Beaumont Health

Beaumont Health is Michigan’s largest health care system (based on inpatient admissions and net patient revenue). The organization has net revenue of $4.7 billion and consists of eight hospitals with 3,429 beds, 145 outpatient sites, nearly 5,000 physicians, more than 38,000 employees and about 3,500 volunteers. In 2018, Beaumont had 178,196 discharges, 17,790 births and 572,597 emergency visits.[6] The flagship hospital of the system is the Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak located in Detroit suburb Royal Oak, Michigan.

Beaumont Health
Logo for Beaumont Health
Geography
Location	Dearborn, Farmington Hills, Grosse Pointe, Royal Oak, Taylor, Trenton, Troy and Wayne, Metro Detroit, Michigan, United States
Organization
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Type	Teaching
Network	Beaumont Health
Services
Emergency department	Level I Trauma Center[1]
Beds	(1,070 in Royal Oak campus), (520 in Troy campus), (250 in Grosse Pointe campus)
Helipad	32MI, Royal Oak,[2][3] KVLL, Troy [4] and KDET, Grosse Pointe [5]
History
Opened	1955
Links
Website	http://www.beaumont.org/
Lists	Hospitals in Michigan

Locations

Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn

Dearborn, a 632-bed hospital and Level 2 trauma center, is located at 18101 Oakwood Blvd, Dearborn MI 48124.

Beaumont Hospital, Farmington Hills

Beaumont Hospital, Farmington Hills is a 330-bed health care facility.

Specialities include cancer, diabetes and endocrinology, ear, nose and throat, gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery, geriatrics, gynecology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pediatrics, pulmonology and urology.[7]

Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe

Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe, is a 280-bed hospital located at 468 Cadieux Rd, Grosse Pointe, Michigan. On October 1, 2007 it was acquired by Beaumont Health System from Bon Secours Health System Inc.

Specialties include diabetes and endocrinology, ear, nose and throat, gastroenterology and GI surgery, geriatrics, gynecology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology and urology.[8]

Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak

The largest Beaumont hospital is Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, an academic medical center located at 3601 W. Thirteen Mile Road in Royal Oak, Michigan, and houses 1,109 inpatient beds. The complex also includes cancer, renal, vascular, heart, radiology and neuroscience centers as well as a research institute and a medical building with private practices and other Beaumont services. This location is a Level 1 Trauma Center and has a dedicated heliport.

Beaumont Hospital, Taylor

Beaumont Hospital, Taylor is a 180-bed hospital located at 10000 Telegraph Rd, Taylor, Michigan.

Specialties include physical medicine and rehabilitation, geriatrics, nephrology, orthopedics, pulmonology and urology.[9]

Beaumont Hospital, Trenton

Beaumont Hospital, Trenton is located at 5450 Fort St, Trenton, Michigan.

Specialties include diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology and GI surgery, geriatrics, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology and urology.[10]

Beaumont Hospital, Troy

The 520-bed campus of the Beaumont Hospital, Troy is located at 44201 Dequindre Road in Troy, Michigan south of South Blvd/20 Mile Road. Built in 1977 this hospital location offers inpatient and outpatient services as well as private practices. This location has a pedestrian bridge to a medical office building across Dequindre Road. This puts this campus in two cities and two counties, the City of Troy, Michigan and the City of Sterling Heights, Michigan, as well as Oakland and Macomb Counties.[11]

Specialties include cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, ear, nose and throat, gastroenterology and GI surgery, geriatrics, gynecology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pediatrics, pulmonology and urology.

Beaumont Hospital, Wayne

Since 1957, Beaumont Hospital, Wayne, a 185-bed hospital is located at 33155 Annapolis St, Wayne, Michigan.

Specialties include diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology and GI surgery, geriatrics, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology and urology.[12]

In addition to these eight hospitals, Beaumont Health also offers 187 ambulatory/outpatient sites including, emergency and urgent care, outpatient and medical centers, outpatient laboratory centers, outpatient pharmacies, physical therapy centers, imaging centers, senior living and nursing homes and wellness and fitness centers.[13]

Beaumont Children’s

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.[14]

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.[15]

Medical school and teaching hospital

In 2010, Oakland University and William Beaumont Hospital opened an allopathic medical school called Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine (OUWB) admitting its first class of 50 students.[16] The school was granted full accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and graduated its first class in 2015. The school currently accepts 125 students per year.

Beaumont serves as a teaching hospital through an exclusive partnership with Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine and also through partnerships with Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, and Wayne State University School of Medicine.

Beaumont Health has approximately 932 residents and fellows and offers 94 residency and fellowship programs.[17] Research opportunities are also available through the Beaumont Research Institute.[18]

Community health

Beaumont's community outreach activities include: health screenings, community education, speakers bureau, food drives, walks and career fairs.[19]

In 2018, Beaumont provided more than $330 million in community benefit.[20]

Key statistics

	Dearborn[21]	Farmington Hills[22]	Grosse Pointe[23]	Royal Oak[23]	Trenton[21]	Taylor[21]	Troy[23]	Wayne[21]	Total - Beaumont Health
Discharges	30,626	14,061	12,834	59,555	9,512	7,340	34,550	8,210	176,688
Births	4,312	680	748	6,872	604	-	3,578	995	17,789
Surgeries	15,640	9,128	8,019	51,248	8,200	5,377	22,924	3,908	124,444
Emergency Visits	88,057	62,562	50,410	130,733	37,689	38,694	102,671	63,775	574,591
Employees	4,373	2,380	1,771	9,639	1,348	1,289	5,222	1,191	27,213
Physicians	950	623	811	2,122	516	524	1,425	533	7,504
Volunteers	471	258	376	819	129	108	815	178	3,154

2017 data (as of 2/21/2018)

History

Beaumont

Groundbreaking began in 1953 for "Oakland Hospital," but because of a delivery mix-up and to further distinguish itself from nearby Oakwood Hospital it was decided to change the name of the new hospital. The new name was William Beaumont Hospital (WBH), the doors were officially open on January 24, 1955 with 238-beds in Royal Oak, Michigan in 1955.[24] The hospitals, the overall health system and the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine are all named for William Beaumont, a U.S. Army surgeon who became known as the "Father of Gastric Physiology" following his research on human digestion started at Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island, Michigan.[24][25][26][27]

Botsford

In 1965, Botsford General Hospital opened with 200 beds adjacent to the historic Botsford Inn, a former stagecoach stop on Grand River in Farmington Hills. The hospital opened as an expansion to Zieger Clinic Hospital in Detroit, opened by Dr. Allen Zieger in 1944.

Oakwood

Oakwood Hospital opened on Jan. 5, 1953 and grew to include four hospitals and ambulatory centers in and around Dearborn.[28]

The decision to build a "voluntary" hospital on land donated by Henry Ford II and Ford Motor Company was controversial at the time, as Dearborn mayor Orville L. Hubbard supported a competing proposal for a municipal facility. After months of contentious debate, the voluntary hospital plan was approved, with the ground-breaking taking place in August 1950.

Beaumont Health

In March 2014, the Beaumont Health System, along with Botsford Health Care and Oakwood Healthcare, signed a letter of intent to merge their operations.[29]

Failed merger attempt with Advocate Aurora

In 2020, Beaumont and Advocate Aurora, a 28-hospital system in Illinois and Wisconsin, announced plans to merge into a combined company worth $17 billion.[30][31] These plans were called off in October 2020, in part because physicians, lawmakers, staff, and donors were concerned that it would harm patient care.[31][32]

Executive bonuses, layoffs, and calls for termination of executives

Beaumont was harshly criticized by some of its physicians and other staff for paying bonuses to its executives, including US$2.6 million to CEO John Fox, amid laying off thousands of workers and receiving US$866 million in Federal CARES Act funds related to the COVID-19 pandemic. A long-time Beaumont cardiologist, Robert Safian, sent letters to its board calling for termination of CEO John Fox, as well as the chief operating officer and the chief medical officer. Safian cited the "toxic culture" of fear and intimidation and implementation of cost-saving measures that impact patient care and force physicians out of the system. A number of other leading physicians at Beaumont have sent letters of complaint.[33][34][35]

See also

• William Beaumont
• Beaumont (disambiguation)

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35. "Beaumont Cardiologist Wants Executives Fired". www.medpagetoday.com. November 25, 2020.

External links

• Beaumont Health