similar results were achieved due to the timely development of domestic antibiotics by scientists and their provision of the army in the field, as well as due to targeted prevention.
Thanks to the scientific research of Academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences V.N. Beklemishev, the founder of the scientific school of parasitology and medical entomology, the author of the doctrine of malarial landscapes, a system of measures was developed, as a result of which malaria was almost completely eliminated in the USSR. He created a number of original concepts in biocenology and general parasitology, headed wide (practically throughout the country) research on biology, ecology, population biology of malaria mosquitoes, and assessing their epidemic significance in different regions.
Scientific research by Sh.D. Moshkovsky – Soviet scientist, epidemiologist, parasitologist, malariologist and chemotherapist on the theory of general epidemiology and epidemiology of malaria. The schemes, methods of treatment and chemical prophylaxis of malaria developed by him were widely introduced into practice and played an important role in the elimination of malaria in the country.
During the Great Patriotic War, Soviet medicine, including hygienic science and practice, solved important tasks of protecting the health of workers.In the incredibly difficult conditions of the military situation, it was necessary to carry out a radical restructuring of the medical and sanitary services for workers, primarily the defense industry, since labor productivity and, consequently, the output of products necessary for the front depended on their health.
The efforts of hygienists contributed to the elimination of the danger of vitamin deficiencies, a sharp reduction in alimentary diseases in military units, the preservation of the epidemic well-being of the troops and the civilian population.
Evacuated during the Great Patriotic War in the city of Sverdlovsk of the Institute of Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Diseases. V.A. Obukha continued his practical activities to provide scientific and methodological assistance to medical units of defense plants for the prevention of sickness among workers, and in particular, professional injuries, the development of safe methods of work at the plants of the defense industry.
Specialists of the Institute, headed by F.Kh. Chekhlatym – Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor, major organizer and renowned scientist – have developed measures to prevent TNT poisoning, improve working conditions at the enterprises of the tank industry, etc.
Some of the most important during the war were the scientific developments of scientists: breeders, vitaminologists, etc. in the field of nutrition for contingents of various military arms, as well as nutritional issues for the wounded in evacuation hospitals, who, together with doctors, fought for victory. The issues of this problem were raised repeatedly at the meetings of the Scientific Medical Council, congresses and conferences.
During the war years, special attention was paid to the restoration of the functional abilities of the body, impaired as a result of malnutrition that took place.
The famous Soviet scientist vitaminologist Professor B.A. Lavrov in his works pointed out the essential importance of vitamins and their role in regulating the processes of assimilation of nutrients, growth and restoration of cells and tissues of the body.
A great influence on the development of vitaminology in our country was made by the establishment in 1936 on the initiative of B.A. Lavrov and M.N. Shaternikova State Control Vitamin Station, which was essentially the head, leading institute for the study of vitamins.In 1954 it was renamed the Scientific Research Institute of Vitology M3 of the USSR. Along with the control functions (which was important in the conditions of the formation and widespread development of the vitamin industry), the vitamin station carried out a large amount of scientific research devoted to methodological issues and the general study of the physiology and biochemistry of vitamins.
Basic scientific works of B.A. Lavrov belongs to theoretical and practical vitaminology. He investigated the physiological effect of vitamins, their participation in the synthesis processes in the body, the effect on the metabolism and reactivity of the body, studied gas, nitrogen and carbohydrate metabolism in the body with a lack of vitamins “C” and “B”, the role of vitamin “B” as one of the regulator of metabolism, the body’s need for vitamins.
In connection with the current situation in the initial period of the war, consisting in the loss of the richest granaries, it became necessary to expand the cultivated areas and increase the yield of all agricultural crops in other regions. For this, it was necessary to strengthen the work of scientific institutions in these zones on the creation of varieties of grain and other crops, the development of effective methods of their cultivation, ensuring an increase in the yield and quality of the products obtained. On the new lands, it was necessary to introduce the most stable and productive varieties of grain crops.This was facilitated by the work of breeders, including N.V. Tsitsin.
N.V. Tsitsin – Soviet botanist, geneticist and breeder, in 1940-1957. Head of the Laboratory of Remote Hybridization of the USSR Academy of Sciences, since 1945 Director of the Main Botanical Garden of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was engaged in the problem of creating more productive varieties of the main food crop – wheat – on the basis of distant hybridization of cultivated plants with wild species. His developments were a significant contribution to the practice of breeding and plant growing in our country and were of great importance for the development of genetics in the USSR.
In Leningrad during the siege, Professor E.A. Plevako, together with a group of researchers from the Central Research Laboratory of Fermentation Processes, chemical engineers and mechanics, developed a method for obtaining protein yeast from non-food raw materials and organized their industrial production. For this, the waste of sawdust from the woodworking plant in Dubrovka accumulated over many years was used. Sawdust was hydrolyzed with a weak solution of sulfuric acid, biogenic substances were introduced into the hydrolyzate – nitrogen and phosphoric salts (large reserves of sulfuric acid, superphosphate and saltpeter were available at the Nevsky Chemical Plant), and in this way yeast was grown, which made up for the deficiency of food proteins in Leningrad.
The role of I.D. Strashun – Soviet historian of medicine, hygienist, health care organizer, one of the most prominent leaders and theorists of health education in the USSR, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1944). In 1941-1943. I. D. Strashun was the director of the 1st Leningrad Medical Institute, was engaged in teaching activities. In 1944-1947. – Director of the Institute of Public Health Organization and History of Medicine of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, of which he was the founder.
The publication was prepared by N. Novikova
Typing I. Makarevich, O. Meshcheryakova
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