Detroit Central City Mental Health has been reborn with a new name — Central City Integrated Health Inc. — and a new growth plan centered on creation of new health centers surrounded by affordable housing projects under new CEO Ryan Lepper, Crain’s Detroit Business reported Sept. 18. Central City’s innovative growth plan calls for it to build more than a dozen new health clinics — providing medical, dental and mental health
care — to be surrounded by affordable housing for its clients in Detroit, the rest of Southeast Michigan, and eventually greater Michigan and other states. “Our name change reflects our plans to take this model, expand in Detroit and other cities like Warren, Southfield and Grand Rapids, and eventually take it into other states,” Lepper said. “No other organization in Detroit is doing what we are doing. We have literally everything — housing, medical, dental and behavioral health.”