Beaumont Health to build $6 mil medical facility in Brewster Douglass project

More good news for Detroit. The snowball is rolling downhill. Everybody wants a piece of the action.

"Beaumont Health, the eight-hospital suburban health system based in Southfield, wants to be a bigger health care player in the city of Detroit than it has ever been.

In June, Southfield-based Beaumont's request for proposal with the city of Detroit was accepted to build a $6 million medical facility as part of the city's $412 million Brewster-Douglass redevelopment project. The project spans 25 acres across the Brush Park and Eastern Market neighborhoods.

Beaumont's decision is significant as few large suburban hospitals in the nation have invested money in inner cities over the past several decades. Many have invested in wealthier areas, especially in Southeast Michigan, because of high levels of charity and uncompensated care in poorer urban areas."

What does 6 million actually build though? That doesn't seem like a lot of money for a significant investment.

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Originally Posted by southen

What does 6 million actually build though? That doesn't seem like a lot of money for a significant investment.

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Yes, that was my thought as well.

Interestingly enough, we never did hear any more about that huge medical center they were going to build out near M-5 and Pontiac Trial before the recession. The estimated cost for it was $70 million.

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Originally Posted by southen

What does 6 million actually build though? That doesn't seem like a lot of money for a significant investment.

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Outpatient clinic with say x-ray capabilities, etc.? Primary care docs mostly? [[docs with admitting privileges to the Beaumont system?)

Something say 3 or 4 stories high and offices for a dozen or two doctors?

Something large enough to support the population in Midtown, Brush Park and downtown a few block walk from QLine?

Not surprised although I don't know the dynamics of the outpatient care in the midtown area, i.e., what's available to someone living in Midtown.

Again, as that area gets more residents of means which means Whole Foods, coffee shops, and presumably an outpatient medical clinic...

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Originally Posted by 313WX

Interestingly enough, we never did hear any more about that huge medical center they were going to build out near M-5 and Pontiac Trial before the recession. The estimated cost for it was $70 million.

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It's sort of addressed in here. They stopped when they had financial difficulties and then decided that they couldn't get the traction necessary once Henry Ford and Providence had already established their new hospitals.

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...beaumont-board

well hopefully they'll follow through with the commitment and build a facility. Hopefully with room for expansion.

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Originally Posted by emu steve

Outpatient clinic with say x-ray capabilities, etc.? Primary care docs mostly? [[docs with admitting privileges to the Beaumont system?)

Something say 3 or 4 stories high and offices for a dozen or two doctors?

Something large enough to support the population in Midtown, Brush Park and downtown a few block walk from QLine?

Not surprised although I don't know the dynamics of the outpatient care in the midtown area, i.e., what's available to someone living in Midtown.

Again, as that area gets more residents of means which means Whole Foods, coffee shops, and presumably an outpatient medical clinic...

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if $6M is total project budget it won't be much. typ. outpatient clinics range at 30,000SF per floor to be efficient and cost $250/SF on the low end for new construction. $6M @ $250/SF barely gets you 20k SF. they'll end up leasing space as part of a bigger project. makes no sense to build a standalone building for that number...

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if $6M is total project budget it won't be much. typ. outpatient clinics range at 30,000SF per floor to be efficient and cost $250/SF on the low end for new construction. $6M @ $250/SF barely gets you 20k SF. they'll end up leasing space as part of a bigger project. makes no sense to build a standalone building for that number...

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20,000SF would mean a super-sized "doc-in-a-box" type operation.

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Originally Posted by southen

What does 6 million actually build though? That doesn't seem like a lot of money for a significant investment.

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"From the humble acorn the mighty oak grows."

One shouldn't expect something gigantic in view of the nearby competition of the huge DMC campus just to the north. I would think an urgent care / primary doctor facility to serve the soon-to-come community of several hundred homes would be the target audience.

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What does 6 million actually build though? That doesn't seem like a lot of money for a significant investment.

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From the article:

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In a June 13 letter to Mayor Mike Duggan, Beaumont laid out several of its proposals. They include:

Targeted community education to improve the health of all residents of the Choice Neighborhood, which spans Mack Avenue to the north, St. Aubin to the east, Gratiot and Fischer to the south and Woodward Avenue to the west.

A contracted part-time medical director committed directly to the Detroit Choice Neighborhood Initiative. The five-year value would be $740,625.

An urgent care facility with classroom space for community and wellness education programming. Capital costs and operating costs for five years are estimated at $4.9 million. Beaumont estimates it would serve at least 700 Brewster Homes residents and 1,200 residents of the Choice Neighborhood.
The urgent care center also would offer after-hours care to Central City Integrated Health Inc., a Detroit-based federally qualified health center.

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