University of Michigan Health will host public open house for new hospital: the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Health Care Pavilion

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — University of Michigan Health is hosting a public open house to celebrate its newest hospital, the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Health Care Pavilion, on Wednesday, Nov. 12. 

“We are thrilled to welcome the community to this state-of-the-art facility that greatly expands access to complex, patient-centered care delivered by our world-class faculty and staff,” said David C. Miller, M.D., M.P.H., U-M’s executive vice president for medical affairs and CEO of Michigan Medicine.

“This milestone represents the largest increase in our adult inpatient capacity in four decades. It is the culmination of the hard work and vision of so many people to meet the evolving health care needs of the communities we are privileged to serve. I am so grateful to our teams for their dedication to our patients and to our mission of advancing health to serve Michigan and the world.”

The event, which will feature tours of the 12-story, 690,000-square-foot hospital, opens to the public at 4 p.m. ET. There will be a guided media tour and interview opportunity from 2 - 3 p.m. ET.

Speakers include Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Ann Arbor), U-M Regent Michael Behm and Michigan Medicine leaders.

“This bold, new inpatient facility is a labor of love more than a decade in the making,” said Linda Larin, M.B.A., chief operating officer for the Adult Hospitals at U-M Health. 

“The pavilion was designed for the present and future of health care — for our patients, as well as the dedicated care teams who deliver exceptional services every day.”

The pavilion has 264 private rooms, all capable of intensive care, 20 state-of-the-art operating rooms, an intraoperative MRI and three interventional radiology suites. 

The new hospital features high-level specialty care services for neurology, neurosurgery, otolaryngology, oral maxillofacial surgery, spine, cardiovascular medicine, cardiac surgery, vascular surgery and thoracic surgery patients.

Additional neurosciences services include:

• A 24-bed neurocritical care unit
• Stroke unit with 100-foot gait and balance system
• Designated epilepsy monitoring unit equipped with EEG for continuous brain activity monitoring, day room for safe monitoring of seizures

“At University of Michigan Health, we have tremendous multi-disciplinary teams who treat a host of neurological conditions at a time when more people are requiring complex treatment and management,” said Dawn Kleindorfer, M.D., chair of the Department of Neurology at U-M Health and Robert W. Brear Professor of Neurology at U-M Medical School. 

“The incredible features of the pavilion will enhance our care team’s abilities and further advance U-M Health’s status as a premier destination for neurosciences care.”

On the third and first floors, the pavilion connects to the U-M Health Frankel Cardiovascular Center. 

The facility’s 12th floor will be home to a cardiology intensive care unit and a heart failure unit. 

“We are constantly evolving and innovating to bring new treatments and devices to the sickest patients in need of complex cardiovascular and thoracic care,” said Gorav Ailawadi, M.D., M.B.A., a director of the Frankel CVC and chair of the Department of Cardiac Surgery.

“The D. Dan and Betty Kahn Health Care Pavilion will propel us forward, allowing us to accept more transfers than ever before and providing more overall access for people who need our services.”

Michigan Medicine leaders prioritized environmental sustainability when designing the pavilion, including use of construction materials, water- and energy-efficient infrastructure and other key factors to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the health care carbon footprint.

“Our efforts for the pavilion facility are tracking to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum Green Building Certification, the highest possible rating from the U.S. Green Building Council, a reflection of our strategic aims to protect planet earth while saving lives every day,” said Tony Denton, J.D., MHSA, executive sponsor of the pavilion project and Michigan Medicine’s senior vice-president and chief environmental, social and governance officer. 

Special thanks to HOK for providing architectural design and Barton Malow for managing construction of the facility.

About Michigan Medicine
At Michigan Medicine, we advance health to serve Michigan and the world. We pursue excellence every day in our 12 hospitals and hundreds of clinics statewide, as well as educate the next generation of physicians, health professionals and scientists in our U-M Medical School. 

Michigan Medicine includes U-M Medical School and University of Michigan Health, which includes the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital, University Hospital, the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Health Care Pavilion, the Frankel Cardiovascular Center, Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan Health-West, University of Michigan Health-Sparrow and the Rogel Cancer Center. The U-M Medical School is one of the nation's biomedical research powerhouses, with total research awards of more than $800 million.