Goal Thirteen

Goal 13: Create additional opportunities for development and expansion of the partnership with the University of Washington.

 

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New Facility Opening Fall 2022

Progress:

Shared Mission, Shared Home For Health Sciences Education, Research and Innovation

February 2020 marked the celebration of the fourth anniversary of our partnership to improve the health and well-being of people in Eastern Washington and across the region.

In that time, the UW School of Medicine has welcomed 240 new medical students to study on the Gonzaga campus during their Foundations training. This spring, the first students to complete all four years of medical school on the Gonzaga campus will graduate and join the hundreds of physicians who studied in Spokane and Eastern Washington. Many of these new alumni will become practitioners in Eastern Washington, adding to the ranks of over 500 graduates working in communities throughout the region.

We continue to enhance the highly rated medical education provided to our students, including through a new center for medical education, health sciences and innovation that will break ground later this year. Students will enjoy state-of-the-art teaching classrooms, an anatomy lab, research and innovation centers, offices and study spaces. Occupants will include 120 first- and second-year UW medical students, 32 MEDEX Northwest physician assistant students, 210 Gonzaga University human physiology students and over 100 Gonzaga biology, chemistry and nursing students studying anatomy and physiology. There will be room to develop and grow additional education programs and research projects. This privately funded project leverages and expands the public-private UW-Gonzaga partnership. Seattle-based McKinstry, a national leader in the construction of high performing buildings will develop, design, build, operate and maintain the new facility.

We are energized by the progress we’ve made together, which you can read about in our latest Report to the Community, and which appeared in the February 15 edition of the Spokane Journal of Business.