Company Profile
Hurley Medical Center
Company Overview
Hurley Medical Center is a Level 1 Trauma Center (and Level II Pediatric Trauma Center), verified by the American College of Surgeons, with dedicated trauma facilities and state-of-the-art technology in Flint, Michigan. The 443-bed tertiary-care public hospital serves as the primary training site for a Trauma Surgery Fellowship and a Trauma Research Fellowship (as well as about 100 other physician learners from other training programs). Hurley is part of the Flint Campus of Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. It is the care referral site for mid- and northeastern Michigan, with a catchment area of more than 1 million people.
Within the institution are an 18-bed dedicated multidisciplinary Neuro/Trauma Intensive Care Unit, a 13-bed Burn Unit, a 13-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for surgical critical care patients, and 15 ICU beds. Annually, about 1,600 are admitted to the trauma service with more than 350 transfers from more than 38 counties in Michigan. Within the Emergency Department, a 3-bed dedicated trauma resuscitation bay is adjacent to the 64-slice CT scanner. Hurley also has the region’s only hospital-based MRI, which can accommodate obese patients, unconscious patients and patients with metal artifacts, such as knee-replacement joints.
It is the region's major Level 1 Trauma Center, the region's only burn center, and has the region's only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. The institution also houses Hurley Children's Hospital.
For information about our Trauma Research Fellowship or our Trauma Surgery Fellowship, visit the Trauma Fellowship website at: http://education.hurleymc.com/gme/residencies-and-fellowships/trauma/.
Company History
OUR MISSION:
Clinical excellence. Service to people.
OUR VISION:
To be leaders in transforming health through academic and clinical excellence, expanding access to innovative care.
OUR HISTORY:
Hurley Medical Center was founded in 1908 by James J. Hurley with one very clear and simple mission: to provide a modern hospital for the people of Flint and Genesee County. His legacy has remained the cornerstone of Hurley Medical Center, as we have continuously offered the highest quality and leading-edge care to those we serve while ensuring that everyone has access to the very best in medical services regardless of their ability to pay.
Arriving in Flint as a penniless English immigrant, James J. Hurley worked his way up from a hotel porter to making a fortune from sawmills and soap. Remembering those early days of poverty when his wife struggled through a serious illness, Hurley donated $55,000 and land for a public hospital to the city of Flint. Hurley Hospital opened its doors on December 19, 1908 and those doors remain open to the public today.
OUR PRESENT:
Today, Hurley is a 443-bed premier public teaching hospital recognized as a regional leader in advanced specialized health care. Every year, more than 20,000 people choose Hurley for their inpatient hospital care and our Emergency Department handles over 80,000 annual emergency cases.
We provide millions of dollars in uncompensated care to support the healthcare needs of the growing numbers of uninsured and underinsured in our community. As the only public hospital in the area, Hurley does not receive any tax revenues from the city or the county.
As the region’s only Level 1 Trauma Center and with the region’s only Burn Unit, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, and Pediatric Emergency Department, Hurley continues to honor its commitment to provide the highest level of critical care to those who need us.
As well as being a recognized leader in clinical care, Hurley Medical Center is a highly-regarded educator of tomorrow’s professionals, maintaining affiliations with Michigan State University, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan-Flint, Children’s Hospital of Michigan-Detroit Medical Center, Mott Community College and Henry Ford Health System. With over 2,500 employees, Hurley is also a major contributor to local economic development and one of Genesee County’s largest and most consistent employers.
OUR FUTURE:
Over the past 100 years, much has changed, but Hurley’s standards of excellence and delivery of exceptional clinical care have not. Our advanced diagnostic and treatment equipment is state of the art, and our highly-trained, expert staff is dedicated to caring for every patient who comes through our doors with compassion and respect.
There are treatments now available at the Medical Center that James J. Hurley could never have imagined. But much more remains to be done. In these times where healthcare economics are in flux and the health status of the region is seriously poor, our vision is to expand beyond the walls of a hospital to provide the best possible care to our patients and their families before they get sick and after they leave our care. Our job is to become a partner in caring so that people can stay well, live healthier lives and, when they are sick, return to health faster and with better outcomes.
In building the new Paul F. Reinhart Emergency Trauma Center, we are creating a state-of-the-art Emergency Department which will provide the highest level of specialized care to the sick and injured, enhancing Hurley’s status as a premier public teaching hospital delivering world class patient care and safety. With this new addition, Hurley will continue to be at the forefront of breakthrough emergency medicine. Coupled with our commitment to clinical excellence and the unwavering dedication of our outstanding physicians and nursing staff, this will make us better equipped than ever to realize our mission of “Touching Lives through Better Medicine.”
For more information about our institution as a whole, visit our website at: http://www.hurleymc.com/
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Hurley Medical Center is a teaching hospital affiliated with Michigan State University and the University of Michigan and is the recognized leader in the region for advanced, specialized health care. As the region's only Level I Trauma Center and only Pediatric Level II Trauma Center (highest levels of both), Hurley provides the highest level of critical care, while also serving as the region's only burn center, only Level III neonatal intensive care unit (the highest level), only pediatric intensive care unit, only Pediatric Emergency Department, and is a premier Bariatric Center of Excellence. Hurley Medical Center also is recognized as an advanced primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission.
Our researchers were the first to report elevated blood levels of lead in children in Flint, Michigan, and now lead the MSU-Hurley Pediatric Public Health Initiative, an inter-agency group of experts who are charged with assessing, monitoring and mitigating effects of lead in Flint drinking water. Throughout its history, Hurley has collaborated with many community organizations to improve the health of the population.
Hurley also houses Hurley Children's Hospital and is a Children's Miracle Network Hospital. Since Hurley's pediatric oncology and hematology program is a member of the international Children's Oncology Group, kids with cancer can receive the best care in the nation without the need to travel great distances.
Hurley offers specialized geriatric services, such as no-wait emergency room care, geriatric fracture care, an acute-care-for-the-elderly unit, virtual NICHE teams, and more. It aims to prevent injury by offering fall-prevention and other programs, as well as providing specialized geriatric training for its nurses, physicians and other staff. Hurley also sponsors a Geriatric Medicine Fellowship within its Internal Medicine Residency Training Program.
For more information about Hurley and its accomplishments, visit its website at www.hurleymc.com.
For more information about residency and fellowship training at Hurley, visit its Graduate Medical Education website at http://education.hurleymc.com.
Benefits
Physicians have a generous benefit package, and teaching physicians may apply for a faculty appointment from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. Many faculty development opportunities are offered, and reimbursement for CME activity and conference attendance is part of the standard contract for physicians.
Resident and fellow physicians also have a generous benefit package with many perks, such as a Resident Wellbeing Committee, a Housestaff Association (a physician union), an online classroom, 24-hour medical-library access (after completion of library training), and an annual stipend toward technology or conference attendance.
Trauma Research Fellows and Trauma Surgery Fellows also can apply for MSU-CHM faculty appointments and have the opportunity to conduct research projects and quality-improvement activities and often collaborate on community events. Trauma Research Fellows do not have clinical duties, so anyone who has graduated from medical school and/or a residency program of any specialty may apply.
For more information about our fellowships, residency training programs and benefits, visit the Hurley Graduate Medical Education website at: http://education.hurleymc.com/