History
Garden City Hospital began as the vision of six local physicians in March of 1947. Committed to a high level of healthcare, the physicians pooled their own money and rented a building on Ford Road to provide a more attentive healthcare facility for the community. Built around the family practitioner, the hospital was named Garden City Maternity Hospital even though it also treated sick and injured persons. After a few years, the physicians realized that they needed to hire someone who could help them maintain their vision. Allan Breakie, Assistant Administrator at Holy Cross Hospital in Detroit was hired to oversee the day-to-day operations. With Mr. Breakie in place, the hospital purchased Leland Sanitarium (renamed Ridgewood Hospital) in Ypsilanti, and broke ground in 1959 on the current facility, which is located at 6245 Inkster Road in Garden City. The doors opened August 1960.
Our Mission
Garden City Hospital is committed to providing health care that improves the well being of the whole person and the health status of the community at large through the provision of comprehensive health care services, osteopathic medical education, and health care related programs.
Our Values
- Integrity - We are honest and trustworthy in everything that we do.
- Compassion - We respect all people with a sense of caring and understanding.
- Commitment - We work toward the greater good of the organization.
- Communication - We share information in a timely and accurate manner.
- Quality - We do everything with excellence.
Our Case Statement
In order to live up to the organizations Mission Statement and to remain a vital, vibrant and independent not-for-profit organization, Garden City Hospital needs and seeks increased community support in the forms of contributions, bequests, major and memorial gifts. Hospitals all across the state and nation are facing exactly the same situation we are; dependence on local philanthropy from their communities for the crucial financial support often necessary for enhancing the clinical services to meet the growing medical needs of our community.
Since Garden City Hospital's founding in 1946, we have strived to be a high quality/high tech community medical facility. New and sometimes unprecedented challenges now face your community hospital. Under-funding of governmental insurance programs, bankruptcies with several managed care programs, increased charity care for the uninsured, rising insurance premiums and heightened consumer concerns about the nation's health care system are some of the challenging issues Garden City Hospital must be concerned with. These have led to significant economic pressures at Garden City Hospital:
- Rapidly changing and increased cost of technology
- Increased demands for healthcare as our population ages and the baby boomers begin reaching the age of requiring more medical attention
- Greater utilization of out-patient services
- Shortage of health care professionals
- Expanding need for wellness and home health care programs
- New treatment modalities becoming available to community hospitals
Community hospitals, like Garden City Hospital, play a special role in providing excellent quality health care to their communities. In these challenging times, Garden City, like all hospitals, is responding appropriately to the swiftly changing environment and making these changes, a major priority and concern of todays Garden City Hospital "family". All of this effort to provide for quality healthcare needs the communities support.
To adequately address these challenges, and at the same time guarantee that excellent care and treatment will not suffer; we must seek support from individuals, corporations, service groups and foundations. These gifts are investments in the community's future to insure that Garden City Hospital's entire service area continues to benefit from superior health care close to home.
We thus confirm our commitment to provide exceptional health care. Garden City Hospital is today and will remain tomorrow, dedicated to the communities we serve.
Our goal for the future reflects our continued purpose to:
- Deliver quality healthcare
- Provide unusual excellence in service
- Offer new services appropriate to the health care needs of our service area residents
- Provide physical facilities and state of the art medical technology to support excellence in care and treatment, and
- Staff each area of our hospital with people of quality, dedicated to service excellence.
Garden City Hospital is a vital and indispensable health and economic institution in Western Wayne County (or our service area). It must be preserved so that when emergencies happen, we all know that there is quality care close to home. Yet, the economic realities of the hospital reimbursement do not provide the means to easily meet the community's growing health care needs. But, with your financial support, we will remain a strong, progressive independent community hospital. In fact, your help in the past has been extremely important in placing Garden City Hospital in the forefront of Community Hospital excellence.
At Garden City Hospital, health care is a local service delivered with excellence.
To visit the Garden City Hospital website, go to www.gchosp.org.
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