Contact: Will Sansom, (210) 567-2579
Sheila Hotchkin, (210) 567-3026
WHAT:Ribbon cutting for School of Nursing Simulation Center & Clinical Learning Lab
WHEN:4:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 13
WHERE:School of Nursing, UT Health Science Center San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229
WHO:William L. Henrich, M.D., MACP, president, UT Health Science Center; Kenneth I. Shine, M.D., executive vice chancellor for health affairs, The University of Texas System; Eileen T. Breslin, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, dean of the School of Nursing, UT Health Science Center
WHY:Through realistic facilities that mimic hospital and home health facilities and feature high-fidelity mannequins that present simulated clinical challenges, this center enables students to respond to mock life-threatening situations and other events such as delivering babies before they ever face the actual situations.
VISUALS:School of Nursing faculty and students participating in instructional simulations
NOTES:Generous support from several community partners made this center possible.
# # #The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, one of the country’s leading health sciences universities, ranks in the top 3 percent of all institutions worldwide receiving federal funding. Research and other sponsored program activity totaled $231 million in fiscal year 2011. The university’s schools of medicine, nursing, dentistry, health professions and graduate biomedical sciences have produced approximately 28,000 graduates. The $736 million operating budget supports eight campuses in San Antonio, Laredo, Harlingen and Edinburg. For more information on the many ways “We make lives better®,” visit
www.uthscsa.edu.
