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Herman Kiefer Hospital was a city-owned hospital in Detroit Michigan, from 1911 to 2013. It was founded to serve as a public health hospital; to combat rampant infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis , diphtheria , scarlet fever , mumps , measles , and other diseases.
Detroit Medical Center logo Harper Hospital and Hutzel Women's Hospital are part of the Detroit Medical Center. The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) is a for-profit alliance of hospitals that encompasses over 2,000 licensed beds, 3,000 affiliated physicians and over 12,000 employees.
Harper University Hospital is one of eight hospitals and institutes that compose the Detroit Medical Center. Harper offers services in a broad range of clinical areas, including cardiology , neurology , neurosurgery , organ transplant, plastic surgery, general surgery, bariatric (weight loss surgery) endocrinology and sleep disorders.
After the reorganization of city government in 1881, Dr. O.W. Wright became Detroit's first full-time Health Officer, and in 1883 the city purchased a site, which would eventually become the site of the Herman Kiefer Complex, to build a hospital that would accommodate 50 people.
Karmanos began as the Detroit Institute for Cancer Research in 1943. [ citation needed ] It was registered as a non-profit organization in 1949. [ 4 ] The institute was later named the Michigan Cancer Foundation, encompassing the Meyer L. Prentis Comprehensive Cancer Center of Metropolitan Detroit and the cancer programs of the Detroit Medical ...
Children's Hospital of Michigan (CHM) is a for-profit, pediatric acute care hospital located in Detroit, Michigan. The hospital has 227 beds [ 1 ] and is affiliated with both the Wayne State University School of Medicine [ 2 ] and the Michigan State University Medical School . [ 3 ]
Detroit Receiving Hospital (DRH) was founded in 1915 as a city-owned hospital, dedicated to caring for everyone, regardless of ability to pay. In 1965, the hospital was renamed Detroit General, and maintained that mission. In 1980, Detroit General moved to a new 320-bed facility and reclaimed the name Detroit Receiving Hospital.
This merged hospital became Southwest Detroit Hospital. [3] By the early 1970s, the hospitals of Boulevard General, Delray General, Burton Mercy, and Trumbull General (the last being black-owned and the newest hospital of the group) had decided to merge their resources for a larger hospital, deciding on a 246-bed hospital at a cost of $21 million.