The Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion is an outpatient cancer center located in the

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in downtown

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. It was developed to bring all

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and patient service delivery under one roof in the Spectrum Health System, which merged with

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in 2022 to form Corewell Health. The land for the project was purchased in 2002 with a donation from Frederik and Lena Meijer. The $78 million facility opened on June 30, 2008. It is located across the street from Butterworth Hospital on Michigan Street and is connected to it by a

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. Since the location is also near the

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, the hospital has a high rate of cancer patients on

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s: eight percent compared to the national rate of three percent. The Pavilion is named after two employees that worked for

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and advanced their way to the top of the company.

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