Oakwood Healthcare System plans to expand its regional presence in a variety of ways, according to this article. President and CEO Gerald Fitzgerald said the Dearborn-based system plans to provide specialty and sub-specialty clinical services to independent community hospitals through its new affiliation with the Wayne State University Physicians Group and by forming new ties with hospitals and physicians. "If we're competing with Henry Ford Health System, Beaumont Hospitals and (St. John Health)," we need to have geographical presence," he said.