Children's Health

Pediatric Specialty Practices and Services Relocate

Additional Outpatient Pharmacy Available Along Medical Mile

The Spectrum Health Medical Group and Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital have a new home for several pediatric specialty practices and services thanks to the opening of 35 Michigan Street. Residing along the Medical Mile in downtown Grand Rapids, the new building includes more than 200,000 square feet of multispecialty space. Connected to Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital via a pedestrian bridge, the building provides easy access to the hospital. Spectrum Health will occupy space on six floors of the building.

Specialty practices and services include:

• Pediatric gastroenterology
• Pediatric infectious disease
• Pediatric rehabilitation, including occupational, physical and speech therapy
• Pediatric orthopedics, including X-ray
• Pediatric nephrology and outpatient dialysis
• Pediatric neurology and outpatient EEG
• Pediatric pulmonary and sleep medicine, including a pediatric sleep lab
• Pediatric rheumatology

Spectrum Health also opened an outpatient pharmacy and blood draw station in the building.

Spectrum Health is a not-for-profit health system in West Michigan offering a full continuum of care through the Spectrum Health Hospital Group, which is comprised of nine hospitals including Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, a state of the art children’s hospital that opened in January 2011, and 180 service sites; the Spectrum Health Medical Group and West Michigan Heart, physician groups totaling more than 600 providers; and Priority Health, a health plan with 625,000 members. Spectrum Health is West Michigan’s largest employer with more than 17,800 employees. The organization provided $115.9 million in community benefit during its 2010 fiscal year. In 2011 and 2010, Spectrum Health was named a Top 10 Health System by Thomson Reuters.