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"We are asking bold questions about why these things happen, what may have contributed to error and what could be done differently," says Ann Hendrich, Ascension's vice president of clinical excellence.

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See a demographic breakdown of Detroit, a map of the city's open and shuttered hospitals, and a look at Ascension's system.

Nonprofit Hospitals Leave The City for Greener Pastures 2008

A St. John spokeswoman said it's unfair to compare St. John's figures to Ascension's because more patients in Michigan qualify for Medicaid than some of the other states where Ascension operates.

Nonprofit Hospitals Leave The City for Greener Pastures 2008

Last year, Ascension's local subsidiary closed Riverview Hospital, the third hospital it has shut down in Detroit in the past 10 years and the only hospital that remained on the city's blighted east side.

Nonprofit Hospitals Leave The City for Greener Pastures 2008

While East Detroit adjusts to the reality of not having a hospital, Ascension's state-of-the-art Providence Park Hospital opened last month in Novi with private rooms that feature flat-screen televisions and large windows for viewing what the St. John Web site describes as "green space, wetlands, foliage and wildlife habitat" on a campus "rich in natural beauty."

Nonprofit Hospitals Leave The City for Greener Pastures 2008

Older islands, such as Ascension's closest neighbor, St. Helena Island a separate ecoregion, present richer and more distinctive faunas where, for example, a few invertebrate taxa have undergone repetitive speciation and some adaptive radiation.

Ascension scrub and grasslands 2008

Ascension's local subsidiary shut down three Detroit hospitals in the past decade.

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Ascension's approach to the Detroit market is an increasingly common strategy among nonprofit hospital systems: Close money-losing facilities in poor areas where a large share of patients are uninsured, and build or refurbish hospitals in affluent places where people have private insurance coverage.

Nonprofit Hospitals Leave The City for Greener Pastures 2008

Initiatives to restore Ascension's seabird colonies have included proposals to exterminate introduced rats with an island-wide application of the anticoagulant rodenticide, brodifacoum.

Ascension scrub and grasslands 2008

St. John Health System, Ascension's Michigan subsidiary, says Riverview lost $16 million in 2006, just before it announced the closing.

Nonprofit Hospitals Leave The City for Greener Pastures 2008