Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health plans to open two outpatient care campuses in Michigan's Macomb and Wayne counties, The Detroit News reports.
Here's what you should know:
1. Beaumont is planning its largest outpatient centers to date. The centers are expected to be between 100,000 and 125,000 square feet once completed.
2. Administrators plan to start construction in 2019 and finish in 2020.
3. Each center will be staffed by Southfield-affiliated primary care and specialty care physicians and will offer emergency care, imaging, outpatient surgery, oncology and physical therapy services.
4. Beaumont expects to make the campuses open to independent physician groups as well.
5. The health system operates 168 outpatient centers.
6. Beaumont COO Carolyn Wilson said, "We're really committed to reducing the cost of care. Outpatient care is highly efficient and patient-friendly, and it reduces the cost for those that we serve, as well."