PA program @ Case Western Reserve University 2016

[Nico]

I just heard about this from faculty here at Case.  Does anyone have any information?

[dndandrea]

I work for the Cleveland Clinic and this was on their homepage for employees:

 

 

 

We’re expanding our health education collaboration with Case Western Reserve University to include dental and nursing students in the new health education campus, planned for the 11-acre parcel on 93rd Street between Euclid and Chester avenues.

Designs and renderings for the 485,000-square-foot quadrangle building have been submitted to the Cleveland City Planning Commission in advance of meetings next week. The world-renowned architectural firm Foster + Partners designed the campus to enhance collaboration between faculty and students from the various training programs.

The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine track of Case Western Reserve’s Medical School enrolls 160 of the university’s 1,000 medical students. The dental medicine and nursing programs together enroll just over 1,500 students. The medical school also plans to add a physician’s assistant program that will grow to enroll 100 students, all of whom also would learn on the new campus.

Executive Chief Nursing Officer Kelly Hancock, MSN, RN, says the addition of the nursing school to the campus will enhance synergies between nurses, their physician colleagues and other disciplines and will impact the ways nurses can be innovative in the delivery of care.

The state-of-the-art space is expressly designed to encourage interaction among all students — not only in classrooms, but in dining and study areas as well. The goal is for students to graduate with a deeper understanding of how caregivers in various disciplines complement one another’s work to enhance outcomes for patients.

 

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The four-story building’s academic spaces and offices wrap around a soaring, airy atrium where students and staff can gather for meals, conversation or studying. All of the furniture in the space is movable, so the atrium also can host large events such as lectures, convocations, banquets and other special events.

During a recent “Ideas for Tomorrow” presentation on main campus, lead architect Norman Foster described the atrium as the heart of the building, encouraging cross-fertilization across disciplines to break down barriers. He described his designs as “sharing a common commitment to sustainability, natural ventilation and bringing light deep into the core of common areas to infuse joy into the space.”

The new health education building will be a “green building,” which means its design and systems — heat, air, lighting, technology — are integrated to provide the most sustainable and cost-efficient operations. At minimum, the building will meet LEED Silver environmental building standards. In addition to Foster + Partners, local architects Westlake Reed Leskosky also are involved with the project.

Teams from the two organizations are continuing to finalize estimates for the cost of the expanded project, which is now roughly 300,000 square feet larger than its original design. They also are working to determine optimal timelines for commencing and completing construction. Meanwhile, to keep the project moving forward, the exterior designs, streetscapes and landscaping plans will go before the Euclid Corridor Design Review Committee Dec. 4, and the planning commission Dec. 5, as part of the approval and permit process.

[M_G_N]

anyone applying to this program this cycle?