NEGAUNEE — Great Lakes Recovery Centers has announced the change of ownership of the unoccupied Bell Teal Lake Medical Center in Negaunee, which was effective March 3.

Previously owned and occupied by UPHS – Bell, GLRC now owns the facility and will use it to create a behavioral health campus for residents of Marquette County and beyond, it said in a news release.

“We are thrilled to be able to bring to life our vision of providing expanded, integrated and streamlined behavioral health care services for residents of Marquette County and the Upper Peninsula as a whole,” GLRC Chief Executive Officer Greg Toutant said. “GLRC is grateful for the opportunity to jump-start this important and necessary project for the community.”

GLRC plans to renovate the 33,000-square-foot facility into a full-service behavioral health treatment campus. It will house GLRC’s Child & Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic, Child and Adolescent Trauma Assessment Clinic, and Ishpeming Behavioral Health Outpatient Clinic, as well as the addiction-based Medical Service and Re-Entry Case Management Service programs.

The GLRC Access Center, foundation and administrative offices also plan to move to the new location, as well as GLRC’s 36-bed adult addiction residential treatment facility, currently located in Marquette. Clinics and programs were to transition to the new location in phases beginning last Wednesday as targeted renovations were necessary prior to providing services.

Additional details will be announced in the coming months. UPHS – Bell transferred the property to GLRC for an undisclosed amount.