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May 2, 2012

McLaren CEO Phil Incarnati is the force and face behind Michigan's fastest-growing health system. Can he get a new hospital built in Oakland County?

By Jay Greene

Phil Incarnati hasn't needed a PowerPoint presentation or slew of executive assistants to sell his affiliation proposals to any of the 10 hospitals or medical groups that have joined nonprofit McLaren Health Care Corp. over the past 22 years. Data and personal salesmanship have closed the deals.

Those skills have made Flint-based McLaren the fastest-growing health system in Michigan and Incarnati the state's highest-paid nonprofit hospital executive.

But Incarnati might need more than his usual powers of persuasion to achieve his current goal: Win approval for a 200-bed hospital in north Oakland County's Independence Township. It doesn't appear the hospital can be built under current certificate of need regulations and most likely will need a legislative exemption to go forward.

Cheboygan nurses: McLaren reopens closed hospital

April 26, 2012

CHEBOYGAN, Mich. (AP) — A union for nurses at the recently closed Cheboygan Memorial Hospital says McLaren Health Care Corp. has announced plans to reopen the emergency room and ambulatory care units.

The Michigan Nurses Association says McLaren told the nurses of its plans Monday night at a rally the nurses called to support reopening the northern Michigan hospital, which closed unexpectedly April 3 after a sale to Flint-based McLaren Health Care Corp. fell through.

McLaren said then that it couldn't get needed approval from the U.S. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The union says McLaren has since formed a partnership with Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey to obtain tentative federal approval.

Cheboygan Memorial Hospital to reopen emergency service

April 26, 2012

By Kate Fox Mult-Media Journalist for 7&4 News

CHEBOYGAN -- Some promising news was announced Monday night at a rally outside the shuttered Cheboygan Memorial Hospital, which gave a crowd of nearly 2,000 community members hope for the time being.

Reezie Devet, CEO of McLaren Northern Michigan in Petoskey, addressed the crowd, saying an administration resolution has been worked out between the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services and McLaren Health System that would allow Cheboygan Memorial Hospital to reopen its emergency room, ambulatory services, and outpatient departments.

McLaren still has to work with other interested parties and creditors to get them to agree to the terms of sale before anything will move forward, however officials say that they hope to reopen the hospital as soon as possible.

Plan for new Oakland County hospital draws fire

February 8, 2012

McLaren Health, competitors differ on demand for beds

BY MELISSA BURDEN THE DETROIT NEWS

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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