Kate Wells
ReporterKate Wells is a Peabody Award-winning journalist currently covering public health. She was a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her abortion coverage. Wells previously co-hosted Believed, a nine-part podcast series drawing millions of downloads and numerous awards. She and co-host Lindsey Smith received the prestigious Livingston Award for Young Journalists.
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At a time when the state is seeing a surge in vaccine-preventable illnesses in kids, the state's trying to figure out why more parents are delaying or skipping vaccines. -
The Trump administration launched investigations into health care organizations in an effort to allow providers to refuse care for transgender patients on religious or moral grounds. -
Valerie Kloosterman says she was fired as a physician assistant, after requesting a religious exemption from providing certain types of care to transgender patients. -
Hormone therapy and other types of gender-affirming care for transgender minors remain legal in the state, even as the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ban in Tennessee. -
More than 1.4 million Michiganders receive food assistance through SNAP, and more than half of those are families with kids. -
Staff have been told their employment will directly transfer if they "meet the Beacon Health System employment requirements," but nurses say they haven't been told what those requirements are. -
The infected people visited several public locations, and local health officials are urging those who may have been exposed to monitor for symptoms and get vaccinated. -
Some nursing home workers allege they were fired for participating in a one-day strike last month against one of the largest nursing home operators in the state. -
The program is being continued, even as state health officials are concerned about how proposed federal cuts to SNAP benefits would affect Michiganders. -
Michigan Public's Kate Wells discusses her recent reporting on the financial pressures faced by some Planned Parenthood clinics.
