Baptist Health Foundation was recently awarded $998,000 from the Windgate Foundation in support of significant equipment and life-like medical simulation programming upgrades at Baptist Health College Little Rock (BHCLR).
This grant award will fund equipment and programming upgrades including the addition of several new high-fidelity medical manikins into the BHCLR training experience. The expansion and reconfiguring of existing classroom and skills training spaces will include the installation of a 12-room Simulation Center. Grant funding will support student experiences within the new medical simulation areas to make them look and feel like real clinical environments, including critical care, labor and delivery, pediatrics and adult medical/surgical, clinic/telehealth, nuclear medicine, and sleep technology.
Plans from Arkansas-based Lewis Architects Engineers have been approved to renovate 122,750 square feet of existing space at BHCLR, with demolition slated to begin during the fourth quarter of this year. Renovation and expansion will follow. Classes at BHCLR will continue throughout the construction process.