ST. IGNACE — With the intention to additional meet excessive demand for medical companies, the Mackinac Straits Well being System has introduced plans so as to add a 20,000 sq. ft medical skilled workplace constructing to its amenities.
The ability is being constructed with a $10 million grant from the state and is scheduled to interrupt floor in June. The undertaking is predicted to be accomplished in 2024. The well being system is working with an architect and design agency, Built-in Design Options, to plan the design of the constructing, together with an expanded parking space.
Based on CEO Karen Cheeseman, the Mackinac Straits Hospital was constructed 13 years in the past and has grown steadily since. The well being system has expanded into major care, ache administration companies, orthopedic companies and backbone care.
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The brand new facility won’t add new companies, however will broaden the area and permit the well being system to assist extra sufferers. Along with area for sufferers, the constructing will home administrative workspace for billing and medical file specialists, in addition to skilled workplace area.
“It can present elevated entry to care. Proper now, we’ve some limitations based mostly on some area constraints. This opens up some further doorways and alternatives to the care that we offer. So that would imply further days that companies are supplied, issues of that nature,” Cheeseman stated.
The present hospital is 86,000 sq. ft. The growth will add 20,000 sq. ft to the power. Whether or not the brand new constructing will likely be connected to the present one or separate will likely be decided within the design course of.
With the added area, the well being system may have the “potential” to rent on further workers, Cheeseman stated. Nevertheless, like well being care programs nationwide, the hospital has confronted staffing constraints.
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