Corewell Health
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
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
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 Detroit-area administrative office in Beaumont's former headquarters in Southfield.Hospitals
Insurance
Priority Health is a subsidiary health plan with one million members.Pediatric care
Helen DeVos Children's Hospital 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 Beaumont 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.
Beaumont 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.
Beaumont Children's is a member of the Children's Hospital Association and the only Southeast Michigan affiliate of Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.