former Detroit Hope Hospital (Detroit, Michigan)

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In 1952, Park Community Hospital was opened in a converted house at the corner of Virginia Park and Third Street. It was one of many small hospitals designed to serve the Afro-American population at a time when major hospitals could refuse them service.

In 1968, the original building was torn down and a modern, 100 bed, four story hospital was erected. Unfortunately, the hospital struggled financially as the 1964 Civil Rights Act had made it illegal for the major hospitals to discriminate on the basis of race, and many patients preferred to go to the larger better serviced facilities. These financial difficulties led to a reorganization and name change to New Center Hospital in 1984. In 1991 the hospital was bankrupt.

Once again in 1996, the hospital was reorganized as Renaissance Hospital with a focus of providing services to the area's African, Arab, Chaldean and Asian residents. Continuing to struggle financially, new owners changed the name of the hospital to Detroit Hope Hospital in 2005. It finally closed in 2010 when its operating licenses were revoked because of non-compliance. At the time of its demise it was the last independently owned hospital in Detroit. Left unguarded it became a victim of scrappers and was later demolished.

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