** MISSION STATEMENT **
It is our mission to provide the community with quality, cost-effective chemical dependency and associated behavioral services, and balance the need of our patients with available resources.
** VISION STATEMENT **
Brighton Hospital is and will continue to be an innovative international provider of treatment and education for the chemically dependent and their families and friends, delivered in a compassionate, respectful manner with a commitment to seek excellence in everything we do.
** VALUE STATEMENT **
Brighton Hospital believes that chemical dependency is a treatable disease and that by embracing the values of the twelve-step philosophy, we pledge to do everything within our power to help those who cannot help themselves achieve recovery.
** ETHICS STATEMENT **
Brighton Hospital expects anyone associated with this facility to uphold the highest standards of ethics and moral conduct and to maintain a safe environment that is free from discrimination, harassment and dishonesty.
History Of Brighton Hospital
Brighton Hospital’s History
It is well known that Brighton Hospital Foundation, founded in 1948 and incorporated in 1950, can easily claim to be one of America’s first addiction treatment hospitals. It was also the first in Michigan. What may be less well known is that Brighton’s founder, Harry Henderson, had much help and involvement in the establishment of Brighton Hospital from Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Even more fascinating and supportive of Brighton Hospital’s claim to have pioneered the treatment of addictions in North America is the fact that the same community leaders, lawyers, judges, physicians and political leaders who were founding trustees of Brighton Hospital had already amassed nearly a decade of 12 step substance abuse experience by 1950! Brighton’s predecessor institution, the Bloomfield Hills Sanatorium founded in 1943, was established by the same board under the aegis of the Michigan Alcoholic Rehabilitation Foundation incorporated in 1950. So, accounting for the name change and the fact that the demand for treatment caused the same organization to outgrow its original location in.
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Brighton in fact preceded the earliest of other rehabilitation centers by at least seven years, and was open and actively treating soldiers returning home with serious drinking problems and post traumatic stress from World War II.
Demand was so strong that the board of the Michigan Alcoholic Rehabilitation Foundation foresaw the need for a spacious campus, and acquired the present 92 acres east of the city of Brighton. The site was home to Glen Lore Manor, a women’s home established in the 1930s. From that point on, we were known as Brighton Hospital. The rest is history.
