U-M Health System to move some services off main campus due to space constraints
A cluster of services housed at the University of Michigan Health System’s main medical campus in Ann Arbor will be moved to an off-site clinic location to alleviate space constraints after a $3.6 million renovation, officials recently announced.
Additionally, UMHS will be investing $2.34 million to create a new wound care clinic at its leased Domino’s Farms Office Park space on Frank Lloyd Wright Drive in Ann Arbor Township.
UMHS is preparing to relocate its Pediatric Speech Language Pathology, Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy services from the second level of a unit in the former C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital to an office at 2205 Commonwealth Blvd., in Ann Arbor.
The University of Michigan Health System will be creating a new wound care clinic at Domino's Farms in Ann Arbor.
AnnArbor.com files
The construction will create six on-site jobs, according to UMHS. Work is scheduled to be completed in the winter of 2014.
In addition to the new clinic on Commonwealth Boulevard, UMHS will be investing $2.34 million to establish the new wound care clinic at Domino's Farms.
The clinic will help patients with wounds from trauma, arterial diseases, pressure ulcers and venous insufficiency, and is expected to open in the summer of 2014.
The money will be used to renovate 9,325 square feet at Domino’s Farms to create the new clinic. UMHS leases nearly 25 percent of the facility, and has agreements in place for 240,920 square feet of the office park.
The $2.34 million also includes the purchase of a hyperbaric chamber that provides intense oxygen therapy to treat damaged tissues and wounds that are difficult to heal, including ulcers that many diabetic patients get.
UMHS moved its diabetes care and adult endocrinology programs to Domino’s Farms in 2009 to serve a rapidly growing population of type 2 diabetes patients.
The Board of Regents approved both projects at its March 21 meeting.
Amy Biolchini covers Washtenaw County, health and environmental issues for AnnArbor.com. Reach her at (734) 623-2552, amybiolchini@annarbor.com or on Twitter.
Comments
Scott
Thu, Apr 18, 2013 : 3:33 p.m.
Fire Ora. Replace her with some secretarial lacky whose doing all the real work work- why she politics and makes statement such as "only the doctors can make changes to reduce health care costs". Replace her with a symbolic gerbil to represent what weasels doctors and administrators are. The saving on her salary will save at least 10 million $ in ten years.
A2commenter
Fri, Mar 29, 2013 : 3:29 p.m.
I'm glad to see better access to services but I do object to having my tax dollars support Tom Monaghan ( who owns Domino's Farms) and by extension his political causes.
Michigan Reader
Sun, Mar 31, 2013 : 12:37 a.m.
The U-M uses government dollars to support its activities, that includes health insurance reimbursements and money collected any other way. Those dollars become the property of the U-M. Do you use your employer's dollars for your needs, or have they become your dollars by way of transfer of "title," or ownership?
Kishauwau
Fri, Mar 29, 2013 : 12:52 p.m.
If you are not delivering patient care at the medical campus, you should not be there. Let them work from home like the Nurse Mangers
nickcarraweigh
Thu, Mar 28, 2013 : 10:54 p.m.
Did the wound care clinic previously exist and is now being moved, or is it now being created? And doesn't it seem counter-intuitive to spend $3.6 million on a renovation that produces "space constraints"?
Sparty
Fri, Mar 29, 2013 : 7:33 a.m.
The existing pediatric physical theraphy, occupational therapy, and speech pathology facilities are being relocated, per the article.
cornelius McDougenschniefferburgenstein jr. 3 esq.
Thu, Mar 28, 2013 : 11:02 p.m.
CAREFULL NICK,your making too much sense,you may be censored!
a2xarob
Thu, Mar 28, 2013 : 9:26 p.m.
I wish the University Medical System would open an Urgent Care clinic in the same area! They could do it at this Commonwealth Ave Office, or at the East Ann Arbor facility, or at Domino's. A GOOD urgent care facility is needed on this side of town.
justcurious
Thu, Mar 28, 2013 : 8:28 p.m.
This is good news for the employees and patients. Much easier, and cheaper, to park out there.
jmac
Thu, Mar 28, 2013 : 7:16 p.m.
Hard to understand why a Peds unit is moving off-campus when a brand spanking new Peds hospital was just opened on campus....
seldon
Thu, Mar 28, 2013 : 8:19 p.m.
These are probably outpatient services. In which case, putting them up at Commonwealth is a HUGE benefit to patients and their families, because Commonwealth has ample parking and they don't have to navigate the Hospital complex and its parking structures.
Belgium
Thu, Mar 28, 2013 : 6:58 p.m.
Meanwhile, salaries are frozen, staff cannot hire externally, but may only fill open jobs from within, even when the skills sets are not available. We're cutting the budget left and right and there are no funds to expand productive areas and cost-reduction efforts. The new CFO thinks that all our problems will be solved by reducing staff. A self proclaimed "Sparty in Wolverine Clothes", he does not know how to lead by example. His staff make excessively more than any other department for the same roles. Promotions are simple in his group and the salaries are higher. It's disheartening when new leaders show this level of hypocracy and lack of compassion to staff. But, what do you expect from a "Sparty in Wolverine Clothes"?
Ken
Thu, Mar 28, 2013 : 9:44 p.m.
Welcome to MICHIGAN!