U-M Rachel Upjohn Building – Ambulatory Psychiatry & Depression Center: Building Facts

Facts & Figures: The Rachel Upjohn Building

• Total square footage: 112,500, including 54,000 square feet devoted to research
  
  
• Total cost: $41 million (more than one-quarter of which came from donors)
  
  
• Building Open : October 2006
  
  
• Named for: Rachel Mary (Upjohn) Meader, who with her husband Edwin gave $10 million toward its construction; and for Mrs. Meader’s grandmother, Rachel Upjohn, the first wife of William E. Upjohn, M.D., a U-M Medical School alumnus, the inventor of the first pill that dissolved easily in the human body, and co-founder of the Upjohn Pharmaceutical company.
  
  
• Built using 675 tons of steel, 83,000 bricks, 8,500 square feet of glass curtain windows, and 567 doors
  
  
• Designed by: Albert Kahn Associates
  
  
• Construction led by: Devon Industrial Group
  
• Location: 4250 Plymouth Rd., Ann Arbor, at the corner of Plymouth and Earhart on the U-M Health System’s East Medical Campus. Connected to the U-M’s East Ann Arbor Health & Geriatrics Center, and located near the East Ann Arbor Surgery and Medical Procedures Center. Convenient to US-23.
  
  
• Three levels: first floor for clinical care, offices and administration, second floor for research and offices, garden (lower) level for conferences, education and research
  
  
• What’s inside: The offices, clinics and research space of the U-M Depression Center, as well as most of the U-M Department of Psychiatry’s outpatient clinics and clinical research, including the U-M Addiction Treatment Service (formerly Chelsea Arbor Treatment Center) and the U-M Addiction Research Center.
  
  
• Clinical space: 335 offices and outpatient treatment rooms for Depression Center clinics, adult psychiatry, child/adolescent psychiatry, and addiction treatment. Plus two telemedicine rooms where patients who live in remote areas can receive long-distance care
  
  
• Education space: 120-seat auditorium and conference center, and a lending library of resources for patients and families
  
  
• Research space: offices and collaboration space for mental health researchers who study addiction, mental health care, depression, bipolar disorder, brain imaging, sleep and chronophysiology, stress and neuroendocrine responses, placebo responses, and more.
  
  
• Special research features: A sleep-research center where clinical trial volunteers will spend the night while their sleep is monitored; an MRI simulator to help patients and research volunteers become accustomed to the experience of having an MRI scan; and special rooms that will allow researchers to observe parent-child interactions for studies on depression
  
  
• Nature: 1,054 trees native to the site were preserved during construction and 180 new trees were planted. Eventually, nature trails may be created in the forest behind the building.
  
  
• Parking: 440 new parking spaces
  
  
• Other mental health care and research locations at U-M include: the Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, the MBNI laboratories in the Biomedical Science Research Building, the Psychiatry Emergency Service in the U-M Emergency Department, the 15-bed Child & Adolescent Psychiatry inpatient unit in C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, the 22-bed Adult Psychiatry inpatient unit in University Hospital, and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System’s inpatient, outpatient and high-intensity hospital-outpatient psychiatry services.