McLaren Clarkston, the comprehensive care campus serving the Clarkston community, recently marked its 15th anniversary of service to the community.
Currently anchored by an emergency department and comprehensive cancer center, McLaren Health Care initially invested tens of millions of dollars into the Clarkston Medical Building to bring additional services to the area.
McLaren’s continued growth and expansion aided in McLaren Clarkston becoming an essential asset to the community by creating a continuum of care benefiting its overall health and general wellness.
“Creating access to care and building delivery methods to those services is the mandate of a health care organization, and Clarkston, being a growing community, had been an area that could benefit from continued development of its health care resources,” said Greg Lane, McLaren Health Care Chief Administrative Officer, who was instrumental in McLaren’s expansion into Clarkston. “McLaren was, and continues to be, very grateful to Independence Township for being so welcoming and collaborative over the years. We attribute that to the campus’ success, and we are thankful to be part of this community’s advancement.”
Occupying more than 22,000 square-feet of clinical space upon the building’s completion, McLaren brought physical therapy, lab services, multiple diagnostic imaging modalities — including MRI and women’s health. Additional provider offices also expanded convenient accessibility to specialty services in Clarkston to include a bariatric institute, wound care, and cardiovascular services. A McLaren partnership on an ambulatory surgery center has been providing outpatient procedures since 2009.
McLaren continued to invest in the campus, further developing access to — and enhancing the level of — readily available care in the area.
The then-McLaren Great Lakes Cancer Institute – Clarkston became the first freestanding, dedicated comprehensive cancer center, bringing radiation therapy, PET imaging, general medical oncology, and additional support services closer to patients’ homes.
Cancer services and capabilities would develop further with McLaren Health Care’s creation of the Karmanos Cancer Network, bringing the expertise of the world renown Karmanos Cancer Institute to Clarkston.
It was in Feb. 2016, though, the community’s access to care would see its most significant development to-date with the opening of the McLaren Clarkston Emergency Department. Opened following the renovation and expansion of a former urgent care, the ER brought a level of lifesaving care that had previously not been immediate accessible.
“It was evident by the way the community response to the opening of the emergency department that there was a gap in the care and services needed when measured against what was being provided,” said Chad Grant, McLaren Health Care Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, who previously oversaw McLaren Clarkston during the opening of the ER as President and CEO of McLaren Oakland. “But by no means are we finished growing McLaren Clarkston. The direction we aim to take is toward one that will create a feeling of confidence and assurance for the community that everything they need for their personal health and wellbeing will be right down the street.”
Learn more about all services offered at McLaren Clarkston, and check-in to the ER online, at mclaren.org/clarkston.
About McLaren Clarkston
McLaren Clarkston represents the largest ground-up development in the history of the corporation. The $600 million health care village project, located on 95 acres of prime real estate in northern Oakland County, is being developed in two phases. Phase I opened in May 2009 and includes a 138,000 sq. ft. Medical Office Building, a 42,000 sq. ft. freestanding cancer center and a 5-acre Garden of Healing and Renewal. Learn more at mclaren.org/clarkston.
About McLaren Oakland
McLaren Oakland is a 318-bed hospital that provides primary and specialty healthcare services to the greater Pontiac and Oakland County, Michigan communities. Founded in 1953, McLaren Oakland has grown to a comprehensive medical community that includes outpatient facilities in Clarkston and Oxford, in addition to an inpatient hospital in Pontiac providing a range of clinical services including emergency and trauma care, cardiology, cancer services, minimally invasive robotic surgery, and orthopedic services. McLaren Oakland offers ACGME accredited residency and fellowship programs in anesthesiology, diagnostic radiology, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology, pulmonary disease and critical care medicine, and transitional year, in addition to a CPME accredited podiatry program. Learn more at mclaren.org/oakland.
About McLaren Health Care
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $6.6 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 13 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 490-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the U.S. McLaren has 28,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. Learn more at mclaren.org.