Corewell Health is a non-profit healthcare system in the U.S. state of Michigan. It was formed by the 2022 merger of Beaumont Health, located in Southfield, and Spectrum Health, headquartered in West Michigan. Corewell Health is currently the largest healthcare system in Michigan, based on its inpatient admissions and net patient revenue. The organization is headquartered in Grand Rapids and employs over 60,000 people.

History

Spectrum Health

Spectrum Health formed in 1997 through the merger of Butterworth Health System and Blodgett Memorial Medical Center in the Grand Rapids area. The system expanded through further mergers and acquisitions, most recently merging with Lakeland Health in 2018. Prior to merging with Beaumont, Spectrum was the largest health care organization, and largest private employer, in West Michigan, operating 14 hospitals across the region.

Beaumont Health

Beaumont Health was formed with the opening of William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan in 1955. The system expanded with the acquisition of Bon Secours Hospital in 2007, and mergers with Botsford Hospital and Oakwood Hospital in 2014. At the time of the merger, Beaumont operated 8 hospitals in the Detroit metropolitan area.

Merger and creation of Corewell Health 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 adopted on October 11. Spectrum CEO Tina Freese Decker became CEO of the combined organization, and John Fox, the head of Beaumont Health, resigned on February 4, 2022.

Locations and subsidiaries

Headquarters Corewell Health is headquartered at 100 Corewell Dr NW, on the Grand Rapids Medical Mile; it maintains a large Metro Detroit-area administrative office in Beaumont Health's former headquarters in Southfield.

Hospitals HospitalLocationBedsTrauma centerOpenedNotesCorewell Health William Beaumont University HospitalRoyal Oak1109Level I1955Corewell Health Dearborn HospitalDearborn632Level II1953formerly Oakwood Hospital; merged with Beaumont in 2014Corewell Health Beaumont Troy HospitalTroy/Sterling Heights520Level II1977complex straddles city/county border, connected by skybridgeCorewell Health Farmington Hills HospitalFarmington Hills330Level II1965formerly Botsford General Hospital; acquired by Beaumont in 2014Corewell Health Grosse Pointe HospitalGrosse Pointe280Level III1945formerly Bon Secours Hospital; acquired by Beaumont in 2007Corewell Health Trenton HospitalTrenton193Level II1961formerly Oakwood Southshore Medical Center; merged with Beaumont in 2014Corewell Health Wayne HospitalWayne185Level III1957formerly (Oakwood) Annapolis Hospital; merged with Beaumont in 2014Corewell Health Taylor HospitalTaylor180Level IV1977formerly Oakwood Heritage Hospital; merged with Beaumont in 2014Corewell Health Helen DeVos Children's HospitalGrand Rapids241Level I Pediatric1970affiliated with Michigan State UniversityCorewell Health Butterworth HospitalGrand Rapids852Level I1875Corewell Health Blodgett HospitalEast Grand Rapids248Level III1914Corewell Health Gerber Memorial Health ServicesFremont25Level IV1918merged with Spectrum in 2010Corewell Health Reed City HospitalReed City64Level IV1884merged with Spectrum in 2010Corewell Health United HospitalGreenville88Level IV1915acquired by Spectrum in 2003Corewell Health Zeeland Community HospitalZeeland55Level III1921acquired by Spectrum in 2011Corewell Health Ludington HospitalLudington49Level IV1967formerly Memorial Medical Center; acquired by Spectrum in 2013Corewell Health Big Rapids HospitalBig Rapids49Level IV1878formerly Mecosta County Medical Center; acquired by Spectrum in 2013Corewell Health Pennock HospitalHastings25Level IV1923acquired by Spectrum in 2015Corewell Health Lakeland Medical CenterSaint Joseph296Level III1899formerly part of Lakeland Health; merged with Spectrum in 2018Corewell Health Lakeland Niles HospitalNiles89Level IV1899formerly part of Lakeland Health; merged with Spectrum in 2018Corewell Health Lakeland Watervliet HospitalWatervliet49Level IV1899formerly part of Lakeland Health; merged with Spectrum in 2018

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

Pediatric care Corewell Health Helen DeVos Children's Hospital (HDVCH) 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 Corewell Health 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.

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.

Corewell Health 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.

Corewell Health Children's is a member of the Children's Hospital Association and the only Southeast Michigan affiliate of Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.

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

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