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Metro Health Promotes Ellen Bristol to Director of Internal Communications
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Wyoming, Michigan, January 31, 2012 – Metro Health Hospital announced today that Ellen Bristol has been promoted to the position of director of internal communications.
Formerly the hospital’s communications manager, Bristol will now add internal communications to her responsibilities. In addition to her roles with media relations and as spokeswoman, she will work with Metro Health’s executive team and provide executive ghostwriting, speechwriting and other internal communications efforts. She will also provide communications support for Pennant Health Alliance, a joint effort with Saint Mary’s Health Care, Mercy Health Partners and the University of Michigan Health Services, to support and improve the delivery of local health care for affiliate hospitals, medical groups and the Michigan communities they serve.
Bristol brings more than 20 years of professional communications and marketing experience to her new role at Metro. She joined the hospital in 2005 as a communications supervisor. Her responsibilities have included crisis management, social media management, managing special events and co-chairing the marketing and public relations subcommittee for the 2007 hospital move team from Grand Rapids to Wyoming.
Prior to joining Metro, she worked as an internal communications coordinator at Holland Hospital. She has held positions of increasing authority at other organizations, including Frank’s Nursery & Crafts and Foster & Gallagher.
Bristol earned her bachelor of arts from Oakland University cum laude. She currently resides in Wyoming.
About Metro Health Hospital
Metro Health is a regional healthcare organization with a 208-bed general acute care osteopathic teaching hospital and 12 neighborhood outpatient centers, serving more than 250,000 patients in Kent and surrounding counties. Metro, which earned status as a Top 100 Hospital for three consecutive years, offers a broad range of services, including hospital inpatient and outpatient services, emergency, surgery, cancer, cardiology, intensive care and rehabilitation. Physician, therapy and diagnostic services are offered in its 12 neighborhood centers. Metro’s work is supported by the Metro Health Hospital Foundation, which is a charitable organization dedicated to improving the health and well being of the West Michigan community through philanthropy. For more information, visit www.metrohealth.net.
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