Marquette General breaks ground on new Escanaba facility
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Marquette General broke ground this morning on its new primary and specialty healthcare clinic facility in Escanaba.
The new two-level, 46,000 square-foot facility will replace the current Doctors Park building near Seventh Avenue in Escanaba. It is located on Marquette General property adjacent to the present Doctors Park building, but with direct access from US-41/M-35.
The new facility will greatly expand the availability of primary and specialty healthcare services offered by Marquette General in Delta County, along with enhancing lab, x-ray and physical/occupational therapy availability. Services are being developed by Marquette General to complement, not compete, with services offered by OSF St. Francis Hospital.
“This is a major commitment by Marquette General,” said A. Gary Muller, FACHE, Marquette General President and CEO, “It will build on our 20 years of service in Delta County, and strengthen our ties to St. Francis and the entire Delta community.”
Muller said that Marquette General is a strong partner in U.P. jobs creation and the majority of construction work at the new facility site will be done with U.P. labor.
“We wouldn’t even consider not using U.P. building trades labor wherever possible on this project,” Muller said.
The new facility will house a laboratory, home infusion, a blood donor clinic, primary care services, oncology, specialty care, imaging and x-ray, and physical therapy and occupational medicine, as well as administrative offices.
“The Escanaba community will benefit not only from the use of local labor to construct the facility, but also from the increased capacity of specialty services,” said Escanaba Oncologist Dr. Santosh Gowda, who is on the medical staff of Marquette General. “We look forward to opening the doors of this new facility and providing excellent care to the patients and families we serve in the community.”
The new facility will be LEED Certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), a green building certification system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council which promotes sustainable building and development practices through implementation of practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions to achieve better environmental and health performance in buildings.
Being developed by Duke Realty, the facility will cost approximately $11 million. The construction contractor is the U.P. firm of Gundlach Champion Inc. The clinic is expected to open its doors in the fall of 2012.
