St. John Health to launch new Healthy Neighborhoods Detroit vision

St. John Health is launching a plan, Healthy Neighborhoods Detroit, to make use of large, vacant hospital tracts for the betterment of the city and the surrounding areas.Excerpt:If successful, the plan could be a national model of what to do with abandoned or downsized urban hospital tracts.The plans involve St. John’s Detroit Riverview campus and its Conner Creek facility in northeast Detroit, site of the former Holy Cross Hospital, and the former Samaritan Hospital, at Conner near Chandler Park Drive, once owned by the Novi-based Trinity Health system.”St. John remains committed to these three campuses and the revitalization of these neighborhoods of Detroit,” said Patricia Maryland, chief of the Warren-based St. John Health system. “The future of health care is all about collaboration. We’ve got to work beyond what have been our boundaries to resolve major challenges we all face.”Read the entire article here.