As Mid-Michigan’s premier healthcare organization and the region’s largest private employer, Sparrow provides quality care to ... hundreds of thousands of people each year. Sparrow has two Lansing campuses, subsidiary hospitals in St. Johns, Ionia, Carson City, Charlotte, dozens of satellite care centers, the Sparrow Health Science Pavilion and the Michigan Athletic Club. Also affiliated with Sparrow is PHP, mid-Michigan's leading health plan. In 2011, Sparrow Health System was named in the Top 15 Mid‐Size Health Systems in the U.S. by Thompson Reuters and in 2012 was selected as the first in Michigan to become a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, solidifying our dedication to meeting our Patients’ health care needs right here in mid-Michigan. Sparrow Hospital, the flagship of Sparrow, was established in 1896, and is the regional center for cancer, trauma, pediatrics, orthopedics, neonatal intensive care, cardiology, and neurological care. The Sparrow Hospital Emergency Department is the only Level 1 Trauma Center in mid-Michigan. As part of a commitment to the next century of providing the highest quality of care, Sparrow is deeply involved in training tomorrow’s medical leaders. Sparrow Hospital is a major teaching facility formally affiliated with Michigan State University’s three human health colleges. This affiliation involves expanding research, medical education and clinical services while attracting physician specialists and nurses to address the state’s looming shortages of health-care professionals. Sparrow Hospital has earned the nation’s most prestigious honor for nursing achievement and excellence – recognition as a Magnet Hospital by the ANCC. Considered the “gold standard” for nursing care in hospitals, Magnet status is held by only about 6 percent of hospitals nationwide. read more