NEGAUNEE, MI— Great Lakes Recovery Centers is in the process of creating a behavioral health campus in Negaunee.
CEO Greg Toutant says GLRC has purchased the former Bell Teal Lake Medical Center. Officials plan to move several Central U.P. services to the building, including the addiction medicine clinic, behavioral health medical-based services, and the child and adolescent trauma assessment program. They’re planning to relocate the 36-bed adult inpatient residential facility from Marquette and want to develop a more modern, state of the art addiction treatment facility, complete with expanded detox programming. Toutant says it’s a means of centralizing services.
“Really, what we’re looking at trying to do is provide a stronger, wraparound approach to care so that clients don’t have to go to four or five different locations and have disruptions within the course of their care. It’s really about bringing a very holistic approach to treatment to our consumers,” he says.
Some services have already started at the new building. Addiction medical-based services will relocate April 4.
Toutant says the new campus will provide support and awareness regarding the magnitude of need for mental health care, primary addiction-based services, family support programming, and child and adolescent-based services across the entire U.P.
