Henry Ford Health is an integrated, not-for-profit health care organization in the U.S. state of Michigan. Headquartered in Detroit, - Address: Henry Ford Health is the second-largest health system in Michigan, operating 13 hospitals across the Detroit, Flint, and Jackson areas. 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.
History In March 2012, Henry Ford Health System closed its hospital in Warren, Michigan.
Henry Ford Health System announced in March 2022 that they would rebrand as Henry Ford Health, dropping the word "system" from their name to put greater emphasis on the word "health."
Ascension joint venture On October 18, 2023, Henry Ford Health announced plans to create a joint venture with Ascension, assuming the Metro Detroit and Flint operations of Ascension Michigan. Under this arrangement, Ascension controls a 20% ownership and voting stake in the combined organization. The joint venture was finalized on September 30, 2024.
Under the arrangement, hospitals formerly owned by Ascension will continue to be designated as Catholic institutions, and continue to follow Catholic healthcare guidelines, and as such will not offer abortion, birth control, tubal ligation, or gender-affirming care services. Facilities owned by Henry Ford prior to the joint venture will remain secular and continue to offer these services.
On September 9, 2025, during a United States Senate hearing, a 2020 Henry Ford Health draft was misrepresented and distorted to claim that vaccination raises the risk of chronic illness. The conclusions of the draft were quickly abandoned after the first internal review revealed that it contained several serious methodological flaws.
Hospitals The Henry Ford Health provides acute, specialty, primary and preventive care services backed by research and education. Henry Ford Health directly operates ten emergency departments. All of the hospitals (except for Kingswood) operate an emergency room along with Henry Ford Health medical centers in Dearborn (Fairlane), Grosse Pointe Farms (Grosse Pointe), Plymouth, and Sterling Heights. There is also a Henry Ford Health Center in Brownstown Charter Township (Brownstown).
Henry Ford's regional hospital and services include the following hospitals: HospitalLocationBed countTrauma centerOpenedNotesHenry Ford Hospital Detroit 877 Level I 1915 Henry Ford St. John HospitalDetroit619Level Iformerly Ascension St. John HospitalHenry Ford Jackson Hospital Jackson 475 Level II 1918originally Foote Hospital, later Allegiance Health; acquired 2016Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital Wyandotte 401 Level III 1926 Henry Ford Macomb Hospital Clinton Township361Level II 1899 formerly St. Joseph's Mercy; acquired 2007Henry Ford Genesys HospitalGrand Blanc Township353Level IIformerly Genesys Hospital; acquired by Ascension in 2016Henry Ford Warren HospitalWarren348Level IIIformerly Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital Warren CampusHenry Ford Providence Southfield HospitalSouthfield321Level IIformerly Ascension Providence Hospital Southfield CampusHenry Ford Providence Novi HospitalNovi200Level II2008formerly Ascension Providence Hospital Novi CampusHenry Ford Rochester HospitalRochester Hills197Level IIIoriginally Crittenton Hospital; later Ascension Providence Hospital Rochester CampusHenry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital West Bloomfield 191 Level III 2009Henry Ford Madison Heights HospitalMadison Heights159Level IVformerly Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital Madison Heights CampusHenry Ford River District HospitalEast China Township68Level IVformerly Ascension River District HospitalHenry Ford Kingswood HospitalRoyal Oak Township100None1965Psychiatric hospital
Medical centers Henry Ford Health operates 46 medical centers along with 250+ locations throughout Michigan including five acute care hospitals, two destination facilities for complex cancer and orthopedics and sports medicine care, three behavioral health facilities, primary care and urgent care centers.
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