• One hundred percent of UDM nursing graduates passed the licensing exam in winter 2012; nursing graduates had a 97.18 percent pass rate in spring 2012.
• One hundred percent of UDM graduates passed the Family Nurse Practitioner certificate exam.
• One hundred percent of nursing graduates passed the Clinical Nurse Leader certificate exam.
• One hundred percent of nursing graduates have jobs upon graduation or are enrolled in graduate school. Employers report high satisfaction with our nursing graduates.
• One hundred percent of UDM graduates from the Nurse Anesthesia program passed their December 2011 certification examination. The Nurse Anesthesia average first-attempt pass rate for the last 5 years (2007-2011) is 93.2%, which compares favorably to the national first-attempt pass rate of 89% during the same time period.
• One hundred percent of UDM graduates from the Physician Assistant Program passed their 2011 certification exam. One hundred percent of graduates responding to a survey six months after graduation in 2011 were employed as a PA.

MSON was one of two private nursing schools selected for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing 2011 Innovations in Professional Nursing Education Award. This award recognizes the outstanding work of AACN-member schools to re-envision traditional models for nursing education and lead programmatic change.

MSON was one of two private nursing schools selected for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing 2011 Innovations in Professional Nursing Education Award. This award recognizes the outstanding work of AACN-member schools to re-envision traditional models for nursing education and lead programmatic change.

University of Detroit Mercy's Nurse Anesthesia program has been ranked as the 11th best in the country, according to U.S.News and World Report "Best Graduate Schools 2012" rankings. The program has an outstanding national reputation both for its instruction as well as its clinical training

Nour Saad, a PA student, placed first in the Physician Assistant Education Association /Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants Student Writing Competition. She was invited to present her paper entitled “Voluntary Active Euthanasia of the Terminally Ill” at the AAPA 39th Annual PA Conference.

UDM’s McAuley Health Center services are now available at three locations in Detroit:

• Samaritan Center on the east side of Detroit
• Schulze School in northwest Detroit
• Joy-Southfield Health and Education Center on the west side

Professor of Nursing Carla Groh is the co-recipient of the 2012 UDM Distinguished Faculty Award and Associate Professor of Nursing Molly McClelland received the 2012 Faculty Achievement Award.

David Dumais, a 2012 PA graduate, received UDM’s Vivere ex Missione Award.  The award is given to a graduating student for living out the University’s mission. Dumais was recognized for his leadership abilities and for his development of the Detroit Hand Washing Initiative at a local school.

University of Detroit Mercy has the only in-seat Health Information Management program in Southeast Michigan.