Missouri Southern construction continues on Welcome Center – Roy Blunt Health Sciences building

Major construction at Missouri Southern on the Welcome Center – Roy Blunt Health Sciences building.  

Wednesday, a construction tour was held for Newstalk KZRG and the MSSU Board of Governors.

Allied Health Department Chair Dr. Sherry Whiteman tells KZRG what this new building will mean to students: 

“We really have the space and we really have the equipment to support a true flipped classroom, to really immerse those students even more than we do now, you know, to the level that we know that they need and that we want them to have. And that’s really what’s transforming.”

This tour offered a behind-the-scenes look at the construction of this exciting new facility. 

When completed, the new building will include, besides classrooms, a simulated hospital including critical care rooms, a NICU, labor and delivery area.  Also included will be training areas for autopsies and dissections.  An area simulating an in-home situation for care for patients being taken care of at home will also be featured.

The latest medical equipment will be installed to help with the training.

Basically, the new facility will help students get ready for health care work in the real world when their education is completed. 

The MSSU Board of Governors were also in attendance during the tour.

$48.2 million dollars is the estimated cost for the new building.

Plans are for the building to be open for classes in the fall of next year.