Farmington Hills OKs $160M Beaumont-Botsford Expansion

The Farmington Hills City Council has given its blessing to a $160 million expansion project by the health-care system created with the mergers of Botsford Hospital, one of the last remaining independent hospitals in Michigan, and Oakwood and Beaumont hospitals.

The City Council’s 6-0 vote — Mayor Pro-Tem Kenneth Massey recused himself because he’s the chairman of Beaumont Hospital-Botsford’s board — allows the combined entity to go ahead with an expansion project that increases patient beds and constructs a new pavilion and parking structure on the 24-acre campus.

According to a report on Hometownlife.com, Beaumont-Botsford treats some admits 15,000 patients a year, treats 65,000 more and is a Level I trauma center.

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Hospital president and CEO Paul LaCasse said the project “allows us to upgrade our physical plant, which we’ve needed to do for the last several years.”

“We can continue serving the community with the best health care possible,” he said. “This is a milestone for us. It allows us to be in Farmington Hills for years to come.”

LaCasse, who has been the hospital’s CEO since 2005, worried that without a merger, Botsford likely wouldn’t haven’t been able to survive.

The new pavilion will add nine state-of-the-art operating rooms, and smaller operating rooms in the hospital will be converted to other uses.

Construction on the parking facility, which will provide space for 470 vehicles, will begin his fall before winter sets in. Completion of the entire expansion is expected in 2019.