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Ransom Street Closed at Spectrum Health Medical Center Due to Silverline Construction

Patient and Visitor Info Posted on Website

Construction efforts for The Rapid’s SilverLine Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project has begun and may affect some patients’ travel times to Spectrum Health Medical Center through this summer.

As part of this project, two BRT stations will be installed on Ransom Avenue near Crescent Street. The first phase of construction near the Medical Center has begun and runs through June. A section of Ransom Avenue just south of Ramp 6 (near The Women’s Center and Renucci Hospitality House) will be closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic.

Access to The Women’s Center, Renucci Hospitality House and Ramp 6 will remain open. However patients and visitors are advised to give themselves extra time and make use of the maps and information at http://www.spectrumhealth.org/butterworth.

Phase I Detour Information
Detour signs will be posted to reroute traffic during construction.

  • Ramp 6 (patient and visitor parking between Renucci Hospitality House and The Women’s Center):
    To access Ramp 6 from Ransom Avenue, vehicle traffic must turn on Ransom Avenue from Crescent Street. When exiting Ramp 6 on Ransom Avenue, vehicle traffic must turn right (north) on Ransom Avenue to Crescent Street. The Ramp 6 entrance and exit on Barclay Avenue also is available for patient and visitor use.
  • The Women’s Center Entrance:
    To access The Women’s Center entrance from Lyon Street, vehicle traffic must travel west on Lyon Street to Bostwick Avenue, north to Crescent Street, and east to The Women’s Center entrance.
  • Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital (HDVCH) Emergency Department:

    • To access the HDVCH Emergency Department (ED) entrance from Lyon Street, vehicle traffic must travel west on Lyon Street to Bostwick Avenue, and north to the HDVCH ED entrance.

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 140 service sites; the Spectrum Health Medical Group and West Michigan Heart, physician groups totaling more than 700 providers; and Priority Health, a health plan with 600,000 members. Spectrum Health is West Michigan’s largest employer with 19,000 employees. The organization provided $204 million in community benefit during its 2012 fiscal year.