The University of New England is astir to commencement a $93 cardinal task to determination the state’s lone aesculapian schoolhouse from Biddeford to Portland.
The Harold and Bibby Alfond Center for Health Sciences volition let UNE to consolidate its wellness programs astatine the Portland field and grow the enrollment successful Maine’s lone aesculapian school.
Health programs are present divided betwixt UNE’s Biddeford and Portland campuses. A ceremonial groundbreaking with UNE President James Herbert and different assemblage officials volition beryllium held connected Tuesday astatine the Portland campus.
The task includes relocating the university’s College of Osteopathic Medicine from the Biddeford to the Portland campus, and volition let the aesculapian schoolhouse to summation its graduating classes from 165 to 200. College administrators accidental they anticipation the expanded schoolhouse and consolidation of wellness programs volition assistance alleviate shortages of physicians and different wellness attraction providers successful Maine.
The 112,000-square-foot, four-story halfway volition go location to each of the university’s wellness assemblage programs astatine 1 site. They see not lone the aesculapian school, but programs successful dentistry, doc assistant, nursing, societal work, pharmacy, carnal therapy, occupational therapy, dental hygiene and nursing anesthesia.
As the state’s lone aesculapian school, the assemblage has an work to code the wellness attraction workforce shortage, Herbert said successful an interrogation with the Press Herald successful October.
“We are the workforce motor for the wellness attraction workforce successful the state,” helium said, adding that 1 successful 3 wellness attraction professionals successful the authorities is simply a University of New England graduate.
The determination besides is seen arsenic a mode to physique connected the school’s acquisition and probe narration with Maine Medical Center successful Portland.
The caller wellness sciences gathering is expected to unfastened by June 1, 2024.
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