Great Lakes Specialty Hospital opens soon in Grand Rapids, still has 40 healthcare jobs to fill

With the opening of the new Great Lakes Specialty Hospital in Grand Rapids just days away, hospital leaders say 50 healthcare workers are in place. With an expected 90 jobs total, that leaves 40 positions open -- openings the hospital looks to fill from now until early fall.

Great Lakes Specialty Hospital is a new facility situated on the fifth floor of Saint Mary's Health Care (200 Jefferson Ave. SE) offering 20 private beds for chronically critically ill patients who no longer need acute care, but are not ready to go home or to rehabilitation. The facility will open to patients on March 14.

"The vast majority [of the jobs] are direct caregiver positions for registered nurses, nurse aides and respiratory therapists," says Brian Pangle, CEO. "From a support standpoint, we'll need unit secretaries, and have a very small handful of other support roles like supply chain support and health information management support."

Twenty of the jobs transferred from the Muskegon location of the Great Lakes Specialty Hospital that was on the Mercy General campus, Pangle says. That location will close once the hospital opens a 31-bed renovated facility at Hackley Hospital.  

"Our patients are chronically critically ill, and we give them longer-term care in the hospital and that gives them a longer time for healing," Pangle says. "We focus on the rehabilitation of these people so they can go home or to a lower level of care. What's so valuable about being here at Saint Mary's is that an emergency can be addressed immediately without having to move that patient from one facility to another."

The public is invited to an open house on Friday, March 9 from 1 to 5 p.m. where they can experience the new hospital firsthand.

To see current job openings or to submit a résumé, click here.

Source: Brian Pangle, Great Lakes Specialty Hospital
Writer: Deborah Johnson Wood, Development News Editor

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