The first project involves building the new $175 million Brighton Health Center South in Brighton. The 320,000-square-foot facility would include multiple exam and operating rooms, pharmacy and special services to pediatric and adult patients as well as radiology and diagnostic imaging and comprehensive cancer services, including radiation and oncology.

Marschall Runge, executive vice president for medical affairs and CEO of UMHS, and Kevin Hegarty, the university’s CFO, requested construction mainly to expand UMHS ambulatory care, reported . The action request recommends HKS Architects, with an office in Detroit, be awarded the design contract. The university has previous experience with the firm after it designed the C.S. Mott Children’s and Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital, according to .

“In order to improve patient access to ambulatory care services, UMHS is both actively improving throughput within existing facilities and seeking to expand its capacity,” Runge and Hegarty wrote in the action request.

The request for the new center parallels the trend of ambulatory care expansion currently happening in the U.S. These centers have become more popular in recent years because they perform several of the same surgeries as hospitals but on an outpatient basis. In fact, ambulatory surgical centers performed about 65 percent of U.S. surgeries in 2012, a significant 54 percent increase since 1992.

The university currently operates three existing health centers in the Brighton area — the Brighton Health Center, the Kellogg Eye Center and the Howell Pediatric and Teen Clinic, according to The Michigan Daily.

The board also approved construction of a 75,000-square-foot building to house primary and specialty care, infusion, clinical pathology and radiology services. Scheduled to open in 2017, the facility will cost about $46 million, according to The Michigan Daily.
 

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An 82-acre parcel is owned by REIS-Northville, a joint venture of Bloomfield Hills, Ill.-based REI Investment Group and Schostak Brothers & Co., headquartered in Livonia, Ill. The site will be redeveloped into the 500,000-square-foot Northville Park Place, which will be anchored by a $39 million clinic from University of Michigan Health System (UMHS), and is slated for completion in 2014.

Northville Health Center will take up 100,000 sq. ft. of the development, which will also include commercial space. It will replace the health system’s Livonia Health Center — which currently serves more than 30,000 patient visits each year — as the system expands primary and specialty care for children and adults in Greater Detroit.

“We strive to create the ideal patient care experience and part of that experience is convenience,” said Jeanne D. Rizzo, executive director of Ambulatory Care Services for UMHS, in a statement. “With this expansion, we will be able to provide additional services, as well as UMHS expertise and quality care, in the Northville area.”

The U-M Hospitals & Health Centers has grown in the last two years, with the opening of a new children’s and women’s hospital, an expansion of the adult emergency department and the introduction of a new computer system for patient care and billing. In addition to the Northville Health Center project, an adult inpatient expansion project and Neuroscience Hospital were both approved in 2012, with a target opening date in 2014. The U-M’s Faculty Group Practice, a 1,600-member physician group, currently manages 1.8 million patient visits at outpatient clinics throughout Southeast Michigan.

Pontiac, Mich.-based George W. Auch Co. is the construction management firm for the Northville Park Place project, working on the first phase of redevelopment for the project. The building is being designed by Hobbs + Black Architects, located in Ann Arbor, Mich., and the engineering firm is Professional Engineering Associates, headquartered in Troy, Mich.

Northville Township purchased the remaining 350-acre parcel of the Northville Psychiatric Hospital campus in 2009, with plans to eventually build a $24.5 million community fitness center, including a swimming pool and tennis courts. However, it still needs an estimated $9 to $13 million in order to demolish the 15 remaining hospital buildings and clean up the site, which also includes two miles of underground tunnels.

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