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A message from Dr. Maria Muzik, MC3 Perinatal Medical Director
Message updated on October 28, 2025. Updated text is in italics.
Dear perinatal colleagues and partners,
I hope this message finds you well. I’m writing to share important updates regarding our Perinatal Patient Care service, which many of you know as our patient-directed service currently offered in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw, Ingham, and Genesee counties.
Over the past four years, it has been our privilege to support your patients with short-term therapy, care coordination, and intensive follow-up. We understand how vital these services are for perinatal patients facing mental health challenges, and our goal has always been to expand this support.
Due to recent funding changes, however, we will need to scale back the services offered. Beginning October 1, 2025, we will no longer be able to offer the full suite of supports as in the past. We want to keep you informed so you can best support your patients and plan transitions accordingly.
What Will Remain Available as of October 1, 2025:
- Free, same-day access to a behavioral health consultant
- Screening for mental health risk and brief needs assessment
- Support services, including:
- Education on self-care and self-help resources
- Assistance navigating local support, financial, childcare, and other essential community resources
- Referrals to community-based therapy providers
- Referrals to perinatal peer support groups
What Will Be Changing as of October 1, 2025:
- We will no longer be able to provide short-term therapy
- Direct care coordination with your practice will conclude; however, prescribers can still consult with MC3 psychiatrists
- Intensive follow-up (multiple contacts throughout the perinatal year) will not be available
- We will no longer offer this service in Genesee County. However, we encourage providers in Genesee to refer patients to the MC3 Behavioral Resource Specialist.
We understand that these changes represent a significant shift from our previous model and that the transition may come with challenges. Please know that we are committed to supporting both you and your patients throughout this process.
As we move forward, we will continue to strengthen community resources and build robust referral networks to ensure your patients have ongoing access to the support they need. We are also actively seeking additional funding opportunities to restore or expand services in the future.
Below are links to download updated informational materials and an FAQ sheet to help clarify these changes:
We value your patience and partnership during this transition. Your feedback and questions are always welcome — we are here to support you and your patients every step of the way. Please don’t hesitate to contact the Perinatal Patient Care team at [email protected].
Thank you for your continued trust and collaboration. We deeply appreciate your dedication to Michigan families and look forward to working with you as we adapt and grow.
With warmth and determination,
Dr. Maria Muzik
MC3 is excited to welcome its new administrative leader, Jenni Lane!
Jenni Lane has over twenty years of experience in health care improvement, bringing innovative concepts to practical application and measurable impact. Her expertise with grant proposal writing supports her oversight of workforce development and change management interventions across the stages of analysis, design, development, implementation, evaluation, marketing, and dissemination. She specializes in evidence-based approaches, human-centered design, and adult learning principles to drive individual and systems-level change.
In her most recent role as Assistant Director of Training and Technical Assistance at the Weitzman Institute, Jenni led the growth and expansion of Weitzman’s national presence in training and technical assistance for health care professionals and primary care practices. She conducted market analyses to identify learner and sector needs, surfacing opportunities for innovative programming, partnership building, and revenue generation.
Previously, as Senior Program Manager at the University of Michigan Adolescent Health Initiative, Jenni co-developed and scaled two evidence-based interventions that are now implemented in hundreds of health centers and systems nationally. While there, Jenni trained and coached many interdisciplinary health center teams on practice improvements and workforce development around issues such as integrated behavioral health care, adolescent-centered care and teen pregnancy prevention, among many other topics.
She has received numerous national awards for her work incorporating innovative, positive youth development principles into the health care field, including the Partnership Award from the Institute for Patient and Family-Centered Care and the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine’s Millar Innovation award. Jenni is a thought leader who has spent decades working within the nexus of positive youth development and health care improvement.
Jenni enjoys tackling difficult problems with creative, collaborative, and realistic solutions that connect the dots between performance indicators, patient needs, practice improvements, and access to high-quality care. She brings a servant leadership perspective to her program and personnel management, centering and nurturing individual and team strengths that optimize effective collaborations and organizational health.
Jenni will be overlapping with and then taking the helm from Anne Kramer, MC3’s longtime administrative leader, who will be retiring in the fall.
To ensure prescribing health care providers are accurately recording their time spent on MC3 psychiatric consultations, our team created a guide for how to bill and code for mental health services.
The MC3 team is excited to welcome three new additions to their consulting psychiatrist teams. Learn more about these new team members below.
Victor Hong, M.D.
Consulting Psychiatrist, Emergency & Crisis Services Consultation
Dr. Hong is a Clinical Associate Professor, Associate Director of Adult Psychiatry Hospital Services, and Medical Director of Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES) in the U-M Department of Psychiatry. He also is the Psychiatric Lead for the U-M Athletic Department.
Dr. Hong is now available to provide Emergency & Crisis Services Consultations to our emergency providers at participating sites.
Hannah Reynard, D.O., M.S.C.
Consulting Psychiatrist, Emergency & Crisis Services Consultation
Dr. Reynard is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Medical Director. She also is the Nyman Unit Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Clinical Lead for Psychiatry at the U-M Medical School.
Dr. Reynard is now available to provide Emergency & Crisis Services Consultations to our emergency providers at participating sites.
Dorothy Bourdet, M.D.
Consulting Psychiatrist, Outpatient Pediatric Consultation
Dr. Bourdet is a Clinical Instructor for the U-M Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Bourdet is now available to provide pediatric psychiatric consultations to our outpatient providers.
Welcome to the team!
The mental health of mothers in the United States declined significantly from 2016 to 2023, according to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Researchers from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the University of Michigan Medical School found that, out of nearly 200,000 mothers surveyed, one in 20 reported their mental health was “poor” or “fair” in 2016, increasing to one in 12 by 2023. Additionally, the percentage of mothers who rated their mental health as “excellent” dropped sharply during the study period. In contrast, one in 22 fathers reported fair or poor mental health in 2023.
The authors of the study found that the prevalence of fair and poor self-reported mental and physical health was considerably higher among mothers of lower education, single mothers, and those whose children are covered by Medicaid or are uninsured.
St. Clair County Community Mental Health (SCCCMH) celebrated their 60th anniversary on May 21, 2025 with an awards banquet to honor local individuals and organizations supporting mental health.
Best Kids, PC, was selected as the 2025 Organization of the Year for integrating behavioral health into pediatric care and setting a new standard in the county. Elizabeth Lozen, LMSW, MC3 Regional Behavioral Health Consultant, also was honored with this award for her role in facilitating collaboration between SCCCMH and MC3. As a result of this collaboration, Best Kids has successfully implemented MC3 services into their practice, including mental health screenings, psychoeducation for families, access to telepsychiatry, and timely referrals. They are currently the only pediatric office in St. Clair County offering this level of integrated care.
Congratulations to Best Kids and Elizabeth Lozen!
Each May we are reminded of the importance of Mental Health Awareness. Learn more about how to turn mental health awareness into action from our medical directors and browse relevant learning opportunities and resources below.
Maternal Mental Health Week is an important event recognized nationally May 5-11, but for perinatal health care providers, its significance is recognized year-round.
The importance of mental health among perinatal women cannot be overstated. In addition to affecting the life of the mother, research has demonstrated that perinatal mental health disorders have been shown to increase the risk for psychological and developmental concerns in their children as well.
As a Perinatal Psychiatry Access Program (PPAP), MC3 helps equip providers in Michigan to support the needs of perinatal patients by:
- Educating front-line providers on the diagnosis and treatment of perinatal mental health conditions
- Consulting with providers on complex cases
- Referring providers to local resources for their patients
- Directly supporting perinatal women through our Infant Mental Health-informed Perinatal Patient Care services, offered in select counties
While much progress has been made toward supporting the mental health of mothers and perinatal women, gaps in care still remain. Learn more about the current state of maternal mental health in Michigan in the infographic below.
Sources: 1) James D. Perinatal Psychiatry Access Programs are Addressing the Gap in Maternal Mental Health Care — Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance: MMHLA. Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance: MMHLA. https://www.mmhla.org/articles/perinatal-psychiatry-access-programsnbsp-closing-the-gap-in-maternal-mental-health-care. September 13, 2024. 2) Burkhard, J., Murphy C., Childers, A. Maternal Mental Health Dark Zones- Counties with the Highest Risk and Lowest Resources Revealed. Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health. https://www.2020mom.org/us-maternal-mental-health-dark-zones-revealed. November 2023. 3) High risk/lowest Resource County List. Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health. https://policycentermmh.org/high-risk-lowest-resource-county-list/. November 2023. 4) PRAMS reports. https://www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/adult-child-serv/childrenfamilies/prams/reports. 2022. 5) Trost SL, Beauregard J, Njie F, et al. Pregnancy-Related Deaths: Data from Maternal Mortality Review Committees in 36 U.S. States, 2017-2019. CDC, US Dept of Health and Human Services. 2022.
Perinatal health care providers in Michigan are invited to sign up for MC3 psychiatric services at the link below.
As many as one in five women experience depression, anxiety, or another mental health condition during pregnancy or in the year after birth. Although effective treatments exist, many women don’t receive them.
To better understand what maternal mental health looks like across the U.S., the research team at the University of Michigan Perinatal Mental Health Services and Policy Program created a visual maternal mental health dashboard and maternal mental health profiles for all U.S. states. The team hopes that this information offers policymakers and maternal mental health advocates an evidence-based way to support pregnant and postpartum families in the future.
“Before we can fix a problem, we need to better describe it,” says Dr. Kara Zivin, the program’s director and the Marcia A. Valenstein, M.D., Collegiate Professor of Psychiatry. “We are proud and excited to offer these resources as a pathway to more informed problem-solving for the U.S. maternal health crisis.”
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