Progress and Projects
Gifts, both large and small, from our Alumni have helped to build several of the state-of-the-art facilities at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center. Highlighted below are a few of those projects.
ALUMNI HALL and THE SPENCER F. AND CLEONE P. ECCLES HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATION BUILDING
Located on the second floor of the Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Health Sciences Education Building is the School of Medicine Alumni Hall. This multi-purpose facility can accommodate as many as 150 people. It can also be divided by a moveable wall into two rooms of 75 people.
Alumni Hall is also designed as a social/reception space. A food preparation room is located off the foyer to the hall. In addition, a moveable, glass wall can be open to provide access to the Atrium. Alumni participated in fund-raising to match the $75,000 in donations to design and furnish Alumni Hall.
The Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Health Sciences Education Building, which opened in 2005, is a high tech, interdisciplinary facility providing advanced technologies for use in instruction and learning. M
ore than 65% of the space in the HSEB is instructional space with customized podium supports for computing, projection, sound, lighting, and other presentation hardware. The Clinical Suite, the most technologically intensive area in the HSEB, consists of 18 fully equipped examination rooms which are managed by a system that is capable of real-time digital audio and video recording. The building also houses the Health Sciences Branch of the University Bookstore and The Point Bistro at the England Club.
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THE MORAN EYE CENTER
The Moran Eye Center is being called the gateway to the University Health Sciences because of its location. It is the first building visitors see as they approach the Health Sciences campus, and is situated directly across from the final TRAX stop, where 7,000 people enter the Health Sciences campus each day.
The Moran Eye Center and its 12 community clinics received more than 100,000 patient visits this last year by individuals from 42 states and 10 countries. The Moran Eye Center is world renowned for research, education, and clinical expertise in the areas of artificial vision, ophthalmic genetics, retinal cell communication, retinal cell transplantation and vision restoration.
The building retains the name of successful U of U alumnus turned New York industrialist John A. Moran. Mr. Moran led the development campaign in February of 2001 with an $18 million gift followed by a generous gift of $10 million from the Skaggs family through the ALSAM Foundation. Other major donors include Orson and Dora White, Grace E. Stilwell, Ida W. Smith, Research to Prevent Blindness, Randall and Ruth Olson, Joseph H. and Esther Kelley, Martha Ann Dumke Healy, Calvin S. and JeNeal N. Hatch, George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Janice and Thomas D. Dee II, Edmund W. and Carol B. Dumke, Ian and Annette Cumming, William H. and Patricia W. Child, Estelle Albaugh, and many other generous donors, as well as the faculty and staff of the Moran Eye Center.
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THE UNIVERSITY ORTHOPAEDIC CENTER
The University Orthopaedic Center is the only full-service specialty center of its kind in the Intermountain West. The center specializes in joint reconstruction, sports medicine, pediatric orthopaedics, spinal disorders, hand, foot, and ankle trauma, musculoskeletal oncology, shoulder and elbow as well as physical therapy. Our state-of-the-art Orthopaedic Center allows us to take a collaborative approach in treating the total patient in a multidisciplinary environment. The University Orthoapaedic Center serves people from across the state and through the Intermountain West.
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UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
The University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics provide care for patients in Utah and throughout the Intermountain West. Since 1965, University Hospital has been the flagship of the University of Utah Health Sciences Center.
The University of Utah Health Sciences Center is more than an internationally recognized leader in medical research. As the only academic medical center in the region, the hospital trains and employs the physicians, nurses and health professionals of the future who will care for you, your family, and your friends.
Currently, the University Hospital is undergoing an expansion. The expansion is occuring in two phases - phase one added two additional floors to the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Critical Care Pavilion and three floors of additional parking to the parking terrace. Phase two of the Patient Care Pavilion will be a five-story above ground/two-story underground building built to the north and west of the current entrance to the hospital. The expansion will include 120 private patient rooms. The completion date is set for summer of 2009.
Read more about The University Hospital and The Hospital Foundation.
