Last year, Lassiter learned some 3,000 of the system’s 33,000 employees were homeless, so he approached the board and raised the minimum wage for all employees to $15 per hour. Costing a little more than $6 million, Lassiter told Crain’s the minimum raise increase wasn’t about added expenses but about social justice and economic empowerment.
Henry Ford Health was also the first major system in the state to