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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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