University of Michigan Health System - Main Medical Campus

Main Medical Campus

The current medical campus complex includes facilities for the UM Medical School, which was founded in 1848 as the Department of Medicine and opened to students in 1850. The medical campus complex also includes the Hospitals and Health Centers, which trace their history back to the nation's first university owned and operated hospital which opened in 1869.

Today, the complex includes:

• University Hospital is an 11-story structure that opened in 1986 and contains 794 beds. The facility is home to adult inpatient medical, surgical, and psychiatric care; 33 operating rooms; the Adult and Pediatric Emergency Departments; and diagnostic facilities for adult and some pediatric patients. It also includes large outpatient and inpatient pharmacies, clinical pathology labs, rehabilitation facilities, a cafeteria, a gift shop, a non-denominational chapel, an auditorium, numerous classrooms, and support functions including food preparation, sanitation and medical equipment maintenance. Home to the following renowned specialty care programs and centers:
  • Level I Adult Trauma Center: Designated by the American College of Surgeons
  • Michigan Trauma-Burn Unit: World-famous Burn Center receiving the highest Level I designation by the American Burn Association
  • Michigan Transplant Center: One of the busiest transplant centers in the country; performed over 7,100 solid organ transplants since 1964
  • Michigan Comprehensive Epilepsy Center: Awarded highest designation by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers
  • Michigan Stroke Center: Designated Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission on Accreditation; featuring 6-bed Stroke Unit (opened in 2005) modeled on the European system of stroke care that has demonstrated positive patient outcomes
• C.S. Mott Children's Hospital opened 2011 with 348 beds in the 12-story inpatient tower for children and adolescents including a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry unit, a 46-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, 12 operating rooms, diagnostic facilities, rehabilitation facilities, a gift shop, indoor and outdoor play areas, a classroom, and a chapel. This facility is attached to a 9-story outpatient clinic.

The hospital is home to several world-renowned specialty centers:

• • Level I Pediatric Trauma Center: One of only 13 children's hospitals designated Level I; features the Sorini Children's Emergency Medicine Center, established by a $7 million gift from Dr. Ernest Sorini.
  • Michigan Congenital Heart Center: International referral center; widely regarded as best congenital heart center in the US; conducts 850 heart operations and 600 heart catheterizations per year.
  • Holden Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: 46-bed facility, one of the largest neonatal ICU's in the country. **Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO): Technology developed at U-M; provides temporary heart and lung assistance in the intensive care setting. Approximately 90-130 patients undergo ECMO treatment at UMHS per year, many of them flown to the Health System from across the country by the UMHS Survival Flight program.
  • Pediatric Liver Transplant Program: One of the largest programs in the nation; provides children with cadaveric or live donor transplants.
  • Regional Infectious Containment Unit: A special 32-bed unit that occupies the top floor of the hospital. All beds will be negative pressure and will serve as an isolation unit in case pandemic, bioterrorism, or serious infectious crisis. One of the first units of its kind in the nation.

• Women's Hospital Birth Center is a 50-bed facility that opened in 2011 as part of the new Mott Children's and Women's Hospital. It handles nearly 4,000 normal and high-risk births each year at U-M, and for diagnostic care during pregnancy. Physicians from the departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Family Medicine, and U-M nurse-midwives, assist with births and birth-related care.
• A. Alfred Taubman Health Care Center (Taubman center) opened in 1986. The four-story building is home to 120 specialty outpatient clinics and faculty offices for most clinical departments. Specialty clinics include: Otolaryngology, Dermatology, Neurology, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Radiology, Cardiac Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Urology, General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Pediatric Otolaryngology, Rheumatology, General Medicine, Cardiology, Medical Genetics, Nephrology, Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, Infectious Disease, Metabolism Endocrine and Diabetes. The Taubman Center includes the following specialty services:
  • Outpatient surgical suite
  • EKG / Echo suite
  • Allergy injection suite
  • Women's Health Resource Center
• Comprehensive Cancer Center opened in 1997. Its nine-stories contain four floors dedicated to outpatient cancer care for adults and children, five floors for cancer research laboratories. The facility also features 77 clinic rooms, 42 chemotherapy infusion suites, 7 procedure rooms, 2 outpatient surgical suites, Mohs skin cancer unit, patient education center, cancer survivor art gallery. In 2006, the center received $82.5 million in research funding, making it the seventh in US in the number of National Cancer Institute (NCI) research awards. It is one of 39 programs in the country to earn the NCI's "comprehensive" designation and one of 17 centers in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. It consistently receives the NCI's "outstanding" designation and recently established a premier Phase I Clinical Trials and Translational Research Program. The new $523 million Children's Hospital contains a wing dedicated to cancer care, adding 64 Bone Marrow Transplantation rooms for adult and pediatric patients. The expansion will give the U-M Cancer Center one of the largest Bone Marrow Tranplantation programs in the country. In addition to treatment clinics for all types of cancer, the Cancer Center has several multi-disciplinary clinics:
  • Adrenal Cancer Clinic, considered the top adrenal cancer program in the country, sees 10-15 adrenal cancer patients per week, making UMHS the highest volume referral center in the US for this rare disease. It has the nation's first Endowed Professorship for Adrenal Cancer donated by Bo Schembechler on behalf of his wife, Millie, in May 2007. The Garry Betty Scholars Program was inaugurated following a generous donation by the former Atlanta-based EarthLink CEO who traveled to UMHS for treatment of his adrenal cancer. The center also houses the following clinics:
  • Pre-cancerous Gynecologic Clinic
  • Cancer Genetics
  • Fertility Counseling and Gamete Cryopreservation Program (FCGCP)
  • Long Term Follow-Up Clinic
  • Psych Oncology Clinic
• Cardiovascular Center is a five-story, 48-bed facility that opened in 2007 on the site of the "Old Main" hospital that operated from 1925 to 1986. The CVC clinical building is home to inpatient and outpatient care for adults with cardiovascular disease. Construction cost exceeds $215 million. It includes 8 operating rooms, 11 suites for interventional procedures, 36 outpatient clinic rooms, 48 inpatient beds including a 24-bed intensive care unit, a diagnostic suite, a 150-seat auditorium, cafe and indoor "winter garden" atrium. The facility also provides faculty offices for cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, and vascular surgery in order to promote collaboration between the fields and will provide a new umbrella for the world-famous U-M Congenital Heart Center and U-M Scleroderma Center. This facility is Phase I of the Cardiovascular Center project. Phase II will be a research facility that is currently in the planning stages. In June 2007, the university received a $50 million dollar anonymous donation earmarked for the facility and for future programs. The new heart hospital, believed to be the first of its kind in the country, will bring the following top-rated programs among others into one facility:
  • Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology Center
  • Center for Circulatory Support
  • Heart Failure Center
  • Heart Transplant Center
  • Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic
  • Multidisciplinary Aortic Program
  • Peripheral Arterial Disease Program
  • Congenital Heart Center
  • Venous Health Program
  • Women's Heart Program
• W.K. Kellogg Eye Center is located on Wall Street, across the Huron River from the main medical campus and opened in 1985. The world-famous Kellogg Eye Center houses outpatient clinics, surgical suites, and research laboratories in one facility and is home to all adult and pediatric eye care at U-M, and is one of the largest vision research centers in the world. Eye center includes an ophthalmic photography service, an optical shop, a cafe, a library, faculty offices and research facilities that includes 16 laboratories. Its operating budget of $30 million per year which including $10 million dedicated to basic science and clinical vision research. Kellogg has very active research component with various clinical trials for age-related macular degeneration, cornea and external disease, glaucoma, neuro-ophthalmology, pediatric ophthalmology, and retinal disease. In 2006, Kellogg ophthalmologists saw 128,000 patients and conducted 5,600 surgeries. An eight-story, $132 million expansion, opened in 2010, houses all-new clinic space, surgical and procedure suites, and space for the Brehm Center for Type 1 Diabetes Research and Analysis. It is named for William and Dee Brehm who donated $44 million toward the building. As a comprehensive eye center, Kellogg has the following highly regarded sub-specialty clinics:
  • Comprehensive Ophthalmology
  • Contact Lens Fitting and Dispensing
  • Cornea, Cataract and Refractive Surgery
  • Emergency Eye Care
  • Eye Plastic and Orbital Surgery
  • Glaucoma and Cataract
  • LASIK
  • Low Vision and Visual Rehabilitation
  • Neuro-Ophthalmology
  • Optical Shop
  • Pediatric Ophthalmology and Adult Strabismus
  • Retina, Uveitis, and Ocular Oncology
• Med Inn Building opened 1953 and was renovated most recently in 2006. It houses 30 hotel rooms on five-stories to accommodate families of patients in the intensive care units of the hospitals, or have other special needs. The building also houses support facilities for multidisciplinary programs, including:
  • General Clinical Research Center outpatient facility for people taking part in clinical trials
  • Michael S. Aldrich Sleep Disorders Laboratory
  • Center for Interventional Pain Medicine
  • Vestibular Testing and Vertigo Management Programs
  • Phototherapy and Psoriasis clinics of the Department of Dermatology
  • Chemotherapy Infusion Unit
  • Skills Lab for education for cancer patients
  • Symptom Management and Supportive Care Center

• Taubman Health Sciences Library (Taubman Medical Library) is a five-story building opened in 1980. It is home to one of the nation's largest and finest medical collections, including historical and rare-book collections. Operated by the U-M Library division and open to all it also houses the Learning Resource Center, a major facility for medical students' learning experience.

• Towsley Center for Continuing Medical Education opened in 1969. The two-story, 52,200-square-foot (4,850 m2) conference center includes two large auditoriums and smaller classrooms, as well as a Medical Simulation Center for training medical professionals in performing procedures and laparoscopic surgeries. More than 15,000 physicians and others receive training here each year. The building is also home to offices of the Department of Medical Education.

• The A. Alfred Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building (BSRB) at 109 Zina Pitcher Place houses biomedical research facilities. The BSRB opened in February 2006 and is around 472,000 sq ft (43,900 m2) The $220 million building occupies a site 415 ft (126 m) by 200 ft (61 m) and is 100 ft (30 m) high. It is the largest research facility on campus and covers an entire city block. The design has been described as "striking...emphasizing light and curves," with its south wall being a "curved, glass ribbon of office space... separated from the terra cotta- and metal-clad laboratory areas by a sky-lit atrium." The building won a 2007 AIA Honor Award for architecture.

The building contains six levels, including two partial levels, of research laboratories and offices, and features a basement, a two-levelvivarium space that includes an imaging core, surgery, behavioral testing suite, aquatics suite, and cage/rack washing facilities. It houses 144 faculty offices; 1,600 sq ft (150 m2) of divisible seminar room and break-out area; 16,000 sq ft (1,500 m2) of linear equipment space; alcoves for tissue culture, fume hoods, general bench space and lab entries. The 240 lab modules in the building are grouped into six "neighborhoods" for geriatrics and biogerontology; immunology; cardiovascular science; cellular and molecular therapeutics; organogenesis; and neuroscience). The grouping of lab modules by scientific themes is a departure from traditional groupings by departrment. The facility is also home of the internationally renowned Center for Organogenesis and U-M Program for Neurology Research and Discovery (P-FUND).

Construction planning by the New York City-based architectural firm of Polshek Partnership Architects. began in 2001, with final design approval in 2002 and groundbreaking in April 2003. The BSRB was named in honor of A. Alfred Taubman, the university's largest individual donor.

Within the building is the 300-seat Kahn Auditorium, named for philanthropists D. Dan and Betty Kahn of Bloomfield Hills, who gave $6 million to the university for cardiovascular research. The auditorium is sometimes called "The Pringle" because of its resemblance to the brand of potato chips.

• The Life Science Institute is an interdisciplinary life science research institute that conducts scientific research. LSI has "established strengths" in chemical biology, signal transduction, structural biology, and the genetics of disease. Major disease-area focuses include cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative disorders.

The LSI consists of the laboratories of faculty members from a wide range of life science disciplines including biology, chemistry, pharmacology, bioinformatics, medicine, physiology, genetics and biochemistry. LSI faculty work in silico as well as with macromolecules, bacteria, yeast, worms, flies, mice, and humans. Every LSI faculty member has a joint appointments with a U-M schools or college. Appointments span 16 different departments and include the Medical School, College of Pharmacy, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

LSI consists of three centers: The Center for Structural Genomics (structural genomics), Center for Stem Cell Biology (stem cell research), and Center for Structural Biology (structural biology). LSI also have several scientific cores: The DNA Sequencing Core (DNA sequencing), the Flow Cytometry Core (flow cytometry), the Functional Genomic Core (functional genomics), the Metabolic Phenotyping Core, the Vivarium (36,000 sq ft (3,300 m2) for small animals and fish), the NMR Suite (nuclear magnetic resonance), and the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Laboratory (cryo-electron microscopy). In 2007, the Life Sciences Institute entered into a research partnership with Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

The LSI was established in 2000 and the current six-story structure was completed in 2003 at cost of $100 million. It is part of a three-building facility that houses 230,000 sq ft (21,000 m2) of wet bench / dry lab / core facility research space and can accommodate 25-30 faculty-led research teams. The other buildings include the 99,000 sq ft (9,200 m2) Palmer Commons, housing a conference/meeting center and Bioinformatics Program, and the 140,000 sq ft (13,000 m2) Undergraduate Science Building containing classrooms and conference facilities.

• The Medical Science I (MedSci I) and Medical Science II (MedSci II) Buildings opened in 1958 and 1969, respectively. Together, they house the Medical School, UMHS administrative offices, research laboratories and faculty offices. MedSci II is the main classroom facility for medical student education.

• The three Medical Science Research Buildings are designated MSRB I, MSRB II and MSRB III and opened, respectively, in 1986, 1989, and 1995. These buildings are home to basic research laboratories and shared "core" facilities for U-M biomedical researchers. MSRB I became home to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) offices at the University of Michigan after the university was chosen to be one of 12 HHMI sites in the country in 2008.

• The 11-story North Ingalls Building previously housed St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, which moved to a new facility in 1977. The university purchased the building that year and it now houses administrative offices for several clinical departments and the U-M Hospitals & Health Centers.

• The University of Michigan School of Public Health was established in 1941. It is currently home to top-rated clinical research programs in five academic departments: Biostatistics, Environmental Health Science, Epidemiology, Health Behavior and Health Education, and Health Management and Policy. The school is one of two lead institutions in the Finland-United States Investigation of Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Genetics (FUSION) study group that recently discovered 4 new genes causing Type II Diabetes.

In 2007, it ranked as the number-five Public Health School in the United States by US News and has ranked first in Health Management every year since 1993. In fall 2006, the school completed construction on its seven-story Crossroads and Research Tower. The 125,000 sq ft (11,600 m2) building houses 17 conference rooms and 133 laboratory benches. The facility also houses the world-famous U-M Autism and Communication Disorders Center, a leading center in the clinical treatment of autism as well as autism genetics research.