Other than St. John Riverview, are there any other recently closed hospitals in the Metro Detroit area?
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Other than St. John Riverview, are there any other recently closed hospitals in the Metro Detroit area?
Riverside Hospital in Trenton.
When did that one on Carpenter in Detroit close?
not real recent, but remember Deaconess on Jefferson?
There's one off of Michigan Ave. west of the MCS that closed in the last couple of years I think.
Yeah, I used to see that when I'd take the train to Chicago. Nothing ages more poorly than the future ...
Part of Sinai is closed now, isn't it? And the emergency sections of all the smaller hospitals...
Into the early 2000s the hospital off Michigan housed the DPD Vice Squad. I believe other parts of the building held a drug rehab facility.
Sinai on Outer Drive
Saratoga on Gratiot
Riverside in Trenton
Detroit Osteopathic in Highland Park
Beyer Hospital in Ypsi, within the last 10 years I belive.
Wayne County General Hospital in Westland near the Eloise institution. Demo'd in 1999.
Renaissance High School is now on the former site of Sinai Hospital on W. Outer Drive.
North Oakland Medical Center in Pontiac closed in 2008 only to be purchased by a group of physicians and re-opened a couple of weeks later as Doctor's Hospital of Michigan. The closing and re-opening were done with pretty big fanfare, but I haven't seen much about whether it's been successful.
Actually the said doctor's name is Dr. Moon and he didn't die in an auto accident, but was criminally indicted for improperly burning old hospital records on his farm in Livingston County.
The old hospital [[NDG) is now being converted into: a charter school, out patient clinic and a nursing home.
No, I'm talking about the guy before the current crook. Perhaps Dr. Moon bought the hospital from the one I'm thinking of. I lived down the street for a few decades, but it's been long enough that I'm not remembering his name. His drowning made the news, because of its freakish nature.
He was driving in a parking lot in the Farmington Hills area and accidentally drove into a pond. It was raining so hard, the pond overflowed into the adjacent parking lot, and the doctor had no idea he left the asphalt until it was too late.
Anyone know anything about Arts Center Hospital on Woodward? I can't find any history or anything about it.
Yes, I worked at North Detroit General which changed name to Greater Detroit Hospital when the drowned Dr. bought it. He actually re-opened it since it had been closed for several years. Damn what was his name?
Lincoln Hospital on 25th and W. Lafayette, closed in the 60's. Was owned and run by Jewish Dr.s who were not permitted to practice in some other larger hospitals. I was told.
Lynn Hospital on Outer Drive, west of Fort Street in Lincoln Park closed many years ago. It was torn down. Some ministry bought the property to build a church, but nothing has sprouted but weeds. Also many years ago Outer Drive Hospital [[part of the old PCHA) was closed and purchased by Vencor for use as facility for the terminally ill. It is located on Outer Drive east of Fort Street also in Lincoln Park.
Forgot about these two Nankin Hospital in Wayne and Ridgewood in Superior TWP.
Those two closed long ago, Yet I would not have known that there were that many hospitals around.
Connor, 94 was Samaritan Hospital. I worked there too. Mmm, everywhere I worked seems to have closed down.
Old promotional post card
Google Maps w/satellite view It's a bit difficult for me to make out - lies at a sloppy seam between two [[or several) different satellite images, but it looks like the building is still there. It's now part of the WSU campus, but not sure in what capacity.
North Detroit General was co-owned by Dr. Orekonde Ganesh, who drowned in his car in July 1996. http://metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=4462
Thanks, Thafuzz
My brother was born at St. Francis in Hamtramck. I left my tonsils there.
I figure that was an even trade.
I, and most of my cousins, were also born at St. Francis Hospital in Hamtramck. Family joke was you couldn't be more Polish than to be born in the heart of Hamtramck. ;)
I've often wondered which of the current City Hall rooms was the original delivery room.
If you get in touch with somebody on the Hamtramck Historical Commission they might be able to answer that question. Especially try to direct your question to Greg Kowalski, because his mom was a nurse there for years.
I do know in the basement was where they kept their mental patients while waiting to transfer them to the official "loony bin." They had three or four cells with seriously thick doors on them.
Zig, Ain' t Superior Twp in Washtinaw County?
Interesting websites on old Detroit hospitals. Ran across it when I remembered Kirwood on W. Davision.
Black-Owned and Operated Hospitals in Detroit during the 20th Century
KIRWOOD GENERAL HOSPITAL [[DETROIT, MI) Detailed Hospital Profile
Art Center is next to the Detroit Institute of Arts, and I think they store [[or used to) some of the old historic records and stuff there. I was born there in 1956. It was an osteopathic hospital.
Here's a little info and a picture I found"Attachment 2946
When did St. Francis move and become Holy Cross? [[Which is now a Triumph Hospital, I think.) Did they have nuns as nurses? You hardly ever see that anymore.
I was born at Holy Cross, while my cousins were born at either Bon Secours or Saratoga. Are they still around? There was an Italian grocery store across the street from Saratoga, I wish I could remember the name of it. My dad got me some spumoni there when I got my tonsils taken out. Mmmmm!
It wasn't exactly in Detroit, but I was taken to Bi-County in an ambulance once. I can't remember where that was, though.
jcole, I'm Arts Centr Class of '61
My husband was born at Art Center which I believe was originally called Woman's Hospital. My sisters were born at Deaconess, now long gone. My first real job was at Deaconess too. It was owned by my church and their associated members.
My dumb story for today. I was born at St Johns when it was very small. The nurses and most staff were Nuns. 1954 was the year of Mary as decreed by the pope. I was born on my Aunt May's birthday so my Mom gave me May as my middle name. The nun said Mary, how nice, my Mom said no May. It went back and forth. When my birth certificate arrived it stated Mary. So Mary is my legal middle name. Yuck!!!!!
Wasn't there a Doctors Hospital on Jefferson near Deaconess on the south side? It was a beautiful old building.
Not recent at all, but there was "old " Providence, on the Blvd, down the block from Henry Ford.
Highland Park General Hospital on Glendale near Lodge Freeway.
I think they turned it into either some type of nursing home, or a clinic.
I was born at New Grace Hospital on 7 Mile and Meyers. It was closed and torn down, replaced by a Super Kmart, now Home Depot.
Was the Art Center Hospital the Old Bowen residence or the building next to it in the old post card?
Throughout the great healthcare debate I have often thought about the family doctor we had that delivered me, and was our respected family go to guy for anything medical. A wonderful guy named Stanley Reuter. His office was on 9 mile right next to Dave's Party Store. And he must have been reasonably priced, or we sure couldn't have afforded to see him. I maintain that this is not a threadjack, because he perfomed some procedures in his office,making it a de-facto hospital in the metropolitan area.
Does anyone have before and after pics that they can post?
Thanks Eastsider!
Very interesting post. I believe that Women's Hospital was always called that.
Then there was St. Joseph Hospital on E. Grand Blvd, torn down for Poletown plant work. And Ardmore Hospital in Ferndale There was also a Jennings Hospital on E. Jefferson and a sort of mental hospital on the avenue, also [[ in the mid l960s)
Sumas, Doctors Hospital was in an old Jefferson Ave. mansion. When the hospital closed the owner decided to tear down the mansion and build a shopping center [[near Stroh River Place).
Another old hospital was the Naval hospital at the foot of Alter Road near the Grosse Pointe Park border, but I don't recall the name.
Another old hospital which was torn down decades before most of us were born [[except for Ray1936!) was called Hurley Hospital on West Adams Ave on W. Grand Circus Park. It was a 7 story brown brick building that was located where that parking lot is today between the Kales Building and the Fine Arts Building facade. Some of the old Sanford maps incorrectly list it as "Shurley Hospital". It was located formerly located to the right of the Kales Building in this pic....
You're thinking of the U.S. Marine Hospital. The address was 3770 E. Jefferson.
Other old hospitals include:
Boulevard Maternity Hospital, 339 W. Grand Blvd.
Coolidge Hospital, 1813 S. Fort
Lincoln Hospital, 1051 25th
Marr Hospital, 3966 Trumbull
Pingree General, 10049 Grand River
Chenik Hospital, 3105 Carpenter
Delray Industrial Hospital, 7125 W. Jefferson
Detroit Osteopathic Hospital [[HP) 188 Highland Avenue
East Side Hospital, 2199 Cadillac Blvd.
Fernwood Hospital, 3818 Northwestern
Grace Hospital, 4160 John R, AND 277 W. Grand Blvd.
Mercy Hospital, 668 Winder
Woman's Hospital, 443 E. Forest Ave.
You guys and gals with your lust for research never cease to amaze me.
Wasn't there an Alexander Blaine Hospital on Jefferson?
I have been inside and photographed a couple....
The Detroit Osteopathic Hospital on Second Ave in Highland Park
The Southwest Detroit Hospital off Michigan Ave
According to this website, http://wayne.migenweb.net/wayhospitals.htm
Alexander Blain Hospital was at 2201 E Jefferson
I really hope that happens but the work has been slow. They put new windows into one part of the building but the rest has been untouched. The former laundry facility for the hospital [[white painted building w. of the hospital) is still vacant and severely damaged. I heard that the city is giving them some difficulties, but that is only neighborhood hearsay. I seriously hope it comes to fruition, it would be a boon to the neighborhood.
Q: Would William Booth Memorial Hospital, 130 W Grand Blvd. [[circa 1928) have anything to do with the Salvation Army?
As of 1928-29, 2201 E. Jefferson was listed as Jefferson Clinic and Diagnostic Hospital. I don't know if they used the same building. Also, Dr. Blain rests peacefully at Elmwood. I don't know his specialization, but evidently, he liked birds http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...54260188&df=1&
If someone would pay us to do this, we could quit our "real" jobs & everything would be cherry! :D:D
It's Zieger Osteopathic Hospital. The spelling on the postcard is wrong.
I got curious the other night when a friend said she was born in Zieger Hospital at Michigan and Livernois in Detroit.
I found out that this Dr. Allen Zieger, who founded it, also founded Botsford Hospital in Farmington Hills.
http://www.botsford.org/about/history/
Lynn Hospital was part of Oakwood prior to closing and being torn down.
That church has the land for sale now. It's now back on the tax rolls so that the city is now getting tax dollars from it.
Vencor Hospital is now part of Vibra Healthcare. It's been Outer Drive, Vencor, Kindred and now Vibra.
What other hospitals were part of the Peoples Community Hospital Association? Or was it Authority? My girlfriends dad worked for them prior to going to Oakwood where he was their CEO prior to retirement.
Botsford's history only lists their openings and acquisitions, not the closings. I vaguely recall Zeiger Hospital on Livernois, it was still open early 70's, but cannot seem to recall the building itself. Driving in that area, I thought it was maybe the Boy's Club building, but that can't be.
Botsford used to have a big photo and bio of Dr. Zieger in the lobby doorway. I wonder if it was removed or photoshopped? It was funny seeing his pic in the lobby, with him smoking a cigarette.
Did I read here that Saratoga is closed? My brother was born there and I left my appendix there. I was on a ship in the North Atlantic when my daughter was born in St Joseph. I seem to remember that it was on the Blvd, east side. I guess it was given up when then built the Poletown car plant. Anyone remember it?
Yes, Saratoga Hospital closed - don't remember when. The building is currently an urgent care center - whatever that is. Before that it was some sort of mental health facility- "Circle of Life" if my memory serves me.
I don't remember St. Joseph, but this list of hospitals from 1967 has St. Joseph Mercy Hospital at 2200 E. Grand Blvd.
Thanks Brock 7!
I was born in Detroit Osteopathic in Highland Park. Can anyone tell me what the address was and if the building is still there?
When I was a kid, they spoke of a place called "Receiving Hospital" which I gather was run by the city and was not well thought of.
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I was born in North Detroit General.
Receiving [[now Detroit Receiving) used to be where the DPD took all of their gunshot victims, at least as far back as the '70s. The location now is in the DMC area but was originally down in the Greektown area. It was the premiere triage hospital in the area way back when
Old Detroit Receiving Hospital was at 1400 St. Antoine, directly across the street from what is now the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice. In its prime in the fifties and sixties, it had some of the finest ER physicians you could ask for. Police officers used to say -- very seriously -- if I need a hernia operation, don't take me to Receiving. If I get shot, PLEASE take me to Receiving.
There was another privately owned hospital directly south of it, at 1300 St. Antoine. It was a catholic hospital...St. Something or other....but it closed about 1960. Was a very big old Victorian building. Anyone got a city directory c. 1959 or so to get the name?
kathy2trips post gives the address as Detroit Osteopathic Hospital [[HP) 188 Highland Avenue. The hospital list from '67 gives an address around the corner - 12523 3rd [[Highland Park).
Bing maps shows a large building there with cars in the parking lot, but detroitbob66 posted: "I have been inside and photographed a couple....
The Detroit Osteopathic Hospital on Second Ave in Highland Park"
Ray, Detroit Memorial was right next to Receiving back in the 60's and 70's; my sister went to nursing school there. Is that what you're thinking of?
When did Saratoga close down? Left my tonsils and a cyst there, and watched my grandmother pass there.
Later in life, my first wife lived right to the side on State Fair, third house down. I just googled the place, looks like they took a couple more house, hers is the last one left on the north side.
The 1928 Polk directory has St. Mary's Hospital north of Receiving across Clinton and Recorder's Court just to the south of Receiving Hospital. St. Mary's RC Church is on the se corner of Monroe and St. Antoine. There's a Psychopathic Clinic listed on the 3rd flr of the Recorder's Court building.
My mother went to Saratoga ER for a sprained ankle sometime in the mid 90's. I was receiving their newsletter for a few years after she died in '98, although at some point through there they became part of the St. John Health Care system.
Yup. Don't know what the heck made me think it was a Catholic hospital; must have been thinking of Old Providence on the Boulevard when I visualized its image. But Detroit Memorial it was. Didn't know it was still open in the 70s, though; but my memory gets gaps from time to time.
Yes, the Booth Memorial Hosp. on W. Grand Blvd. was owned by the Salvation Army. SA Booth Memorial Hospitals primarily served unwed mothers with many locations across the Nation. My family took exception to the rule though when in Nov, 1957/58 my little sister Sue was born there. We lived across the street, Mom went into labor and no time to get her to a different hospital!
Holy Cross on Outer Drive and Van Dyke just closed recently closed. It's now a nursing home. It was also one of St. John's Hospitals. I believe it closed around the same time Riverview Hospital closed.
Saratoga closed as a regular hospital sometime in the mid/late 90s. In its last days, it also became one of St. John's hospitals. After closing, much of the building was closed off while dotors that were affiliated with St. John moved into the old emergency wing. Today, a portion of the building is used as a mental institution [[Behavorial Centers of America own and operate the building).
There was a hospital on jefferson not too far from downtown...a 2 or 3 story light colored brick building...I was a patient there in the early 70's. I believe it was called Riverside.
I'm looking for photos of Lincoln Hospital on 25th and Howard. Also of the building that was just south of it, formerly the Boulevard Sanitarium.
277 W Grand Blvd was the Miriam Memorial Branch of Grace Hospital, formerly Hubbard's home called Vinewood.
What happened to the old Aurora mental hospital[[s)?
I'm not sure when Blain closed as a hospital, but after sitting vacant for however long, it eventually was repurposed in the late 1990s. for many years it housed a social services nonprofit, a Concentra medical clinic, a foot physician [[in the adjacent smaller building), a chiropractor's office, and the Detroit Police's Gaming [[casino) division had their headquarters there. It's all vacant again, but you can still see the signage for the most recent tenants.
I was a hospital billing form midnight shift computer operator for a brief interval in the
mid nineties. The lady who trained me there was studying cosmetology and wanted to open
her own salon some day.
Aurora forms were there then. MHCC too was there. So what happened after that? Metro Times had a series of articles in the early 2000s about the demise of Aurora. Former Detroit
City Councilperson Mel Ravitz was an Aurora board member and commentator for the articles. However, before that, apparently according to some, Detroit General was financially gutted in favor of Aurora.
Jennings was the name of the hospital on Jefferson at Seyburn, which eventually became St. John Riverview. It's 2009 closing is mentioned at the beginning of this thread. The building is still there, but empty. The nearby and newer clinic building still has several doctor's offices though I think. I had several childhood injuries tended to and stitched up at Jennings.
There were several small hospitals along Jefferson east of downtown. There was Lakeside General, which was right next to the Palms Apartments and at one time included the adjacent 1868 Parker house at 975 E. Jefferson [[that now houses a law firm). Then there was the Blain Clinic across from Dubois and the Pasadena Apartments. That building is still there too, but I think it's empty now. Further down at Joseph Campau on the south side of the street, where the Staples is now, was Doctor's Hospital. Back on the north side of the street to the west of the Players was Deaconess Hospital.
circa 1999 - 2012, the former Blain hospital/clinic housed a social services agency, a Concentra clinic, a chiropractor, and the Detroit Police Dept's Casino squad [[a podiatrist was housed in the annex.) Concentra was the last business to leave when it moved to the former FuddRucker's site at Jefferson/Chene.
My dad worked at Lynn from the mid 70's until 1981. It was owned by Dr. Al Alexander and Dr. Ericson. It had been bleeding money for many years before they finally gave it up.