Consortium Members

The State of Michigan’s Certificate of Need Commission voted April 30, 2008, to approve the forming of a consortium of 10 health systems statewide to build a proton beam treatment center. This inclusive collaboration is designed to ensure Michigan’s cancer patients receive and have access to the highest quality care without burdensome additional costs.

Proton beam technology is intended for cancer patients and should be tied to robust cancer research and treatment programs. In our collaborative, we have the state's two National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers (University of Michigan and Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center), the region's top three research centers (U-M, Karmanos and Henry Ford Health System) and an NCI-designated Comprehensive Community Oncology Center (Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital – Ann Arbor). A single hospital ownership model can't maximize the opportunity to advance cancer research or efficiently and effectively serve the patient population who may need this treatment.

All providers of radiation therapy services in the state of Michigan have been, or will soon be, invited to be part of this consortium. This will ensure the greatest possible access to the most people in the state that are in need of proton beam therapy.

The following health systems have committed to a statewide proton beam consortium: