Health Sciences Center

The new Springfield College Health Sciences Center is designed to facilitate, expand on, and celebrate interprofessional education. 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.

Inside the four floors of the 86,000-square-foot building, simulation, anatomy, pediatrics lab, and makerspace environments will enhance interdisciplinary collaboration, as will expanded meeting space to bring together groups of students, faculty, and community members to engage in experiences, such as grand rounds, health care think tanks, and continuing education seminars.

Features of the Health Sciences Center

• 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
• Specialized classrooms will enable engaged learning in areas such as pediatrics intervention, speech-language pathology, anatomy, and public health
• 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 leadership in service to 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
• A solar canopy will generate 80% of the power to the new building
• Plenty of parking is available, including spaces with new electric vehicle charging stations (20-car charging capacity), Level 2 chargers, and AmpUp software
   

View the floor plans

Ground Floor Second Floor Third Floor Fourth Floor

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Our current excellent programs in the Health Sciences include:

Undergraduate Programs

• Communication Sciences and Disorders, BS
• Dance/Pre-PT, BA to DPT
• Health Science, BS
• Physician Assistant Studies, BS 
• Physical Therapy, BS 
• Public Health, BS 
• Occupational Therapy, BS
• Gerontology, Undergraduate Certificate
• Speech-Language Pathology, Undergraduate Certificate
• 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

Graduate Programs

• Medical Science, DMSc 
• Physical Therapy, DPT 
• Physician Assistant Studies, MS
• Occupational Therapy (MSOT) 
• Occupational Therapy (OTD)
• College and University Teaching for Healthcare and Medical Professionals, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate 
• Gerontology, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate

Stay tuned for new programs emerging in the Health Sciences, including:

• BS Dual Major in Social Work and Public Health
• Undergraduate and graduate certificate programs in Global Health