The University of Michigan will acquire a medical office building on the UM Health-West hospital campus in Wyoming to use for expanding cancer care.
The university’s Board of Regents on March 20 approved buying the 22,215-square-foot medical office at 2147 Health Drive for $4.95 million. Formerly the home of a Michigan Pain Consultants office before the practice closed last August, the medical building will provide additional room for the UM Health-West Cancer Center and house clinical, medical oncology, infusion and mammography services.
Buying the medical office building enables UM Health-West to expand the Cancer Network of West Michigan, a joint venture with Trinity Health that the two organizations formed five years go “to meet rising demand driven by increased referrals and community need,” Marschall Runge, executive vice president for medical affairs at Ann Arbor-based UM Health, and CFO and Executive Vice President Geoffrey Chatas wrote in a memo to university regents…