PHOTOS: With construction underway, Day Health Institute offers glimpse of tower project
Campus leaders tout early progress and vision for the state-of-the-art health-education building set to open in fall 2027.
At the groundbreaking for the Gina and Frank Day Health Institute Tower on Tuesday, campus and initiative leaders highlighted early progress and praised faculty, staff, board members, donors and community partners for their roles in the effort.
Construction on the Metropolitan State University of Denver building began late last year. The five-story tower will offer more than 70,000 square feet for interdisciplinary training, interprofessional education and clinical services. It will also house clinical environments including the Bookhardt Family Speech-Language Clinic and a future mental and behavioral health facility.
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Jess Retrum, Ph.D., interim dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences, said the space will empower the programs housed there to train more students to meet workforce demand.
“The groundbreaking of the new Day Health Institute Tower represents not just a construction milestone but a turning point for the College of Health and Human Sciences,” Retrum said. “[It] invites participants that have traditionally operated in silos across academia to train in an interprofessional manner.”
(Renderings below by SmithGroup)
