Hi everyone. I'm Dana Jay and this is Henry Ford Health System News.
This is a brand new program that we're bringing you every couple of weeks.
It features stories from every corner of Henry Ford,
that feature our values of compassion, innovation, respect, and results.
We start today with the COVID-19 vaccine trial,
the results of which could not be more important.
Henry Ford is the only health system in Michigan.
That's been chosen to be part of phase three of the Moderna vaccine trial
enrollment in the study is getting underway and time is of the essence.
Wow. The faster we can enroll volunteers into the study,
the more, the faster we can get the results.
Henry Ford is one of about 90 healthcare systems across the United States that
are working to enroll a total of 30,000 volunteers in the Moderna COVE
vaccine study as quickly as possible.
Recent headlines announced promising results in initial phases of the study,
the experimental vaccine appears to be producing high levels of Corona virus
antibody without major side effects.
That has been a couple of phases of trials at the present time that have shown
that the vaccine is safe.
We need to determine now whether it's effective and how it health care workers
can play a significant role into kind of assessing and determining that.
That means researchers will be watching to see whether or not the antibodies
produced by the vaccine, keep COVID-19 at bay.
There a great urgency to know whether the vaccine works in
all patient populations,
because we know that anybody who gets Corona virus can
become very sick with it.
Most people over the age of 18 can volunteer for the study,
but researchers are particularly interested in recruiting healthcare workers and
members of the community who are at high risk,
such as first responders and essential workers,
putting those on the front lines of the pandemic in a position to put an end to
it too.
We're in a historic time with, uh, with COVID.
This is the worst pandemic of the last hundred years.
And our best hope of dealing with this is by having an effective vaccine.
You can find out more about this study and find out how to enroll at
henryford.com slash Moderna vaccine.
Now let's go to Henry Ford, West Bloomfield hospital, where the farmer is in.
Resident farmer, Trevor Johnson,
is bringing fresh produce from his on-campus greenhouse and a local farm to
visitors and staff.
One of the things I do to prepare for my farmer's market is to harvest the
produce that comes right from my greenhouse. So I'll pick cherry tomatoes,
harvest basil and any other herbs that I'm selling at market.
All the basil I grow in the greenhouse gets processed into pesto that we sell at
market. Some of it does get sold at market for fresh sales.
And anything that I don't sell gets sold to the kitchen Henry's Market on
Main is a fresh produce market that we run every Wednesday,
nine to 2:00 PM between June and November, every year.
We sell all Michigan produce honey bread and flowers seasonally.
When people leave a doctor's appointment and are told they need to reduce their
salt intake because they are in danger of having a heart attack or
something.
The next thing they see when they leave the doctor's office is Henry's Market on
Main, not a fast food restaurant,
not something that just wants to put calories in your body,
but something that really does support the health and wellbeing of our patients.
The market is very much the same as in previous years,
except this year we reduced our hours to 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
We reduced the hours because we have visitor restrictions in place in the
hospital. And there are fewer people coming through.
My favorite part about Henry's Market on Main is what the mission and vision of
the market is.
All the proceeds from our market go to support local food insecurity in the
area. So by you buying produce here at market, you're supporting, uh,
the fight of food insecurity around Southeast Michigan.
Social distancing may be preventing Henry Ford Macomb hospital from staffing its
usual booth at their community farmer's market,
but they're still finding ways to encourage shoppers, to buy fresh produce.
Dietician Amanda Krieg started producing a video series
called getting to know your fruits and vegetables.
The videos are featured every week on the Dodge park farmer's market,
Facebook page and supported by the Michigan fitness foundation,
USDA and Michigan department of health and human services. Finally,
our featured photo,
here's the surgical team at Henry Ford Wyandotte hospital right after they did
their very first robot assisted kidney surgery down river.
Now urology patients can get that high level of care without leaving their
community way to go. Guys,
share your photos with us and send me your story ideas.
You can email me at NewsTips@HFHS.org And I'll see you
around.