Tag: Health

From HFEC to Pulmoro: Breathing New Futures

In just a few years, Dearborn’s own Henry Ford Early College alum Hamza Crichlow went from caring for patients at the bedside to building Pulmoro, a clinical decision-support app helping healthcare workers around the world manage complex respiratory cases. His journey is a reminder that when public education, community support, and tech justice line up, ...

Dearborn Unveils First-Ever Community Health Assessment Highlighting Key Challenges

Dearborn, MI — The City of Dearborn's Public Health Department has released its inaugural Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA)—a groundbreaking, data-rich initiative developed with technical support from the Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI) and community input. This landmark report, based on a survey of 1,127 residents and multiple focus groups, puts public health at the ...

The Argeeli Romance

I was sitting in a café with a friend of mine. We both ordered our argeeli (another name for the hookah or shisha). These are water pipes, and are used to smoke flavored or straight tobacco. I ordered mine mint flavored, dried, with a glass of Perrier and he ordered a grape mint argeeli and a glass ...

Why Our Jokes on Mental Health are Unintentionally Destroying Lives

Even though mental health is slowly becoming more normalized in our community, the jokes haven't stopped.