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| Formerly | BHSH Health (2022) |
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| Company type | Non-profit |
| Industry | Healthcare |
| Predecessor | Beaumont Health Spectrum Health |
| Founded | February 1, 2022 |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Number of locations | 22 hospitals (2025) |
Area served | Metro Detroit Greater Grand Rapids West Michigan |
Key people | Tina Freese Decker, CEO |
| Revenue | 865,601,487 United States dollar (2021)  |
| Total assets | 3,764,596,745 United States dollar (2021) |
| Website | corewellhealth |
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
[edit]Spectrum Health
[edit]Spectrum Health formed in 1997 through the merger of Butterworth Health System and Blodgett Memorial Medical Center in the Grand Rapids area.[1][2] The system expanded through further mergers and acquisitions, most recently merging with Lakeland Health in 2018.[3] Prior to merging with Beaumont, Spectrum was the largest health care organization,[4] and largest private employer,[1] in West Michigan, operating 14 hospitals across the region.[5]
Beaumont
[edit]Beaumont Health was formed with the opening of William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan in 1955.[6] The system expanded with the acquisition of Bon Secours Hospital in 2007,[7] and mergers with Botsford Hospital and Oakwood Hospital in 2014.[8] At the time of the merger, Beaumont operated 8 hospitals in the Detroit metropolitan area.[5]
Merger and creation of Corewell
[edit]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.[9] Spectrum CEO Tina Freese Decker became CEO of the combined organization, and John Fox, the head of Beaumont Health, resigned on February 4, 2022.[10]
Locations and subsidiaries
[edit]Headquarters
[edit]Corewell Health is headquartered at 100 Michigan St NE on the Grand Rapids Medical Mile; it maintains a large Detroit-area administrative office in Beaumont's former headquarters in Southfield.[11]
Hospitals
[edit]| Hospital | Location | Beds[12] | Trauma center[13] | Opened | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital | Royal Oak | 1109 | Level I | 1955 | |
| Corewell Health Dearborn Hospital | Dearborn | 632 | Level II | 1953 | formerly Oakwood Hospital; merged with Beaumont in 2014[14] |
| Corewell Health Beaumont Troy Hospital | Troy/Sterling Heights | 520 | Level II | 1977 | complex straddles city/county border, connected by skybridge |
| Corewell Health Farmington Hills Hospital | Farmington Hills | 330 | Level II | 1965 | formerly Botsford Hospital; acquired by Beaumont in 2014[14] |
| Corewell Health Grosse Pointe Hospital | Grosse Pointe | 280 | Level III | 1945[15] | formerly Bon Secours Hospital; acquired by Beaumont in 2007[16] |
| Corewell Health Trenton Hospital | Trenton | 193[17] | Level II | 1961 | formerly Oakwood Southshore Medical Center; merged with Beaumont in 2014[14] |
| Corewell Health Wayne Hospital | Wayne | 185 | Level III | 1957 | formerly (Oakwood) Annapolis Hospital; merged with Beaumont in 2014[14][18] |
| Corewell Health Taylor Hospital | Taylor | 180 | Level IV | 1977 | formerly Oakwood Heritage Hospital; merged with Beaumont in 2014[14] |
| Corewell Health Helen DeVos Children's Hospital | Grand Rapids | 241 | Level I Pediatric | 1970 | affiliated with Michigan State University |
| Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital | Grand Rapids | 852 | Level I | 1875 | |
| Corewell Health Blodgett Hospital | East Grand Rapids | 248 | Level III | 1914 | |
| Corewell Health Gerber Memorial Health Services | Fremont | 25 | Level IV | 1918 | merged with Spectrum in 2010[19] |
| Corewell Health Reed City Hospital | Reed City | 64 | Level IV | 1884 | merged with Spectrum in 2010[20] |
| Corewell Health United Hospital | Greenville | 88 | Level IV | 1915 | acquired by Spectrum in 2003[21] |
| Corewell Health Zeeland Community Hospital | Zeeland | 55 | Level III | 1921 | acquired by Spectrum in 2011[21] |
| Corewell Health Ludington Hospital | Ludington | 49 | Level IV | 1967 | formerly Memorial Medical Center; acquired by Spectrum in 2013[22] |
| Corewell Health Big Rapids Hospital | Big Rapids | 49 | Level IV | 1878 | formerly Mecosta County Medical Center; acquired by Spectrum in 2013[23] |
| Corewell Health Pennock Hospital | Hastings | 25 | Level IV | 1923 | acquired by Spectrum in 2015[24] |
| Corewell Health Lakeland Medical Center | Saint Joseph | 296 | Level III | 1899 | formerly part of Lakeland Health; merged with Spectrum in 2018[25] |
| Corewell Health Lakeland Niles Hospital | Niles | 89 | Level IV | 1899 | formerly part of Lakeland Health; merged with Spectrum in 2018[25] |
| Corewell Health Lakeland Watervliet Hospital | Watervliet | 49 | Level IV | 1899 | formerly part of Lakeland Health; merged with Spectrum in 2018[25] |
Insurance
[edit]Priority Health is a subsidiary health plan with one million members.
Pediatric care
[edit]Helen DeVos Children's Hospital (HDVCH) 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.[26]
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.[27]
Other facilities
[edit]The Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion is an outpatient cancer center located in the Grand Rapids Medical Mile. It was developed to bring all cancer research and patient service delivery under one roof in the Spectrum Health System.
Controversy
[edit]Dobbs v. Jackson
[edit]On June 24, 2022, hours after the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Corewell Health announced that most abortion services would no longer be offered at the system's facilities, despite court orders which kept the procedure legal in Michigan.[28] Following public pressure, including calls for a boycott of the system, Corewell reverted to its previous policy, providing abortion when deemed medically necessary.[29]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Carlson, Kate (September 27, 2017). "8 things to know about Spectrum Health's 20 years in West Michigan". mlive. Retrieved November 20, 2025.
- ^ Bond Emrich, Anne (October 5, 2008). "Growth speeds along Medical Mile". Crain's Grand Rapids Business. Retrieved November 20, 2025 – via Crain's Detroit Business.
- ^ Greene, Jay (October 1, 2018). "Spectrum, Lakeland Health complete merger". Crain's Detroit Business. Retrieved November 19, 2025.
- ^ "Spectrum Health - Celebrating 10 Years". Archived from the original on July 1, 2012.
- ^ a b Bouffard, Karen (October 11, 2022). "New Beaumont, Spectrum hospital system becomes Corewell Health". The Detroit News. Retrieved November 19, 2025.
- ^ "Timeline/Milestones". Archived from the original on August 9, 2012. Retrieved November 8, 2013.
- ^ Gustafson, Sven (October 1, 2007). "Hospital follows through on Grosse Pointe acquisition". MLive Media Group. Retrieved September 13, 2025.
- ^ "Beaumont, Oakwood, Botsford health systems intend to merge". ClickOnDetroit.com. WDIV-TV. March 21, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2025.
- ^ Walsh, Dustin (October 11, 2022). "Beaumont-Spectrum merger finally has new name". Crain's Detroit Business. Retrieved December 22, 2025.
- ^ Reindl, JC; Shamus, Kristen Jordan (January 31, 2022). "Beaumont, Spectrum set to launch Michigan's biggest health system Tuesday". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved February 2, 2022.
- ^ Watson, Rachel (January 5, 2023). "Corewell's planned Grand Rapids HQ is more than just a new office". Crain's Detroit Business. Retrieved July 29, 2023.
- ^ "2023 Michigan Certificate of Need Annual Survey Number of Licensed Beds in Hospitals by County" (PDF). Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. July 2, 2024.
- ^ "Michigan Designated Trauma Facilities" (PDF). Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. September 21, 2021.
- ^ a b c d e McClain, Erica (May 13, 2015). "Oakwood's four hospitals to become known as Beaumont by late June". The News-Herald. Archived from the original on November 20, 2025.
- ^ "Corewell Health Beaumont Grosse Pointe Hospital - Grosse Pointe - MI". www.practicematch.com. Retrieved July 30, 2023.
- ^ Gustafson, Sven (October 2, 2007). "Hospital follows through on Grosse Pointe acquisition". MLive. Retrieved July 30, 2023.
- ^ "American Hospital Directory - Beaumont Hospital, Trenton (230176) - Free Profile". www.ahd.com. Retrieved July 30, 2023.
- ^ "Beaumont, Wayne opened its doors to the community 60 years ago". Beaumont Health. Retrieved July 30, 2023.
- ^ "Spectrum Health to acquire Gerber Memorial". MLive. April 1, 2010. Retrieved November 20, 2025.
- ^ "Spectrum Health Extends its legacy". Crain's Grand Rapids Business. February 6, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2025.
- ^ a b King, Kyla (November 30, 2010). "Zeeland Community Hospital will become a Spectrum Health hospital as of Jan. 1, 2011". MLive. Retrieved November 19, 2025.
- ^ Anderson, Michelle D. (September 7, 2013). "Spectrum Health, Ludington's Memorial Medical Hospital announce new name, more than $50 million in investments". MLive. Retrieved November 19, 2025.
- ^ Thoms, Sue (May 6, 2013). "New name announced for Mecosta County Medical Center after its merger with Spectrum". MLive. Retrieved November 19, 2025.
- ^ Thoms, Sue (April 15, 2015). "Spectrum Health adds 12th hospital: Pennock Hospital in Hastings". MLive. Retrieved November 19, 2025.
- ^ a b c Sanchez, Mark (October 1, 2018). "Spectrum Health finalizes merger with Lakeland Health". Crain's Grand Rapids Business. Retrieved November 19, 2025.
- ^ "Beaumont announces children's hospital". Archived from the original on April 26, 2016. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
- ^ "Children's Miracle Network Hospitals". Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.
- ^ Walsh, Dustin (June 24, 2022). "Beaumont-Spectrum to discontinue most abortions after Roe ruling". Crain's Detroit Business. Retrieved July 29, 2023.
- ^ Haddad, Ken (June 26, 2022). "Beaumont-Spectrum Health backtracks on abortion guidance, says current policy will continue". WDIV. Retrieved July 29, 2023.
