LIVINGSTON COUNTY — Amid change, Trinity Health is working to raise $5 million to build a new hospital in Brighton, slated to open in 2026.
The company’s “Forging our Future” campaign has already raised $1 million since it launched last fall, according to Douglas Ferrick, regional vice president of philanthropy.
“We feel really energized and positive to have achieved this result so quickly,” Ferrick said.
It’s a time of change for the health care organization, which signed a purchase agreement with Catholic Healthcare International in May to sell Trinity Health Livingston (formerly St. Joseph Mercy) at 620 Byron Road in Howell. The hospital will remain open until 2026, when services will be transferred to the replacement hospital in Brighton.
“We want to be clear,” John O’Malley, president of Trinity Health Livingston and Trinity Health Medical Center Brighton, wrote in a letter to patients in late June. “All services, including our 24-hour emergency department, will continue to operate without interruption (at Howell) until the new hospital opens in 2026.”
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Construction is well underway in Brighton on the Trinity Health Medical Center campus. The hospital will span four floors and 174,000 square feet, with 56 adaptable intensive care beds, 18 short-stay unit beds and eight licensed operating rooms. The total investment is $238.2 million.
O’Malley told the Daily he hopes the new hospital will be closed this fall, so work can be done inside over the winter.
“Everything is going according to plan at this point,” O’Malley said. “We’re on track.”
The goal of the facility is to become a full-service community hospital, O’Malley said.
“We will work to improve patient care in Livingston County.”
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Anyone wishing to donate to “Forging our Future” can visit tinyurl.com/yj2usv2d. Donations can also be made by contacting Lindsay Debolski, Donation Manager, at 248-755-3510 or lindsay.debolski@trinity-health.org.
Larger donations and corporate gifts ($25,000 and up) can explore naming opportunities for hospital departments, key spaces, patient rooms or even the entire hospital.
“Every donation from a member of our community means a lot to us,” Ferrick said. “Big or small, everyone can help make this incredible medical facility available for Livingston County.”
— Contact reporter Evan Sasiela at esasiela@livingstondaily.com. Follow him on Twitter @SalsaEvan.
