Director of Public Relations
Mary Masson is the director of public relations for Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center of the University of Michigan. She leads the team that promotes research and clinical care discoveries and treatments to the news media and the public, via social platforms, media outreach and the content platform, Health Lab. Masson has been a communicator for Michigan Medicine since 2009. Prior to that, she was a reporter and editor at the Detroit Free Press, Indianapolis Star and Flint Journal.
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A collaboration to expand cardiovascular services in west Michigan has taken a big step forward with state regulators giving the go-ahead to launch a second open-heart surgery program for the Grand Rapids area – the largest market in the state with a single open-heart program.
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As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rise across Michigan, beginning Friday April 2, 2021 Michigan Medicine will move to a more restrictive visitor policy similar to earlier in the pandemic.
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Earlier today, I signed a letter in solidarity with the six University of Michigan women deans who authored a note of protest to Regent Ron Weiser.
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Michigan Medicine is moving into the next priority phase of vaccinations, with plans to begin vaccinating established patients who are age 65 or older against COVID-19 during the week of Jan. 11.
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Michigan Medicine began vaccinating people against COVID-19 today with an initial group of five frontline workers.
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One of Michigan Medicine’s clinical leaders, David C. Miller, M.D., M.P.H., will be the new president of the University of Michigan Health System as of Jan. 1, 2021 after approval today from the U-M Board of Regents.
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Michigan Medicine has tightened visitor restrictions at its hospitals and clinics to continue to minimize COVID-19 spread and keep patients and staff safe.
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Michigan Medicine has joined about 100 of the nation’s top health care systems with an urgent plea for all Americans – mask up,(link is external) because wearing a facemask is our best chance at slowing the surging COVID-19 pandemic.
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Michigan Medicine has added visitor restrictions at its hospitals and clinics to continue to minimize COVID-19 spread and keep patients and staff safe.
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Henry Ford Health System, Michigan Medicine(link is external) and Saint Joseph Mercy Health System unveiled their $48 million shared laundry facility that is expected to achieve both significant savings from more efficient operations and better meet the needs of these three health systems.
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Costs from the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically affected financial results for Michigan Medicine’s clinical operations, resulting in a forecasted $3 million operating loss, after government assistance, on $4.7 billion in revenue for the fiscal year that ends June 30.
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Currently, because of the significant financial impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the entire Michigan Medicine health system and medical school have had to undergo staff reductions. Unfortunately, layoffs were necessary to continue serving our communities at the level our patients and families have come to expect from us.
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As announced on May 5, 2020, COVID-19 efforts at Michigan Medicine resulted in significant operating losses that resulted in an extensive expense reduction initiative.
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The University of Michigan House Officers Association (HOA) ratified a three-year collective bargaining agreement today with Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center of the University of Michigan.
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Michigan Medicine has earned the No.15 spot in Newsweek’s 2020 World’s Best Hospitals list.
