UMass Medical Center University Campus | Lake Ave | Worcester
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1. VA Clinic
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New 'State-Of-The-Art' Veterans Clinic To Be Built In Worcester
The University of Massachusetts Medical School and the Veterans Administration have announced plans to build a 53,000-square foot veterans outpatient clinic on campus.
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2. Research Center
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New Education and Research Building
UMass Chan Medical School has received approval from the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees for a project that will change the face of the campus and accelerate research into new therapeutics for some of the most challenging diseases that humans face. A new, nine-story biomedical...
It's rare to have large VA Outpatient Clinics like that up here in the northeast - generally, they are smaller leased space more like a community health center (hence the VA acronym CBOC - Community Based Outpatient Clinic) because the main hospitals are close enough to most veterans that there's only really a primary care need in outlying areas. The bigger ones are usually in the midwest and west where it might be a several hours drive to a main medical center/hospital so a larger clinic with expanded services is a necessity. This specific one is associated with the Central Western Mass VA (Northampton/Leeds) although it's physically closer to VA Boston, basically to give CWM a connection to a teaching hospital, which helps it both from a care perspective and an administrative perspective.
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Not quite. Friend who works in the med school's facilities department just posted that it opened today. His photo:
'For the world': WHO to partner with UMass Chan after new $350M building unveiled Friday
The director of the World Health Organization announced a partnership with UMass Chan Medical School at the opening of its new building in Worcester on Friday.
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