Smaller Size. Big Results.
28050 Grand River Ave.
Farmington Hills, MI 48336
Phone: (248) 471-8000
Farmington Hills, MI 48336
Phone: (248) 471-8000
Botsford Hospital's strong commitment to improving the health of the communities we serve extends back to the earliest days of the organization.
Our roots were established in 1944 when the Zieger Osteopathic Hospital was opened in Detroit by Dr. Allen Zieger.
In 1965, Zieger Osteopathic opened Botsford at its current location in Farmington Hills. For more than 40 years, Botsford has grown and changed to meet the needs of the community we serve.
| 1944 | Dr. Allen Zieger opens the 20-bed Zieger Clinic Hospital in Detroit, which later becomes Zieger Osteopathic Hospital. |
| 1963 | Fifteen acres of land is purchased on Grand River in Farmington Hills behind the historic Botsford Inn at a cost of $9,000 an acre for the future site of Botsford General Hospital. |
| 1965 | Zieger Osteopathic opens Botsford General Hospital, a 200-bed facility, on Grand River in Farmington Hills. |
| 1972 | Botsford's South Tower is completed which adjoins the main building and adds 110 hospital beds. |
| 1977 | The new North Professional Building opens with a state-of-the-art ambulatory surgical facility, which expands the campus. |
| 1981 | The Edgewood School is purchased and renovated to become the Allen Zieger D.O. Administration and Education Building. |
| 1982 | Community Emergency Medical Services (Community EMS) opens in Farmington with 20 employees and four ambulances. |
| 1984 | Botsford buys Farmington Nursing Home, located on 30 acres a mile west of the hospital. This is later transformed into a senior residence, Botsford Commons Community. |
| 1987 | Major expansion and renovation opened two specialized patient care units; Rehabilitation and Geropsychiatry. This brings the hospital to its present licensed capacity of 330 beds. |
| 1987 | The South Professional Building opens, offering two floors of professional offices on botsford's main campus. Botsford Family Health Center in Livonia opens to treat patients of all ages. |
| 1988 | Inside the hospital, a new cardiac catheterization lab opens. |
| 1988 | Total Rehabilitation and Athletic Conditioning Center (TRACC) opens on Grand River in Novi to provide physical and occupational therapy and health improvement programs. |
| 1989 | Emergency Center is refurbished to meet the increasing need for services. |
| 1991 | Botsford Kidney Center opens on Eight Mile in Livonia to treat dialysis patients. |
| 1991 | Groundbreaking for first independent living units on Botsford Commons campus, a senior residence between Folsom and Tuck Roads in Farmington Hills, begins. |
| 1992 | The hospital's west pavilion opens with expanded ambulatory surgery and endoscopy units. |
| 1993 | Community EMS corporate headquarters moves to its current Southfield location. |
| 1993 | The east pavilion opens with new emergency, surgery and clinical laboratory facilities and a rooftop helistop for receiving and evacuating emergency patients. |
| 1993 | Botsford Commons Community opens, offering those 55 years and older a comfortable place to enjoy their senior years with multiple levels of care. |
| 1994 | Botsford unveils its new special Delivery Center; a maternity center with specialized Labor/Delivery/Recovery (LDR) rooms designed to allow the mother to remain in one room while having access to the latest technology. The Center operates a variety of programs including pre-pregnancy education and post-natal home visits. |
| 1996 | Botsford Continuing Health Center. |
| 1998 | Botsford Assisted Living Center opens on Botsford Commons campus with 68 residential suites. This adds to the 86 condominiums, 51 independent living apartments, a 179-bed long-term care facility as well as the Town Commons building. |
| 1998 | Botsford adds a four-bed Sleep Therapy Clinic at the Botsford Commons community. |
| 1999 | Botsford purchases property to significantly expand parking near the Administration & Education building. |
| 1999 | Botsford General Hospital purchases the historic Botsford Inn, adjacent to the hospital on Grand River in Farmington Hills, for future development. |
| 2002 | The Botsford Foundation begins to solicit philanthropic support for Botsford's health care mission. |
| 2004 | Botsford refurbishes its chapel, including a new sound system for the hearing impaired, new seating and artwork. |
| 2005 | Botsford expands its diagnostic imaging services with a new CT imaging room. |
| 2005 | Botsford is the first community hospital in the country to completely install robotic systems for both blood chemistry and hematology testing. |
| 2006 | Significant upgrades to the main entrance, lobby and first floor public areas represent the largest renovation project at the hospital in more than a decade. |
| 2006 | Botsford opens Botsford Center for Rehabilitation - Infinity on Haggerty Road in Novi offering rehabilitation services. |
| 2006 | All maternity rooms are renovated to give new moms more privacy. |
| 2006 | Valley Hill adds an off-site respiratory therapy center on Six Mile in Redford to Botsford services. |
| 2007 | The hospital changes imaging to a Picture, Archiving and Communications system, replacing imaging films, so physicians can view from computers. This improves patient care quality and productivity. |
| 2007 | Botsford Hospital drops the word "General" from its name and adopts a new logo. |
| 2007 | Botsford updates and renovates its cardiac catheterization lab, adding state-of-the-art technology for emergency angioplasties. |
| 2007 | Renovation on the historic Botsford Inn begins with plans to add a 30,000 square foot cancer center to the Botsford Inn property on Grand River. |
| 2007 | Botsford adds a new waiting room for its Emergency Center, freeing existing space to expand the triage area and handle emergency patients more efficiently. |
| 2007 | Redford Medical Center opens on Five Mile near Beech Daly in Redford Twp. offering family medicine, ob/gyn services and physical therapy. |
| 2007 | Botsford offers a new treatment option for offering relief from sinus problems called balloon sinuplasty, which uses a balloon catheter guided through the nostrils into the blocked sinus. The balloon is then inflated just enough to expand the sinus area, causing the opening to become wider and allowing for easier breathing. |
| 2008 | Botsford adds a Geriatric and Palliative Care Program designed to improve the quality of life for patients and their families facing life-threatening illness. |
| 2008 | The Botsford Foundation receives a $500,000 gift from The Riley Foundation, the largest community gift it has received, to build the George F. Riley Healing Garden at the Botsford Cancer Center. The garden was built in 2009. |
| 2008 | Botsford expands its Emergency Department triage for more capacity and easier patient flow. |
| 2009 | Botsford opens the Dr. Louis and Lucille Spagnuolo Breast Center, providing a convenient and comfortable setting for total breast care with the latest technologies, including digital mammography. |
| 2009 | Botsford Hospital Cancer Center earned the first LEED Silver level rating for a health care facility in southeastern Michigan by the U.S. Green Building Council. |
| 2009 | Botsford treats its first High Dose Rate radiation therapy patient with brachytherapy. By inserting a radioactive source into the tumor or tumor cavity, radiation therapy is delivered directly. Healthy tissue is spared and a more effective dose of radiation is delivered faster and more accurately. |
| 2009 | Botsford completes its 30,000 square-foot cancer center, located on the north side of Grand River in Farmington Hills. |
| 2010 | Botsford is verified as a Level II Trauma Center by the Committee on Trauma (COT) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), an achievement recognizing Botsford’s dedication to provide optimal care for injured patients. It makes Botsford the first Level II Trauma Center serving the western portion of Oakland County. |
| 2010 | Botsford offers a nurse navigator who works with women dealing with breast cancer. Nurse navigators provide women the guidance they need to better understand their health care issues through mammograms, medical oncology, radiation oncology, surgery and other testing. |
| 2010 | Botsford adds the da Vinci robotic surgery system, a sophisticated robotic platform designed to expand a surgeon’s capabilities and offer a minimally invasive option for major surgery, such as minimally-invasive cancer surgery for both prostate cancer and endometrial cancer. |
| 2010 | Botsford partners with the South Redford School District in bringing a new health care alternative for families in the school district. The South Redford School Based Health Center serves the health care needs of the 10-to-21-years- old population of the school district at John D. Pierce Middle School. |