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University of Kansas Medical Center celebrates ceremonial groundbreaking of Health Education Building
The University of Kansas Medical Center ceremonially broke ground Thursday on a $75 million Health Education Building designed by Helix Architecture + Design in association with CO Architects. Leaders from the University of Kansas and KU Medical Center were joined by Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer, philanthropic donors and other dignitaries for the ceremony.
The 171,000-square-foot Health Education Building will serve as the primary teaching facility for the KU schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions and will include significant simulation space and flexible, state-of-the-art learning space to support interprofessional education and other new models of teaching.
“This facility will change the way we educate and train physicians, nurses and other health care workers for Kansas,” said Douglas A. Girod, M.D., executive vice chancellor of KU Medical Center. “It will allow us to accelerate our university’s move toward a modern health education curriculum that emphasizes small group, interdisciplinary problem-solving and advanced patient simulation technology.”
You can learn more about the project and follow construction progress on the project website: http://www.kumc.edu/kumc-leadership/health-education-building.html