ProMedica has announced plans to build a new hospital in Lenawee County to replace ProMedica Bixby and Herrick hospitals.
The new 145,000-square-foot hospital will be located on M-52 on the site of the former Mission Pointe Golf Course. The location is between the current sites of ProMedica Bixby Hospital in Adrian and ProMedica Herrick Hospital in Tecumseh.
The facility will be a full-service hospital with up to 80 acute care beds, an emergency department, surgical capabilities that include orthopedic care, a women’s health center, a cancer center, a pain management clinic and an inpatient psychiatric unit, Pro-
Medica officials stated in a news release. The building will be developed following LEED Silver Eligible Certification standards to ensure sustainability and offer best-in-class design, construction and energy efficiency.
“The two facilities are only 12 miles apart. Both of them provide almost identical
services,” said Tim Jakacki, president of ProMedica Bixby and Herrick hospitals. “This will eliminate redundancy of those services, and by doing that it makes it much more cost effective, much more efficient and it concentrates all of those services in one location.”
ProMedica has owned Bixby and Herrick hospitals since 1999.
The project will begin in early 2016 and be completed 18-22 months later, Jakacki said. Staffing adjustments are uncertain, but Jakacki said the company will weigh whether to replace certain positions left empty due to attrition between now and when the new facility opens.
“Internally, we referred to this as a generational investment, because it’s going to be here for multiple generations and decades to come in the same way these two facilities have been,” he said.
For more information, visit www.promedica.org.
