Planned Parenthood closing Lansing location
Planned Parenthood of Michigan announced today that they have be permanently closed the Lansing, Livonia and Warren locations following a loss of federal funding.
The closures became effective today and will leave Lansing patients with the nearest options being in Flint, Grand Rapids or Ann Arbor; all at least an hour’s drive from Lansing.
Livonia and Warren patients are being routed to multiple locations, all within a 30-minute drive.
Patients can get virtual care for birth control refills and consultations, emergency contraception, gender-affirming hormone therapy, medication abortion, sexually transmitted infection screening and treatment options. Patients will need to arrange in-person visits for procedural abortion care, IUD implant placements and removals, physical exams and Pap tests and injections that are not self-administered.
The Lansing location did not perform procedural abortions, according to PPMI.
Planned Parenthood of Michigan cited a $4.2 million decline in reimbursement and funding due to federal policy changes. “It was compounded by closing fiscal year ’26 with an unsustainable $5.6 million in uncompensated and undercompensated care,” PPMI said in a statement.
“To protect our network from ongoing political attacks from Washington, we are consolidating physical resources at regional hubs while expanding our virtual care capabilities to serve patients wherever they are in Michigan,” Planned Parenthood of Michigan said, in a statement.
“The decision comes as safety-net health care providers face mounting economic and operational pressure across the country and throughout the Midwest. Community health centers, safety-net clinics, and regional health systems are being forced to close physical locations and reduce essential services due to chronic public underfunding, shifting Medicaid policy landscapes, and the rising cost of delivering medical care. Across the industry, these escalating costs are making traditional safety-net operating models increasingly difficult to maintain,” PPMI said in the statement. “The return of Medicaid reimbursement is welcome news for PPMI patients, and the organization will resume billing Medicaid in the coming days. However, the restoration of billing does not recover nearly a year of lost revenue or eliminate ongoing threats to safety-net health care funding. That is why PPMI is working with counties and state partners across Michigan to build funding it can rely on. That funding will not bring back what has already been lost, but it is what gives PPMI a foundation that does not depend on federal politics. ”
Active prescriptions with Planned Parenthood of Michigan remain in effect.
PPMI’s chief medical officer, Dr. Kate Starr, said in a statement to City Pulse, “Our highest priority is continuity of care for our patients. Many services provided in Lansing are available through our statewide Virtual Health Center, which already serves more than 10,000 patients each year and offers patients health care of the highest standard. For over six years, our statewide Virtual Health Center has been serving patients with or without insurance, connecting them to care wherever they live in Michigan.
When a patient needs in-person care, our team is working with them to identify the appropriate option and help identify continued care based on the services they need. We are not asking patients to figure out that transition on their own. For Michiganders who face transportation and cost barriers, transportation assistance might be available. We encourage anyone with concerns about getting to an appointment to call 800-230-PLAN (7526) to discuss the transportation assistance that we offer that may be available to them. “
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer blamed Republicans in Washington in a statement.
“We’ve been clear about this since the passage of the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ last year’ these devastating cuts would force key health care providers like Planned Parenthood to close doors and shutter services, cutting Michiganders off from the critical health care they need. Planned Parenthood provides critical care, like cancer screenings, routine checkups, menopause treatment, and more, which are all at risk due to the DC Republicans’ cuts.”
In a statement, Right to Life of Michigan President Amber Roseboom said the closures were “political theater” aimed at turning out base voters.
“The suggestion that Planned Parenthood doesn’t have money to provide local services, merely weeks after announcing a $47 million effort to defeat Republicans in key state, is shameful political theater.”
Michigan State Democratic Party Chair Curtis Hertel said in a statement: “These closures make it harder for women to access routine and lifesaving reproductive care, and it is the direct consequence of every single Michigan Republican in Congress voting to pass Trump’s budget law that has ripped away healthcare and gutted Medicaid. These closures lie directly at the feet of D.C. Republicans who have stood by Trump and his disastrous agenda.”
