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27-624: Groundbreaking began in October 2005. It was the first hospital in Southeast Michigan to open in 20 years. The hospital was established due to population growth in western Oakland County . A previous branch campus of the main Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan , with 300,000 square feet (28,000 m) of space was to be expanded to 700,000 square feet (65,000 m). The architect

54-589: A 108-room hotel, Staybridge Suites Detroit - Novi, located on the other side of Grand River Avenue from the medical office building. The hotel was built for $ 10 million. The groundbreaking occurred in late October 2006, and the hotel opened in February 2008. Due to the number of Japanese residents in the area, the hospital offers cultural awareness training for employees, documents translated in Japanese, Japanese translators, and yoga classes conducted in Japanese. In addition

81-577: A 500,000-square-foot (46,000 m) hospital building, a 210,000-square-foot (20,000 m) medical office building, and the 60,000-square-foot (5,600 m) Orthopedic and Ambulatory Surgical Center. The medical office building is on 24 acres (9.7 ha) of land leased by the hospital. The surgical center is on 7 acres (2.8 ha) of land and is leased by Novi Orthopaedic Center Properties LLC. The seven-story hospital building has 500,000 square feet (46,000 m) of space. The hospital building includes hidden elevators, hallways, pathways, and tunnels so

108-451: A cost of $ 229 million, was scheduled to be installed with 200 inpatient beds and it had capacity for an additional 68 beds. The medical office building was originally going to have 80,000 square feet (7,400 m) of space. Dr. Peter McCann, a doctor of Eye Care Associated, stated that originally the demand was go large that the plans were altered so the medical office building was larger. Providence Park Physicians LLC invested $ 39 million into

135-488: A part of another region or metropolitan area. The following cities tend to identify themselves separately from southeast Michigan and are isolated from the core counties of Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne. With 4,488,335 people in 2010, Metro Detroit was the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the United States, while Ann Arbor's metropolitan area ranked 141st with 341,847. Metropolitan areas of southeast Michigan, and parts of

162-605: Is a region in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan that is home to a majority of the state's businesses and industries as well as slightly over half of the state's population, most of whom are concentrated in Metro Detroit . It is bordered in the northeast by Lake St. Clair , to the south-east Lake Erie , and the Detroit River which connects these two lakes. Some cities are considered within southeast Michigan, while also being

189-442: Is either Briar Hill at 1,705 feet (520 m), or one of several points nearby in the vicinity of Cadillac . The lowest point is at the shore of Lake Erie at 571 feet (174 m). The western coast features extensive sandy beaches and dunes produced by Lake Michigan and the prevailing winds from the west. The relatively shallow Saginaw Bay is surrounded by a similarly shallow drainage basin . Several large river systems flow into

216-549: Is surrounded by water on all sides except its southern border, which it shares with Indiana and Ohio . Although the Upper Peninsula is commonly referred to as "the U.P.", it is uncommon for the Lower Peninsula to be called "the L.P.". Because of its recognizable shape, the Lower Peninsula is nicknamed The Mitten , with the eastern region identified as " The Thumb ". This has led to several folkloric creation myths for

243-533: Is the busiest in the area with the opening of the McNamara terminal and the now completed North Terminal. The airport is located in Romulus . Manufacturing and service industries have replaced agriculture for the most part. In rural areas of Saint Clair County , Monroe , and Livingston Counties still grow crops such as corn , sugar beets , soy beans , other types of beans, and fruits. Romeo and northern Macomb County

270-644: Is well known for its apple and peach orchards. Radio Most major Detroit radio stations, such as WJR and WWJ , can be heard in most or all of southeastern Michigan. Port Huron, Howell, Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti, Adrian, and Monroe are also served by their own locally-originating stations. National Public Radio is broadcast locally from Ann Arbor on Michigan Radio WUOM 91.7 FM and from Detroit on WDET-FM 101.9 FM. Television Major television stations include: WJBK Fox 2 Detroit ( Fox ), WXYZ Channel 7 ( ABC ), WDIV Local 4 ( NBC ), WWJ-TV CBS 62 ( CBS ) and WKBD CW 50 ( CW ). Newspaper Daily editions of

297-568: The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News are available throughout the area. Lower Peninsula of Michigan The Lower Peninsula of Michigan – also known as Lower Michigan – is the larger, southern and less elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan ; the other being the Upper Peninsula , which is separated by the Straits of Mackinac . It

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324-603: The National Audubon Society have designated several locations as internationally Important Bird Areas . The Lower Peninsula is dominated by a geological basin known as the Michigan Basin . That feature is represented by a nearly circular pattern of geologic sedimentary strata in the area with a nearly uniform structural dip toward the center of the peninsula. The basin is centered in Gladwin County where

351-523: The Precambrian basement rocks are 16,000 feet (4,900 m) deep. Around the margins, such as under Mackinaw City, Michigan , the Precambrian surface is around 4,000 feet (1,200 m) down. This 4,000-foot (1,200 m) contour on the bedrock clips the northern part of the lower peninsula and continues under Lake Michigan along the west. It crosses the southern counties of Michigan and continues on to

378-565: The Lower Peninsula as "flat-landers" (referring to the region's less rugged terrain) or " trolls " (because, being south of the Mackinac Bridge , they " live under the bridge "). The Lower Peninsula is bounded on the west by Lake Michigan and on the northeast by Lake Huron , which connect at the Straits of Mackinac . In the southeast, the waterway consisting of the St. Clair River , Lake St. Clair , Detroit River , and Lake Erie separates it from

405-424: The Lower Peninsula is 277 miles (446 km) long from north to south and 195 miles (314 km) from east to west. It contains nearly two-thirds of Michigan's total land area. The surface of the peninsula is generally level, broken by conical hills and glacial moraines usually not more than a few hundred feet tall, most common in the north. The highest point in the Lower Peninsula is not definitely established, but

432-528: The Southern Lower Peninsula—which is largely urban or farmland. Southern Lower Michigan is sometimes further divided into economic and cultural subregions. The more culturally and economically diverse Lower Peninsula dominates Michigan politics, and maps of it without the Upper Peninsula are sometimes mistakenly presented as "Michigan", which contributes to resentment by "Yoopers" (residents of "the U.P"). Yoopers jokingly refer to residents of

459-983: The Thumb and Flint/Tri-Cities , are grouped together by the U.S. Census Bureau with Detroit-Warren-Livonia MSA in a wider nine-county region designated the Detroit–Ann Arbor–Flint Combined Statistical Area (CSA) with a population of 5,428,000. *Denotes member counties of the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG) The main economic activity is manufacturing cars. Major manufacturing cities are Warren , Sterling Heights , Dearborn (Henry Ford's childhood home) and Detroit, also called "Motor City" or "Motown". Other economic activities include banking and other service industries. Most people in Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, Washtenaw, and Wayne Counties live in urban areas. In

486-614: The adjacent Great Lakes, including the Kalamazoo , Grand , Muskegon , and Manistee rivers (Lake Michigan), and the Au Sable and Tittabawassee – Shiawassee – Saginaw rivers (Lake Huron). Because of the networks of rivers and numerous lakes, no point on land is more than six miles (9.7 km) from one of these bodies of water, and at most 85 miles (137 km) from one of the Great Lakes (near Lansing ). The American Bird Conservancy and

513-521: The area, one being that it is a handprint of Paul Bunyan , a giant lumberjack and popular European-American folk character in Michigan. When asked where they live, Lower Peninsula residents may hold up their right palm and point to a spot on it to indicate the location. The peninsula is sometimes divided into the Northern Lower Peninsula —which is more sparsely populated and largely forested—and

540-495: The funds were to be used to expand Providence Park Hospital's neurosciences center and to buy capital equipment worth several million dollars. In 2018 the system was renamed Ascension Michigan as it had been acquired by Ascension Health . Accordingly, the names of the hospitals, including the Novi one, changed to their current names. The hospital campus is located near the intersection of Interstate 96 and Beck Road. The campus includes

567-561: The hospital website has Japanese welcome messages. The hospital provides required physicals for Japanese executives when they first arrive in the United States to report to work. The hospital established an official Japanese Health Care program in 2009, bringing together practices that had developed from having Japanese families in the institution's care. 42°29′14″N 83°31′12″W  /  42.4872°N 83.5199°W  / 42.4872; -83.5199 Southeast Michigan Southeast Michigan , also called southeastern Michigan ,

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594-485: The medical office building. As of August 2008, only one space in the building, with 2,400 square feet (220 m) of space, was not occupied. The total cost of the entire St. John Providence project was over $ 300 million. In 2009, Art Van Elslander, who had supported the St. John Health System, made an unspecified donation to the health system; the system stated it was the largest donation it ever received. The system announced that

621-489: The north beneath Lake Huron . Most monthly temperatures in the lower peninsula range from a low of 14 degrees to a high of 84 degrees Fahrenheit. Michigan's Lower Peninsula can be divided into four main regions based on geological, soil, and vegetation differences; amount of urban areas or rural areas; minority populations; and agriculture . The four principal regions listed below can further be separated into sub-regions and overlapping areas. Interstate Highways in

648-600: The province of Ontario , Canada. It is bounded on the south by the states of Indiana and Ohio . This border is irregular: the border with Indiana was moved 10 miles northward from its territorial position to give Indiana more access to Lake Michigan, and its slightly angled border with Ohio was part of the compromise which ended the Toledo War . The Lower Peninsula is a part of the Great Lakes Plain, which include large parts of Wisconsin and Ohio. At its widest points,

675-484: The public does not see carts and patients in transport. As of 2008, all of the 200 inpatient beds were private and 168 of them were ICU -ready. According to Rob Casalou, the hospital CEO, he took a one-week visit to the Disney Institute of Florida and came up with the ideas of the hidden elevators and hallways. The hospital design includes a six-story atrium that allows natural sunlight. The development also includes

702-645: The recent years, urban sprawl has affected the areas of Canton , Commerce , Chesterfield , and Clinton townships. The metropolitan area is also home to some of the highest ranked hospitals and medical centers, Such as the Detroit Medical Center(DMC), Henry Ford Hospital, Beaumont Hospital, and the University of Michigan hospital in Ann Arbor. SEMCOG Commuter Rail is a proposed regional rail link between Ann Arbor and Detroit. The Detroit Metro Airport

729-459: Was NBBJ 's Columbus, Ohio office and the general contractor was Barton Malow of Southfield. The hospital opening was scheduled for August 8, 2008. Due to an installation of information technology systems for the electronic medical record system, the opening was moved to September 5. The hospital was scheduled to open with 400 employees, with a planned expansion to 1,200 with the final 100 being available by February 2009. The hospital building, with

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