Investments in the Medical District are planned by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, but many blocks remain unsightly, Prosterman said.
Methodist University Hospital has received an anonymous $40 million donation aimed in part at expanding the Memphis facility’s organ transplant center, reports The Commercial Appeal. Half of the gift will go to the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute for equipment and upgrading patient rooms. The institute drew national attention in 2009 when the late Apple… Read More
The $40 million donation to the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute is a great shot in the arm for the hospital, for the Medical District and for Memphis as a whole.
50 years ago: 1965 “The University of Tennessee wants to help make Memphis the medical capital of the world, and Memphis is well on the way toward becoming just that,” Dr. Andrew Holt, UT president, told an alumni meeting last night at the Rivermont. Dr. Holt said new projects were increasing the diversity and quality… Read More
“The event Friday was the kind of thing we want to foster and culture in the medical district,” said Dr. Ken Brown, executive vice chancellor and COO at UTHSC. “In the near future, you’ll see a lot more things like that. You’ll start seeing more art. The medical district will become a lot softer, a… Read More
If you drive Downtown you may have noticed the new UT logos on Methodist Hospital and the continual construction on UTHSC’s 4,000-student campus. It’s likely the largest building boom ever for the school — 15 buildings have been renovated, built or are planned over the next few years, including a new College of Medicine.
UTHSC’s new Multidisciplinary Simulation Center building will bring students from each of the university’s six colleges to train together with state-of-the-art simulation equipment and real patient actors with simulated conditions, putting students in an environment where they can practice patient encounters.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, pressing forward with plans for its new Multidisciplinary Simulation Education Building, has pulled a construction permit. The permit for the building at 26 S. Dunlap values the construction at $20 million.
