MICHR Physical Resources

MICHR FACILITIES: The following physical space is available within the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR):

Centralized Operations at Domino's Farms Office Complex: Located approximately four miles from the University of Michigan Medical Campus, MICHR currently occupies approximately 10,000 square feet of office space at Domino's Farms Office Park, with an adjacent Clinical Research Unit satellite outpatient "pod" of approximately 4000 square feet. An additional 10,000 square feet of adjacent office space has been acquired, is under renovation, and will be available for occupancy April 2008. Current space contains offices and small and large conference rooms that can also serve as instructional space for clinical research education. These facilities have helped to create a strong trans-institutional home for clinical and translational research.

MCRU Distributed Research Performance Sites: The Michigan Clinical Research Unit (MCRU) is currently located in four discrete areas. The Inpatient unit in the University Hospital and the Outpatient Facility in the Med Inn are located in the Main Hospital complex in the center of Ann Arbor. The Domino's Farms extension contiguous with MICHR are both located approximately four miles from the hospital in northeast Ann Arbor. The Ypsilanti Health Center extension is located 10 miles east of the hospital in Ypsilanti.

The MCRU inpatient unit is currently located on the 7th floor (7A) of the U-M Main Hospital and currently has 12 licensed beds. This inpatient space, consisting of 10,507 square feet, also has administrative offices, a library/staff room, a formal conference room, patient dining area, a metabolic kitchen, computer rooms, a copier room, rooms for freezers and equipment, a specimen core laboratory, and a human applications laboratory. High-intensity outpatient protocols are also performed in this area, for safety and efficiency.

The MCRU outpatient unit is located on the main hospital campus in the Med Inn building. It is a fully-equipped 7-exam room outpatient facility; one of these rooms is dedicated to our DEXA Scan machine but also doubles as an exam room. In addition to the exam rooms, the Med Inn space contains a large reception area, a study team work room, a copy room, a small specimen processing lab, and staff work space. The Med Inn outpatient space occupies 1,705 square feet.

The Outpatient Clinical Research Unit at Domino's Farms currently houses 10 exam rooms, including a research physiology room. All aspects of the unit are JCAHO compliant. Shared space includes a waiting room, patient carrels, patient intake area, equipment room, a double secure-locked documentation room, audit/exam room, patient food preparation room, staff kitchen, patient shower, and handicap accessible bathrooms. A 140 square-foot wet laboratory is contiguous with the patient facility. It contains two table top centrifuges, one computer with internet connection allowing follow up on patient laboratory values, one label printer for blood draws, supplies for drawing blood and for preparing aliquots for storage. The laboratory also contains a small specimen refrigerator, two -86° specimen freezers, and one -20° specimen freezer.

Five additional research-only dental suites have been added by the Dental School, as part of their partnership with CACR.

The Minority Health Research Program MCRU clinic is located at the Ypsilanti Health Center (YHC), a satellite health center of U-M Hospital and Health Centers. Two departments comprise the YHC- the Department of Family Medicine and Department of Pediatrics. Space dedicated to the GCRC- 430 square feet- includes two exam rooms, a small laboratory, a nurse's office, and lobby space used for check-in and check-out and for displaying educational materials.

The new Main Pod, located in the newly constructed Cardiovascular Center, will have approximately 7,550 square feet of space. This space will house 5 research-only outpatient exam rooms, 5 research-only overnight stay beds in private rooms, and administrative offices for the director, administrator, nurse manager, bionutrition manager, and related staff. The space will also house a procedure room, nursing workspace, a medical preparation and storage room, a patient/subject intake area, equipment storage space, clean and soiled holding rooms, a PI and study coordinator workroom, a staff locker room, a metabolic kitchen, a patient/subject dining area, a patient waiting area, a specimen processing laboratory, and an on-site temporary freezer storage space.

The Human Applications Laboratory (HAL) occupies approximately 1500 square feet of laboratory space on the seventh floor of the University of Michigan Hospital and is entirely housed within hospital space allocated to the NIH sponsored Michigan Clinical Research Unit. The HAL is maintained and managed by a dedicated staff, receives leadership through a HAL Director and is regularly audited by the University of Michigan Health System Corporate Quality Improvement Good Tissue Manufacturing and Laboratory Practices Coordinator. The HAL is physically divided into three distinct areas; an administrative records management office, a class 10,000 clean room, and a room for flow cytometry characterization of cellular products. Access to all three areas is strictly controlled and monitored.