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Boston University's School of Dental Medicine Opens Dubai Institute
Boston University’s School of Dental Medicine will open a dental training institute at Dubai Healthcare City in the United Arab Emirates. Focusing on research, education, and treatment, the institute will provide specialty training in areas such as oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics, and periodontics. Boston University’s center will open to its first students in summer of 2008. Dubai Healthcare City is also partnering with institutions such as the Mayo Clinic and pharmaceutical maker AstraZeneca.
Menorah Medical Center to Break Ground in Overland Park
Menorah Medical Center, part of HCA Midwest, will break ground in late summer of 2007 on a $14.5 million medical office building. The three-story facility will be the second medical office building on Menorah’s Overland Park, Kansas, campus. Slated for occupancy in August of 2008, the 60,000-square-foot building will provide offices for 30 to 50 physicians. Menorah may add a third medical office building, a new inpatient building with up to 60 beds, and an additional outpatient building in the future.
Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital Open Orthopedic Center
Washington University Orthopedics, in partnership with Barnes-Jewish Hospital, opened the Outpatient Orthopedic Center in Chesterfield, Mo., in late July of 2007. Designed by ACI Boland, the $13 million facility was built by general contractor Clayco. The 60,000-sf center houses examination rooms, physician offices, ambulatory surgery suites, and radiology.
USDA Dedicates Ames Biocontainment Facility
The U.S. Department of Agriculture dedicated its high containment large animal facility in Ames, Iowa in July of 2007. As the second component of a multi-phase, $460 million project, the state-of-the-art animal health center will accommodate research on a variety of endemic, zoonotic and foreign animal diseases. Housing BSL-3 laboratories, the facility was constructed in three and a half years and cost approximately $85 million. The new building contains more than 155,000 sf and will house cattle, bison, elk, deer, reindeer, sheep and hogs.
Michigan State University Plans College of Nursing
Michigan State University is planning to construct a 33,300-gsf (20,000-nsf) College of Nursing facility on its East Lansing campus. The $17 million project will be constructed as an addition to the existing Life Science Building and will house classrooms, conference rooms, research facilities, and an atrium.