{"id":47039,"date":"2011-09-22T07:55:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T11:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=47039"},"modified":"2011-11-03T08:42:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T12:42:57","slug":"town-hall-meetings-on-sept-27-will-provide-update-on-bioscience-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/09\/town-hall-meetings-on-sept-27-will-provide-update-on-bioscience-connecticut\/","title":{"rendered":"Town Hall Meetings on Sept. 27 Will Provide Update on Bioscience Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Design work for the new patient care tower and the John Dempsey Hospital renovation continues to move forward, together with progress on all other aspects of <a href=\"http:\/\/biosciencect.uchc.edu\/\">Bioscience Connecticut<\/a>. An update for UConn Health Center faculty, staff, students and volunteers will be provided during Town Hall meetings on Sept. 27, at 7:45 a.m. and noon in the Keller Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause design funding for the new patient care tower and John Dempsey Hospital was allocated in 2010, those projects are already underway,\u201d explains Tom Callahan, the Health Center\u2019s interim chief of staff who is leading the implementation of Bioscience Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>The new patient care tower and renovated John Dempsey Hospital are among several elements of Bioscience Connecticut, part of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy\u2019s vision for job creation, along with renovations to the L building and the expansion of incubator space; the construction of a new ambulatory care center on the lower campus; and expansion to both the School of Medicine and School of Dental Medicine class sizes.<\/p>\n<p>To date, the plans call for a new hospital entrance and lobby, as well as a new Emergency Department entrance. Ambulatory services will be accessed through the current main entrance.<\/p>\n<p>In light of these proposed changes, multiple traffic and parking studies are underway, notes Thomas Trutter, associate vice president of facilities development and operations. He adds that the plans currently call for two new parking garages for the new tower with a total of 800 parking spaces, plus a garage with 1,000 spaces for the new ambulatory care center.<\/p>\n<p>More details about the plans will be discussed on the 27th. For those who cannot attend the Town Hall meetings, the presentation will be taped and posted on the Health Center\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very exciting moment for the Health Center. We are grateful to everyone who has provided input to help us plan for a hospital that can meet the needs of our academic medical center in the future \u2013 and we look forward to the discussion on September 27,\u201d says Callahan.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>For more\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchc.edu\">UConn Health Center<\/a> news and information, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uconnhealthcenter\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uconnhealth\">Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/uconnhealth\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town Hall meetings will be held on Sept. 27, at 7:45 a.m. and noon in the Keller Auditorium for UConn Health Center faculty, staff, students and volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":47044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[58],"class_list":["post-47039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 07:24:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47039"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47051,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47039\/revisions\/47051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/47044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47039"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=47039"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=47039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}