We have a ton at #MichiganMedicine (relatively speaking)

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For #MichiganMedicine, where 85% of the #clinical track #faculty at #UMich reside, they will be creating a #clinical #practice track where you can be promoted on the basis of providing excellent care to #patients and #hospital #operations work, without grants and #medical #journals

I personally think that we should stop doing that and focus on shoring up #MichiganMedicine in #AnnArbor, protecting both #clinicalcare and #research at our flagship.

This isn't the only issue I'm going to vote on, but definitely something I'll continue to harp about on SACUA after the #election

Summary: #MichiganMedicine is in dire #financial states and you have to make tradeoffs. I'm not convinced that spending hundreds of millions buying up other #hospitals is stabilizing our finances, we are willing to take (much) lower #salaries in #AnnArbor than other parts of state.

"A university with a great #health system is something to be really proud of, but a hospital that sets the university's priorities because it is dragging it down is not"

I have been banging the drum for years that #MichiganMedicine should be completely financially/legally separate from #university

We had our #UMich #Regent #Candidate Forum yesterday. Paul Brown (Dem) is incumbent; other incumbent Jordan Acker ignominiously lost primary. others would all be new.
Around 48:30 there is question about #MichiganMedicine #financial tensions - low #reimbursement, inadequate #staffing and #pay