{"id":47466,"date":"2011-09-28T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=47466"},"modified":"2011-11-03T08:41:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T12:41:08","slug":"town-hall-meetings-update-employees-on-bioscience-connecticut-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/09\/town-hall-meetings-update-employees-on-bioscience-connecticut-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Town Hall Meetings Update Employees on Bioscience Connecticut Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two town hall meetings were held Tuesday to update Health Center employees on the implementation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/biosciencect.uchc.edu\/\">Bioscience Connecticut<\/a> initiative. (<a href=\"http:\/\/mediasite.uchc.edu\/Mediasite41\/Viewer\/?peid=eff083c32c65447eba1d288aa03f1eb41d\">View a video of the presentation<\/a>)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47482\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47482\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/biosciencect_rendering.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47482  img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/biosciencect_rendering-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Architectural rendering of the Health Center's new hospital tower.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/biosciencect_rendering-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/biosciencect_rendering-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/biosciencect_rendering-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/biosciencect_rendering.jpg 700w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Architectural rendering of the Health Center&#039;s new hospital tower.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tom Callahan, interim chief of staff and project director, and Tom Trutter, associate vice president of facilities development and operations, gave a progress update on the six-year project, complete with schematic renderings of the new hospital tower and two new parking garages. A large architect\u2019s model of what the upper campus will look like by the year 2018 was set up in Keller lobby.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Center is currently in the schematic design process for several aspects of Bioscience Connecticut, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new hospital tower to be constructed by late 2015<\/li>\n<li>Renovations to John Dempsey Hospital to be completed in early 2018<\/li>\n<li>Renovations to the existing lab space in the main building to be completed in two phases, by early 2014 and by mid-2016<\/li>\n<li>The first phase of a new Ambulatory Care Center to be constructed by mid-2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47483\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/biosciencect_drawing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47483 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/biosciencect_drawing-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"Architectural drawing of the Health Center's new hospital tower and upper campus.\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/biosciencect_drawing-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/biosciencect_drawing-119x100.jpg 119w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/biosciencect_drawing.jpg 500w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/250;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Architectural drawing of the Health Center&#039;s new hospital tower and upper campus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe only building that won\u2019t be touched over the next six years will be the ARB, the academic research building,\u201d said Callahan. Going forward, updates on the project will be held on a regular basis, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Bioscience Connecticut is part of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy&#8217;s plan to jump-start the state\u2019s economy. It is a multifaceted plan that aims to strengthen the state&#8217;s position as a national and global center for bioscience innovation and improve access to quality healthcare for Connecticut citizens, while simultaneously securing the UConn Health Center&#8217;s future as a top-tier academic medical center.<\/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>Health Center administrators gave an update on the six-year project, complete with schematic renderings of the new hospital tower.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":47482,"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":[179,1,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-47466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 05:49:16","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\/47466","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47466"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47493,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47466\/revisions\/47493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/47482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47466"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=47466"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=47466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}