| Wednesday, May 3 @ 12:00pm Bob Houhanisin: Farmington Public Safety John Cowley & Sons 33338 Grand River Ave Farmington |
After a brief 2-year hiatus, the Farmington Memorial Day Parade is back!
The Groves Walker American Legion Post 346 and the Xemplar Club of Farmington/Farmington Hills are proud to once again sponsor the Farmington Memorial Day Parade. The parade will take place at 10:00am on Monday, May 30, 2022 on Grand River Avenue, between Orchard Lake Road and downtown Farmington. The event ends with a ceremony at Memorial Park at Grand River Avenue & Oakland Street, followed by a free community luncheon hosted at the American Legion and sponsored by Weingartz Farmington Hills and the Xemplar Club.
If you know of a non-profit or civic group that would like to march in the parade, please point them to www.memorialdayparade.us for more information.
Xemplars will meet at Plaza Vetern=inary Hospital on Mooney Street at 9:00am to hand out American flags along the parade route. Please join us as we remember and honor our heroes.
In the interest of public safety, our "Annual" golf outing was not held in 2020 or 2021. The 17th Annual Xemplar Foundation Signature Classic Golf Outing will be held on June 29, 2022. We are proceeding based on the assumption that it will be safe to gather as a group at that time. Registration will open in April at www.xemplargolf.com. Until then, stay safe!
Once each year, we welcome a large contingent of guests from local charitable and non-profit organizations for our traditional "Donation Day". Thanks to the hard work of our members all year long we are able to donate to these organizations. This year's recipients of the Xemplar Foundation Donation Day 2022 included:
American Legion Boys State
American Legion Girls State
Care House of Oakland County
C.A.R.E.S. of Farmington Hills
Common Ground Sanctuary
Community Living Centers
Dr. Paws Pet Therapy
Farmington Historical Museum
Farmington Youth Assistance
Farmington Hills After School Youth Center Program
Farmington Public Schools Turn Around Program
Friends of The Farmington Library Children's Reading Program
Graham Smith Memorial Fund for Suicide Prevention
Haven House
Jamie Daniels Foundation
Kick Start Art
Farmington Hills Meals on Wheels
MI Works Matter
Neighborhood House
One School One Book
Operation Common Good
Samaritan Counseling Center
Farmington Hills Senior Transportation
Special Olympics Team Farmington
Starfish Family Services
YMCA After School Program
Our guest for lunch this week was Dr. Paul LaCasse, president and CEO of Botsford Health Care since 2005. His role expanded earlier this year to include responsibilities with Beaumont Health, the new organization formed through a merger of Beaumont Health System, Oakwood Healthcare and Botsford in September 2014. Paul shared with us that he was "forever grateful for the journey that began in 1977 when I arrived at Botsford as a third-year medical student from Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Now that the former Botsford Hospital is an essential component of Beaumont Health, it is time for me to transition its leadership to a new president." He will continue to serve as Beaumont - Farmington Hills president until a successor is named through an executive search. In his new role as executive vice president of the Post-Acute Division, Paul is leading the clinical and operational areas of medical transportation, senior living centers, home services, laboratory and pathology services, specialty and retail pharmacy, joint ventures and diversified business entities.
We also received an update on the $165MM expansion of Beaumont Health System Botsford Campus. The 5project which will take up to 5 years to complete will include a new patiewnt tower with 80 beds, doubling the size of the emergency room, adding 8 surgical suites, a new power plant and parking deck and much more. Services such as emergency care, surgery and post surgical will be on "stacked" floors to improve the flow of patients between units. All of the additions and changes are designed to improve the delivery of services and outcomes for patients, insuring that our community hospital has the best services and technologies available.