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In 1915, Henry Ford bought the financially struggling Detroit General Hospital and its lands on Grand Boulevard and Hamilton (just west of Woodward) and reopened it as Henry Ford Hospital with 48 beds. [5] Soon after, Ford broke ground on a 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m 2) facility at the same location; the larger hospital opened in 1921. [5]
Henry Ford Hospital (HFH) is an 877-bed tertiary care hospital, education and research complex at the western edge of the New Center area in Detroit, Michigan. [3] The flagship facility for the Henry Ford Health System, it was one of the first hospitals in the United States to use a standard fee schedule and favor private or semi-private rooms over large wards.
Henry Ford Health is an integrated, not-for-profit health care organization in the U.S. state of Michigan. [1] Headquartered in Detroit, [ 4 ] Henry Ford Health is the second-largest health system in Michigan, operating 13 hospitals across the Detroit, Flint , and Jackson areas. [ 5 ]
Henry Ford, Detroit coal merchant Alexander Y. Malcomson, and a group of investors formed the Ford Motor Company on June 16, 1903, to assemble automobiles. [1]: 10–11 [2] The company's first car model, the original Ford Model A, began to be assembled that same month at the Ford Mack Avenue Plant, a rented wagon manufacturing shop in Detroit, Michigan.
The first University Preparatory Academy middle school opened its doors in Detroit in the fall of 2000 with 112 6th graders. Founded by former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor and Michigan State Senator Doug Ross, the school was established as a public charter school with a mission of graduating its open-admission Detroit students from high school and enrolling them in college at rates ...
The Henry Ford II World Center, also commonly known as the Ford World Headquarters and popularly known as the Glass House, [1] [2] is the administrative headquarters for Ford Motor Company, a 12-story, glass-faced office building [3] designed to accommodate a staff of approximately 3,000.
DETROIT (Reuters) -U.S. automakers Ford Motor and General Motors will donate $1 million each, along with vehicles, to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's January inauguration, company ...
The Boston–Edison Historic District is a neighborhood located in Detroit, Michigan.It consists of over 900 homes built on four east-west streets: West Boston Boulevard, Chicago Boulevard, Longfellow Avenue and Edison Avenue, stretching from Woodward Avenue in the east to Linwood Avenue in the west. [3]