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I'm going to do my best in my spare time to take some better than quick drive by pics of a few projects across the northern metro area that have piqued my interest now that I got with the 20th century and have a flicker account. haha

McLaren Oakland to open $14 million inpatient cancer unit

By JAY GREENE
Crain's Detroit Business
July 22, 2018

-McLaren Karmanos' 15th cancer unit will feature 21 private beds, its own ICU and dedicated staff
-Types of cancers treated will include breast, lung, ovarian and cervical
-More advanced care performed at Karmanos' main hospital in Detroit

McLaren Oakland in Pontiac will become the first hospital in the 13-hospital system based in Grand Blanc to add an inpatient cancer unit under the Karmanos brand, Crain's has learned.

The $14 million project is a complete renovation of the hospital's sixth floor west tower to create a 21-bed, 19,000 square-foot cancer unit, said Margaret Dimond, CEO of 328-bed McLaren Oakland. The unit is expected to open by early September with an open house Aug. 14.

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute was acquired by McLaren in 2014 with a promise to invest at least $80 million into the Detroit-based hospital and Southeast Michigan operations. Over the past five years, McLaren has converted 14 cancer units into Karmanos centers under Gerold Bepler, M.D., CEO of Karmanos. The Pontiac unit will be the 15th and first new one.

"Opening an oncology unit brings us closer to our strategic goal of setting new standards of health care for the community and our patients," Dimond said. "We are committed to providing exceptional inpatient cancer care to those requiring surgery or hospitalization for disease complications."

Plans for the cancer unit include single-bed rooms for privacy with extra space for family waiting and sleeping areas. The unit also includes rooms for an intensive-care unit and an intermediate-care unit staffed with clinicians who specialize in critical care. One of the hospital's six operating rooms will be outfitted for cancer surgery.

Dimond said 50 to 60 nurses, pharmacists and other employees are being hired to staff the new unit that projects to be 90 percent to 100 percent occupied once all 21 beds are open in the next six months. The new staff is being trained in Karmanos-styled care at the Detroit main hospital, she said.

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...nt-cancer-unit

$47.5 million center expansion at Karmanos work in progress

By JAY GREENE
Crain's Detroit Business
June 03, 2018

-Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Cancer Treatment Center in Farmington Hills opens in 2021
-Owner McLaren pledges to spend $47.5 million on three-year renovation project
-Expansion to quadruple the size of the center, expand services and treat 70 percent more patients

This rendering shows the proposed $47.5 million expansion of the Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Cancer Treatment Center in Farmington Hills.

Seven years after Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute began planning to expand its outpatient center in Farmington Hills, new owner Grand Blanc-based McLaren Health Care Corp. committed $47.5 million to expand the size of the center, add critical services and hire more medical professionals and support staff.

"Patients love the facility, so do our physicians and our nurses," Karmanos CEO Gerold Bepler, M.D., told Crain's. "It has convenient access, but the facility has limited services."

In 1995, Karmanos Cancer Hospital was renamed after businessman Peter Karmanos Jr. donated $15 million to honor his late wife Barbara Ann, who died of breast cancer in 1989 at age 46.

Three years later, Karmanos began planning the $10 million Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Cancer Treatment Center that opened in Farmington Hills in 2001. But Bepler said the Weisberg center was at full capacity almost immediately after it opened.

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...rk-in-progress