Miami community invited to official opening of Clinical Health Sciences and Wellness building

CHS Building

Dedication on Sept. 14 will recognize healthcare heroes

Miamians will celebrate the healthcare heroes of today and tomorrow when President Greg Crawford cuts the ribbon on the university’s new 165,000-square-foot Clinical Health Sciences and Wellness facility on the Oxford campus.

During the event from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, at 421 S. Campus Ave., guests will be invited to tour the new home of three academic programs and explore the three wings of clinics, state-of-the-art classrooms, and simulation labs.

The $96 million building, west of Phillips Hall, houses the Physician Associate Studies program, Nursing, and Speech Pathology and Audiology department, and the Speech and Hearing Clinic, as well as the offices of Student Counseling Service, Student Wellness, and Health Services for students, faculty, and staff.

With its focus on collaboration and the latest technology, the building epitomizes the “Clinical Health Sciences - we will care” cornerstone of the university’s fundraising campaign, For love. For honor. For those who will, said Steve Large, assistant vice president of health and wellness in the Division of Student Life.

“Miami has heeded the call to the national nursing shortage,” added Stephanie Nicely ’99 BS ’00, chair of Miami’s Department of Nursing, which has increased its enrollment by nearly 250% since 2017. This semester the program has its largest incoming freshman class in its history.

CHS facility inside

The new facility is strategically located directly west of Phillips Hall, which houses the Kinesiology and Health program, and north of the Rec Center/Rec Sports and Goggin Ice Center, both of which you can see here outside Student Counseling Service’s second-floor waiting area.

Virtual Tour

“Now we only anticipate that program growth to continue, in light of the development of this new clinical health sciences building and the expansive learning environments that are available here,” Nicely said. “Miami University is invested in health and invested in the health sciences. And this building is truly evident of Miami’s commitment to improving the health of our local and national communities.”

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“We spend quite a bit of time on evidence-based medicine, and we encourage the students to prepare not only for what they need to know to enter into the industry but to grow with the industry’s change.” – Christopher Howell, associate clinical professor and director of the Physician Associate Studies program

Healing Garden off the main lobby

CHS healing garden

“The Healing Garden is another opportunity for folks if they just want to take a breath and do something for themselves,” – Rebecca Baudry Young, director of Student Wellness, which provides education, outreach, and programming to encourage a passion for lifelong wellness

PA Diagnostic Skills Lab

Students in the CHS clinic

“Through all of our spaces – the simulation spaces, standardized patient area, the speech and hearing clinic – students in this building are exposed to the most up-to-date instrumentation technology that is available. Some of that, particularly in the simulation areas, is Stryker equipment, and this is the equipment that students will see in their clinical placements. The most exciting part of that is it gives students the confidence when they go to those clinical placements, they’re ready to hit the ground running.” – Susan Baker Brehm ’97 MA ’99, associate dean in the College of Arts and Science and professor of Speech Pathology and Audiology, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary Sept. 23-24, 2023

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