Corewell Health
Geography
LocationGrand Rapids, Michigan (Headquarters)
Organisation
FundingNon-Profit Health System
TypeTeaching
Services
Emergency department22 Hospital Facilities
Beds5000+
History
Opened2022 (Spectrum Health and Beaumont Health merger)
Links
Websitecorewellhealth.org www.spectrumhealth.org www.beaumont.org

Corewell Health is a nonprofit health care system in the U.S. state of Michigan. Created by the 2022 merger of Beaumont Health in Metro Detroit with West Michigan's 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.

History

Spectrum Health

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.[2]

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.[3] 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.[3][4][5][6]

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.[7]

In March 2014, the Beaumont Health System, along with Botsford Health Care and Oakwood Healthcare, signed a letter of intent to merge their operations.[8]

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.[9][10] These plans were called off in October 2020, in part because physicians, lawmakers, staff, and donors were concerned that it would harm patient care.[10][11]

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.[12] The combined organization is headquartered in Grand Rapids, though Beaumont's Southfield headquarters remain open as a Detroit-area office.[13]

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.[14] The plans called for it to have eight stories.[15] The organization planned to spend $100 million. The Downtown Development Authority (DDA) of Grand Rapids approved Spectrum's plan in October 2021.[16] Following the merger with Beaumont, Corewell's headquarters would be located at the new facility.[17]

Hospitals

Hospital Location Beds Trauma center[18] Opened Notes
Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak Royal Oak 1109 Level I 1915
Beaumont Hospital Dearborn Dearborn 632 Level II 1953 formerly Oakwood Hospital; acquired in 2014
Beaumont Hospital Troy Troy/Sterling Heights 520 Level II 1977 complex straddles city/county border, connected by skybridge
Beaumont Hospital Farmington Hills Farmington Hills 330 Level II 1965 formerly Botsford Hospital; acquired in 2014
Beaumont Hospital Grosse Pointe Grosse Pointe 280 Level III 1945[19] formerly Bon Secours Hospital; acquired in 2007[20]
Beaumont Hospital Trenton Trenton 193[21] Level II 1961 formerly Oakwood Southshore Medical Center; acquired in 2014
Beaumont Hospital Wayne Wayne 185 Level III 1957 formerly (Oakwood) Annapolis Hospital; acquired in 2014[22]
Beaumont Hospital Taylor Taylor 180 Level IV 1977 formerly Oakwood Heritage Hospital; acquired in 2014
Helen DeVos Children's Hospital Grand Rapids 241 Level I Pediatric 1970 Affiliated with Michigan State University
Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital Grand Rapids 852 Level I 1875 Founding member of Spectrum Health
Spectrum Health Blodgett Hospital East Grand Rapids 248 Level I 1914 Founding member of Spectrum Health
Spectrum Health Gerber Memorial Health Services Fremont 25 Level IV 1918 Merged with Spectrum in 2010
Spectrum Health Reed City Hospital Reed City 64 Level IV 1884 Merged with Spectrum in 2010
Spectrum Health United Hospital Greenville 88 Level IV 1915 Merged with Spectrum in 2003
Spectrum Health Zeeland Community Hospital Zeeland 55 Level III 1921 Merged with Spectrum Health in 2011
Spectrum Health Ludington Hospital Ludington 49 Level IV 1967 Merged with Spectrum Health in 2013
Spectrum Health Big Rapids Hospital Big Rapids 49 Level IV 1878 Merged with Spectrum Health in 2013
Spectrum Health Pennock Hastings 25 Level IV 1923 Merged with Spectrum Health in 2015
Spectrum Health Lakeland Medical Center Saint Joseph 296 Level III 1899 Merged with Spectrum Health in 2018
Spectrum Health Lakeland Niles Hospital Niles 89 Level IV 1899 Merged with Spectrum Health in 2018
Spectrum Health Lakeland Watervliet Hospital Watervliet 49 Level IV 1899 Merged 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.[23]

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.[24]

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.[25] Following public pressure, including calls for a boycott of the system, Corewell reverted to its previous policy, providing abortion when deemed medically necessary.[26]

References

  1. ↑ Walsh, Dustin (2022-06-24). "Beaumont-Spectrum to discontinue most abortions after Roe ruling". Crain's Detroit Business. Retrieved 2023-07-29.
  2. ↑ "Richard G. Fanelli, president and CEO of Enthone-OMI Inc. announces retirement". Circuit World. 26 (4). 2000-12-01. doi:10.1108/cw.2000.21726dab.029. ISSN 0305-6120.
  3. 1 2 "Timeline/Milestones". Beaumont Health System. Archived from the original on 2012-08-09. Retrieved 2013-11-08.
  4. ↑ Beaumont, William (1838). Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion. Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart. p. 1. ISBN 0-486-69213-2. gastric juice.
  5. ↑ Harré, R. (1981). Great Scientific Experiments. Phaidon (Oxford). pp. 39–47. ISBN 0-7148-2096-2.
  6. ↑ "About Beaumont's Digestive Health Center of Excellence". Beaumont Health System. Retrieved 2013-11-08.
  7. ↑ Gustafson, Sven (2007-10-02). "Hospital follows through on Grosse Pointe acquisition". MLive. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  8. ↑ "Beaumont, Oakwood, Botsford health systems intend to merge". ClickOnDetroit.com. ClickOnDetroit.com. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
  9. ↑ Rich Kirchen (October 5, 2020). "Advocate Aurora and Beaumont Health cite different reasons for nixing merger talks". Milwaukee Business Journal. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  10. 1 2 Reindl, J. C. (October 2, 2020). "Beaumont ends merger talks with Advocate Aurora Health". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  11. ↑ "How Beaumont's Megamerger Fell Apart". www.medpagetoday.com. October 8, 2020.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ "Spectrum Health to construct new downtown building, consolidate office space". MLive. 2019-10-09. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  15. ↑ "Spectrum Health plans large, 8-story office building for downtown Grand Rapids". Mlive. 2021-04-07. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  16. ↑ Ferguson, Christa (2021-10-13). "Spectrum Health HQ project clears another hurdle in Grand Rapids". WOOD-TV. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  17. ↑ Watson, Rachel (6 January 2023). "Corewell's planned Grand Rapids HQ is more than just a new office". Crain Communications.
  18. ↑ "Michigan Designated Trauma Facilities" (PDF). State of Michigan. 2021-09-21.
  19. ↑ "Corewell Health Beaumont Grosse Pointe Hospital - Grosse Pointe - MI". www.practicematch.com. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  20. ↑ Gustafson, Sven (2007-10-02). "Hospital follows through on Grosse Pointe acquisition". MLive. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  21. ↑ "American Hospital Directory - Beaumont Hospital, Trenton (230176) - Free Profile". www.ahd.com. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  22. ↑ "Beaumont, Wayne opened its doors to the community 60 years ago". Beaumont Health. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  23. ↑ "Beaumont announces children's hospital". Archived from the original on 2016-04-26. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  24. ↑ "Children's Miracle Network Hospitals". Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.
  25. ↑ Walsh, Dustin (2022-06-24). "Beaumont-Spectrum to discontinue most abortions after Roe ruling". Crain's Detroit Business. Retrieved 2023-07-29.
  26. ↑ Haddad, Ken (2022-06-26). "Beaumont-Spectrum Health backtracks on abortion guidance, says current policy will continue". WDIV. Retrieved 2023-07-29.
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