Sinai-Grace
Detroit Medical Center
Detroit Medical Center (DMC) is the largest non-governmental employer in Detroit. DMC is part of one of the largest healthcare system, Tenet, a 67 hospital consortium in the USA. The medical center has more than 2,000 licensed beds, 3000 affiliated physicians and serves as the teaching and clinical research site for Wayne State University, the nation’s third-largest medical school. The DMC’s record of service has provided medical excellence throughout the history of the Metropolitan Detroit area. The DMC continues to meet the health care needs of a growing community, offering the best in medical research and development, advanced technology, and excellent clinical services.
The DMC represents a seven-hospital network. The largest health care provider in Southeast Michigan, the DMC operates eight hospitals (Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Receiving Hospital, Harper University Hospital, Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital, Hutzel Women’s Hospital, Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan and Sinai-Grace Hospital), and more than 100 outpatient facilities throughout southeast Michigan. The DMC is also affiliated with the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and the Hospital and the Veterans Administration Medical Center of Detroit.
Sinai-Grace Hospital
The original Grace hospital has been around for over 100 years. Sinai-Grace has an influential culture of three healthcare systems. Mt. Carmel, a catholic hospital merged with Grace in 1991 and Sinai hospital, the only Jewish hospital in Detroit, merged with Grace, creating Sinai-Grace in 1998. Sinai-Grace is a full-service adult hospital located in Northwest Detroit. Sinai-Grace is DMC’s largest and only full-service adult hospital. As a full-service community hospital located in Northwest Detroit, Sinai-Grace offers all surgical and medical specialties. We have a brand new lobby, brand new ICUs, and a brand new Emergency Department.
Our level-II certified Emergency Department treats over 65,000 patients each year. Our ED sees more penetrating trauma in southeast Michigan than any other hospital. The brand new state-of-the-art Emergency department was built recently at the cost of $75 Million.
Cardiology service line includes strong electrophysiology procedures (EP), non-invasive, interventional and open heart programs. The Obstetrics care includes high-risk pregnancy management, maternal/fetal medicine, complete labor and delivery and neonatal ICU. Critical care units treat cardiac, medical, neurosurgical, general surgical and trauma cases. Specialty inpatient units include inpatient psychiatry, inpatient physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R), and all medical and surgical specialty services.
The Program’s Mission Statement:
The mission of Sinai-Grace Hospital/DMC and the program is to educate physicians that will provide high quality, compassionate care in the communities we serve. We also want to train our residents to manage patients with complex medical conditions with dedication, empathy, and high value care. The program want our residents to provide preventive care through the ambulatory clinic, located on site, in addition to addressing social determinants of health issues that affect the health of the population we serve. All residents are required to participate in research curriculum and master the skill of lifelong learning.
The aim of the program is as follows:
1. Train residents to be competent, compassionate providers of cost-effective high-quality care in both the ambulatory and in-patient settings.
2. Train residents to pursue a career in primary care, subspecialty medicine, establish private practice or become a teaching faculty in an academic setting.
3. Provide residents with a curriculum and clinical experience that can help the residents to pass the ABIM certifying examination and maintain academic excellence.
4. Pursue life-long learning and scholarship.
We encourage our residents to accomplish his or her career goals while also acquiring knowledge and experience required to become a successful clinician, teacher, scholar and leader.
Program Description:
The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) is the leading academically integrated system in metropolitan Detroit and one of the largest healthcare providers in southeast Michigan. DMC has more than 1,800 licensed beds and 3,000 affiliated physicians. The primary teaching site, Sinai-Grace Hospital (SGH), is the largest and only full service General hospital, with a very busy Level-2 Emergency department with over 65,000 visits, Medicine service with busy medical, surgical, Neuro and Cardiac ICU, General surgery, Trauma, Ob/Gyn, Neonatal, in-patient Psychiatry, and in-Patient Rehab units. SGH has 404 licensed beds and 2,545 employees, offering more than 40 specialties. SGH is located in an urban area in northwest Detroit serving a population of more than 500,000, with a gap in knowledge base and literacy, coupled with significant financial challenges. Residents see common pathologies including congestive heart failure, COPD, multiple infectious diseases, diabetes. During peak of COVID pandemic, SGH had one of the highest number of COVID patients in the city of Detroit. SGH Zip code has one of the highest numbers of ESRD in USA. General medicine and full time Intensive faculty directly supervise residents. Most of the teaching faculties hold faculty appointment at the Wayne State University School of Medicine.
In addition to busy in-patient experience, the medical residents have on-site ambulatory facility. The clinic has several medical and surgical specialty services, staffed by the residents from the respective residency programs and staffed by the faculty. In addition, general radiology, mammography, phlebotomy, orthopedic services, and full time pharmacy services are available for the patients.
