Company Profile
Sparrow Health Systen
Company Overview
Sparrow Health System is a 733 bed plus tertiary care center which provides quality care to tens of thousands of people each year and is Mid-Michigan’s premier health care organization and the region’s largest private employer. Sparrow has two Lansing campuses, affiliate hospitals in St. Johns, Carson City and Ionia, dozens of satellite care centers, two health maintenance organizations (Physician Health Plan of mid-Michigan and the Sparrow Physicians Health Plan), the Sparrow Health Science Pavilion and the highly popular Michigan Athletic Club.
Every year, through 24 residency programs established in partnership with Michigan State University’s Colleges of Human and Osteopathic Medicine, the committed clinicians at Sparrow Health System help train approximately 210 residents. Sparrow Hospital, the flagship of the Sparrow Health System, was established in 1896, and is the regional center for cancer, trauma, pediatrics, orthopedics, neonatal intensive care and neurological care. The Sparrow Hospital emergency room is the only Level 1 Trauma Center in mid-Michigan. Sparrow St. Lawrence campus serves as the regional center for dialysis, behavioral health, hospice and long-term acute care.
Sparrow recently became the first health system in Michigan and one of the first five in the nation to be selected as a member of the prestigous Mayo Clinic Care Network. This formal collaboration will mean that Sparrow Providers have direct access to the latest Mayo Clinic expertise and clinical care resources to help care for their patients.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Sparrow Facts: 885 Physicians, 617 licensed Sparrow Hospital acute-care beds.
Statistics: Provides more than $92.6 million intotal charity care & community service.
Nearly 500,000 outpatient procedures,
Nearly 100,000ER visits.
Nearly 4,000 births
Nearly 23,000 surgeries
More than 42,000 Home Care visits
More thabn 600Hospice patients
Major Accreditations
Joint Commission
Member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network
Magnet Designation
American Osteopathic Association
Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare PRoviders (HCAHP)
National Council on Quality Assurance (NCQA)
American Medical Association
Michigan Board of Nursing
Michigan Department of State Policy, Fire Marshall Division
Michigan State Medical Society
United States Department of Health and Human Services
American College of Graduate Medical Education
American College of Pathologists
Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities
American College of Surgeons