History of the Women's Health Program
In 1993, University of Michigan Health System doctors, nurses and administrators from 15 different hospital departments launched the Women’s Health Program. The goal: to improve services for our women patients by effectively understanding and addressing women’s health needs.
We believe that by providing comprehensive services, compassionate providers, extensive outreach activities and a full-service Women’s Health Resource Center, we help women – and through them, their families – become healthy and stay healthy at all stages of life.
The year 1997 was a banner time for us. The University of Michigan Health System named our Women’s Health Program as “Program of the Year.” And we received national recognition when the U.S. Department of Health named the University of Michigan a National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health joining an elite group of leading healthcare institutions around the country. The award gave us funding to expand programs, and develop new projects and research aimed at improving women’s health and well-being.
