Duke Breaks Ground on New School of Nursing and School of Medicine Building

Last week, Duke Health broke ground on a new building that will house the School of Nursing and the School of Medicine’s Doctor of Physical Therapy Division and Department of Orthopedic Surgery. The new building is expected to be open to students and faculty in Fall 2019.

The five-story, 103,000 square foot building will be home to the School of Nursing’s PhD program, Center for Nursing Research, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and Office of Student Services, amongst other resources for the School of Medicine.

A. Eugene Washington, MD, Chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke University and President and CEO of the Duke University Health System, tells medschool.Duke.edu, “Groundbreaking means innovative and pioneering, and the activities our faculty, staff, and students will undertake in this new facility certainly fit that description. Providing state-of-the-art shared space for our School of Nursing and School of Medicine promotes collaborative scholarships and strengthens our dynamic academic community.”

Keeping the Doctor of Physical Therapy Division and Department of Orthopedic Surgery offices with the School of Nursing in a new location will foster new connections and partnerships, providing an opportunity to enhance and expand interprofessional education and care. Sharing this new space will ultimately teach students the value of patient-centered care across multiple medical disciplines.

“On behalf of the Duke University School of Nursing faculty and staff, we are so excited about this opportunity to do, as Duke does, to collaborate so well but to also take interprofessional education to the next level,” says Marion E. Broome, PhD, RN, Dean, Duke University School of Nursing.

To learn more about the ground breaking ceremony for Duke’s new shared School of Nursing and School of Medicine building, visit here.