Trinity Health Livingston Hospital

We are pleased to share an opening date of April 19, 2026. This is the date current inpatients will move to the new hospital, but there will be moving of equipment and staff for several weeks before and after this date. 

We are moving to a new location to offer even better care with a new space, newer technology and a safer, more modern environment. Our goal is to keep the community healthy for years to come. 

The services you already trust will be available with added improvements in comfort, safety and technology. The new hospital has been designed for health care of the future and has a modern design. All patient rooms have patient lifts for enhanced safety, and a tube system allows more efficient care. In addition, the new hospital will have a cardiac CT, allowing heart imaging to take place in Livingston county. Trinity Health Livingston will continue to offer general medicine, intensive care, imaging, lab, surgery and more. 

The services you already trust will be available with added improvements in comfort, safety and technology. New equipment will add to the safety of our patients and efficiency for our colleagues. Our existing hospital did not have a tube system for carrying lab specimens or patient lifts in every room. In addition, we are adding a cardiac CT for advanced imaging capabilities to detect plaque around the heart, important for early heart attack assessment. The new hospital will also offer women the following upgrades:

• Two on-site radiologists specializing in breast imaging – versus one currently
• Three mammography rooms with the option of adding a fourth if needed – versus two currently
• Two centralized ultrasound units – versus two separated units currently
• A larger bone density exam room to accommodate for greater patient comfort and wheelchair accessibility
• More seating space at check in for patients gowned and waiting for imaging

Our emergency services will remain available. Ambulances are fully prepared for the new location, and our emergency will continue to be open 24/7. 

The admission criteria will not change. However, we have the capacity to care for a higher number of critical care patients, allowing those patients to be cared for at Trinity Health Livingston and not be transferred. 

Trinity Health remains committed to the Howell community. We have primary care offices in Howell and in several other Livingston County cities. In addition, Trinity Health will continue to offer urgent care, lab, physical therapy and more in Howell. For emergency and other services, the new hospital is ten minutes away. 

The new Trinity Health Livingston is a four-story, 174,000 square-foot hospital with 56 acuity adaptable beds that allow us to care for different levels of patients without having to move them from room to room. The attached medical center will also be renovated. Together, the building will have 18 Short Stay unit beds, 9 licensed operating rooms, intensive cardiac rehab and a hospital-based medical and surgical specialty practice. In addition, we have two spaces that have yet to built out that can be used for future growth and community needs. 

Our new location will offer even better opportunities for care with more space, newer technology and a safer, more modern environment. Adding inpatient care to our Brighton medical center provides opportunities to integrate services on one campus designed to meet the changing needs of our community. A new, state-of-the-are hospital in Livingston County will enhance medical services from an easily accessible location, delivered by exceptional providers our patients have come to know and trust. 

Trinity Health Michigan has signed a purchase agreement with Catholic Healthcare International (CHI) for the sale of its legacy hospital located at 620 Byron Road in Howell. The purchase agreement includes ownership transfer of the facility, as well as the nearly 23-acre parcel of land on which the hospital is built, to CHI. Additionally, the sale includes an agreement in which Trinity Health Michigan will rent from CHI as small space within the facility where it will continue to offer a lab draw station and a Sleep Lab in the Howell community. 

While the goal was to bring back the birthing center, after a great deal of research and consideration, there will not be a birth center in the new hospital. Since 2010, the need for a birthing unit has changed. Birthing rates are on the decline across the country, and the number of births in the county is not at a level that can support a fully staffed 24/7 birthing unit.

It's important to remember than one of the reasons the birthing unit closed in 2010 was because 2 out of 3 local mothers chose to deliver their babies outside of Livingston County. This led to many days in which our Livingston birthing unit delivered one or no babies at all. This makes it difficult to attract and retain specialized birthing center staff who want to be delivering babies every day.

Though delivery won’t take place in Livingston county, we have invested heavily in pre and post-delivery services. When pregnant mothers are ready to deliver, our birthing center at Trinity Health Ann Arbor has all the resources available for a safe and high-quality birthing experience. This facility offers spacious private rooms, a nationally-recognized NICU and expert staff with significant training and experience. With more than 4,000 births annually, this birthing center can ensure that Livingston County mothers have access to the most advanced delivery care possible.