UNIQUE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP DRIVES
HEALTH-CARE EXCELLENCE
UMKC Chancellor C. Mauli Agrawal speaks at the Healthcare Delivery and Innovation Building reveal event Oct. 2023.
New cutting-edge educational facility will serve as a catalyst for growth and innovation
The UMKC Health Sciences District has plans to add a state-of-the-art facility to its campus. The multi-story, $120 million Healthcare Delivery and Innovation Building will house new dental teaching clinics and expanded medical school teaching facilities. In addition, it will provide space for the UMKC Health Equity Institute, the university’s Data Science and Analytics Innovation Center and its new biomedical engineering program.
“We believe our new building will escalate momentum to exponentially expand the Health Sciences District in coming years to become the major regional academic medical center that we know it can be,” said UMKC Chancellor C. Mauli Agrawal.
Gov. Mike Parson signed legislation from the State of Missouri to appropriate $60 million for the building. This appropriation came with a challenge to the Kansas City community to raise the additional funds needed.
“We are proud to support the efforts of UMKC to improve educational opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math to expand health-care access in the state of Missouri, particularly in rural areas,” Parson said.
Grants from the Sunderland Foundation focus on brick-and-mortar projects for established organizations to foster a stronger, safer and more vibrant future for the communities it serves.
“The Sunderland Foundation is proud to give to UMKC’s efforts to transform the Health Sciences District,” said Kent Sunderland, chairman of the Sunderland Foundation.
“The cutting-edge facilities will provide innovative training opportunities for tomorrow’s doctors, dentists and health-care leaders who will improve prosperity in our neighborhoods, cities and state. The Sunderland Foundation and UMKC share a mission of caring for the underserved and lifting neighborhoods.”
$115M Secured of $125M Total Project Cost:
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Sue Agrawal using a dental cleaning tool on a practice dummy.
With dental clinics providing more than $750,000 in uncompensated dental care for the community, the School of Dentistry is a singular intersection of direct care, educational excellence and inventive partnership.
Additionally, the new building will create opportunities for increased collaboration among UMKC and its health district partners including University Health and Children’s Mercy, which allows for a greater capacity for finding health solutions and providing patient care. This project will expand UMKC’s mission to elevate health equity across Kansas City, including many initiatives that work with the underserved.
A $15 million pledge from the Hall Family Foundation will provide general support for construction on the Healthcare Delivery and Innovation Building.
Here’s what will be housed in the UMKC space:
School of Dentistry
New cutting-edge technology for dentistry will serve students as well as the community, allowing for lower-cost dental care and faster turnaround time for patients, as well as the ability to implement a teledentistry program to further expand the program’s reach.
School of Medicine
The new building will provide state-of-the-art educational facilities for UMKC medical students and programs, such as space for more simulation labs, which lead to better training for students and better care for the community.
UMKC Health Equity Institute
The UMKC Health Equity Institute was founded to tackle complex and systemic health disparities and their root causes. UMKC students and faculty meet people where they are and bridge the gap in health care experienced by Kansas City’s underserved populations.
Biomedical Engineering
Proximity between doctors and developers of medical devices is paramount. This new building will foster faster, more effective collaboration between engineers and medical professionals to accelerate product development in areas such as imaging technology, implants and microsurgery tools.
Data Science and Analytics Innovation Center
UMKC and its clinical partners are focused on personalized health care — one that will treat diseases based on individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle. The data center’s work will drive innovation in a variety of domains, ranging from health care and business intelligence to agriculture and digital humanities.
UMKC expects to break ground in Fall 2024 on this new building, with key funding from the State of Missouri and visionary Kansas City donors coming together to support this cornerstone project that will launch a new era for the UMKC Health Sciences District and health-care access.
A group of UMKC students gathered around the health sciences practice dummy.