Corewell Health

Last updated
Corewell Health
Corewell Health Logo (vertical).svg
Geography
Location Grand Rapids, Michigan (Headquarters)
Organisation
Funding Non-Profit Health System
Type Teaching
Services
Emergency department 22 Hospital Facilities
Beds5000+
History
Opened2022 (Spectrum Health and Beaumont Health merger)
Links
Website corewellhealth.org www.spectrumhealth.org www.beaumont.org

Corewell Health is a non-profit healthcare system located in the state of Michigan in the United States. It was formed as a result of the merger between Beaumont Health, located in Metro Detroit, and Spectrum Health, located in West Michigan, in 2022. Corewell is currently the largest healthcare system in Michigan, based on its inpatient admissions and net patient revenue. The organization has its headquarters in Grand Rapids and employs over 60,000 people.

Contents

History

Spectrum Health

Corewell Health is a non-profit healthcare system located in the state of Michigan in the United States. It was formed as a result of the merger between Beaumont Health, located in Metro Detroit, and Spectrum Health, located in West Michigan, in the year 2022. Corewell is currently the largest healthcare system in Michigan, based on its inpatient admissions and net patient revenue. The organization has its headquarters in Grand Rapids and employs over 60,000 people. Corewell Health is a nonprofit healthcare system in the U.S. state of Michigan. Created by the 2022 merger of Beaumont Health in Metro Detroit with West Spectrum Health. Corewell is the largest health system in Michigan, based on inpatient admissions and net patient revenue.[1] The organization is headquartered in Grand Rapids and has over 60,000 employees.

Spectrum Health was formally incorporated on September 19, 1997, after a high-profile legal battle, combining Butterworth Health System and Blodgett Memorial Medical Center, making it the largest health care organization in West Michigan.[1]

In October 2018 Spectrum closed on a merger with Lakeland Health, a health system in southwest Michigan consisting of 3 hospitals, 450 providers, and 4,000 employees. Integration has begun and is underway. Spectrum Health Lakeland will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Spectrum Health and will uniquely have two governing boards.

Beaumont

Groundbreaking began in 1953 for "Oakland Hospital," but because of a delivery mix-up and to further distinguish itself from nearby Oakwood Hospital, the name of the new hospital was changed to William Beaumont Hospital (WBH). The doors were officially open on January 24, 1955 with 238-beds in Royal Oak, Michigan.[2] The hospitals, the overall health system and the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine are all named for William Beaumont, a U.S. Army surgeon who became known as the "Father of Gastric Physiology" following his research on human digestion started at Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island, Michigan.[2][3][4][5]

In 1965, Botsford General Hospital opened with 200 beds adjacent to the historic Botsford Inn, a former stagecoach stop on Grand River in Farmington Hills. The hospital opened as an expansion to Zieger Clinic Hospital in Detroit, opened by Dr. Allen Zieger in 1944.

On October 1, 2007, Beaumont acquired Bon Secours Hospital in Grosse Pointe, rebranding it as Beaumont Hospital Grosse Pointe.[6]

In March 2014, the Beaumont Health System, along with Botsford Health Care and Oakwood Healthcare, signed a letter of intent to merge their operations.[7]

In 2020, Beaumont and Advocate Aurora Health, a 28-hospital system in Illinois and Wisconsin, announced plans to merge into a combined company worth $17 billion.[8][9] These plans were called off in October 2020, in part because physicians, lawmakers, staff, and donors were concerned that it would harm patient care.[9][10]

Merger and creation of Corewell

In June 2021, Beaumont announced plans to merge with Grand Rapids-based Spectrum Health. Following federal government approval, the two systems announced their merger would be effective February 1, 2022. The combined system was temporarily named BHSH Health, before its permanent name, Corewell Health, was announced later that year. Spectrum Health CEO Tina Freese Decker became CEO of the combined organization, and John Fox, the head of Beaumont Health, resigned on February 4, 2022. [1] The combined organization is headquartered in Grand Rapids, though Beaumont's Southfield headquarters remain open as a Detroit-area office. [2]

Locations and subsidiaries

Headquarters

The headquarters of Corewell Health is 100 Michigan St NE on the Grand Rapids Medical Mile.

In 2019, Spectrum announced it would centralize its staff, totaling 1,200, into a single building in Downtown Grand Rapids. [3] The plans called for it to have eight stories. [4] The organization planned to spend $100 million. The Downtown Development Authority (DDA) of Grand Rapids approved Spectrum's plan in October 2021. [5] Following the merger with Beaumont, Corewell's headquarters would be located at the new facility. [6]

Hospitals

HospitalLocationBedsTrauma center [7] OpenedNotes
Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak Royal Oak 1109 Level I 1955
Beaumont Hospital Dearborn Dearborn 632 Level II 1953formerly Oakwood Hospital; acquired in 2014
Beaumont Hospital Troy Troy/Sterling Heights 520Level II1977complex straddles city/county border, connected by skybridge
Beaumont Hospital Farmington Hills Farmington Hills 330Level II1965formerly Botsford Hospital; acquired in 2014
Beaumont Hospital Grosse Pointe Grosse Pointe 280 Level III 1945 [8] formerly Bon Secours Hospital; acquired in 2007 [9]
Beaumont Hospital Trenton Trenton 193 [10] Level II1961formerly Oakwood Southshore Medical Center; acquired in 2014
Beaumont Hospital Wayne Wayne 185Level III1957formerly (Oakwood) Annapolis Hospital; acquired in 2014 [11]
Beaumont Hospital Taylor Taylor 180 Level IV 1977formerly Oakwood Heritage Hospital; acquired in 2014
Helen DeVos Children's Hospital Grand Rapids 241Level I Pediatric1970Affiliated with Michigan State University
Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital Grand Rapids 852Level I1875Founding member of Spectrum Health
Spectrum Health Blodgett Hospital East Grand Rapids 248Level I1914Founding member of Spectrum Health
Spectrum Health Gerber Memorial Health Services Fremont 25Level IV1918Merged with Spectrum in 2010
Spectrum Health Reed City Hospital Reed City 64Level IV1884Merged with Spectrum in 2010
Spectrum Health United Hospital Greenville 88Level IV1915Merged with Spectrum in 2003
Spectrum Health Zeeland Community Hospital Zeeland 55Level III1921Merged with Spectrum Health in 2011
Spectrum Health Ludington Hospital Ludington 49Level IV1967Merged with Spectrum Health in 2013
Spectrum Health Big Rapids Hospital Big Rapids 49Level IV1878Merged with Spectrum Health in 2013
Spectrum Health Pennock Hastings 25Level IV1923Merged with Spectrum Health in 2015
Spectrum Health Lakeland Medical Center Saint Joseph 296Level III1899Merged with Spectrum Health in 2018
Spectrum Health Lakeland Niles Hospital Niles 89Level IV1899Merged with Spectrum Health in 2018
Spectrum Health Lakeland Watervliet Hospital Watervliet 49Level IV1899Merged with Spectrum Health in 2018

Insurance

Priority Health is a subsidiary health plan with one million members.

Pediatric care

Helen DeVos Children's Hospital (HDCH) is a nationally ranked, freestanding, 241-bed, pediatric acute care children's hospital located in downtown Grand Rapids. It is affiliated with the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and is a member of the Spectrum health system, the only children's hospital in the system. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–18 throughout Grand Rapids region and features an ACS verified level I pediatric trauma center. Its regional pediatric intensive-care unit and neonatal intensive care units serve the region. It is named for Helen DeVos, wife of Amway founder Richard DeVos, a major donor.

Beaumont Children's Hospital now Beaumont Children's, was announced in 2009. Eighty-three sub-specialists, a 40-bed pediatric unit, eight-bed pediatric ICU and 64-bed NICU had been in place at Beaumont, Royal Oak since 2004. In 2008, Beaumont joined the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions. [12]

Facilities include a dedicated specialty inpatient pediatric unit at Beaumont, Royal Oak and inpatient units at the Beaumont hospitals in Troy, Dearborn and Farmington Hills for children with less serious conditions. Specialty pediatric services including emergency care, hematology-oncology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, cardiology, neurology, newborn and pediatric intensive care, pediatric surgery and craniofacial surgery are available at outpatient locations throughout Metro Detroit.

Beaumont Children's cares for more than 100,000 pediatric emergency and after-hours visits every year and 17,000 babies are delivered each year as well.

Beaumont Children's is a member of the Children's Hospital Association and the only Southeast Michigan affiliate of Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. [13]

Other facilities

The Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion is an outpatient cancer center located in the Grand Rapids Medical Mile. It was developed to bring all cancer research and patient service delivery under one roof in the Spectrum Health System.

Controversy

Dobbs v. Jackson

On June 24, 2022, hours after the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Corewell Health announced that most abortion services would no longer be offered at the system's facilities, despite court orders which kept the procedure legal in Michigan. [14] Following public pressure, including calls for a boycott of the system, Corewell reverted to its previous policy, providing abortion when deemed medically necessary. [15]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Munson Medical Center</span> Hospital in Michigan, United States

Munson Medical Center (MMC) is a 442-bed regional referral hospital in Traverse City, Michigan Its primary service area includes Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, and Leelanau counties.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michigan State University College of Human Medicine</span> Medical school of Michigan State University

The Michigan State University College of Human Medicine (MSUCHM) is an academic division of Michigan State University (MSU) that grants the Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree, emphasizing patient-centered care and a biopsychosocial approach to caring for patients. Required courses at the college reinforce the importance of ethics and professionalism in medicine. In 2013, U.S. News & World Report ranked the college 46th for primary care. The college was also ranked for family medicine and rural medicine. More than 4,000 M.D.s have graduated from the college. Pre-clinical campuses are located on MSU's main campus in East Lansing, Michigan and in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, while the clinical rotations are at seven community campuses located throughout Michigan.

Henry Ford Health is an integrated, not-for-profit health care organization in Metro Detroit. The corporate office is at One Ford Place, in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. Henry Ford established the health system in 1915, and it is currently run by a 15-member board of directors. Henry Ford Health also owns the health insurance company Health Alliance Plan.

Spectrum Health System, commonly known as Spectrum Health, was a not-for-profit, integrated, managed care health care organization based in West Michigan. It merged with Beaumont Health of Metro Detroit in 2022 to form Corewell Health. Spectrum Health's subsidiaries included hospitals, treatment facilities, urgent care facilities, as well as physician practices that served the western Michigan area. Priority Health was a subsidiary health plan with one million members. Spectrum Health was the largest employer in West Michigan at the time of the merger with 31,000 staff, 4,200 physicians and advanced practice providers, including 1,600 members of the Spectrum Health Medical Group, and 3,200 volunteers.

Beaumont Health was Southeast Michigan’s largest health care system and was headquartered in Southfield, Michigan. It merged with Spectrum Health of West Michigan in 2022 to form Corewell Health, with the headquarters of the new health system being located in Grand Rapids. At the time of its merger, the health system had a net revenue of $4.7 billion and consisted of eight hospitals with 3,375 beds, 155 outpatient sites, nearly 5,000 physicians, more than 33,000 employees and about 2,000 volunteers. The flagship hospital of the system was the Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, located in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, Michigan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Grand Rapids Medical Mile</span> Medical corridor of Grand Rapids in Michigan, United States

Grand Rapids Medical Mile is a designated area within the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. It began with medical-related development in the Hillside District of Grand Rapids, bordering both sides of Michigan Street. More than a decade later it encompasses an area five times larger, expanding east further down Michigan St.and north across Interstate 196. It has also been referred to as Grand Rapids Medical Corridor, Michigan Street Medical Corridor, Health Hill, Medical Hill, and Pill Hill, among other names.

Beaumont Hospital - Farmington Hills, formerly known as Botsford Hospital, is a 330-bed teaching hospital with level II trauma center status. Founded in 1965, the hospital is affiliated with Beaumont Health. The hospital earned three year accreditation from the American Osteopathic Association's Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program in 2008.

CURE International, based in Grand Rapids, MI, is a Christian nonprofit organization that owns and operates eight charitable children's hospitals around the world. CURE provides medical care to pediatric patients with orthopedic, reconstructive plastic, and neurological conditions. The organization's stated mission is to "heal the sick and proclaim the kingdom of God." The organization currently operates hospitals in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, the Philippines, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital</span> Hospital in Michigan, United States

Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital is a 167-bed acute care inpatient rehabilitation hospital for children and adults who have experienced a brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, amputation, or other injury or illness requiring physical rehabilitation.

The Oakwood Health System was a group of 4 hospitals and dozens of medical clinics across the Metro Detroit Area. In 2014, Oakwood Health System merged with Beaumont Health System and Botsford Hospital to form Beaumont Health.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Helen DeVos Children's Hospital</span> Hospital in Michigan, United States

The Helen DeVos Children's Hospital (HDCH) is a nationally ranked, freestanding, 241-bed, pediatric acute care children's hospital located in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is affiliated with the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and is a member of the Corewell Health system, the only children's hospital in the system. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–18 throughout Grand Rapids region and features an ACS verified level I pediatric trauma center. Its regional pediatric intensive-care unit and neonatal intensive care units serve the region. It is named for Helen DeVos, wife of Amway founder Richard DeVos, a major donor.

Memorial Hospital is a short-term acute care hospital located in South Bend, Indiana. The hospital was founded in 1894 with three patient beds. Today, the hospital has 526 beds and is a designated Level II trauma center. The hospital places a large emphasis on innovation, and is the second-largest employer in the St. Joseph County, Indiana area.

Augusta University Health is an academic health center that manages the clinical operations associated with Augusta University. It is a health care network that offers primary, specialty and sub-specialty care in the Augusta, Georgia area and throughout the Southeastern United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">C.S. Mott Children's Hospital</span> Hospital in Michigan, United States

C.S. Mott Children's Hospital is a pediatric acute care hospital located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The hospital has 244 pediatric beds and is affiliated with the University of Michigan Medical School. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults 0-21 throughout Michigan and the surrounding states. The hospital sometimes also treats older adults that require pediatric care. C.S. Mott Children's Hospital also features a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center, 1 of 3 in the state. Attached to the children's hospital is the Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital that provides maternal and gynecological care for women.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital</span> Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, US

Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital is a nationally ranked, 1131 bed non-profit, acute care teaching hospital located in Royal Oak, Michigan, providing tertiary care and healthcare services to the Royal Oak region and Metro Detroit. Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital is the flagship facility of Corewell Health. The hospital is affiliated with the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, as the primary teaching affiliate. The hospital is an American College of Surgeons verified Level 1 Adult and Level II Pediatric Trauma Center with an onsite helipad to transport critically ill patients from within the region.

Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine (OUWB) is the allopathic (MD) medical school for Oakland University (OU). The campus is located north of Detroit in central Oakland County, Michigan and spans the cities of Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills, but has the mailing address of nearby but not adjacent Rochester.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Metro Health Hospital</span> Hospital in Michigan, United States

University of Michigan Health-West, formerly known as Metro Health – University of Michigan Health, is a nonprofit health system affiliated with the University of Michigan Health, with primary and specialty care services at 30 locations in West Michigan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Phoenix Children's Hospital</span> Hospital in Arizona, US, founded 1983

Phoenix Children's Hospital is a freestanding pediatric acute care children's hospital located in Phoenix, Arizona. The hospital has 457 pediatric beds and is affiliated with the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix. Phoenix Children's also partners with Valleywise Health for a 3-year pediatric residency training program. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties including inpatient, outpatient, emergency, trauma, and urgent care to infants, children, teens, and young adults 0–21 throughout Arizona and the surrounding states. The hospital sometimes also treats older adults that require pediatric care. Phoenix Children's Hospital also features a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center, the only in the state.

Trinity Health Michigan is a not-for-profit, integrated, managed care health care organization based in West Michigan. On April 13, 2022, Mercy Health announced it was changing its name to Trinity Health Michigan. Facilities include hospitals, treatment facilities, urgent-care facilities, as well as physician practices that serve the western Michigan area. Mercy Health is a member of the Catholic Trinity Health system.

Cook Children's Medical Center is a not-for-profit pediatric hospital located in Fort Worth, Texas. One of the largest freestanding pediatric medical centers in the U.S., Cook Children's main campus is located in Tarrant County. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metro and the greater region. Cook Children's also has an ACS verified level II pediatric trauma center. The hospital has a rooftop helipad for the critical transport of pediatric patients to and from the hospital.

References

  1. Reindl, JC; Shamus, Kristen Jordan (2022-01-31). "Beaumont, Spectrum set to launch Michigan's biggest health system Tuesday". Detroit Free Press . Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  2. Watson, Rachel (2023-01-05). "Corewell's planned Grand Rapids HQ is more than just a new office". Crain's Detroit Business. Retrieved 2023-07-29.
  3. "Spectrum Health to construct new downtown building, consolidate office space". MLive. 2019-10-09. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  4. "Spectrum Health plans large, 8-story office building for downtown Grand Rapids". Mlive. 2021-04-07. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  5. Ferguson, Christa (2021-10-13). "Spectrum Health HQ project clears another hurdle in Grand Rapids". WOOD-TV . Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  6. Watson, Rachel (6 January 2023). "Corewell's planned Grand Rapids HQ is more than just a new office". Crain Communications .
  7. "Michigan Designated Trauma Facilities" (PDF). State of Michigan. 2021-09-21.
  8. "Corewell Health Beaumont Grosse Pointe Hospital - Grosse Pointe - MI". www.practicematch.com. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  9. Gustafson, Sven (2007-10-02). "Hospital follows through on Grosse Pointe acquisition". MLive. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  10. "American Hospital Directory - Beaumont Hospital, Trenton (230176) - Free Profile". www.ahd.com. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  11. "Beaumont, Wayne opened its doors to the community 60 years ago". Beaumont Health. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  12. "Beaumont announces children's hospital". Archived from the original on 2016-04-26. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  13. "Children's Miracle Network Hospitals". Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.
  14. Walsh, Dustin (2022-06-24). "Beaumont-Spectrum to discontinue most abortions after Roe ruling". Crain's Detroit Business. Retrieved 2023-07-29.
  15. Haddad, Ken (2022-06-26). "Beaumont-Spectrum Health backtracks on abortion guidance, says current policy will continue". WDIV. Retrieved 2023-07-29.