| Henry Ford Health System | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Detroit, Michigan,  United States |
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| Care system | full medical care, including inpatient and outpatient care |
| Hospital type | Academic medical center and hospital |
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| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 903 |
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| Founded | 1915 |
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| Website | home page |
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Henry Ford Hospital is a part of the world-renowned Henry Ford Health System located in Detroit, Michigan. The hospital was founded in 1915 by automotive pioneer, Henry Ford. The hospital is consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the best hospitals in the country. It has one of the leading Surgical departments in the country under the leadership of Chairman Scott Dulchavsky.
It has been ranked in six medical specialties in U.S. News & World Report's 2009-10 issue of America's Best Hospitals. The magazine, which features the top 50 of American's Best Hospitals in 16 specialties, ranked Henry Ford in the following six specialties: Digestive Disorders, Ear, Nose & Throat, Heart & Heart Surgery, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Respiratory Disorders, Urology. The survey assesses hospitals based on an index related to quality of care, reputation, mortality, volume, nurse proficiency and technology.
Henry Ford Hospital is a 903 bed hospital. Only physicians of the closed practice, Henry Ford Medical Group, can admit to Henry Ford Hospital. There are more than 1,000 physicians and scientists in the Henry Ford Medical Group. This model is the same model used at the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Cleveland Clinic.
It operates a Level 1 Trauma Center and has one of the busiest emergency rooms in Michigan, treating nearly 100,000 people. Henry Ford Hospital performs organ transplants in many areas, including heart, lung, kidney, bone marrow, pancreas and liver. Henry Ford operates the world's largest robotic prostatectomy program in the world. The robotic prostate surgery was created here at Henry Ford and more than 4,000 men have has successful robotic prostate surgery. Henry Ford also operates one of the region's largest and most honored neuroscience institutes in the country.
Henry Ford also has a robust medical education program, where more than 700 residents in 40 specialties train every day.
One-third of all physicians in Michigan received training at Henry Ford, and its post-graduate medical education enterprise is among the largest in the country.
Henry Ford is in the top 6% of National Institutes of Health-funded institutions.
Henry Ford Hospital recently debuted its 24 new private intensive care rooms, bringing to 156 the total number of IC rooms at the Detroit Campus, the most of any hospital in Michigan and nearly double the amount of other large hospitals. The opening of the new floor called P5 is the final piece of a two-story, $35 million addition at the hospital. It will house critically ill patients recovering from cardio-thoracic, neurological, transplant, trauma, critical care and vascular surgeries. The P-5 opening is creating 72 nursing positions and will be open to patients Tuesday, July 21.
The Henry Ford Hospital is the site of the NASA funded Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity Project investigating strategies for applying diagnostic telemedicine to space. The Principal Investigator is Scott Dulchavsky, Chairman of Surgery at the Henry Ford Health System. This study was the first formal experiment to examine the use of ultrasound in microgravity aimed at heart, lung, abdominal, dental, orbital, and bone loss scans. Ultrasound images from space from a variety of body regions have been shown to be of diagnostic quality and non-expert operators were easily trained in ultrasound skills. This work has been expanded to include professional Football and Ice Hockey teams as well as the Winter Olympic Games. Dr. Dulchavsky has also led a pilot study to expand comprehensive ultrasound education to basic science medical students at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. This trial has been shown to be a success with over 82 percent of students agreeing or strongly agreeing that their educational experience with the lightweight ultrasound technology education was positive. This technology is now being taught to medical students in their clinical clerkships.[1][2][3]
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Henry Ford Hospital, located at what was then the edge of the city of Detroit at Hamilton and West Grand Boulevards, opened its doors to patients in October 1915. A Private Patient Building accommodated 48 patients, and several other small buildings housed the surgical pavilion, research quarters, kitchens and laundry facilities, the power plant, and garage.
Within two years, construction of a larger building began on the same 20-acre (81,000 m2) site. The shell of this incomplete building was turned over to the federal government in 1918 for use as U.S. Army General Hospital No. 36, which provided care for returning veterans of World War I while the Henry Ford Hospital staff were away in military service. After the war, the 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m2) building was completed, opening in 1921 and providing 500 new beds for the growing Detroit community.
Today, Henry Ford Health System operates nearly 30 medical centers in the Detroit suburbs and seven hospitals. A new $360 million, 300-bed hospital is under construction in West Bloomfield, MI.
Henry Ford Health System also has a community care division that provides services in hospice care, extended care, dialysis, home health care, 19 retail optical stores, 18 retail pharmacies and a specialty pharmacy.
Some statistics about Henry Ford Hospital and the Henry Ford Health System are: 17,489 full-time equivalent employees, including 3,632 nurses (395 from Canada) and 3,883 allied health professionals; more than 21,500 total Henry Ford Health System employees.
The Henry Ford Medical Group is composed of physicians and scientists from 60 countries around the globe.
3.1 million patient visits annually and more than 78,000 outpatient surgical procedures performed annually.
93,000 patients admitted to Henry Ford Health System hospitals annually.
Revenue: $3.2 billion; Net Income $134 million; Uncompensated care: $104 million. (2006 data)
More than one million residents in southeast Michigan receive care from Henry Ford Health System.
More than 40% of Henry Ford Health System patient visits are by persons age 50 and over.
20% of ambulatory care and 10% of acute care services in southeast Michigan are provided by Henry Ford Health System.
Major information sources include Henry Ford Health System Innovations, and the book Henry Ford Hospital, The First 75 Years by Patricia Painter.
Notable Physicians
- Mani Menon, Director of the Vattikuti Urology Institute, an internationally recognized leader for his contributions and innovations in the field of robotic urology.
- Scott Dulchavsky, Chairman of Surgery and former chairman of Orthopaedics
- Benjamin Movsas, Chairman of Radiation Oncology, former vice-chair of radiation oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center and nationally renowned researcher
- Marnix Van Holsbeeck, Director of Muskuloskeletal Radiology and Radiology in the departments of Diagnostic Radiology and Orthopaedics
- Louis Saravolatz
References
- ^ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/experiments/ADUM.html
- ^ A Pilot Study of Comprehensive Ultrasound Education at the Wayne State University School of Medicine: http://www.jultrasoundmed.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/5/745
- ^ Evaluation of Shoulder Integrity in Space: First Report of Musculoskeletal US on the International Space Station: http://radiology.rsna.org/content/234/2/319.abstract
External links
- Henry Ford Health System
- http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/experiments/ADUM.html
- A Pilot Study of Comprehensive Ultrasound Education at the Wayne State University School of Medicine: [1]/cgi/content/abstract/27/5/745
- Evaluation of Shoulder Integrity in Space: First Report of Musculoskeletal US on the International Space Station: [2]
- Henry Ford Hospital Internal Medicine
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