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Plan for new Oakland County hospital draws fire

February 8, 2012

McLaren Health, competitors differ on demand for beds

McLaren Health Care Corp. wants to spend $303.7 million to build a hospital at its McLaren Clarkston development in Independence Township, a move opposed by competitors and a coalition, citing lack of demand for existing hospital beds in Oakland County and worries of pushing up prices for consumers.

The Flint-based nonprofit health system this month filed two applications with the state to create a hospital at the site and transfer 200 of its 308 licensed medical/surgical beds from the McLaren-Oakland hospital in Pontiac to an 80-acre site it owns in Independence Township.

It wants to move the beds 7.6 miles and build a 443,000-square-foot, full-service hospital with 200 private rooms near Interstate 75 and Sashabaw Road on Bow Pointe Drive.

McLaren files state application to build new hospital in Oakland County

February 8, 2012

By Jay Greene

McLaren Health Care Corp., an 11-hospital system based in Flint, finally has moved forward with its long-expected plan to build a $308 million hospital at its 80-acre medical center site in Independence Township.

But the announcement is expected to meet with stiff opposition from nearby hospital competitors, a business-labor coalition and the state of Michigan — the latter of which considers Oakland County already to have too many medical-surgical beds for its population.

If Michigan approves McLaren’s certificate-of-need application, which it submitted Feb. 1, the hospital system would transfer 200 of 308 licensed beds from its former hospital — POH Regional Medical Center, now called McLaren-Oakland hospital in Pontiac — to the new hospital at the McLaren Health Care Village at Clarkston, at 5701 Bow Point Drive.

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