Lansing: Health Care

Six hospitals, with a total of about 1,500 beds, serve metropolitan Lansing. Ingham Regional Medical Center (formerly the Michigan Capital Medical Center) is a general acute care, nonprofit hospital with 338 beds. Sparrow Health System, with 710 beds, maintains a wound center, a dialysis unit, and a family practice center. The 257-bed St. Lawrence Hospital, part of the Sparrow Health System, operates a poison control center, a health service for persons without physicians, and an alcohol detoxification and counseling unit. All major facilities in the city offer 24-hour emergency care and maintain maternity units. Michigan State University provides medical education and training through the College of Human Medicine and the College of Osteopathic Medicine; it also operates an outpatient clinic open to the public.