Henry Ford Ford Health broke ground in 2024 on many major projects under the health system’s overall $3.3 billion Future of Health redevelopment of Detroit’s New Center neighborhood.
Under construction is a new 335,000-square-foot facility located next to HFH’s One Ford Place headquarters. The Henry Ford Health + Michigan State University Health Sciences Research Center will focus on cancer, neuroscience, immunology and hypertension research.
The building is the first tangible structure for the 30-year partnership between HFH and MSU signed in 2021 and is slated to open in 2027.
Additionally, HFH broke ground for a new hospital tower on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit in September. The $2.2 billion, 20-story patient tower for the region’s largest health system is set to open in 2029.
The 1.2 million-square-foot tower will hold 432 patient rooms, five intensive care unit floors, 28 operating rooms and 18 interventional radiology labs. The new emergency room will be a 75,000-square-foot space — twice as large of the existing ER at the legacy hospital across the street.
As a result of a $130 million investment from The Gilbert Family Foundation, the upper three floors of the tower will be home to rehabilitation services from Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.