The University Health Center clinics adjacent to Detroit Receiving treat more than 250,000 patients annually, making it one of the busiest ambulatory facilities in the country.

Specialties at Detroit Receiving include emergency medicine, orthopaedic traumatology, neurosurgery, cardiology, trauma surgery, and burn treatment, earning national and international recognition for the hospital.

Detroit Receiving is the site of Wayne State University School of Medicine affiliated residency and fellowship training programs, including anesthesiology, emergency medicine, general surgery, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, neurology, orthopedic surgery, pathology, podiatry, psychiatry, radiology, and urology.

The facility received an award from the American Institute of Architecture for design, and houses an art collection, composed of donations to DRH over a 30-year period.

The Leapfrog group identified 33 hospitals, (26 adult and 7 pediatric) which have achieved the highest level for quality and safety practices.