livonia

Core Chiropractic & Performance Center w/ Dr. Billy Bonanno & Dr. Maddi Karstens

Curious about what the future of chiropractic care looks like? Let me tell you, it ain't just adjustments!

Billy and Maddi are the owners of Core Chiropractic & Performance Center in Livonia, MI. They are turning the world of chiropractic care upside down. Billy specializes in rehab and sports performance care. While Maddi specializes in pediatric and women's health. Talk about a dynamic duo!

Check out their website for more resources! https://www.corecpc.com/ Also, go follow them on Instagram:

Billy: https://www.instagram.com/dr.bonannobilly/

Maddi: https://www.instagram.com/maddi_karstens/

VIDEO VERSION: https://youtu.be/zJ_ryk-vOrc

=====================================================

Support Dr. Mitch Israel on other platforms!

Instagram

Facebook

YouTube

===================================================== 

DISCLAIMER: This content (the podcast, video, description, links, and comments) is only informational. It is general and not intended to be medical advice, nor does using it create a physician-patient relationship with you. Before starting, consult your healthcare provider for a proper diagnosis and ensure this content and any included products are safe and appropriate for your medical and physical condition. STOP IMMEDIATELY if you experience pain. Dr. Mitch Israel makes no representations about the accuracy or suitability of this content for you. By voluntarily using this content, you assume all risks for any resulting losses, injuries, or damages.

Introducing Laurie Pohutsky. 0:08

Introducing Laurie Pohutsky, 17th district Michigan House of Representatives.

Maternal and infant health.

 

What can the government do to better support parents? 2:54

Doula and birth center expansion in Michigan.

The most important issue facing new families.

The availability of resources in Michigan.

The double standard for private and public insurance.

 

The lack of postpartum support for new parents. 7:32

Lack of postpartum support for families.

The six-week gap in health care.

 

How do you see the relationship between maternal health and early parenting? 9:56

The relationship between maternal health and early parenting.

High infant mortality rate in the United States.

 

What does prenatal care look like for different communities? 11:40

Understanding what prenatal care looks like for different communities.

Understanding why people choose doulas or midwives.

 

What is the future of birth like? 13:59

How midwifery is different than an obstetrician.

The global pandemic and the birth center.

Department of health and human services and Medicaid reimbursement.

Maternal and infant health crisis.

 

Doula support is not about making $1.50 an hour. 18:37

Critic of accepting Medicaid insurance for payment.

Good quality care comes from good quality care.

 

Speaker Pro Tempore Laurie Pohutsky introduces herself. 20:36

Introducing Laurie Pohutsky, Speaker Pro Tempore, Michigan House of Representatives.

Laurie's background.

 

Doula reimbursement rates aren’t sustainable. 22:14

Reimbursement rates for doulas in Michigan are horrible.

Lack of care and lack of support.

How Medicaid paying for doula services perpetuates poverty.

The Michigan family doula movement.

 

Link: Michigan Family Doulas

Speaker Pro Tempore Laurie Pohutsky is serving her third term representing the 17th House District, which encompasses parts of Northwest Detroit, North Redford Charter Township and Northeast Livonia. She is a long-time activist and volunteer, and spent time as a crisis hotline volunteer and a caregiver at Angela Hospice.

Pohutsky graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in microbiology. While a student at MSU, she took part in community outreach activities and protests at the Capitol. These experiences instilled a deep interest in politics and demonstrated the importance of ensuring everyone has a voice in government.

After college, Pohutsky worked in the fields of food safety, toxicology and health care. She brings this knowledge, along with her experience in water quality testing, with her to the Michigan House of Representatives. She has a deep commitment to bringing a scientific perspective to government and advocating for environmental causes.

Pohutsky is a member of the Livonia Democratic Club and is active in Michigan United. She lives in Livonia with her rescue pets.

Transcripts: The State of our Health Care System with Mich Rep Laurie Pohutsky 

 

Our guest this week is Amjad Farah, of Livonia, MI who is a global account director at PPG. Amjad and his wife Buthayna, have been married for 27 years and are the proud parents of three children: Amal (26), Sadallah (25) and Abdullah (19) who was diagnosed with Epilepsy and moderate to severe cognitive impairment.

We’ll hear Ahmad’s family story, their immigration from the West Bank in Palestine, and more this week on the Special Fathers Network Dad to Dad Podcast.

Show Links:

Muhsen – https://muhsen.org
ARC of NW Wayne County – https://thearcnw.org
Early On Intervention MI – https://www.1800earlyon.org
Email – Amjad.farah5@gmail.com
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amjad-farah-a0975643/

Special Fathers Network -
SFN is a dad to dad mentoring program for fathers raising children with special needs. Many of the 500+ SFN Mentor Fathers, who are raising kids with special needs, have said: "I wish there was something like this when we first received our child's diagnosis. I felt so isolated. There was no one within my family, at work, at church or within my friend group who understood or could relate to what I was going through."

SFN Mentor Fathers share their experiences with younger dads closer to the beginning of their journey raising a child with the same or similar special needs. The SFN Mentor Fathers do NOT offer legal or medical advice, that is what lawyers and doctors do. They simply share their experiences and how they have made the most of challenging situations.

Special Fathers Network: https://21stcenturydads.org/about-the-special-fathers-network/

Check out the 21CD YouTube Channel with dozens of videos on topics relevant to dads raising children with special needs - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzDFCvQimWNEb158ll6Q4cA

Please support the SFN. Click here to donate: https://21stcenturydads.org/donate/

Welcome to a Car-a-Palooza edition of your Daily Detroit.

Today, we dive into the news that Dan “Dantroit” Gilbert is lining up a petition drive effort to force the issue of reforming Michigan’s no-fault auto insurance system.

If successful, it could allow Republican lawmakers, who already have passed essentially the same proposal, to approve it with simple majority votes. Will this ratchet up pressure on Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and lawmakers to cut a deal?

Staying with cars, Ford employees came to work Monday to an email in their inboxes from CEO Jim Hackett outlining plans to whack 7,000 white-collar job cuts by September. And we discuss Michigan Auto Law’s list of the most dangerous intersections for 2018.

We run down some non-cars stories as well:

• The University of Michigan might open a manufacturing R&D center in Detroit … on the #FailJail site? [Crain’s]
• Livonia could get Aloft and Element hotels as part of a proposed six-story development. [Hometown Life]
• Madonna University broke ground on two new buildings over the weekend.
• Royal Oak is offering free weekend parking in June in its under-utilized parking decks, which are going up as part of the larger Rethink Royal Oak project — hear our previous episode about that here.

Thanks for listening to Daily Detroit. If you like what you’re hearing, tell a friend about us, or support us via Patreon to help ensure we keep pushing Detroit’s conversation forward.

Welcome back to the week! There's a lot in our latest episode. Let's dive in.

- The Ilitch organization will receive another $74 million dollars in taxpayer subsidies for the District Detroit. 

- John Beilein is leaving his job as coach of the University of Michigan Men’s basketball team to take over as head coach of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers.

- Hazel Park is set to get a new mixed-use mid-rise development on the site of a former CVS and Movie M ania store on John R as part of a vision to create a walkable downtown district. 

- A new microbrewery might be coming to Livonia.

- The Hello Kitty mobile cafe is coming back to Metro Detroit, this time in a new location.

- Freep Columnist Rochelle Riley is joining Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan's administration to promote and grow arts and culture in the city.

- And, we talk about the preview of the beautiful Monarch Club on the roof of the historic Metropolitan Building.

My guest for this episode of the Guest Friends podcast is my former 6th grade teacher at Taylor Elementary School: Tom Gerken. Tom was born in Ohio, but he spent his entire 37-year teaching career and raised his family "North of the boarder" in Livonia, Michigan. Although retired from the classroom now, Tom continues to lead an active and healthy lifestyle - including still running 2-miles every day. I'd imagine that not too many people get the chance to reconnect with one of their favorite teachers later in life - let alone interview them. So I was grateful to have the opportunity to meet up with Tom after running into him at an Al Kaline autograph signing at Comerica Park in Detroit this past Fall. Amongst other insights, Tom shares how little league baseball and his love of the Detroit Tigers influenced his teaching career; how being pink-slipped twelve of his first thirteen years in the profession was an unwelcome introduction to the political process; and how his students in the '70s got an education in the "History of Rock & Roll" as part of his early curriculum stylings.

We'd enjoy your comments or questions:

GuestFriendsPodcast@gmail.com

 

LINKS RELATED TO THIS EPISODE: 

Logo Credit: Saint-Creative.com 

Music Credit: Of Asaph (James Alleman)

 

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES:

Documentary: American Teacher

Book: Tribe of Mentors (by Tim Ferriss)

1999 Teacher of the Year: Andy Baumgartner

Article: Michigan K-12 Funding

1968 World Champion: Detroit Tigers

Article: The 50s - A Decade of Music That Changed the World (Rolling Stone)

In December of 2002 Marco Pesce was a father of three children and the owner of Italia Jewelers in Livonia Michigan. 

The night of December 21 two men attacked and robbed the family, leaving five dead and a community in terror.  Within days the killers were turned in by their own family members who were horrified at the brutality of the murders.

#Murder, #Michigan, #Livonia,

 

"Difficult times in our lives."