Senior 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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Michigan Medicine and Saint Joseph Mercy Health System, a member of Trinity Health, today announce a partnership with Lansing-based Physicians Health Plan (PHP) to bring a new choice in Medicare Advantage plans to Livingston and Washtenaw counties this fall.
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Medical leaders from 21 hospital systems signed an open letter to Michigan residents pleading for people to get vaccinated. The letter comes after an increase of COVID-19 cases across the state, which leaders warn could turn into a fourth wave.
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Despite challenges presented by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and a vaccine rollout, Michigan Medicine reported projected positive fiscal year-end results today, with an anticipated 6.5 percent ($339.8 million) operating margin on forecasted operating revenues of $5.2 billion.
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The Pavilion at University of Michigan Health will be the name of the new Michigan Medicine hospital currently under construction, the University of Michigan’s academic medical center announced today.
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Physician assistants represented by the United Physician Assistants of Michigan Medicine/AFT 5297 (UPAMM) have ratified a three-year contract with Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center of the University of Michigan.
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With infection rates and hospitalizations for COVID-19 dropping, Michigan Medicine will lift some visitor restrictions for adult patients that had been required during the most recent surge of patients.
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The board of regents approved the appointment of Michelle S. Caird, M.D., to chair of the Michigan Medicine Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, effective May 1. Caird served as interim department chair since May 2019.
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Following several months of negotiations, the newly established United Physician Assistants at Michigan Medicine / AFT Local 5297 (UPAMM) has reached a tentative agreement with the University on a three-year contract.
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Michigan Medicine is establishing clinics to provide post-discharge care to both adults and pediatric patients experiencing these long-term post COVID symptoms and complications.
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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.
