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St. Joseph Mercy plans $24 million cancer center expansion in Ann Arbor

By JAY GREENE
Crain's Detroit Business
August 14, 2017



St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor is planning to expand its 24-year-old comprehensive cancer center in a $24 million project.

Groundbreaking for the 25,000-square-foot cancer center expansion will begin in September for a planned November 2018 opening.

"This new state-of-the-art facility will help cancer patients and their families by combining the very best in prevention, screening, research, treatment and support all in one location," Dave Brooks, president of St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor and Livingston hospitals, said in a statement. "This significant care delivery redesign will improve patient experience across all of our west market region of Canton, Brighton, Chelsea and Ann Arbor."

The number of cancer patients coming into St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor has tripled to more than 3,400 patients last year from when the Robert H. and Judy Dow Alexander Cancer Center opened in 1993, St. Joseph Mercy officials said. The existing two-story cancer center is 44,000 square feet on the west side of the Ann Arbor campus.



The project calls for St. Joseph Mercy to renovate the cancer center's lower level with a dedicated conference center and research suite and build out the front with a new two-story glass atrium. The patient-centered project, which was planned using a patient advisory board, will feature the latest medical technologies, treatments and enhanced clinical and support services, officials said.

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