Pine Rest plans to file a full application to the state this week seeking an expedited project review, which normally takes up to six months. In late May, Pine Rest filed a letter of intent with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services that begins the regulatory approval process for the project. Keep up with all things West Michigan business. When it opens, the Pediatric Behavioral Health Center of Excellence on Pine Rest’s 68th Street campus in Cutlerville will include psychiatric urgent care, a crisis stabilization unit, and specialty outpatient clinics to prevent mental health crises for conditions such as depression, anxiety and eating disorders. Pine Rest could steer the money to recruit direct-care staff to offering assistance to pay off college debt, helping with relocation costs, and providing sign-on bonuses, Nykamp said. “We’re partnering to try to bring in a whole bunch of new experts from outside of the state of Michigan into the state of Michigan in this project, so there’s a lot more dollars allocated to workforce development than we had in our original plan.” “There’s plenty of beds, there’s not plenty of staff, and that’s been the primary problem,” Pine Rest Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Bob Nykamp told Crain’s Grand Rapids Business. Bob Nykamp, Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services. The cost estimate has since grown to $86 million, an increase that includes about $6.2 million to recruit mental health professionals to Grand Rapids that are in short supply nationally. The project that Pine Rest wants to develop in partnership with Corewell Health’s Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital originally carried a $62 million estimated cost. The need to recruit mental health care providers amid an acute staffing shortage, the addition of more outpatient capabilities, and inflation’s effects on construction materials combined to drive up the price for a new pediatric center at Pine Rest Christian Mental Services.
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