Health Sciences Center
The new Springfield College Health Sciences Center will empower transformative approaches to education, career enhancement, service, research, and leadership in healthcare. The Center will build on the success of the School of Health Sciences and ensure its standing as the leading choice for the finest students, faculty, and staff.
The new Health Sciences Center is slated to open in 2023. It will serve as a beautiful anchor to the College’s new academic green and as the welcoming western gateway to our campus. Focusing on the dynamic future of clinical services and business opportunities in healthcare, special features of the Health Sciences Center include:
- State-of-the-art, technology-rich classrooms and immersive learning laboratories
- A modern simulation suite, including facilities for high-fidelity simulation and live standardized patients, plus an operating suite and remotely observable examination and treatment rooms
- A functional living suite with kitchen, bedroom, living room, and bathroom for interdisciplinary rehabilitation practices
- Interdisciplinary telehealth resources to enable experiences with new forms of reaching the people we serve
- A maker space for designing and creating new health and wellness technologies
- A learning-centered human anatomy laboratory
- Spaces supporting our mission “for service in leadership of others,” including community-based support groups plus exercise, communication, and falls prevention programs
- Ample space for students, including, study areas, lounge areas, kitchen facilities, changing rooms, and storage for personal items
Our current excellent programs in the Health Sciences include:
- BS and MS in Physician Assistant Studies
- BS and MS in Occupational Therapy
- BS and DPT in Physical Therapy
- BS in Public Health
- BS in Communication Sciences and Disorders
- BS in Health Sciences
- EMT and Paramedic programs, which lend themselves well to early student experience and high-paying jobs for those working part-time while enrolled at the College
Stay tuned for new programs emerging in the Health Sciences, including:
- BS in Public Health (launched in Fall 2020)
- Doctorate in in Medical Sciences (Physician Assistant Studies
- Certificate programs that can be added to a degree program or pursued as stand-alone certificates:
- Undergraduate certificate program in Communication Sciences and Disorders (online), to enable qualification for Speech-Language Pathology Assistants and for graduate school entry in speech-language pathology
- A graduate certificate program in College and University Teaching for Health and Medical Professionals (online)
- Undergraduate and graduate certificate programs in Gerontology
- Undergraduate and graduate certificate programs in Global Health
