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Helping hand

City of Wayne Mayor John Rhaesa, Councilwoman
Kelly Skiff, City Manager Lisa Nocerini and her direc-
tors, Wayne Police Chief Ryan Strong and fellow of-
ficers take a moment for a photo after teaming up
with the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department, the De-
troit Rescue Mission Ministries, Eternal Light Organ-
ization and Life for Relief and Development to deliver
142 boxes and 142 bags of food to seniors at the
Wayne Tower.

Hospital, Continued from page 3 let's not forget the hospital employ- let down your guard: Until the test- uncertainty about the future.
ees who were impacted but chose to ing shortage is resolved, we must COVID19 is quite active, and the
that it was wrong for the hospital to stand up. They deserve our thanks wear masks, keep social distancing socio-economic repercussions are
shut down during a global pandemic. and appreciation for their dedica- and work together to get through just starting to be felt. Adjustments
He also raised concerns about the tion.” this!” will be required. We cannot assure
poor communication between the Beaumont Wayne Dr. Muzammil In another post, Dr. Ahmed wrote stability or a return to the successes
hospital, the Wayne community and Admed announced on his Facebook “#BeaumontWayne has undergone a we have had in the past, but we can
the hospital employees. page “The whole team is glad to be thorough deep cleaning and patients promise you that we will work to-
“I want to thank everyone for back. In the ER, patients are starting can come here with the full assur- gether to make Beaumont Wayne
their support and hard work over to trickle in: an unfortunate lady ance they can safely get their health and the community it serves healthy
the past few weeks to reopen our with a hip fracture, another woman care needs met. There is still much and strong.”
community’s hospital,” Mayor with congestive heart failure. Our en-
Rhaesa said in a statement. “I want vironmental services team is keeping
to thank Jordyn Sellek, the Execu- the hospital safe and clean. #Beau-
tive Director of the Conference of montwayne has served this area for
Western Wayne, and the Mayors and over 60 years, and we are so glad to
Supervisors of the 18 Conference of have it start back up again. All hos-
Western Wayne Communities for pitals have had a dramatic fall in vol-
coming together to support the reso- umes in the past month. But as the
lution asking the hospital to reopen. COVID threat decreases, people can
I also want to thank the Wayne City start getting their health needs ad-
Council for supporting a similar res- dressed that have been put on hold.”
olution at the Tuesday, April 21st, The message continues “We do
Wayne City Council Meeting. still watch the COVID numbers, and
“I also want to thank the mem- metro-Detroit has been great with so-
bers of Congress who stepped up to cial distancing and flattening the
help, our State Representatives and curve. Unfortunately, the COVID
Senators, our County Executive and numbers in western and northern
Commissioners. Last, but not least, Michigan are starting to rise. Don't

4 · May 2020 · The Wayne Dispatch