UNE is Maine’s largest educator of health professionals and the top provider of physicians to the state. It is home to Maine’s only medical school and 新英格兰北部唯一的牙科学院,以及节目 药店, 医师助理, 护理, 物理治疗, 职业治疗, 社会工作, 口腔卫生, 护士麻醉. Uniting these programs on a single footprint will create additional opportunities for students to learn to work in teams, a practice known as interprofessional education, which has been shown to lead to improved outcomes for patients.
“Construction of this new building will allow us to admit more medical students each year, with state-of-the-art learning spaces where those students will get hands-on clinical experience and have the opportunity to learn alongside their peers in other health programs,正规澳门赌场网络校长詹姆斯·赫伯特说. “当它完成时, it will be transformative for UNE and transformative for the study and practice of medicine in Maine.”
The project’s projected cost is $93 million, and it is expected to be complete by the summer of 2024.
The project is made possible by a generous gift of $30 million from the Harold Alfond Foundation这是正规澳门赌场网络历史上最大的一笔捐赠. 另外500万美元 was secured by Maine’s senior senator Susan Collins in federal appropriations.
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The groundbreaking was held at the construction site on Tuesday, 11月. 29, 2022, and featured remarks from UNE校长James D. 赫伯特,Ph值.D.简·卡雷罗,D.O.他是UNE COM的院长, 和格雷格·鲍威尔, 哈罗德·奥尔方基金会主席, which in 2020 gifted UNE $30 million to go toward the new facility and relocation of the 骨科医学院 to Portland.
改变缅因州的医疗保健
Since 1995, UNE has awarded more than 15,500 degrees in the health sciences. Many of the University’s graduates stay and work in Maine, where they tackle the health care needs of the state’s rural and aging populations.
“There is a real shortage of physicians in Maine right now, 尤其是在家庭实践中, and especially in the outermost reaches of our largely rural state,简·卡雷罗评论道, D.O.他是UNE COM的院长. “Our rapidly aging population makes access to a physician all the more critical for Maine’s people. 在回应, we have steadily grown our COM class sizes in recent years and we will expand further when our new facility is completed and we move to Portland.”
协作式教育中心
新设施的设计特点 will incorporate best practices in medical education and team-based learning, 包括灵活的教室, 高超的技术能力, and spaces designed to encourage collaboration and interaction.
UNE’s Biddeford Campus will benefit from the relocation of the medical school as well, as the move will allow the University to expand its programming in several market-aligned fields of study, enabling the growth of current academic programs and the development of new programs through use of labs and classrooms vacated by the medical program. It will also allow for growth of UNE’s world-class research programs in biomedical sciences, 海洋项目, 以及其他领域.
正规澳门赌场网络奠基仪式的新闻报道
- UNE to begin building new medical school at Portland campus (波特兰先驱报)
- UNE breaks ground on new health sciences center in Portland (班戈每日新闻)
- UNE moves forward on Portland medical campus, breaking ground on health sciences center (MaineBiz)
- Groundbreaking ceremony held for UNE Harold and Bibby Alfond Center for 健康 Services (正规澳门赌场网络缅因州)
- University of New England unveils plans to move medical school to Portland (wgme CBS 13)
- University of New England breaks ground for medical campus centerpiece in Portland (WMTW新闻8)
- UNE breaks ground on new health sciences center in Portland 缅因州(公共)
- UNE breaks ground on new interprofessional health education facility (中美湾新闻)
- UNE to begin building new medical school at Portland campus (雅虎!)
- UNE to begin building new medical school at Portland campus (太阳日报》)