After more than 60 years on the IUPUI campus, the Indiana University School of Medicine is preparing to raise stakes and move classrooms to a new location a few miles away.
IU officials will break ground on a new $230 million medical teaching and research building Wednesday afternoon. It is the largest construction project in the school’s history and the first new classroom space in Indianapolis since 1959.
The 11-story facility, with more than 326,000 gross square feet, will be constructed just south of the IU Neurosciences Research Center on 16th Street, west of Senate Avenue.
The move comes in conjunction with IU Health’s large-scale consolidation of its central Methodist and university hospitals into one campus. The project will extend the Methodist Hospital campus south by 8 blocks (approximately 44 acres).
IU Health plans a $2.68 billion new hospital with nearly 2 million square feet under its roof.new hospital will have 12 floors and will have three patient towers.
IU Dean Pamela Witten, IU School of Medicine Dean Jay Hess, and IU Health CEO Dennis Murphy conclude the breakthrough with an indoor shovel turn ritual in the first-floor auditorium of the nearby IU Health Neuroscience Center. I plan to speak at an event. .
The ceremony will begin at 4:00 p.m. and is not open to the public, but will be broadcast live on the medical school’s Facebook page.
The operations of the Methodist Hospital and IU Health University Hospital, located 1.5 miles southwest of the IUPUI campus, will be combined into the new hospital when it opens in 2026. Currently he is still evaluating the future use of the two hospitals.
IU Health said consolidating the operations of the two hospitals will eliminate “costly duplication” of medical services and provide more accessible and cost-effective care.
The oldest part of the Methodist Hospital dates back to 1908, and the University Hospital opened in 1970.
The goal of the gigantic new urban campus was to incorporate a medical college along with a new hospital. IU has been saying this for over two years Scheduled to move to an expanded campusabout 2 miles north of your current location.
All classroom instruction for medical students will take place at the new campus, as will clinical science graduate training programs for residents and fellows. Some offices will also move to the new campus.
Most institutes and related facilities related to doctoral programs will remain located on the IUPUI campus or other sites, officials said.
The medical school aims to move in in late fall 2024.
IU said the new location of the medical school will provide flexibility and scale to accommodate future research facilities as well as medical teaching facilities. We call the new campus the Academic Health Center.
