Mike Duggan’s email to DMC employees [Detroit Free Press]
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Dear DMC Employees:
Hospital system CEO's today last in their jobs an average of 4 1/2 years. As I complete 9 years here, I feel lucky and very grateful to the 14,000 men and women of DMC who have been so supportive of me through a lot of battles and a lot of changes. You worked really hard to bring us back from financial crisis and turn DMC into the outstanding health care system we are today with the fastest growing hospitals in our market.
Yet in all the highs we've experienced in the last 9 years, we have never had a run of success like we've had in just the last three weeks:
1) DMC has finally gone into the insurance business. For years,
2) RIM got a huge boost with the opening of our
3) The "beam-topping ceremony" last week at Sinai-Grace marked the completion of the steel structure for the
4) Steel came out of the ground Monday on the
5) The Harper/Hutzel ER expansion and the Receiving OR expansion are nearing completion, as are the cardiology/cardiac surgery clinic/office renovations on the 4th floor at Children's. We've already opened the Children's Pediatrics Specialty Center and the new patient unit at
But nothing meant more to DMC's future than
I've said many times that I wouldn't leave DMC until I know our future is bright and we have an outstanding team in place to carry on our momentum. With this week's election results, I'm confident we're there.
I'll be stepping down as CEO on
For four years, Joe was tremendously successful operating hospitals in
We're leaving DMC in the hands of
I won't tell you it will be easy. There are still a lot of challenges and uncertainty in health care. But with our own HMO,
As for me, I'll be here working at DMC until
We rebuilt DMC together and it's been the greatest experience of my life. Now, I'm going to go try something a little harder. But I don't expect to be too far away and I'll always have DMC in my heart.
Thank you for everything.
Mike
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