A nurse at a Taylor nursing home is accused of falsifying the medical records of a patient whose death was being investigated after a fall.

Governor Whitmer announced that pharmacists in Michigan are now able to prescribe hormonal birth control in partnership with doctors.

An Oakland County group home is shut down by the state of Michigan after claims of how residents were being treated.

That first patient complained to the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) in 2004, but the complaint was dismissed because the doctor had no priors and agreed to take classes on professional sexual misconduct.

On Friday, the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) ordered a Ypsilanti crematory to immediately stop operations.

LARA and the Child Care Licensing Bureau (CCLB) have summarily suspended and issued a notice of intent to revoke the group child care home license of Shelley Macfarlane in Romulus.

DETROIT – Michigan state officials are responding to a story about a crunch when it comes to renewing certain professional licenses. She said she’s trying to arrange to be re-certified as a Temporary Limited License Psychologist (TLLP). “I was unable to get in.”As a Master’s level clinical psychologist, she is licensed to practice counseling while she continues her education. Read: Therapists losing jobs due to Michigan license renewal crunch caused by pandemicIn four separate attempts, Local 4 asked a representative of Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs to address the complaints. At every turn, officials with LARA have declined an actual interview, but did send written answers to many questions.

DETROIT Detroit police announced they had made an arrest just hours after video of an elderly man being beaten in a Metro Detroit nursing home had surfaced. But the disturbing assault continues for almost another minute, until the elderly man begins to bleed. The nursing home, Westwood Nursing Home in northwest Detroit, told police today they had not seen the video. What our investigations is revealed so far that the nursing home was going to wherever an assault until they saw a video. Detroit police were able to quickly arrest the 20-year-old man who was being held on complaints of some degree of assault and battery.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) – Three Michigan businesses that sell recreational marijuana have won the right to begin making home deliveries of pot. The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs says it’s approved home pot deliveries by Lit Provisionary in Evart, Battle Creek Provisioning in Battle Creek and Nature’s Releaf Burton in Burton. Those three businesses are the first approved for adult-use home delivery in Michigan, which began allowing sales of recreational marijuana on Dec. 1 to adults age 21 and over, WOOD-TV reported. The delivery process is similar to medical marijuana delivery. Detroit has delayed recreational sales until at least Jan. 31.

LANSING, Mich. - There's deep concern across the state Friday for Michigan's licensed professional counselors. More than 1,000 people who either use counselors or make their living helping others cope came from all across Michigan. For eight hours, they told the LARA hearing board they don't want the changes to diagnosis and psychoanalysis rules. "I wouldn't have been able to talk to her about it at all (with the new rules)," Stagg said. It has said in the past that it is actually looking to protect Michigan residents by limiting the scope of counselors who might not be trained for diagnosis.

LANSING, Mich. - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Director Orlene Hawks praised Friday's move by the Michigan Board of Counseling to revoke the educationally limited counselor's license of Lawrence Ventline, a former priest with the Archdiocese of Detroit accused of sexually assaulting a young boy. The board's action Friday follows LARA's summary suspension of Ventline's license in May after an administrative complaint was filed by the attorney general's office with LARA for allegations of sexual assault. Under the Public Health Code, when a defendant does not respond to a complaint, the board considers the allegations to be undisputed and true. "However, today's action by the Michigan Board of Counselors ensures that he cannot use his counseling license to lure in and abuse vulnerable patients, including young children. We are grateful for our continued partnership with LARA to help ensure the safety and welfare of our residents."