Building Infrastructure
The four major capital projects of the Health System Campaign for The Michigan Difference are:
New Children’s Hospital and Women’s Hospital
Goal: $75 million
For
decades, University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
and Women’s Hospital have provided the best in specialized
care for thousands of patients. Now we take the next step to ensure
that future generations of children and women will have even greater
access to our care. October 6, 2006, marked the groundbreaking
for a new C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and Women’s
Hospital estimated to cost $523 million. Seventy-five million in
private philanthropic dollars is sought to help construct the facility
that will forge a new era of healing and health for children and
women everywhere.
Goal: $12.5 million
It is estimated that 18-20 million Americans suffer the effects of clinical depression, with fewer than three million of them well diagnosed and receiving adequate treatment. The cost in human happiness and productivity is enormous. The University of Michigan, with its new Depression Center, aims to become a national leader in improving our understandings of depression and offering clinical hope to those whose lives are darkened by this affliction.
Cardiovascular Research Center
Goal: $50 million
Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the U.S., claiming more lives than the next six leading causes of death combined. The state of Michigan has the seventh-highest coronary death rate in the nation. The University of Michigan’s adult cardiovascular programs and its congenital heart center will soon be housed in a new clinical building. A new research building will allow the University’s outstanding cardiac physicians and medical scientists – who are already working together as a highly successful team – to move forward as rapidly as possible to increase our understandings of the causes and cures for cardiovascular disease.
Goal: $22.5 million
At the U-M’s Kellogg Eye Center, renowned ophthalmic researchers join forces with top clinicians and the patients they treat to push the boundaries of vision science and care every day. Their success over the past 15 years has led to the need for increased clinical and research space to continue the noteworthy work they are doing in such areas as glaucoma and macular degeneration.
Total facilities support: $135 million