Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has designated 54 doctors in Ottawa County as patient-centered medical home physicians. The designation places them among a select number of primary care physicians in Michigan who are improving health care quality and lowering costs through a more intensive focus on their patients' wellness, according to the health insurer. The PCMH care teams work with patients to keep them healthy and monitor their care on an ongoing basis. The teams coordinate patients' health care using registries to track their conditions.

A Grand Haven chiropractic doctor is one of two volunteers recently recognized for their contributions to preventing youth substance abuse in Ottawa County.

An Amber Alert has been issued for a Ludington baby said to be "in extreme danger.' Ludington police said 4-month-old Katherine Shelbie-Elizabeth Phillips was taken Wednesday by a man who since has been located. Katherine was last seen wearing pink shorts and a matching pink tank top with black and pink flowers.

A medical issue is believed to be the cause of a crash that sent a 38-year-old Holland Township man to the hospital Wednesday afternoon, police said. Police responded to the accident on 120th Avenue, south of Riley Street, at 3:48 p.m., said Ottawa County Sheriff's Sgt. Brent Converse. Investigators said Eric Cook had been driving south on 120th Avenue when he had a medical issue and lost control of his 2000 Chevy Malibu. The car crossed over the center line and went off the east side of the road, and then hit and broke off a tree, causing the car to flip.

Fruitport resident Kirt Walbrink didn't get to ride in the 246-foot airship that floated over Muskegon and the Tri-Cities area on Wednesday, but the Farmers Insurance agent said he and his family still had fun taking part in the on-ground festivities. "My girls were really excited about that,' Walbrink said of the airship's take-offs and landings near a gate close to Ross Park in Norton Shores. "We watched it fly by about 300 feet away and 100 feet in the air.'

A federal appeals court in Cincinnati has upheld President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The ruling is the first by a federal appeals court on the overhaul. The three-judge 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel delivered a long opinion today with disagreement on some issues. But it affirmed a Michigan federal judge's earlier ruling that Congress can require Americans to have minimum insurance coverage. A conservative law center had challenged the provision. It said that it was unconstitutional and that Congress was overstepping its powers.