Borgess Gardens:

• Construct a new nursing home facility to accommodate increased need for skilled nursing care in our community
• Create a haven of caring and healing in an intimate “neighborhood” setting
• Add beds for long-term rehabilitation patients
• Help meet the community need for enhanced long term care services in a facility that provides expert medical care in a homelike setting

The main 101-bed facility for skilled nursing home residents and inpatient rehabilitation is expected to be complete by mid-2009.

Renovation and Expansion of the Borgess Medical Center
Level I Emergency & Trauma Center:

• Improve and expand patient reception areas, combining comfort and efficiency to facilitate faster check-in/check-out convenience
• Create flexible triage/patient examination areas and convert curtained bays into private-enclosed suites, providing more privacy, comfort and security for patients and their families
• Increase bed capacity in ETC to accommodate higher demand for ER services*
• Purchase new and improved diagnostic equipment to assist physicians with prompt diagnosis and treatment
• Combine “Fast Track” prompt treatment program space with ETC to provide greater efficiency
• Enhance family waiting area
• Add larger, more technologically efficient shared workspace for physicians and other health care providers

* Over 50,000 individuals receive treatment each year in our ETC and the demand continues to steadily increase.

Capital Equipment:

• Support purchases of the most advanced medical technology and diagnostic equipment, to better serve our patients’ needs

Contact Us

Borgess Foundation
1521 Gull Road, MSB 405
Kalamazoo, MI 49048

foundation@borgess.com
269.226.8100