Henry Ford was perhaps one of the greatest innovators of his day. It would be hard to imagine the American automobile business without the fingerprints of Henry Ford. It might surprise you to know that Mr. Ford’s genius wasn’t limited to innovation on the automotive assembly line.
Henry Ford was perhaps one of the greatest innovators of his day. It would be hard to imagine the American automobile business without the fingerprints of Henry Ford. It might surprise you to know that Mr. Ford’s genius wasn’t limited to innovation on the automotive assembly line. In fact, Henry Ford often brought the best and brightest on his team to his namesake hospital, the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where they developed technologies and solutions that are still a mainstay of health system and hospital facility and clinical operations today.
Last Friday I had an opportunity to visit the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and meet with the distinguished physician and surgeon who is leading the hospital’s new Innovation Institute in the tradition of Henry Ford himself.
Following my visit to Henry Ford hospital I had the honor of providing a keynote address for an anniversary celebration and dedication of a new facility at my residency program, the W. W. Knight Family Practice Residency at Promedica Toledo Hospital in Toledo, Ohio. Promedica has opened a new, state-of-the-art facility for clinical education and patient care adjacent to Toledo Hospital. Not only did I have a chance to catch up with old friends from my residency program days, but I also got to spend some time with the enthusiastic crop of current residents in training there. I left feeling that the future of Family Medicine is in good hands.
Much has changed in clinical practice over the course of my career, and much will continue to change in the decades ahead. The leadership for that change is already in place, guiding the advances that arise from places like the Innovation Institute at Henry Ford Hospital to the leaders and faculty instructing the next generation of bright young minds in training at our medical schools, hospitals and residency programs across the land.
My thanks to Dr. Dulchavsky, the Henry Ford Hospital, the W. W. Knight Family Practice Residency Program, Promedica, and my colleagues at Microsoft for the hospitality and terrific meetings during my business trip to the region.