Patients visiting the Emergency Department at MyMichigan Medical Center Midland will need to use an alternate entrance for two weeks beginning December 3 as construction crews put the finishing touches on a new registration area. Patients are advised to look for wayfinding signs to guide them to the alternate entrance and to registration.
The registration upgrade is the final step in Phase 2 of a multi-year expansion project that kicked off early this year. Phases 1 and 2 added staff and beds, a more spacious and comfortable waiting room seating up to 50 people, safety and privacy enhancements to registration and triage areas, new tech rooms and six new vertical care spaces for patients with less severe conditions. Together these upgrades boost total department capacity by 38 percent.
Phase 3 of the project, with timing yet to be determined, will further expand the Emergency Department to meet future projected demand. The Medical Center will also add a third Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine and a fixed Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scanner to reduce wait times for these critical tests. The Emergency Department will continue to operate 24/7 throughout all phases of the project.
The project is funded in part by donations from the Midland Area Community Foundation, MyMichigan Medical Center Midland volunteers and other community donors. Those who would like to learn more about the project may visit www.mymichigan.org/emergency-Midland
About MyMichigan Health
MyMichigan Health, a non-profit health system headquartered in Midland, Michigan, is a leader in providing award-winning, high-quality care to the 26-counties it serves. With Medical Centers in Alma, Alpena, Clare, Gladwin, Midland, Mt. Pleasant, Saginaw, Sault Ste. Marie, Standish, Tawas and West Branch, MyMichigan also has affiliations with Medical Centers in St. Ignace and Mackinac Island. MyMichigan Health provides a full continuum of care across a wide array of settings, including urgent care centers, home health, virtual care, as well as medical offices in more than 80 specialties and subspecialties including cardiology, family medicine, hematology/oncology, neurosciences, orthopedics, pediatrics, vascular surgery, and more. MyMichigan Health demonstrates its commitment to the future of medicine by partnering with leading institutions to offer medical education programs that train medical students, physicians, nurse practitioner and physician assistant students, nursing students and other clinical experts for our region. Listed by Forbes among ‘America’s Best Employers by State’ for four consecutive years from 2022 to 2025, MyMichigan is a major employer in all of the areas it serves. In fact, its more than 10,500 employees, volunteers, health care providers and other personnel work together to create healthy communities through solutions designed to meet the ever-changing needs of the more than one million residents in the health system’s 26 counties served. In fiscal year 2023, MyMichigan Health provided more than $128 million in community benefits, as well as supported its patients and families with new equipment, services and programs with funds raised by the MyMichigan Health Foundation, MyMichigan Medical Center Saginaw Foundation, MyMichigan Medical Center Tawas Foundation and Field Neurosciences Institute.
About the Midland Area Community Foundation
The Midland Area Community Foundation exists to cultivate the power of giving within our community, support long-term transformation and help ensure all residents thrive.