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About Sparrow

Sparrow is a not-for-profit, community governed, comprehensive health system committed within its resources to improving the health status of people throughout the region by delivering quality, loving care both directly and by working cooperatively with others in the region; serving in a leadership role to ensure a comprehensive continuum of health care services; educating and training health care professionals; and aspiring to be the provider of choice, employer of choice and partner of choice in the mid-Michigan region.

Today's Sparrow Health System

As mid-Michigan's premier health care organization and the region's largest private employer, Sparrow Health System provides quality care to tens of thousands of people each year. sparrow has two Lansing campuses, affiliate hospitals in St. Johns, Carson City and Ionia, dozens of satellite care centers, two health maintenance organizations (Physicians Health Plan of Mid-Michigan and the Sparrow Physicians Health Plan), the Sparrow Health Science Pavilion and the popular Michigan Athletic Club.

Every year, through 24 residency programs established in partnership with Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine and College of Osteopathic Medicine, the committed clinicians at Sparrow Health System help train about 210 residents who will become tomorrow's leaders in the medical field.

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's St. Lawrence campus serves as the regional center for dialysis, behavioral health, hospice and long-term acute care.

In January 2008, Sparrow Health System opened the new, 10-story Sparrow Tower at its main Lansing campus. The $160 million, 450,000 square-foot Sparrow Tower is the largest single expenditure that has ever been made in this region to expand and improve health care services, and demonstrates Sparrow Health System's commitment to the residents of mid-Michigan and its vision for bringing the latest technological advances to enhance the patient care experience.

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Sparrow Facts:
7,200 associates
1,600 volunteers
885 physicians
733 licensed beds

Sparrow Annual Statistics:

  • Provides more than $78 million in uncompensated care
  • Nearly 500,000 outpatient procedures
  • Nearly 100,000 ER visits
  • Nearly 4,000 births
  • Nearly 23,000 surgeries
  • More than 42,000 home care visits
  • More than 600 hospice patients


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