The University of Nebraska Board of Regents on Friday approved a program statement and construction budget for a new geriatric center.
Plans call for the geriatric center to be built at the intersection of Leavenworth Street and 38th Avenue at the present site occupied by the Annex 4, 5 and 6 buildings.
According to the plans, these annex buildings will be demolished and their occupants will move into Bennett Hall after its renovation is completed.
The geriatric center, which would cost nearly $10.2 million, would be a two-story facility containing 28,000 square feet. Construction would begin in August 2008 with completion in August 2009. It is anticipated that the cost of the building will be funded completely through private donations.
The regents also approved:
- The name change from the Center for Environmental Toxicology to
the Center for Environmental Health and Toxicology and reporting structure
from University of Nebraska-Lincoln and UNMC administrations to the dean of the College of Public Health at UNMC;
- The proposed graduate program name change of the Toxicology Graduate Program to the Environmental Health, Occupational Health and Toxicology Graduate Program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center;
- Five departments in the College of Public Health — Biostatistics, Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Health Services Research and
Administration, and Health Promotion, Social, and Behavioral Health; and
- The request to establish the Center for Clinical and Translational Research at UNMC.