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came to choosing a hospital. The patients of osteopathic physicians had even less. For their medical care, most had to travel to downtown Detroit, an inconvenience considering that most of the area roads were unpaved.
Dr. Campbell A. Ward was one of only a few osteopaths in the area. Dr. Ward and several others saw the need to provide obstetric and gynecologic care locally and offered services from a house on Gratiot Avenue in Mount Clemens. In time, the group realized that if they were to meet the medical needs of a growing population, a new area hospital had to be formed.
In 1944, 12 physicians and community leaders took steps to organize and establish a hospital suitable for labor and delivery and surgery. The physicians and their families used their own money and appealed to the community to raise the necessary funds to renovate a building on Macomb Street in downtown Mount Clemens.
