Metro Detroit will be down to its last independent hospital after a Rochester hospital said Tuesday it is being sold and a Monroe hospital became part of another health care chain. Crittenton Hospital Medical Center, a 290-bed acute health care facility in Rochester, signed a letter of intent to join Ascension Health Michigan, a Catholic system that is part of the country's largest nonprofit health care provider. No financial information was released. Monroe-based Mercy Memorial Hospital System also said Tuesday it finalized a deal to become part of ProMedica, a health care company serving northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. The new name for the hospital will be ProMedica Monroe Regional Hospital.
