FAQs

For additional information regarding the McLaren Northern Michigan building and renovation project place call (800) 248-6777.

We encourage you to sign-up for our 10-Day Look Ahead email notices. These Friday updates include the project’s anticipated activities for the upcoming 10 days so that you can plan accordingly.

The building project work is being permitted by the City of Petoskey and will be in compliance with all requirements established by the Petoskey Municipal Code as well as the Emmet County and State of Michigan. All construction activities, hours of operation, and truck hauling routes are being coordinated carefully to reduce impact to project neighbors and the health care of our patients.

Regular construction hours will be between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m., Monday-Friday. Weekend, night, and holiday work by special permission only. All construction related equipment and materials must be transported on roadways designated as truck routes by the City of Petoskey.

Yes. In order to ensure that our community’s health care needs are being met, McLaren Northern Michigan hospital will remain open and fully operational during construction.

The last stages of the project, the renovation of the existing McLaren Northern Michigan hospital is expected to be completed in 2023, respectively.

The McLaren Northern Michigan Building and Renovation Project includes the transformation and modernizing facilities that are the foundation of our community and regions healthcare services. The primary community benefit of the project is providing a safe, modern hospital with adequate capacity for patient care.

Rehabilitation, skilled nursing care, long term care, Alzheimer and dementia care and hospice services. 

McLaren Port Huron
Surgical Services
Second Floor
1221 Pine Grove Avenue
Port Huron, MI 48060

Phone Numbers
Pre-admission Testing:
(810) 989-3192

If ill day of surgery - to cancel/leave a message
(810) 989-3280 or (810) 989-3281

How to contact us after surgery
Director of Periop Services Kathleen McKenna (810) 989-3208
Operating Room Nurse Manager (810) 989-3240
Billing (810) 989-3166
Hospital Chaplin (810) 989-3110
Patient Advocate (810) 989-3565
Pharmacy (810) 989-3455
Hospital (Main) (810) 987-5000

Shower or bathe and shampoo the night before and the morning of your surgery, with antibacterial soap before coming to the hospital - this helps to prevent infection. Click on the link below for more information on important showering instructions:

• Patient Preoperative Surgery Showering Instructions
• Surgical Site infection FAQs

Make sure your hair is clean and dry prior to arriving. Avoid hairspray.

Wear loose clothing that is easy to get off and on, which will fit over extra padding such as a bandage/dressing.

Do not wear makeup, jewelry (including any body piercing) or metal hair accessories.

Do not bring other valuables.

Change linens on your bed the night prior to surgery so that you are sleeping on clean bedding, after your antibacterial showering. Do not apply lotions or powders.