The Lapeer County Medical Care Facility was built to accommodate the changing needs of medical care for Lapeer County residents. It was originally known as "The County Poor Farm", but it also has been known as "The Infirmary", "The Lapeer County Extended Care Facility" and "Suncrest". In the late 1800's, those who were weak and feeble minded or had no place to live were housed and worked at the "County Poor Farm". By the mid 1950's, the Poor Farm had evolved into an "Infirmary" for the poor people who were sick and had no one to care for them. The Infirmary had one large room with row after row of beds.

In the mid 1960's, the federal government passed the Medicare/Medicaid legislation, thus creating skilled nursing homes. With the need for a skilled nursing home in Lapeer County, the county voters decided to issue construction bonds for a completely new medical care facility. The Lapeer County Medical Care Facility opened in 1971 with 126 skilled nursing beds. It was built for those elderly receiving Medicare and the county's poor medically indigent people who are now called Medicaid recipients.

Since its beginning, the facility has always had a waiting list for admission. In 1974 a wing was added with an additional 36 beds to help alleviate the waiting problem. However, with its reputation of giving Quality of Care and Quality of Life to its residents, the waiting list continued to grow. Again, the voters decided to build an addition and to renovate the existing facility. The new addition opened in 2001 which brought the facility up to its current 202 beds. The new addition also houses a licensed child day care center for 54 children, ages two weeks old to six years old. Another part of the wing is leased out to private practice physicians.



In 2011, the Facility pursued a new culture change to help avoid the “institutional feel” and to make the environment more “homelike” for the residents. To accomplish this, the Facility completed a building addition that includes three two-story “pods” attached to three of the south wings and attached two of the pots with a two-story wing that included 30 new private rooms. The Facility now has 66 private rooms and 68 semi-private rooms. The pods contain their own kitchens, living and dining rooms. The Facility divided the south end of the building into “neighborhoods” accommodating between 15-17 residents.