Detroit Medical Center

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One of the employee parking garages at the Detroit Medical Center
One of the employee parking garages at the Detroit Medical Center
Emergency entrance to Detroit Receiving Hospital
Emergency entrance to Detroit Receiving Hospital

The Detroit Medical Center is a Detroit-based non-profit corporation that owns and operates nine general and specialty hospitals in southeast Michigan. Detroit Medical Center hospitals include:

  • The Karmanos Cancer Institute is closely affiliated with the Detroit Medical Center but is a separate not-for-profit entity that has a strong reputation for cancer treatment and research.

The Detroit Medical Center has more than 2,000 licensed beds, 3,000 affiliated physicians and 12,000+ employees. Several Detroit Medical Center hospitals are staffed by physicians from the Wayne State University School of Medicine, the largest single-campus medical school in the United States.[2]

Detroit Medical Center is the official healthcare services provider for the Detroit Tigers, the Detroit Red Wings, the Detroit Pistons, the Detroit Shock and the Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix.

Detroit Medical Center is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

Detroit Medical Center has two hospitals ranked in the top one percent in heart failure outcomes in the U.S. DMC Harper University Hospital and DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital ranked above the national average in a survey compiled by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Federal Department of Health and Human Services. The list included data from 4,807 hospitals across the United States. Of those hospitals, only 38 were ranked above the national average. The results are meant to assist the public in assessing how well their area hospitals care for patients with specific types of medical conditions including heart failure and heart attacks. Detroit Medical Center is the only health system in the state of Michigan with two hospitals ranked at this level.

Detroit Medical Center has been named to the nation’s MOST WIRED 2007 list, according to the results of the 2007 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study released in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine which has named the 100 Most Wired hospitals and health systems since 1999.

The nation’s 100 Most Wired hospitals show better outcomes in four key areas: mortality rates, patient safety measures from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), core measures from Hospital Compare and average length of stay. Based on analysis of the ninth annual Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study results, hospitals are embracing technology as a key tool for healthcare quality improvements.

The Most Wired Survey focuses on how the nation’s hospitals use information technologies for quality, customer service, public health and safety, business processes and workforce issues.

The Detroit Medical Center has received the prestigious “Best Practices in Infrastructure Management” award given annually by Computerworld’s Infrastructure Management World, the premier conference for leaders in the data center and infrastructure Management sector. The award recognizes DMC’s leadership and excellence among users of infrastructure management technology across the nation. The DMC is one of only two organizations bestowed the award annually.

Former Wayne County, Michigan, Executive Michael E. Duggan has been president and chief executive officer since January 2004. Former WDIV journalist Emery King serves as the Detroit Medical Center Communications Director, and presents the Emery King Healthcare Video Library at the Detroit Medical Center's website.

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  1. ^ Organization History and Profile Detroit Medical Center (accessed April 29, 2006).
  2. ^ Webpage: About the School. Wayne State University School of Medicine (accessed April 20, 2006).

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