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Causes: Community Health Systems, Health
Mission: William beaumont hospital will provide the highest quality healthcare services to all of our patients efficiently, effectively and compassionately, regardless of where they live or their financial circumstances.
Programs: William beaumont hospital (dba beaumont health system ("beaumont or "the system")), a michigan non-profit corporation, operates a broad network of health care delivery organizations in oakland, macomb and wayne counties in southeastern michigan. At its core, beaumont's focus is to provide the highest quality health care services safely, effectively and compassionately to all patients irrespective of their ability to pay. The system has three acute care hospitals with a total licensed bed complement of 1,876 beds. For the tax year ended december 31, 2016, beaumont's hospitals registered 109,633 admissions, 78,889 total surgeries, 11,213 births and 277,259 emergency room visits. Beaumont opened on jan. 24, 1955, as a 238-bed community hospital in royal oak, michigan. Today, that hospital is a 1,100 bed major academic and referral center with level i trauma status. It was michigan's first magnet-designated hospital for nursing excellence and it is an associate member of the national association of children's hospitals and related institutions. A second beaumont hospital opened in troy in 1977 as a 200-bed acute care community teaching hospital. It is now among the nation's busiest community hospitals with 526 beds. In 2009, troy received magnet status. In october 2007, beaumont became a regional health provider when it acquired a third community hospital with 250 beds in grosse pointe. Ninety medical and surgical specialties are represented on the beaumont medical staffs of over 3,100 physicians. A major teaching facility, beaumont has 40 accredited residency and fellowship programs with more than 450 residents and fellows and partnered with oakland university to establish the oakland university william beaumont school of medicine in 2011. For undergraduate training, beaumont is affiliated with the university of michigan and wayne state university schools of medicine. Beaumont also has nursing affiliations with area schools, including a top-ranked certified registered nurse anesthetist school. Among other recognized inpatient divisions, beaumont operates heart, cancer and urology centers where patients in the community and patients from around the world receive state of the art treatment without regard to their financial circumstances. As part of its commitment to the community and surrounding areas, beaumont operates a highly-regarded neonatal intensive care unit which cares for the sickest babies. Regarding care for seniors in its community, beaumont has special geriatric services dedicated to serving older adults and their families with state of the art technology, teams of specialists and a host of programs specially designed for senior citizens.
beaumont's mission extends beyond its campuses where it is a leader in providing outpatient health care services to all members of the community, including medicaid patients, underinsured patients and patients with no insurance at all. The system also includes numerous community-based medical centers in macomb, oakland and wayne counties, housing two family medicine centers, physician offices, an ambulatory surgical center, diagnostic radiology, laboratory and rehabilitation services; extended care centers in bloomfield hills, shelby township, st. Clair shores, southfield and west bloomfield and an assisted-living facility in st. Clair shores; in-home care services include nursing, infusion, medical equipment and hospice and beaumont health center in royal oak, with outpatient rehabilitation services, an interventional pain center, an anticoagulation medicine service, a hyperbaric medicine program and the beaumont weight control. In 2016, beaumont recorded 2,539,285 outpatient ancillary visits system-wide. All of these outpatient services are provided to patients on a non-discriminatory basis and irrespective of ability to pay.
the emergency care centers at the three hospitals in the system are staffed and equipped to handle the most severe illnesses and injuries as well as minor traumas that require medical attention. Beaumont, royal oak is a level 1 trauma center designated by the american college of surgeons. The system treated 277,259 individuals in its emergency centers in 2016. Beaumont provides these medical services regardless of the patient's ability to pay and treats everyone regardless of their financial circumstances.