Focus on West BloomField

Bruce Muma, M.D.

The West Bloomfield community has wholeheartedly embraced the vision of Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital.

Just as enthusiastically, the leaders of this new hospital have listened to West Bloomfield's community members to make sure this "community feeling" is evident in every aspect of the physical structure of the hospital, as well as in the additional selection of sites for patients, in the service offerings available at each site and even in how physicians will work with their colleagues in the surrounding area.

As noted in the last "Focus on West Bloomfield," the new Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital will be among about only 5,000 buildings in the nation seeking a "green" designation known as the L.E.E.D. (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), enhancing the community as a whole.

What area residents may not have heard is that the hospital is being built to the rigorous input of the thousands of employees and community members who toured the Commerce Township "prototype hospital" that models patient rooms and simulates real-life hospital activity. Every comment was carefully considered and design improvements arose out of this extraordinary feedback.

A community focus extends to the physician model as well.

"Community physicians are excited to learn that they are being welcomed to the Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital in what is considered an exciting new hybrid medical practice model," says Bruce Muma, M.D., chief medical officer for the new hospital.

The Henry Ford Medical Group intends to welcome community physicians in the areas of internal medicine, pediatrics, family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, as part of the Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital team. The hospital's specialties are anticipated to be staffed by Henry Ford Medical Group physicians, although community-based specialists may be contracted with on an individual basis, if needed.

Leading the Henry Ford West Bloomfield medical team will be Bruce Muma, M.D., whose System experience spans 20 years.

He has oversight of all medical staff functions, policies and standards; quality of care outcomes, patient safety, peer review and credentialing processes; physician relationships and recruitment; facility planning and development; operational standards and performance benchmarks; and enhanced patient, employee and physician satisfaction.

Dr. Muma's colleague, Mark Rosenblum, M.D., the co-director of the widely acclaimed Henry Ford Neurosciences Institute and the Hermelin Brain Tumor Center at Henry Ford Hospital, will serve as vice president of clinical programs. A prominent member of the West Bloomfield community, Dr. Rosenblum and his wife have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars through the System's "Shoot for A Cure" event, now in its 15th year, which benefits those with neurological disorders.

Along with Gerard van Grinsven, president and chief executive officer, the two physician leaders will oversee Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital services.

Among the offerings will be: cardiology; neurology and neurosurgery; obstetrics and gynecology; oncology; orthopaedics; otolaryngology; and urology. The hospital's first floor will feature an ambulatory diagnostic imaging center including CT and PET scanners, radiation therapy and a linear accelerator so that patients coming in to the hospital will have the ultimate in access and ease of use for such sophisticated technology.

While construction is underway, the Henry Ford Medical Center - Farmington Road has been providing rehabilitation services, dermatology, ophthalmology and Henry Ford OptimEyes. The Jewish Community Center is the new temporary home for cardiac rehabilitation programs and yoga classes for cancer patients.

And, the System recently announced the multi-year lease of the new Henry Ford Medical Center - Columbus, located at 12 Mile and Haggerty roads in Novi.

Physicians from the Henry Ford Medical Group will begin moving into this new office building soon.

Doctors and support staff from behavioral health services (adolescent and adult psychiatry), occupational health, physical therapy and sports medicine will begin moving into the 130,000-square-foot building late this year with about 40,000 square feet occupied by the first of 2008. Pulmonary medicine, immunology (allergy medicine) and a sleep disorders center will join the services available in 2008, with orthopaedics, women's health and other specialties following in 2009.

In addition to the two busy extension sites, the transformed 160-acre, $300 million Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital campus is expected to add about 1,200 jobs in West Bloomfield. Currently, Henry Ford physicians at West Bloomfield see more than 100,000 patients annually - accounting for 225,000 visits, with another 28,000 patients seen in the emergency room
and 6,000 surgeries performed annually. The campus also includes the nationally-recognized Maplegrove Center, a 50-bed chemical dependency treatment center for adults and adolescents.