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We are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience. To do so, we are actively working with consultants to update the website by increasing its accessibility and usability by persons who use assistive technologies such as automated tools, keyboard-only navigation, and screen readers.

We are working to have the website conform to the relevant standards of the Section 508 Web Accessibility Standards developed by the United States Access Board, as well as the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1. These standards and guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities. We believe that conformance with these standards and guidelines will help make the website more user friendly for all people.

Our efforts are ongoing. While we strive to have the website adhere to these guidelines and standards, it is not always possible to do so in all areas of the website. If, at any time, you have specific questions or concerns about the accessibility of any particular webpage, please contact WebsiteAccess@tenethealth.com so that we may be of assistance.

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Harper University-Hutzel Women’s Hospitals Renewing lives

CommunityDMC Harper University Hospital is a nationally awarded health care provider with a record of excellence in a variety of services ranging from neurosciences to organ transplant and nephrology to bariatric surgery. Surgeons at the Your New Self: Detroit Medical Center Weight Loss Solutions program have helped lead the way in transforming lives by developing and performing innovative weight-loss surgery and non-surgical weight loss. Our program is recognized nationally as an Accredited Comprehensive Bariatric Surgery Center by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program, and has earned the Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval for Bariatric Surgery. Surgical services offered at Harper and DMC Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital include: Minimally Invasive Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass, Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy, Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding, Duodenal Switch and the use of Robotic Assisted technique for bariatric surgery. Perinatal Research Branch As Michigan’s first and only hospital for women, DMC Hutzel Women’s Hospital is considered one of the nation’s premier hospitals for women’s care and research. Hutzel is also home to the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Perinatology Research Branch (PRB), which was at the center of a three-year, international clinical trial, “The Effect of Vaginal Progesterone Administration in the Prevention of Preterm Birth in Women with a Short Cervix,” lead by Sonia S. Hassan, M.D. Hutzel Women’s Specialty areas include maternal fetal medicine; an advanced birthing center; advanced care for newborns, long-term birth control, minimally invasive gynecology, incontinence and urogynecology, menopause and other women’s health services. Hutzel is a leader in addressing the high incidence of infant mortality in Detroit and the region.