The six emergency departments (EDs) of the Detroit Medical Center care for over 300,000 patients a year. The six sites are located in diverse settings, including inner-city urban (Detroit Receiving Hospital, Children’s Hospital, and Harper University Hospital), urban community (Sinai-Grace Hospital), suburban (The Michigan Orthopedic Specialty Hospital) and rural (Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital). All Detroit Medical Center EDs guarantee patients that they will be seen by a board-certified physician within 29 minutes.

The highly accomplished faculty who provide and supervise care in these departments also supervise two emergency medicine residency training programs based at Detroit Receiving and Sinai-Grace Hospitals and a Poison Control Center based as Children’s Hospital. They also play key leadership roles in promulgating pre-hospital care protocols for Detroit’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS). Faculty physicians produce nationally recognized research in the areas of heart disease, brain resuscitation, poisoning, and palliative/hospice care.