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Integral to a top-tier community is convenient, effective, affordable healthcare. The medical, health-care and quality-of-life practitioners in the Rochester area have been on the forefront of human services for decades, and continue to provide award-winning service, technology and innovation.

Serving Oakland County since 1967, the 290-bed Crittenton Hospital in Rochester boasts a support staff of over 1,600, and more than 600 physicians. An affiliation with the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute allows the Crittenton community access to state-of-the-art cancer care, and an affiliation with the University of Michigan offers a top quality open-heart surgery program. Outstanding practice and service in general medicine and specialty departments include several Centers of Excellence: Cardiology, Oncology, Orthopedics, and Women’s and Children’s Services. Crittenton also offers a comprehensive range of specialized services including sports medicine, executive/travel medicine, sleep and neurophysiology services, wound management and hyperbaric medicine, and a heartburn center, among others.

POH Medical Center, located in northern Oakland County, is one of the largest osteopathic teaching hospitals in the United States, with over 300 physicians and a support staff of 1,200 people. Founded in 1953, POH started when three physicians converted their neighborhood clinic into a fully functional hospital. By 1955 they had outgrown their facilities. They purchased and renovated the seven-story Pontiac Hotel, and over the years have continued to expand facilities and services. POH Medical Center operates eight satellite facilities throughout north Oakland County, offering services ranging from a blood bank to nuclear medicine and geriatric psychiatry.

With its beginnings as one 238-bed hospital, Beaumont Hospital has become a two-hospital regional medical center. Less than 10 miles from Rochester, Beaumont Hospital – Troy has expanded into a 346-bed community teaching hospital. The facility was recently recognized by Solucient as a 100 Top Hospital – National Benchmarks for Success for the sixth time in 2006, and was also listed under U.S. News and World Report’s America’s Best Hospitals 2007 for neurology/neurosurgery.

Another short drive will bring patients to the extensive Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak, a 1,061-bed tertiary care, teaching, research and referral hospital that hails as the largest inpatient hospital in the country. The hospital’s medical staff reaches more than 2,400 physicians. The acclaimed medical center is the only Level I Trauma Center in Oakland County and Macomb County and stands as one of the country’s top centers for the treatment of liver disease, hepatitis, ulcer and other associated conditions. On top of all this, Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak offers one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive interventional cardiology programs and boasts beings one of the U.S.’s foremost centers for cardiac research.