Thanks micro for explaining,well written. (East) Lansing does have the development of the frib facility which may attract many buisnesses, we also have the state capitol, universities, and maybe eventually all of this will bring a positive growth to the city.
( Any specific reason why they choose to build all those hospitals in Grand Rapids? )
The FRIB will be regional/statewide boost, definitely not just EL.
I've often wondered myself how GR can justify all those hospitals. I'm not familiar enough with GR to know what kind of hospital facilities already existed, I really don't even know how many have been built recently or are under construction.
I'm sure it will help the state as a whole, but like most headlines of articles I've read. It was well stated that it should give the city a big boost... and the changes of the frib facility would most likely be felt here.
I've heard Grand Rapids have a lot of hospitals. Must be a good number since Michigan State University not only built a medical school there, but moved headquaters as well. Maybe they have like 3+ hospitals there that are similar to Sparrow Hospital here in Lansing I guess.
In the '90s Butterworth and Blodgett hospital in GR merged to make Spectrum; similar to St. Lawrence and Sparrow in that they are still separate facilities just the same name. GR also has Metro Hospital and Saint Mary's. Metro built a brand new hospital in Southwest GR (near Grandville) in the last 4-5 years to replace their older facility closer to downtown GR. Also in the last 5 or so years the VanAndel Research Institute was established and built a large facility next door to Butterworth. GVSU built a nursing/allied health building across the street as well as the Peter Seccia building for the new MSU medical school, the Meijer Heart Center and the DeVos Children's hospital were built all in the same few blocks (warmly known as "pill hill" as it's built on a steep hill). The DeVos Children's hospital is deceptive, in that it isn't a separate hospital...it's just an expanded department at Butterworth. They basically expanded their pediatric department and called it a Children's hospital. Why GR has all this? Well, the have ~1.3 million metro population (compared to Lansing's 454,000 metro). Also, Butterworth is THE level 1 trauma hospital north of Kalamazoo and south of Traverse City. So they're drawing almost ALL of West Michigan, far beyond their metro population. In my opinion, this is similar to Lansing's airport, it's too close to Detroit/Ann Arbor (DMC and UofM hospitals).
Yeah, I see. I'm just really impress and surprise that Grand Rapids has all these hospitals. My future career is to be a doctor, although in the state of Michigan... Grand Rapids is not my location it's Lansing. So it's a little uncomfortable ( sorta that word I'm looking for) to know that your future job field is far off somewhere else. Grand Rapids seem to be a smart city though.
Yeah Grand Rapids may have a metro population in the millions, but Lansing is right in the middle of the state. Location couldn't get any better, and I wouldn't have been surprised to see those hospitals play a more statewid role if they were here. I like the city of Grand Rapids, and enjoyed my visits there all the time... but I favor Lansing more ( ofcourse it's my hometown).
Grand Rapids has quite a few hospitals relative to Lansing (I would say roughly Lansing has 3 compared to GR's 4.5...using relative numbers). The thing is...having grown up an hour north of GR and lived there for 4 years, Butterworth is to West Michigan as Sparrow is to metro Lansing. And by that, I mean to say that where I lived, if something major happened and my local hospital couldn't handle it, I would be shipped to Butterworth. In mid-michigan, the same thing but to Sparrow. From either of those hospitals, you would go to UofM if it was even more serious. But someone wouldn't be shipped from Sparrow to Butterworth. They're both Level 1 trauma centers, good hospitals, both teaching hospitals with residency programs, university affiliated, so as far as where to practice, I think you'd be just as well off at Sparrow in Lansing as GR. Obviously depending on what you're looking for. But if one wanted to do major academic medicine, you wouldn't leave Lansing for GR, you'd leave Lansing and GR for Ann Arbor, Cleveland, Boston, Houston, etc. An interesting side-note is that Harvard medical school doesn't have a university hospital, Mass-Genernal is Harvard affiliated but it isn't the same as UofM hospital which is pa
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An interesting side-note is that Harvard medical school doesn't have a university hospital, Mass-Genernal is Harvard affiliated but it isn't the same as UofM hospital which is part of the university. There are a few more opportunities in the medical field in GR than Lansing by number of positions only (in my opinion)...I don't see a doctor getting much different experience in either places.
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( Any specific reason why they choose to build all those hospitals in Grand Rapids? )
I've often wondered myself how GR can justify all those hospitals. I'm not familiar enough with GR to know what kind of hospital facilities already existed, I really don't even know how many have been built recently or are under construction.
I've heard Grand Rapids have a lot of hospitals. Must be a good number since Michigan State University not only built a medical school there, but moved headquaters as well. Maybe they have like 3+ hospitals there that are similar to Sparrow Hospital here in Lansing I guess.
Yeah Grand Rapids may have a metro population in the millions, but Lansing is right in the middle of the state. Location couldn't get any better, and I wouldn't have been surprised to see those hospitals play a more statewid role if they were here. I like the city of Grand Rapids, and enjoyed my visits there all the time... but I favor Lansing more ( ofcourse it's my hometown).
An interesting side-note is that Harvard medical school doesn't have a university hospital, Mass-Genernal is Harvard affiliated but it isn't the same as UofM hospital which is part of the university. There are a few more opportunities in the medical field in GR than Lansing by number of positions only (in my opinion)...I don't see a doctor getting much different experience in either places.