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Subcommittee flags governance questions at Michigan Public Health Institute, ongoing mental-health bed shortages and physician licensing issues
Summary
Representative Bierlein reported subcommittee findings on MLCC inventory tracking problems, questions about the Michigan Public Health Institute's mission and relationship with MDHHS, physician-licensing burdens, and significant behavioral-health bed shortages, particularly in the northern Lower Peninsula and Upper Peninsula.
Representative Bierlein, chair of the Public Health and Food Security subcommittee, summarized four core areas of work: Michigan Liquor Control Commission inventory problems, oversight questions about the Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI), physician shortages and licensing burdens, and systemic deficits in behavioral and mental-health capacity.
On the liquor-commission matter, Bierlein said an Office of the Auditor General report suggested about 35% of the state's spirits inventory (roughly $1 billion worth of product) was unaccounted…
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