Healthy Michigan Medicaid Expansion Reaches 600,000 Enrollees
Governor Rick Snyder announced this week that,
since beginning to accept enrollees on April 1, 2014, the Healthy Michigan Medicaid
program has been made available to more than 605,000 Michigan residents. Since
the program began a little more than a year ago, more than 344,000 residents
have undergone primary care visits, more than 35,000 recipients have also
undergone mammograms and 17,000 have undergone colonoscopies. The program
expansion was made available under the federal Affordable Care Act and was
enacted by the Legislature in 2013.
EMU President Martin Stepping Down
Eastern
Michigan University President Susan Martin announced Tuesday she is stepping
down as President of the University. President Martin has served in this
capacity for seven years, announcing this week she would leave the post on July
7 for a one-year sabbatical. She will then return to the university as a
tenured professor of accounting and finance in the university’s College of
Business. President Martin leaves the University in great standing as EMU has
recently admitted its largest class of freshman and its overall academic
standing has significantly improved. The Eastern Michigan University Board of
Trustees will now begin a search for her replacement.