GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital and Spectrum Health Helen DeVos Children's Hospital are partnering to build the state’s first children’s rehabilitation hospital
Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the plan to build the children’s rehabilitation hospital Tuesday morning.
The new hospital will be built on Wealthy Street, across from Mary Free Bed's main campus with a pedestrian walkway connecting the hospitals.
Construction is expected to start in spring 2023 and will take two years to complete.
"We believe there are kids who would greatly benefit from rehabilitation who aren't receiving it," said Kent Riddle, President & CEO of Mary Free Bed. “The new hospital is projected to serve 20% more patients by the third year of operation."
This will be the ninth free-standing children's rehabilitation hospital in the United States.
